Video gaming in the United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom is Europe's largest video game market and the third largest in the world.[1][2] According to a 2012 report by Newzoo, the U.K games market generated $ 5,2bn of revenues in 2012 with the total number of gamers at 33.6million. The total time spent on games was on average 11 hours per person per week. In 2009, the profits of Britain's video game industry exceeded those from its film industry for the first time.[3] Many major video game franchises are developed in the UK, including Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider, Burnout, LittleBigPlanet, Wipeout and Dirt. The country's main video game publisher is the ELSPA, and the primary video game developer is currently Tiga.
The organizations responsible for rating video games in the UK are the British Board of Film Classification and PEGI, the latter of which was elected to rate British games in 2009 and subsequently began doing so in July 2012.[4] The United Kingdom's video game industry is estimated to employ a total of 7,000 people.[5] One of the United Kingdom's greatest contributions to the worldwide gaming industry was the 1982 release of the ZX Spectrum home computer.
In recent years, Northern Ireland has made increasing contributions to the United Kingdom's video game industry.[6] In March 2012, Parliament instated certain tax reliefs for UK game developers[7]
UK-based games companies []
- Alten8
- Argonaut Games (defunct)
- Atomic Planet Entertainment (defunct)
- Automata UK (defunct)
- Beautiful Game Studios
- Bizarre Creations (defunct)
- Blitz Games Studios
- Bug-Byte Software Ltd. (defunct)
- Bullfrog Productions (defunct)
- Codemasters
- Confounding Factor (defunct)
- Core Design (defunct)
- Criterion Games
- Crytek UK
- Curve Studios
- Data Design Interactive
- Double Eleven
- EA UK
- Eidos
- Eurocom (defunct)
- Eutechnyx
- FreeStyleGames
- Firefly Studios
- Firebrand Games
- Frontier Developments
- Games Workshop
- Gremlin Interactive
- Headfirst Productions (defunct)
- Intelligent Games (defunct)
- Introversion Software
- Jagex
- Kuju Entertainment
- Lionhead Studios
- Llamasoft
- Media Molecule
- Mythos Games (defunct)
- nDreams
- Neon Play
- Rareware
- Rage Software (defunct)
- Realtime Worlds (defunct)
- Rebellion Developments
- Revolution Software
- Rising Star Games
- Rockstar North
- Rocksteady Studios
- SCE Cambridge Studio
- SCE London Studio
- SCE Studio Liverpool (defunct)
- Sega Europe
- Sensible Software (defunct)
- Slightly Mad Studios
- Sports Interactive
- Superior Software
- Swordfish Studios (defunct)
- System 3
- Team17
- The Creative Assembly
- Traveller's Tales
- Tynesoft (defunct)
- Ubisoft UK
- Vulcan Software
- Wayward Design (sold to Rage Software)
- Zoo Digital
- Zoonami
References []
- ^ [1]. Eurogamer (2009-08-17). Retrieved on 2011-11-10.
- ^ "UK Games Market Summary Report". Newzoo.
- ^ Rosenberg, Dave. (2009-12-31) Video games outsell movies in U.K. | Software, Interrupted - CNET News. News.cnet.com. Retrieved on 2011-05-07.
- ^ "PEGI ratings become UK’s single video game age rating system". The Association For UK Interactive Entertainment. 2012-07-30. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
- ^ Who works in Computer Games?. Skillset. Retrieved on 2011-05-07.
- ^ "BBC News - The changing face of NI's video gaming industry". Bbc.co.uk. 2010-05-25. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
- ^ Henderson, Rik (2012-03-21). "UK tax relief break". Retrieved 2012-03-31.
