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GameHorizon conference explores UK gaming business

Jun 30 2010 12:00 AM | Events For Gamers in GameHorizon

What's next for future games and, more importantly, how do developers make money out of them? Game Horizon, a two-day conference held in The Sage Gaeshead venue in Newcastle, offered plenty of ideas when I visited on its opening day.

Ian Livingston, who holds the slightly despotic title of Life President of Eidos Interactive, began the day pondering the government's recent decision to cut subsidies for games developers. There's no doubt it was a strange thing to do to a creative industry in which the UK is an international competitor. But Livingston suggested that games developers should not be looking to the government for subsidies. Instead, they should offer George Osborne the chance to invest in a market worth £50 billion this year and predicted to hit £90 billion by 2015.

Read the rest of the article at Wired.co.uk.