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Ukie, formally The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment, is a non-profit trade association representing the video game industry in the United Kingdom. As of December 2017, it represented more than 395 video game companies worldwide.
Ukie was founded in 1989 as the European Leisure Software Publishers Association, known as ELSPA. It became the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association around 2002, then adopted the Ukie name in 2010.
In 2011, Ukie proposed merging with The Independent Game Developers' Association, TIGA, to consolidate the UK games industry under one trade body. TIGA's board rejected the proposal, and TIGA's position had not changed when the merger was raised again in 2013.
As ELSPA, Ukie provided voluntary age ratings for UK video games from 1994 until 2003, when the Pan European Game Information system, PEGI, took over. It later lobbied for PEGI to replace the British Board of Film Classification as the UK's official ratings authority, a change formalized by the Digital Economy Act 2010.
Ukie estimated that Video Game Tax Relief, which lets developers claim back up to 20 percent of production costs, was worth about 188 million pounds a year to the UK games industry. The European Commission extended the scheme for six years in 2017, pushing its expiry to 2023.
Mike Rawlinson served as the association's chief executive around the time of the 2008 Byron Review, arguing that BBFC ratings were unsuited to interactive works like video games. Dr Jo Twist OBE was Ukie's chief executive by 2023, when she called on the industry to complete a survey on Video Game Tax Relief.