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: GamePolitics.comUK MPs Revisit Video Game Industry Incentives
By james_fudge
A meeting to determine solutions in the aftermath of the UK coalition government's decision to kill tax breaks for the game industry takes place today at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. Close to where Realtime Worlds found itself failing, the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee put the event together to investigate the impact of having no incentives.
The Committee is reportedly discussing the university's new £5 million prototyping project, where applicants receive up to £25,000 to help build a prototype game or creative product to present to investors. That program will create up to 30 new companies and 400 new jobs, according to the university.
Abertay committee chair, Ian Davidson MP, issued a lengthy statement about the situation: Read More
Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).
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