Liverpool City Region Games Hub

The Liverpool City Region’s video games heritage dates back to the 1980s as the home of trailblazing British games developer Psygnosis, which was acquired by Sony in 1993.

Liverpool business are responsible for some of the best-known titles in the world including; WipEout, Project Gotham Racing, Formula One, the Playroom and many others.  The expertise and pedigree of Liverpool businesses in a global context is highly regarded and sought after.

The games industry, predicted to be worth $321 billion globally by 2026 according to PWC, has already proven to be a valuable source of foreign direct investment into Liverpool. In 2020, Sweden’s Avalanche Studios – creators of the wildly popular Just Cause franchise which has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide – chose the city as the location for its second international studio after New York. In June 2022 global games services provider, Universally Speaking, expanded its UK footprint to open a specialist studio in Liverpool, offering localisaton and testing to complement its Bedfordshire base.

Augmented and Virtual Realities (AR and VR) will be a $1.5 trillion industry by 2030 (PwC). These technologies, first developed in the games industry, are starting to come into their own across all sectors.  Liverpool has some excellent examples of the application of these technologies in its leisure (including film), health, automotive and engineering sectors.

Here you can find information on success stories in the city region, useful community groups and events, the city regions gaming legacy, skills initiatives as well as information about the LCR Games Board.