Comments on: Games Industry - Biggest Sector in UK Creative Industries http://evo-gamer.com/2008/02/27/games-industry-biggest-sector-in-uk-creative-industries/ Chris 'Evo' Evans on PC Gaming....good bad or ugly I cover it! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:44:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: John Marten http://evo-gamer.com/2008/02/27/games-industry-biggest-sector-in-uk-creative-industries/#comment-150 John Marten Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:07:29 +0000 http://evo-gamer.com/2008/02/27/games-industry-biggest-sector-in-uk-creative-industries/#comment-150 "Software and computer games" are rather different things, in the statistics. Software can run from accountancy, ITC office networking, through huge quasi-government arms such as Civitas who deal with new ITC for local government and hospitals, via all branches of Currys and similar retailers who sell software, through British Rail's timetable system, and much more. For the government to try to "pull the wool..." by calling all that lot "creative" is spin of the first order. So far as I am aware, the "current R&D tax credit scheme" is not easily open to games developers. They may want to raise awareness of it, but they may have to out into place a new version of the scheme. When and if that will happen, we'll have to see. “Software and computer games” are rather different things, in the statistics. Software can run from accountancy, ITC office networking, through huge quasi-government arms such as Civitas who deal with new ITC for local government and hospitals, via all branches of Currys and similar retailers who sell software, through British Rail’s timetable system, and much more. For the government to try to “pull the wool…” by calling all that lot “creative” is spin of the first order.

So far as I am aware, the “current R&D tax credit scheme” is not easily open to games developers. They may want to raise awareness of it, but they may have to out into place a new version of the scheme. When and if that will happen, we’ll have to see.

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