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Video Games Live comes to the Royal Festival Hall
The video games music concert will be back in London on October 22. The one-night-only event will be taking place as part of the London Games Festival, and will be hosted and conducted by event cocreators Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall. The Philharmonia Orchestra will perform a selection of scores from popular video games, and a choir will also be on hand. Footage from the games will be shown on a big screen behind the performers, along with a lighting show. Titles include Halo 3, as well as tunes from the Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Sonic franchises. Tickets can be bought from the Royal Festival Hall box office on 0871 663 2500, or via the Web site.

More London Games Festival events announced
This year's London Games Festival's lineup is starting to shape up as the organisers reveal more of what they have in store for British gaming fans. Confirmed events now include a special exhibition at the Science Museum called Quantifying Immersion in Games; the London Game Career Fair, from October 23-24; and a cinema-based alternate-reality game called Head Trauma that will be showing in association with the London Film Festival. This year's London Games Festival will take place from October 22-25.

David Cameron hints he would ban violent video games
The UK's opposition leader, conservative David Cameron, has outlined his "mini-manifesto" to combat crime, which he will deliver later today. Cameron told The Guardian, "We are never going to deal with crime unless we look at the broader context and say, 'Yes, tough laws, strong action on the police, but also action to strengthen our society'. And that includes, I think, video games and things like that where we do need to think of the context in which people are growing up."