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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
George Osborn

Pushing Buttons: How your vote could change the way games are made in the UK

A silhouette of a gamer playing Street Fighter.
A silhouette of a gamer playing Street Fighter. Photograph: Rick Findler/PA

Can the way you vote affect the video games that you play? Given the state of the world, I’d forgive you for not sparing the matter much thought.

However, over the past decade the video games we play, the technologies that underpin them and the industry that sits underneath both have attracted increasing interest from political audiences seeking to harness them – meaning that those who govern us could make a meaningful difference to what we experience.

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