GamesIndustry.biz is reporting on a speech by Ed Balls, the Labour leader candidate, linking the refusal of the coalition government to implement games tax credits with the demise of RealTime Worlds. This is so wrong-headed I don’t...

Scott Purdie, a recent purchaser of How to Publish a Game, pointed me in the direction of this Scottish Parliament select committee. I’m considering whether to give a submission that argues that tax breaks are bad for...

Critics around the world equate video games with crime and the causes of crime. They routinely blame games for being “murder simulators” or for desensitizing our children to violence.* If that was true, it would be a...

I got in a bit of trouble for my post Be careful what you wish for: UK games industry gets parity with films as government abolishes the Film Council. My broad point was that on issues such...

The video games industry has long cried foul that it is not treated equally. We are upset that Canadian companies get better tax breaks than British ones and we whinge that film is treated with respect by...

Now that the UK Coalition government has nixed tax breaks for the video games industry, perhaps it is time to step back and ask what the objectives of video game tax breaks were – and whether they...

In a detailed comment in response to a GamaSutra with David Braben about the UK government’s U-turn on tax break for video games, Simple Life Forms’ creative guru Tadhg Kelly weighed in with some strong comments. I...