The game industry has today been highlighted by the British Government as a possible beneficiary of film-style tax credits. As part of its "Creative Britain" initiative, Labour is looking into the benefits of encouraging creative industries and raising awareness of the R&D tax credit scheme already in place for game developers.
Secretary of state for culture media and sport, Andy Burnham, announced the initiative, and the study is also set to look into aiding the development of next generation broadband.
"We are very pleased that Andy Burnham linked the idea of film credits to support for the video games development community," stated ELSPA's Paul Jackson. "Whilst we are very different in terms of content we face many of the same issues."
The British government confuses me sometimes. On the one hand, we hear about it "cracking down" on the games industry and possibly stifling it with tighter leglislation, while on the other it talks about encouragement and growth. Sounds like a case of government wanting to reap the economic success of the games industry while still appealing to those that fear it. Anything that helps the UK games industry, however, is fine by me, so credit away says I.
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7:52 PM on 02.27.2008
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A bit like with Heathrow - "we must tackle climate change and reduce our emissions!" whilst building another runway. Great.
But yeah, it should be a good thing for the industry, so thumbs up.
Did not expect that. Early 90's WWF FTW!
Interesting read too.
I hope to God he DOES!
Heres to more semi-obscure wrestling references!
I remember The Mountie, that guy was a dickhole. Tasers is wrestling...that's just dirty.
But then again, at this point in my career, as long as I keep getting paid I don't care.
Somebody is about to get THE WRITE OFF.
Good news all around! Even the government recognizes games as art