The recently formed British Games Institute, which aims to become a video game equivalent of the BFI, is merging with the National Videogame Foundation to create a new body dedicated to supporting and promoting game development and culture in Britain. The British Games Institute will be housed at the NVA's National Videogame Arcade building in Nottingham, where a games museum as well as cultural and educational programmes have been in operation since 2016. A campaign to establish the British Games Institute was announced last October, backed by two trade bodies and more than 500 senior games, investment, arts and education figures, including Conservative MP Ed Vaizey and film producer Lord Puttnam. Set up by games industry veterans Ian Livingstone and Rick Gibson, the campaign called on the government to support a national agency so that it could fund and promote games development in Britain, as well as aid diversity and inclusion in the sector. A Change.org petition to garner government support for the initiative attracted more than 10,000 signatures.