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British studios will look abroad when expanding their business in future – after seeing hopes for a tax credit dashed by today’s Pre-Budget Report. That’s according to Realtime Worlds – one of Scotland’s foremost developers and the creator of hugely anticipated MMO APB. Chancellor Alistair Darling today failed to mention …

Frontier founder on the Governmentâ??s failure to act, and failure to care

IGN, one of the largest consumer websites in the world, has gone live with its brand new look and comprehensive site redesign. Along with the new logo, the site also boasts new functionality, a revised layout and an increased focus on localised content. Users will also find an increased amount …

With a market as disparate as video games, hard stats are always tough to come by – but EA boss John Riccitiello reckons that the global audience for gaming now stands at a massive one billion. Conservatively, if I add up mobile users that play games, social network people that …

But trade body says it is confident Government 'recognises the importance of our sector'

Richard Wilson states that Tiga will continue to fight for development tax breaks

ELSPA has spoken of its disappointment over the lack of a games tax credit in the Government’s pre-budget reoprt today – but defended the state’s understanding of the games industry. Chancellor Alastair Darling today failed to mention games in his pre-budget speech – whilst the official documentation of the Report …

Full pre-budget report explains why the UK rejected calls for game tax breaks

The Chancellor’s pre-budget report may have made no mention of the UK games industry, but the complete report explains exactly why the government has refused to help developers. Of the 216 pages in the pre-budget report, the UK games sector was only mentioned once. That citation can be found below, …

The UK government has again rejected calls for tax breaks in the game development sector. Making what was clearly a coarse pre-budget speech for tough times, Chancellor Alistair Darling declared that his budget is one that would "secure the [economy’s] recovery and promote long-term growth." But Darling’s pre-budget speech – …