Thu, Jul 09, 2009 | 20:30 BST
Liverpool councilors wish to create £5 million National Games Academy
Liverpool councilors wish to create a National Games Academy, thus making the city a thriving place for games development education, according to the Liverpool Daily Post.
The proposed £5 million Academy would offer art, business advice, high-speed links to MediaCity in Salford, intellectual property, programming and technology training, and work placement learning.
“The city region is the UK’s leading games developer catalyst and we need to capitalize on that,” said councilor Gary Millar. “The Games Academy has every chance of catching the imagination of the next generation of gamers and workers, and inspiring people to up-skill and get involved.
“It would also provide the employers with a hub for well-trained potential new employees with which they can grow their businesses.”
Bizarre Creations and Sony Computer Entertainment Studio Liverpool currently employ 1,500 folks in the city.
Via Edge.
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4 comments
#1
Eon
09/07/09, 9:22 pm
Sounds like good news to me. I love Liverpool.
#2
ShiroGamer
09/07/09, 10:50 pm
yeh well
that will never help the team
not one bit
#3
cachucha
10/07/09, 12:28 am
which team?
#4
freedoms_stain
10/07/09, 2:15 am
I hope they realise that after the initial £5 mil they’ll have to keep pouring money into the place to update the hardware and software or after a couple of years their initial investment will be totally wasted.
I can see this ending up like so many other council projects – millions spent in the initial build followed by near total neglect resulting in poorly maintained and out-of-date facilities of little use to anyone.