| French Development Tax Breaks Approved |
 French Development Tax Breaks Approved Thu, 13 December 2007 As long as games have cultural value
 Some French culture It still falls short of the 37.5 percent credit offered in Canada, but it's not to be sneezed at. There is one proviso:
The French proposal offers companies a tax credit worth up to 20 percent of the cost of producing a video game, providing that it is an adaptation of an existing work of European origin or that it passed a government test of quality, originality and contribution to the expression of "European cultural diversity and creativity".
- Gamasutra British industry group TIGA believes that more than half the games made in Europe in 2007 would have qualified, though, so it's a generous condition. TIGA is also urging the British government to follow suit and offer its own tax breaks, lest it start losing developers to Canada.
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