Puerto Rico Gives Incentives to Game Developers - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 December 2014 / 5,331 Views
Peurto Rico has decided this week to start handing out incentives to video game developers. The Puerto Rico Film Commission gave out its first incentive earlier this week to Space Rhino Games for its game Breach TD.
"This administration believes in video games as the next frontier for economic growth in the entertainment industry," a PRFC representative told GamesIndustry. "The same unrivaled film incentive, that applies exactly to video games, has proven to be a massive hit in the film and television industry."
"We do believe that once word gets out of the video game incentive and we receive testament of developers that have benefited from this incentive, we will start seeing more developers and publishers expanding to Puerto Rico."
The incentives being handed out offer a 40 percent tax credit on salaries and production costs. However, it can only claimed for games that more than $100,000 to develop.
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I hope other countries follow. Meanwhile in the US it's the antichrist and is what is turning children into monsters. -.-
Aaaactually alot of people believe that here :v this time it just got lucky, since the groups that protests for everything, is currently focused in stopping the advancement of LGBT rights, if it weren't for that, they would had protested for it, using the videogames are bad for you, make children violent, and are satanic argument, so yeah this just got lucky.
