Geek vs Life

Ok, step one. French minister of culture Renaud Donnedieu was pushing for video games to be considered the same as movies, and thus elegible for “cultural” tax credits. This happened back in November. For details on that, scope out this.

Today, Reuters announced that the minister’s push was responded to. Parlaiment has approved a tax credit for games with a “cultural dimension” (vaguely worded to me, but vagueness leads to creativity sometimes) of 20%, up to 3 million euros a year. That’s just under 4 million dollars.

The EU is currently looking over the proposed measure to see if it violates subsidiary laws.