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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...
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 [email protected] pronto.
We're revealing our first ever long read insight report, dedicated to the troubling rise of LGBTQ+ censorship across the video game world.
Read the summary of the paper in this week's VGIM and download your copy immediately after.
videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/how-lgbtq-...
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...
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-...
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...
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-...
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.
videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/online-saf...
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.
