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Rude ministers, increasing competition from Canada and a clueless government: TIGA founder Fred Hasson reveals the origins of the UK's fight for video games tax credits

Star Citizen will not be sold, the many backers of the space simulator have been assured. The pledge comes as Chris Roberts’ crowdfunded title passes the astronomical $41m funding mark. To answer [those] worrying about the possibility of Cloud Imperium being acquired by another, bigger company – don’t worry! We …

John Carmack has spoken positively of Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus and believes the firm gets "the big picture" for virtual reality’s potential. "There is a case to be made for being like Valve, and trying to build a new VR ecosystem like Steam from the ground up," he said. "This …

Broadcasting platform Twitch has announced its new infrastructure addition in Paris, France – a move that will bolster the service’s stability across Europe. We’ve been hard at work delivering on a promise to bring more capacity to Europe,” customer experience director Jason Maestas wrote on Twitch’s official blog. More capacity …

Video games ad agency Intergi has joined the list of supporters for this year’s MCV Awards. Intergi has signed up as event partner for the evening, which takes place on April 10th at the London Lancaster Hotel and will be hosted by Channel 4 presenter and stand-up comedian Adam Hills. …

The latest issue of MCV has named the 100 most influential games industry executives. The inaugural MCV Brit List features men and women from all different disciplines supporting UK video game businesses. It also names a handful of the famous Brits flying the flag for UK creativity and intelligence on …

At long, long last UK video games tax breaks are upon us, but who is it precisely that qualifies? The draft legislation calls the relief a ‘tax relief for video game development’. The legislation does not define the term ‘video game’ and the intention behind this was to avoid including …

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Little Orbit and Cartoon Network have announced they will be bringing new titles to gaming consoles and handheld devices this year. The duo will be releasing two new games. One will be based on Adventure Time while the other is set to feature a number of characters from Cartoon Network’s …

The journey to finally get the tax production credits scheme in place for the games industry has been a long and sometimes rocky one. But this week, the industry had confirmation from the European Commission that, after a year of investigating whether there truly was a market failure for games …