Take not that tax breaks seem to pass much more easily than anti game legislation.

PS: That pic is really freakin creepy.

That is the creepiest freakin picture you could possibly show to represent Georgia.

See, and everyone else said that my Geiger Counter was broken. This picture proves them wrong.

Okay... Does that peach look like Al Gore to anybody else?

As a resident of Georgia, I'm proud that my state hasn't attempted any anti-game legislation. From what I understand, the only laws relating to games are like this one or were done with the cooperation of the ESRB.

Yeah, that peach is kinda creepy.

Glad to see another state in support of the game industry. I hope this continues to spread.

Also that peach is creepy. I may never be able to eat another peach again. They could have at least made it female.

"Also that peach is creepy. I may never be able to eat another peach again. They could have at least made it female. "

So to you, a walking FEMALE peach with a disturbing grin is nowhere near as creepy as its male counterpart?

Anyway, what part of the peach indicates that it's a male?

I see Georgia as a great place to start-up a game developing studio or a great place to get an education.

So there are tax incentives and there are great colleges for game development. I see a bright future for Georgia. At least I hope so, because I plan to spend quite a bit of time in Georgia.

This most definately covers the gaming industry, and not just TV and movies. They already have a person in the Department of Economic Development who is actively seeking video game companies to come to Georgia. Mostly from outside of the country - the CCP acquisition of White Wolf comes to mind. CCP, the makers of Eve Online based in Iceland, wanted a US base, and they chose White Wolf's existing facility in Stone Mountain.

I also know that our governor took a trip to South Korea to attempt to convince several companies - including video game companies - to open up a US base of operations in Georgia. As far as I can tell, they are VERY serious about this.

Their big draw is the game design curriculum at Georgia Tech, Art Institute of Atlanta, and Savannah College of Art and Design. The Georgia game development scene has exploded in the past few years, not only with CCP/White Wolf, but with Gametap and Cartoon Network Game Studios all located here within Turner's conglomerate. My only PERSONAL worry is that just about every game studio I spoke with at the recent SIEGE conference here in Atlanta last year were making PC MMO's, which means that if we do see anything significant coming out of the Georgia game industry, it will be in 3-5 years at least. Nobody around here is working on console titles, they're all trying to make the next WoW.

I didn't know my state was represented by a pedophilic peach. Anyways, that's basically the most awesomething of all time.

@ Ian Cooper

The facial features are obviously masculine. As for the female comment, yes a femal peach would be considerably less creepy, but still creepy.

God I'm SO glad that I'm not the only one who saw the peach & thought paedophile.

Also, if games make people kill and georgia is advocating the creation of games, does that make georgia complicit in the next murder where either the murderer or victim have had some tenuous & peripheral connection to games such as living near a game shop or having once played football which is often simulated in games?

Great break for develepers, maybe lawmakers are begining to accept video games!

Well, as developers based in Roswell, GA, we are obviously very happy to see the invesment incentives increased. While we do share the concern that the minimum investment level of $500,000 doesn't directly encourage start-ups, it is certainly useful for growing companies, such as ourselves. Also has to be a big draw to the much larger, established companies seeking to keep their costs down!

We've already started working with the local colleges and hope to do a lot more over the next coupe of years.

And, for Bobby Blackwolf: not ALL Georgia's developers are building MMOs! We build FPS for PC and Console - our first title was released a couple of years back, sold in stores throughout the US and is still on the store shelves in Europe. You obviously didn't attend my session at SIEGE :)