Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The British Film Institute (BFI) is calling for applications for its UK Global Screen Fund, with a significant opportunity available for the games sector through the BFI International Business Development Fund. This fund is designed to help UK screen businesses, including interactive narrative video game companies, to grow their international presence and activities. The fund …
The BFI Innovation Challenge Fund has announced the first four projects to receive funding towards creating solutions which tackle the UK screen sector’s most critical challenges - including a project supported by Scotland's Games Jobs Live. The area of focus for the fund’s first round is the UK video games industry which is facing a …
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Dr Romana Ramzan, one of Scotland's leading game academics and a producer at the multi-award-winning development studio No Code (Stories Untold, Observation) has been appointed to the board of directors of the British Film Institute
me equivalent (FTE) jobs hitting 6,005, according to the new Screen Business 2021 Report released by the BFI.
The UK Global Screen Fund is a £7 million, one-year pilot fund designed to boost international development and distribution opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sectors, including film, TV, videogames and animation.
Entries for the 2020 BAFTA Games Awards are now open. Developers have until November to enter. For the first time, the awards will pilot the BFI Diversity Standards as part of the entry process.
A new research report from UKIE and the BFI shows Scotland as the fourth largest cluster in the UK's video games industry, with Edinburgh and Dundee in the top 10 cities for game development.
The fourth annual BFI Videogames Day is coming to Edinburgh on June 14 2018.
There have been a number of significant new events in the world of funding and financing video games in the last twelve months. Tax relief for game developers, putting them on a par with film and high end television production is a huge step forward. Not only for companies wishing to operate more sustainably, but …
Video games companies across the UK can now begin claiming tax relief on their production costs, as the government’s cultural regulations came into force on the 19 August 2014. With tax relief only available for companies producing games that are certified as culturally British, this milestone marks the completion of the legislation and will see the first companies begin …
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