Great news for the UK’s ailing games industry – the Government has taken an interest (at last) and appears to be actively seeking ways to provide ‘culturally based tax breaks for computer games’. This is a measure which the UK games biz has been clamouring for, ever since foreign tax incentives sparked a brain drain of home grown talent to places like Canada and Korea.
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Remember how we warned you that fake and potentially lethal DS consoles were winging their way to the UK? Well, it looks like some of them slipped through Customs and showed up on eBay. However, a raid led by Bromley Trading Standards Department and Kent police resulted in the seizure of 40 counterfeit consoles, along with 150 dodgy games. This raid is the first of its kind ever to take place in the UK.