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gaming in the UK

U.K. News Round Up

Gamers in the U.K are in love with
Infamous: Second Son as it held on
to the number 1 spot on the UKIE
charts ending week 13, 2014. Even
though sales of the game fell it just
held on followed by Metal Gear Solid
V: Ground Zeroes. After MSG V was
Titanfall, FIFA 14and at number 5,
The Lego Movie Video Game.
In other U.K news, the British Film
Institute published guidelines for developers who want to claim tax relief
for video game development. Ac-

However our reading of the release
suggests that only games that are
deemed of cultural value can get the
tax relief. The Telegraph in the U.K
has the complete story and says
this is indeed good news for the U.K
game industry. Video games are

“..THIS IS INDEED GOOD NEWS FOR THE
U.K GAME INDUSTRY.”
cording to the BFI site, the tax relief
has been awarded approval by the
European Commission and to quote
the site:
“The UK video games tax relief has
now been awarded state aid approval by the European Commission
and the legislation needed to implement the tax relief is being taken
forward now by the Government.
The Draft Finance Bill 2014 was
published on 27 March 2014 and
DCMS will be publishing a final draft
of The Cultural Test (Video Games)
Regulations 2014 later in the year.”

expensive to produce and governments need to get behind the industry to drive creativity and to boost the
industry resulting in more jobs. You
can read the entire Telegraph report
here.
Finally in our round up from around
the web, The Huffington Post (UK)
reports that gay characters in video games are being held back due
to commercial fears according to
Ubisoft’s Montreal Lead Writer, Lucien Souban. Check out the whole
story here.

Written by Rob Jenkins