An online rendezvous for serious gamers

Not only did the family of Group websites attract a record 16 million visits last year, but we have further built upon our reputation for launching killer online games.

The success of Rizk – played 5 million times in a single year – can only be described as phenomenal, says Daniel Evans, Head of Web. "Games are an important part of our national culture and a bigger industry than UK film. Rizk is a Tower Defence Game aimed at young thinkers, late teens and adults.

"It's not remotely dumbed down. As a giant metaphor for climate change, it’s about risk management, sophisticated options and trade-offs demanding hard decisions."

The latest suite of games based on emergent technologies, Futurecade, is designed for younger players and was played almost half a million times in its first two months.

The Group has built a brand for games such that players return to find our next challenging new title, and Bafta staged a workshop with us to find young games designers of the future.