Last week Keith Vaz, the British Labour MP for Leicster East, typified in his actions what can be seen as the general disdain many politicians appear to have for seriously debating videogames.

Vaz, a Labour MP since 1987, was due to participate at the’ Westiminster eForum’ debate with EA’s Keith Ramsdale, CEO of Eidos Ian Livingstone, West Bromwich East Labour MP Tom Watson and Wantage and Didcot MP Ed Vaizey. However, Vaz did not show and left the debates organizers to announce for him that he could not make it.

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We’ve all done it, sat there playing our most loved game and said to ourselves: “I wish I could make games like this”. In our naive eyes it seems to be all a bed of roses, but recent rumblings have pulled back the curtain on what it means to be a games developer in this generation of consoles.

A recent open letter to Rockstar Games’ San Diego development studio on Gamasutra.com, from a group calling themselves  “Determined Devoted Wives of Rockstar San Diego employees,” has shed light on allegedly poor working conditions and benefits.

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