Great Canadian Threat

TIGA, the UK game industry trade association, has recently identified Canada as a "major threat". The reason? Canada's game-friendly business environment makes Canada more appealing to game companies and developers than the UK, which does not offer much in the way of tax breaks or other incentives to game companies.

This is a compliment, as Canada is being held out as a country that's "doing everything right" in terms of encouraging game companies to do business. Canadian tax incentives certainly help (see our coverage of some such programs here and here), but we also assume it's at least partly because Canada has such awesome video game lawyers.

Coverage at the Develop site.