A UK court has ruled that Runescape's gold pieces can be stolen under the terms of the country's theft laws.
What does this mean for the industry in the UK and the rest of the world?
We take a look at the ruling and its repercussions: videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/thou-shalt...
Well, we heard from the UK Video Games Council at Pocket Gamer Connects about its first six months of the work. We left the session feeling...a little mixed.
Find out why and grab the rest of the newsletter below 👇
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We're outside the Larry David statute of limitations on saying Happy New Year, but we're thankfully still in the window for making annual predictions.
Check out the latest issue of VGIM for our thoughts on what to expect in the games industry in 2026.
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/six-video-...
New Year, same old Video Games Industry Memo request for you to send us your news.
We're looking to promote our usual mix of:
💼 Job moves and open posts
📅 Industry conferences
🎮 New video game releases
Want to be in this week's VGIM? Email george@videogamesindustrymemo.com pronto.
An @vgim.bsky.social exclusive: we reveal how Steam is censoring games featuring LGBTQ+ content in Russia on behalf of state censor Roskomnadzor.
Thank you to Ian Masters and the Flick Games team for being brave enough to share their story.
videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/how-steam-...
Yesterday's VGIM, sponsored by Testronic, summarised all the biggest financial results in the games industry (apart from Ubisoft, who were messing us about).
Catch up with all the news and the top releases this week right here: videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/video-game...
Last week the venerable @georgeosborn.bsky.social reached out with a question submitted to this @vgim.bsky.social newsletter regarding the ethical issues surrounding the use of AI in Arc Raiders.
What started as a short one paragraph response became a 4000+ word newsletter issue.
What did we learn at last week's @aiandgames.com conference? Find out over on Video Games Industry Memo (and thanks to Testronic for sponsoring our fine work)
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/four-thing...
The Online Safety Act came into force ages ago. So why is Ofcom issuing guidance to online games businesses now? And what does it all mean?
Read this week's @vgim.bsky.social, sponsored by Testronic, to find out.
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VGIM turned two years old last month, so we're having a party to celebrate 🎉
Join us in London on Wednesday 26th November to sip, chat, and possibly eat a slice of branded birthday cake.
Thanks to Renaissance PR, Fifty, and the Games Rating Authority for sponosring.
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Read on for insights into how autocracies control narratives through games through censorship, encouraging self-censorship, and through aggressively promoting their own narratives
If you don't already subscribe to @vgim.bsky.social then you should; today's edition is a must-read:
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/a-kushy-de...
Did you catch @vitageorge.bsky.social's great piece about remakesters?
Well, why not re-view the piece at your leisure now?
*audible boos at the pun*
A happy Silksong release day to those who celebrate it.
In this week's @vgim.bsky.social, @vitageorge.bsky.social explores the story behind its release and how Silksong's shadow drop has posed problems for press and devs across the games biz.
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This is an exceptionally long piece, but I've been researching the PayPro debacle and the campaign to #SaveSpeech and just how damaging the issue is to creators, players and games as culture.
Censorship is shit.
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What is the secret to gamescom’s long running success? And what’s been going down at arguably the biggest games event in the world?
@grapedosmil.bsky.social chats to the event’s bigwigs and reports from the ground for your entertainment.
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Psst! Want to know the big financial results from publicly traded games businesses but don’t want to read a load of PDFs or spreadsheets?
In this week’s VGIM, sponsored by @modulate.bsky.social, @vitageorge.bsky.social analyses them all for YOU 🫵
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/game-indus...
Why are there so many video game showcases? And how do the people who put them together choose the games that go into them?
@grapedosmil.bsky.social asked Chris Thomas, Jake Tucker and Dom Peppiatt for answers and, by Jove, did he get some
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/why-are-th...
Psst! What is a game scout looking for when they're scoping the next hit game? And how can you pitch yourself perfectly to a publishing scout?
@vitageorge.bsky.social chats with Chris Wright from @fellowtraveller.games in this week's VGIM 👇
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This week's @vgim.bsky.social saw @vitageorge.bsky.social chat with @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk of @lostincult.co.uk about the future of physical games in our evermore digital age.
CONTENT WARNING: very attractive game boxes contained within
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Our own @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk chatted to @vitageorge.bsky.social for @vgim.bsky.social, discussing all things EDITIONS & physical games.
Thank you for your time and for shining a light on our work 🙏
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/lets-get-p...
The UK has a brand new video games council to chat to Government about how to grow the industry. But who is on it and what’s it planning to do?
@georgeosborn.bsky.social chatted to it’s new co-chair to find out.
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/introducin...
Another year, another fantastic @vgim.bsky.social Business Breakfast.
A big hand to @gamespress.com for sponsoring and to @ansiblecomms.com, @dandawkins.bsky.social and @mattreyn.games for the games media chat.
And a really big thank you to all the attendees - great to see you there!
Welcome to a gloriously rebranded Video Games Industry Memo.
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Good, pretty well balanced article. I am extremely wary of anyone in the industry being labelled an auteur for a whole host of reasons, chiefly because it simultaneously puts them on a pedestal (not everything they do is 'good') and eliminates or downplays the work of others at their studios.
Do auteurs like Hideo Kojima increase the understanding of how we make games, or obscure it?
@grapedosmil.bsky.social headed to a star studded event in London to investigate
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/the-kojima...
Come and join us next Wednesday, it'll be a blast
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What’s going on with games leadership? And could improvements at the top stop cuts at the bottom?
@vitageorge.bsky.social interviews Mel Phillips of Games Leadership fame to get to the bottom of things: www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/from-leade...