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Playing for keeps

 

Playing for Keeps: Challenges to Sustaining a World Class UK Games Sector (2007)

 

Playing for Keeps: Challenges to Sustaining a World Class UK Games Sector is a wide-ranging research project initiated by UKTI, DTI (now BERR) and Tiga, and conducted by Games Investor Consulting, which looks at the state of play for games development in the UK and how it compares to the rest of the world.

 

The aim was to build on existing work conducted by Tiga to deliver detailed evidence-based research into the current and future states of the UK games industry with a focus on the creation of new games intellectual property, the ability of new companies to start up in the UK and the barriers to inward investment by overseas companies into the UK.

 

The research was conducted in late 2006 and early 2007 and is being published as a number of monographs. You can read about it on the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, or read the reports here.

 

The first three monographs have now been released and are available to download through the following links:

 

• Games development territory profiles: Games Investor Consulting provides detailed profiles the UK games sector alongside the USA, Canada, South Korea, France, Australia and Singapore using a series of key performance indicators. UK developer survey results and analysis also included. Download it here.


• Great British Games profiles: Games Investor Consulting examines ten of the most successful, influential and representative games intellectual properties generated in the UK since the birth of the UK games industry (Tomb Raider, Grand Theft Auto, Championship Manager, Burnout, Worms, Black and White, Elite, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Driver, Runescape). UK developer survey results and analysis also included. Download it here.

 

• Games commercial models and distribution channels: Games Investor Consulting analyses the prevalent commercial models and distribution channels in the games industry today from retail to network gaming. UK developer survey results and analysis also included. Download it here.