In an attempt to kick-start its own video game industry, Ireland has begun to target a number of high-profile Scottish game development studios, attempting to woo them over to the Emerald Isle by offering a five-year tax holiday. Colin Macdonald, manager of Dundee-based APB developer Realtime Worlds, responded by saying "if the package on offer in Ireland was attractive we'd have to give it serious consideration." Other Scottish developers who could be influenced by the tax holiday include Rockstar North, Denki, Ruffian Games and Dynamo Games.
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I think rogue warrior needs to be on here. And why Isn't E.T. on here since we're talking about all time terrible games. That game single handily crashed the video game world.
For me Haze. I was interested to play it. That was until I played the demo. Picked it up in a bargain bin later on after its launch and I am glad I did........pick it out of a bargain bin and not pay full price
APB , that game went from having a 100mill dollar budget to bankruptcy so fast , it should be a record on its own
No Dude Nukem: Forever? That games had so much hype surrounding it and it turned out to be a steaming pile.
PC Gamer - The action-MMO first known as APB lives on as APB Reloaded. But if your memory serves, you’ll recall that the urban, massively-multiplayer shooter had a quick death: APB shut down just months after launching at the end of June 2010, coinciding with the dissolution of developer Realtime Worlds.
It would be interesting if this happens. 12.5% corporation tax is annoying the Germans imagine what a five year tax break will do. It would annoy them even more if they bring in the anti violent game law and Crytek move to Ireland.
Sweet, I might get a career out of this.
Well, good old Sean Lemass and TK Whitaker brought this in before to entice foreign companies to move their development here. And by god did it work. Let's hope the same applies here, I'd love to see Ireland put on the map for game development, it could also be a real boon to the economy. Games are BIG business these days, and I'm glad to see our government realizes this.
now all that has to be done is for stormont or even the central goverment, westminster, to invest to get gaming companies to Northern Ireland :D !! which means if i get a carrer in gaming i dont have to go to other parts of the parts of the UK e.g. Scotland
Ireland could really use some of these high profile devs, Oh and to the abov, the north isn;t following this policy,Ireland has the lowest corporation tax in Europe anyway, I'm not surprised by this because the study of computer programming type of courses is gaining popularity in Irish colleges/universities.