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Pittsburgh Ponders Impact Interactive Tax Credits Might Have

By pete_gallagher

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania technology leaders are wondering if a state-wide tax credit for interactive developers would slow the flow of recent graduates to other states.

In a Post-Gazette story, Pittsburgh's videogame community is attributed almost entirely to the Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). Of the school's 60 students gaming program graduates from the Class of 2010, only four found work and remained in Pittsburgh, while 15 headed west to California for employment.

The school's ETC Director, Drew Davidson, said that he has met with state representatives multiple times over the years to lobby for game developer tax incentives, but that interest in such a program 'goes in cycles,' and involves 'so many different parties and different agendas."
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on October 12, 2010 (boomark / email).