Watson urges action on "UK Games Council"

Tom Watson, the Labour MP and self-styled advocate of the games industry in UK parliament, has called on ELSPA and TIGA to begin "forming an idea" of a UK Games Council that would "run along the lines of the UK Film Council" and ensure government can no longer "ignore the games industry".

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