Government must act immediately, say Games Up? organisers as campaign goes public
The recently-revealed Games Up? campaign has been officially unveiled this morning (27th May 2008), with a warning that 'UK games studios face decline' as 'runaway industry growth will increasingly move offshore'.
Revealed at the weekend in a piece on the Mail on Sunday, the Games Up? campaign is a unified and organised attempt by the UK games industry to successfully lobby Government for a games production tax credit and better higher education.
Backed by UK trade associations Tiga and ELSPA, and a number of leading UK games companies, the move is designed to "warn government that the UK's world-leading studios face decline despite the boom in the £18 billion games software market".
FuRuy has opened a Twitter account called “Project Alice” teasing a new game announcement on April 25 at 20:30 JST.
New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.
It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
Hopefully they will get plenty of backing and attention.
With so many other countries now offering developers tax incentives to set up in there region its important that we herer in the UK retain wahts left of excellent developement heritage.
As a UK developer myself, I'm particularly interested, but anyone who follows games history and cares will know that UK developement is worth protecting and fostering....
If the Govt. don't do anything soon then what happened with our film industry will happen to the games industry.
The companies will move operations and investment abroad and the Govt. will have lost out on another opportunity that could have been lucrative for them and the country.
It looks like the industry itself is asking for this so that has to open someones eyes in parliament.
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