ELSPA

General Information

Full name: Entertainment and Leisure Software Publisher's Association Ltd
Established: 1989
Website: www.elspa.com

Related News

Game Ratings Compulsory Under Law... Again

Everything back to normal
18 Nov 2009

UK Gov Plans Games Committee

Games industry needs to provide evidence for tax breaks
23 Jul 2009

Govt to Games Industry: Tax Breaks - Ball's in Your Court

Good news for the industry at last?
30 Jun 2009

PEGI Threatens to Kick Lying Publishers Out of Europe

Fines of half a million Euro and ban
25 Jun 2009

PEGI Reveals Game Rating Symbols

Spiders still scary.
17 Jun 2009

UK Gov will Review Tax Relief for Games Industry

Digital Britain report acknowledges problems facing UK devs
16 Jun 2009

Digital Britain: ELSPA Responds

Pleased, shockingly
16 Jun 2009

Official Change4Life Supporter and the Game Controller

But one company can stop you video gaming death
10 Mar 2009

ELSPA Swings Back at BBFC Stats

BBFC hits with stats
27 Feb 2009

ELSPA: All Change at the Top

Paul Jackson replaced by Mike Rawlinson
19 Feb 2009

Record Year for UK Games Business

Casual games credited with sales increase
07 Jan 2009

ELSPA Tells Parents: Check PEGI

Another push for PEGI
04 Dec 2008

Slimmed Down Pirate Gets Three Years Jail

Video game profiteer goes down
24 Nov 2008

UK Video Game: BBFC Guns for ELSPA

Everything comes to a screeching halt at the red light
30 Oct 2008

ELSPA Comes Up with Another Way to Rate Games

Mysterious industry sources quoted
28 Oct 2008

Sales of Video Games to Underaged not Recorded

Yet still we get up in arms
13 Oct 2008

BBFC to Games Industry: British is Best

Director of British Board of Film Classification questions PEGI's ability to decide for UK residents
08 Oct 2008

ELSPA: Atari Online Strategy Supports PEGI

UK games body gives Europeans ratings system another push
22 Sep 2008

ELSPA: Games Industry is Unified in PEGI Support

Responds to Margaret Hodge
05 Sep 2008

ELSPA Savages BBFC - States PEGI Will Become Legal

How will this effect developers?
04 Sep 2008

Online Piracy Crackdown to Affect Games Pirates?

Avast!
25 Jul 2008

UK Government Clueless About Video Game Workers

Should be a surprise, but it isn't.
21 Jul 2008

ELSPA's Response to UK Government

Get your finger out, Brown.
13 Jun 2008

Sony Joins Games Industry Bodies in Tax Break Call

Give us a break...
28 May 2008

ELSPA Calls for PEGI as 'Sole' Games Rating System

Currys adds to ratings confusion
30 Apr 2008

UPDATED: European Commission Targets Games Industry

EU says PEGI needs improving
23 Apr 2008

ELSPA Reaffirms Need for Government Support for Games Industry

UK games body claims strong sales show industry deserves more support
21 Apr 2008

UK's Huge Video Game First Quarter

The numbers come in from Chart-Track
18 Apr 2008

ELSPA: Funding Needs Clarity - It's Not All Down to Us

Tax breaks anybody
04 Apr 2008

Byron Review: ELSPA Wants PEGI

BBFC not up to the job.
27 Mar 2008

UK Government Snubs Video Game Industry

According to ELSPA... but we're confused...
13 Mar 2008

UK Government Calls Video Games 'Small Business'

Let's get the Canadians!
27 Feb 2008

ELSPA Sides with Conservatives

Uncosted, flummery from politicians gets UK industry body's thumbs up.
06 Feb 2008

