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GameLab London

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ5519778 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gamelab London is an enterprise and action research initiative of London Metropolitan University Department of Computing.

Their directors are all senior or principal lecturers in the department's multimedia group, and all three have previous careers and ongoing consultancy roles in industry. In addition, they play an active role in the British Interactive Media Association and BAFTA Interactive.

Overview

Gamelab London has developed a collaborative model of engagement with industry, independent practitioners and the education sector, including Student Associates - which drives a two-way flow of knowledge, concepts and best practice through all of its work.

GameLab London is based in Hoxton, London.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “GameLab London” as open-knowledge reference entry. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 102-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where GameLab, London and Open-knowledge can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5519778. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “GameLab London” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.