Kotick: ‘We need UK tax breaks’

Activision has spoken out against the UK government just a week after Chancellor George Osborne dashed developers’ hopes by cancelling Labour’s promised games tax breaks.

The Financial Times this evening quotes the company CEO Bobby Kotick as saying the Activision needs financial investments to keep encouraging it to invest in the UK – otherwise it’ll start looking to build studios elsewhere.

For us to continue to invest in the UK there needs to be an incentive provided for us to do so,” said Kotick.

Head over to Develop for the full story.

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