ANNUAL SERIES
The IFB Gaming Guide
One publication, one new theme every year. Research, practice, and participation, exploring how gaming shapes access, safety, learning, and belonging.
Editions
New to the series? Start with the 2026 edition below, our first Annual Edition. The Foundation Guide (also below) is where the series began.
Series Origin · Foundation Guide
The Gaming Guide
Ratings · Safety · Accessibility
Published before the annual series began. Where it all started: age ratings, layered safety setup, accessible gaming, and the emotional side of play.
Read the guide →Annual Edition No. 1 · Out 25 October
Understanding Gaming
What does a healthy gaming environment look like?
The first Annual Edition. A working definition of a healthy gaming environment, tested across six sections, from the 2026 PEGI reform to why gaming's upside deserves equal billing.
Read the guide →Coming 2027
Gaming & Belonging
How does gaming shape friendship, identity and participation?
Friendship, identity, and how gaming becomes a place young people belong.
Coming 2028
Gaming & Learning
What can gaming contribute to learning, skills and confidence?
What games are already teaching, and how it can count.
Coming 2029
Gaming & AI
How are AI systems changing games, players and digital participation?
Where AI is already reshaping how young people play and connect.
Coming 2030
Gaming & Society
What can gaming tell us about how digital society is evolving?
Ten years on: what gaming reveals about digital life.
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