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Free Radical Design boss David Doak believes that the UK Government's lack of interest in videogames is driving developers out of business.
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"The UK Government needs to do something more useful than just criticising violent content in videogames,
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"Here's an industry that 20 years ago we led the world in - through bedroom rock-and-roll development on the early home computers - and now there's a very real chance that what is now a real profession is going to be driven out of the UK because they don't make any concessions to it,"
he complained.
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"They love the British film industry and stuff and are prepared to give it money, and yet they'll stand around watching videogame developers losing staff."
Doak said "big contracts" consistently go to development in places like Paris and Canada - not to mention emerging development areas like Shanghai - because of the Government's lack of assistance.
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They drive up the cost of our business, and that makes us less appealing to other people, and even on a wider level, individual people are getting headhunted and pulled away - lots of people go to Canada, because that's a nice place.