Games

Games is the second smallest industry out of the nine sectors in the UK, with around 10,000 people being employed across the whole country. In terms of video game consumption, the UK is third largest in the world, and the largest in Europe, which begs the question "why so few developers?".

Games design is a reasonably new sector in comparison with industries such as publishing and radio. Of the 10,000 people employed, there are:

• Designers
• Graphic artists
• Conceptual artists
• Story writers
• Actors 
• Testers 
• Audio producers

Lionhead studios is a successful video game manufacturer based in the UK. They are the studio behind the popular "Fable" game series. Founded in 1996 Lionhead are now part of Microsoft game studios, although still only employs fewer than 100 people.

Sources of income in this industry are mostly through game sales, meaning that it is extremely difficult to be successful in this sector.