Video Games Get Recognition by Parliament in UK

Conservative MP Edward Vaizey, recently introduced a motion at the House of Commons to recognizing and honoring video game award winners from BAFTA. The list of the honorees included Fable 2 by LionHead Studios, Race Drive: Grid by Codemasters, and LittleBigPlanet by Media Molecule. All of them are all developed at UK studios, and all of them won this year’s Bafta awards.

A supporter of video games, Edward Vaizey also stated that the Government is not providing enough support for the British video game industry. This should change soon before they fall even lower in the ranking of producing video games. (currently UK is the fifth largest producer of video games, they were third a few years back)

Here is part of the Motion:

Mr Edward Vaizey
Bob Spink
Philip Davies
Stephen Williams
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
John Hemming
* 11
John Mason
That this House notes the importance of the video games sector to the UK economy; congratulates the winners and nominees at this year’s Bafta Video Games Awards; notes in particular the success of UK developed games, including Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet, Codemasters’ Race Driver: GRID and Lionhead Studios’ Fable II, all of which won awards; applauds this recognition of the continued success and significance of video games despite the complete lack of support from Government; regrets the fact that this lack of support from Government has seen the UK fall from being the third largest producer of video games in the world to the fifth largest; and urges the Government to devise a clear and supportive strategy for the UK video games sector as part of the Digital Britain review.

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