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Tehra: Dark Warrior is a hack-and-slash game available for the PSP, PS3, and iPhone. If you watch the trailer, you’ll quickly see some parallels to God of War, but sadly the game doesn’t quite have the same Epic appeal.
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The Mystery of Whiterock Castle came out on WiiWare last month, with a cost of 700 Wii Points. The Mystery of Whiterock Castle is a hidden object game. You are cast in the role of a young nave who is visiting a princess. When you reach her bedchamber |
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Fallen Earth is a post apocalyptic MMO. It "soft launched" towards the end of last year, and has gradually been gaining momentum, thanks to digital distribution via Direct2Drive and Steam.
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Monte Cristo has announced that they are closing the online elements of Cities XL. You can, of course, continue to play offline. There are plans to relaunch the planet offer as part of a new 2011 edi |
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Bejewelled has been a staple of casual gaming, and flash games web sites for a long time now. Some people even play it on their mobile phones! And now, even console gamers can join in the casual gem-matching fun, since Bejewelled 2 is available for d |
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TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, today dispelled some of the myths about the Government's reasons for rejecting TIGA's proposed Games Tax Relief in the Pre-Budget Report. TIGA made the comments following a meeting with two Government ministers and with officials from HM Treasury and the departments for Business, Innovation and Skills and Culture, Media and Sport.
Richard Wilson, CEO of TIGA, said "There are approximately 900 trade associations in the UK. It is rare for a trade association to be officially invited by the Government to make a case to change UK tax policy. TIGA was invited to make such a case because of our intensive and influential campaign for Games Tax Relief. TIGA was unique in submitting a substantive, 67 page report, based on original research and drawing on expert advice from organisations including Games Investor Consulting, Osborne Clarke, the Tenon Group, Grant Thornton and Games Audit. This was a serious report produced by serious organisations on a serious subject."
He went on to add that "Some observers have suggested that our proposal was rejected because the econometrics underpinning it was insufficiently robust. Some at HM Treasury doubted our assumptions that absent Games Tax Relief job losses in the video games industry would be permanently lost to the UK economy, believing instead that workers lost to the industry would simply move to other equally high-technology industries. It would be naive to accept this point at face value. This is a standard Treasury line. It ignores the evidence produced by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) about the threat of a brain drain from the UK games industry to competitor countries. This line of argument also misses the point. Digital Britain specifically invited TIGA to make the case for Games Tax Relief on cultural grounds. TIGA's report delivered this case, emphasising the cultural arguments for supporting a potentially high growth, knowledge intensive sector of the UK economy. After we submitted our report HM Treasury then duly moved the goal posts, claiming that it does not support sector specific tax breaks."
And concluded "A senior civil servant from HM Treasury has confided that, irrespective of TIGA's arguments, because of the state of the public finances and the parlous state of the UK economy, no commitment to Games Tax Relief could be made. The state of the current political cycle, with a general election fast approaching, created an additional hurdle for TIGA's campaign to surmount. TIGA's campaign for Games Tax Relief has yielded real benefits. The profile of the industry amongst ministers and policy makers has never been higher. Our campaign indirectly encouraged the Government to make its recent announcement concerning investing £10 million in Abertay University and the centre for excellence in Manchester. Above all, the prospects for Games Tax Relief or a similar measure remain possible after a general election. TIGA will continue to campaign for Games Tax Relief or an equivalent fiscal reform in order to make the UK the best place in the world to do games business. Only the faint hearted would give up now."
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