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Baltimore County Public Schools plans to incorporate video game development education into its curriculum with the help of serious game applications. Along with Learning Port strategies, the public school district has developed a program called L.i.V.E...
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Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's online game company 38 Studios will leave Maynard, Massachusetts and head to Rhode Island, which agreed to sign a controversial $75 million loan guarantee. The luring of Schilling's company, which has yet ...
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Continuing its ongoing accrual of companies and technology related to video game development, Autodesk has acquired Illuminate Labs, a developer of middleware and plugins that facilitate video game lighting. Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, Cal...
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Taking a cue from a model that has proven successful in the non-game world of tech startups, North Carolina-based Joystick Labs has announced its new incubation program to provide seed funding and office space for independent video game development fir...
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The Florida House of Representatives this week unanimously passed a bill that will boost existing state tax breaks for the entertainment industry, including video game development, with a 112-0 vote. If passed into law, the bill (HB 697) will raise tax credits on in-state spending for "qualified productions" from 15 percent to 20 percent. A supplementary 5 percent credit is available to projects produced during the June to November "off season" period, and a further ...
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In the wake of the promise last week that the UK's current Labour government will introduce video game development tax breaks, the opposing Conservative Party has pledged to introduce its own tax breaks if elected this May. Parliament announced that the industry tax incentives will be part of its 2010 budget, a move that was warmly welcome by game development trade groups like Tiga, which has strenuously campaigned for such measures for years. Shadow Minister ...
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