Scotland-based Realtime Worlds, the developer of Crackdown and APB, has said that Ireland’s tax package for videogame developers is quite alluring, they might move.
While their current Dundee digs are a ”great place” to be admits boss Colin Macdonald, they need to think of the studios coffers ”at the end of the day”. Ireland is ‘fishing’ in Scotland.
”If the package on offer in Ireland was attractive we’d have to give it serious consideration,” said Macdonald. ”Dundee is a great place to be based, one of the main hubs for computer games in Britain, but at the end of the day we’ve got to look after our bottom line.”
Realtime Worlds employs 300 people at their current office site, with 700 in total employed by the videogames industry in Scotland with an annual turnover of £50 million. Ireland is offering a five year tax break holiday for studios to leap over, reports the Herald Scotland.
An APB concept piece, or possibly a Dundee resident…
