With record-breaking revenue, the U.K. game industry is blowing up

You can’t talk about the Game Developers Conference (GDC) without discussing one of the most flourishing game developing ecosystems in the world: the United Kingdom. The U.K. is an internationally renowned start-up scene for innovative games and entrepreneurial developers of every stripe, from coders to designers to producers and developers – the kinds of artists who fundamentally shape the course of the industry now and into the future. Check out some of the impressive stats that show the U.K. game industry is one of the most cutting-edge and fastest-growing in the world. $5.05 billion: Sales generated by the U.K. game industry.The U.K. game industry contributed $3.9 billion in GVA to the U.K. economy in 2016. In 2018, games accounted for more than half of the entire U.K. entertainment market, 51.3 percent, outselling music and video combined, for the first time.Almost every sector of the U.K. game industry market is growing. According to TIGA analysis, the U.K. video game sector is the largest in Europe, contributing more than $1.96 billion towards British GDP in 2017.