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The U.S. government offers tax incentives to companies pursuing medical breakthroughs, urban redevelopment and alternatives to fossil fuels.

It also provides tax breaks for a company whose blockbuster hit this year was the gory video game Dead Space 2, which challenges players to advance through an apocalyptic battlefield by killing space zombies.

Those tax incentives — a collection of deductions, write-offs and credits mostly devised for other industries in other eras — now make video-game production one of the most highly subsidized businesses in the United States, said Calvin H. Johnson, who has worked at the Treasury Department and is now a tax professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Because video-game makers straddle the lines between software development, the entertainment industry and online retailing, they can combine tax breaks in ways that companies such as Netflix and Adobe cannot.

Video-game developers receive such a rich assortment of incentives that even oil companies have questioned why the government should subsidize such a profitable industry.

maybe if they legalize freedom again, jobs will actually come here instead of leaving the country... nvm its much simpler trying to govern EVERYTHING