ELSPA Officially Responds To DS Piracy Concerns

No mention of misquotation
06 Feb 2008

ELSPA: Still No 'Official' Statement On DS Piracy Claims

Why has it taken so long?
05 Feb 2008

90 Percent of US DS Owners Playing Pirated Games

R4 chip undermining DS sales
31 Jan 2008

UK Games Industry's Record-Breaking £1.52 Billion

Game sales at highest point ever
20 Dec 2007

ELSPA Responds to Second Government Gaming Inquiry

UK trade body "happy"
06 Dec 2007

‘Minister For Games’ Margaret Hodge Addresses ELSPA

Full video from ELSPA AGM inside
26 Oct 2007

Mr Modchips – UK Pirate Faces Jail And £1 Million Fine

Poor Mr Modchips, seems to have moved to Thailand
25 Oct 2007

London Games Festival Kicks Off

BAVGAs, Byron Review, Videogames Live, Game Career Fair and more
22 Oct 2007

The Byron Review – Public Review, Press Not Invited

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
19 Oct 2007

London Games Festival Returns - Full Details

Dates for the diary: 22 October – 2 November 2007
09 Oct 2007

Prime Minister Gordon Brown Has A Pop At Games

And also violent rap and hip-hop, for good measure
09 Oct 2007

ELSPA: More Government Support (if that's ok with you)

Won't stand up for banned games. Will demand more dosh. Nice.
10 Aug 2007

Ex-ELSPA Bennett Slams Successor's Manhunt 2 Stance

Roger Bennett, SPOnG salutes you
29 Jun 2007

ELSPA Director on Manhunt 2 Ban

Paul Jackson, Director General of ELSPA speaks out
19 Jun 2007

BAFTA Games Awards: Victim Of Own Success

Moves from Camden down to Battersea
26 Apr 2007

Prime Minister Blair's Love For UK Games

Well, he kind of says this, according to ELSPA
08 Mar 2007

2006 A Record Sales Year

The UK games market enjoys its most profitable year ever
11 Jan 2007

SPOnG 2006 Poll – ELSPA, Xplosiv, Koei, Koch

Those marketing types share their thoughts about 2006
29 Dec 2006

Games are Definitely Good for Children

According to yet another report
04 Oct 2006

Shockingly Poor Start to London Games Summit

Nobody turned up to play with Lord Sainsbury.
04 Oct 2006

London Games Week: BAFTA, TIGA, ELSPA News

An acronymic circle jerk?
08 Mar 2006

ELSPA release record-busting sales figures

2005’s booming sales belie ‘fallow year’
09 Jan 2006

Downloadable Java games mainly bought by old men

Who like old games...
23 Dec 2005

British Software Pirates Jailed

ELSPA crusade continues apace.
04 Aug 2005

Xbox Modder Convicted

Equipment seized, community service dished out.
05 Jul 2005

N-Gage Dropped by ChartTrack

Flagging Nokia platform delisted.
11 Jan 2005

ECTS Bullish After Dire 2004 Show

Outshone by competitor, seminal UK show promises bounce-back
10 Sep 2004

Bookies Announce Odds for Christmas Number One

Thankfully, no sign of Cliff Richard…
05 Dec 2003

ELSPA and CVG Reveal Your Top 30 Games From the Last 30 Years

No real surprises here - strong Nintendo and Sega presence confirms PlayStation generation hasn't got it sewn up yet.
05 Dec 2003

Odd new European games ratings revealed

And they’re kinda cool to boot.
24 Oct 2002

University of Manchester to host computer games conference

Look, if we're not gonna play, let's at least talk about it.
06 Mar 2002

UK games market third biggest in the world!

You just love 'em, don't ya!
11 Jan 2002

Game pirate sent up the river for a two-and-a-half stretch

ELSPA swoops
04 Jan 2002

Green light for gaming as inspection gives all-clear

Rating system praised
06 Dec 2001

South Yorkshire Police give ELSPA a hand

Video game piracy is a bad, bad thing, as a local Yorkshire conman recently discovered.
19 Oct 2001

Frontal lobe? I’ll give you frontal lobe if you’re not careful!

The games industry comes out fighting following brain-drain games report
22 Aug 2001

ELSPA way off the mark, or is this how it’s going to be?

It's a story of 20:20... read on
28 Jun 2001

Ankle-biters Edged out by Coffin-dodgers

New ELSPA survey indicates huge shift in game-playing demographics.
10 Apr 2002

UK video game industry at an all-time high

The year 2000 was a fantastic one for the sales of video games.
18 Jan 2001

ELSPA volume sales awards winners announced

The ELSPA has recently announced its winners for software titles that managed to break the 300,000-sales mark.
18 Jan 2001

Video games more popular than the cinema!

The United Kingdom’s video game industry is now officially the third biggest in the world.
18 Jan 2001

Pirate games contain links to child porn sites

Links from Pirated software to child pornography
02 Jan 2001
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