Welcome to Game Britain - a website looking into the issue of tax breaks for video games
Should the government have pushed the tax breaks rather than scrapping them? In what way would the tax breaks have benefitted the UK gaming industry and the UK itself? Also what could be the potential down side if the tax breaks had gone ahead? Peruse the articles below to find out more!
The tax breaks have been scrapped. But for a time developers, politicians and the trade organisation that did all the campaigning were optimistic that it would go ahead. This was written during that time...
What problems hit one of the UK's most famous developers, Free Radical, and could the tax breaks have saved it?
Why do some video game developers set up across the water? Canadian tax credits make it more viable for companies to develop their games there.
While video games developers won't be getting their first slice of the tax break pie the UK film industry has been benefitting from tax breaks since 1992. So what are the comparisons and does everybody think that tax breaks are a good idea?
The films directed by Uwe Boll can cause worry themselves but could they be seen as a template for video games if they received the same tax breaks as Boll's films?
The UK games industry has been around for decades, find out some of its humble beginnings from the editor of Retro Gamer.