Ordnance Survey, which is the national mapping agency for Great Britain and one of the largest producers of maps in the world, has decided to recreate mainland Great Britain Minecraft. In an interview with Gamasutra, Gemma Nelson revealed that the Ordnance Survey Labs team has been "exploring the possibilities of new ideas…

At 1:20 BST today in North London, a 23 year old was hit with a brick, stabbed and then mugged for their watch, phone and their copy of Grand Theft Auto V mere moments after heading home from a local midnight release of said game. The victim is still alive…

After 23 years of developing games, UK developers Blitz Games have had to close their doors as revealed in a statement released today. Founded back in 1990 the unfortunate closure of the studio has resulted in the loss of 175 jobs. This news has come about after being unable to…

Queuing is the most horrific and painful moment in any LAN event, or Gaming show in general, but here in Telford, on a pretty murky, cloudy day there is a bit of special atmosphere building up. An instinct that tells you, "when I get in here, something pretty damn awesome…

The dark game has been described by it's Bristol based creator, Alex Harvey, as "a blend of stealth and exploration" and is based around "Looking Glass Studio's Thief series." You play as an outsider of the world, who's goal is to dispose of five other beings. As the player you…

Just over 1 million boxed games were sold during the month of July, which is 40.4% lower than that of June, and 33.3% lower than July 2012. Total revenue generated from stores are just over £23 million from game sales, which is almost half that of June. July was forecast…

Today we bring you the UK chart for the week ending 6th July. This week had a lack of new releases, with the only real addition being Project X Zone which landed itself with the number 18 spot. The top two games haven’t changed since last week. The Last of…

Are you ready to hear what the average UK gamer is? Married(or in a relationship), 35 years old and earning £23,000 a year while playing games for and average 2.5 hours per day (in a five day week) totalling on average to around 12 hours of gaming per week.Not what…

Ukie have used their response to the EC investigation to outline why there is a clear and evident market failure relating to the production of culturally British or European games being made by British studios, which the UK Government’s proposed games production tax credit scheme would address. Here is the…

Xbox 360 will take a step ahead of the Nintendo Wii as the UK’s best-selling console according to GfK Chart-Track. This will make the Xbox 360 this generation’s highest selling home console on our little island. The Xbox 360 has sold 8.4 million consoles in the UK and in the…

Nintendo have made a deal with O2 that grants customers free access at yet another 7,000 hotspots around the UK included in major chains such as McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Costa Coffee, Debenhams, House of Fraser and Toby Carvery, as well as several major venues and arenas. This is good news for…

 i49 is the next in the Insomnia event series by multiplay. These events are the biggest UK lan parties around at the moment, featuring tournaments for Counter-Strike:Global Offensive, League of Legends, Team Fortress 2 and more. You've got very little time if you want to get to this event for…

 A brand new, standalone Pink Nintendo 3DS XL console is set to be available in the UK. The new console colour will be available from the 31st May 2013. The new coloured console is said to "provide newcomers to the Nintendo 3DS XL experience with more options than ever before".…

A few days ago someone found out a glitch on Razer's UK store that if you entered the code 1234 you could get up to 90% off the entire cart which is very much below the cost price of the products. The code was active due to a third party…

Today the UK games industry got some bad news in the form of postponed tax breaks for the industry. The EU Commission has decided to launch an "in-depth investigation" as to whether the cuts are needed as doubts were raised over them being needed at all. The 25 percent tax relief…

Deadpools game is looking to be even more insane than before! VGU are defiantly looking forward to this one, we are just hoping it stays faithful to the comics! Are you looking forward to Deadpool's game? Are you going to be getting it? Let us know in the comments below!

Global Games Jam or GGJ is the worlds largest games collaboration event. From 55 locations around the world Global Games Jam enables everyone passionate about gaming to connect over one unified theme and then go off in teams of up to 8 people to create new innovative games in just…

The British Newspaper, The Mirror, has released a front page with one of the most sensationalist titles it could do: TV & COMPUTER CRAZE IS GIVING KIDS CANCER! While that sounds a bit over the top the article goes on to explain that “Children glued to TV and computer screens…

As was revealed last week, the UK government is going to be introducing a tax relief of 25% for selected games in development, the tax break is hoping to be brought into effect by next year but it is still subject to change. However, even before it is brought into…