Figures show North American gaming industry rising against market

Beijing Time December 22 Evening News, according to foreign media reports, the Research institute game Developer study conducted by the third annual survey, the 2009 North American video game industry, the number of workers in the market rose, from a year ago, 44400 people rose to 44806. Data show that, on the one hand, a number of traditional game studios are closed; On the other hand, social games and online gaming studios continue to recruit new employees.　　In addition, a series of Canadian government policies conducive to the development of the gaming industry has created more job opportunities for the industry. Driven by policy, the Canadian video gaming industry has exploded, with the total number of employees up 30% per cent year-on-year. Ubisoft has expanded significantly in Canada, where it has a large gaming studio in Montreal and has recruited more staff in Toronto. Other gaming companies have a large staff in Vancouver. Overall, the Canadian gaming industry has risen from 9500 to 12480 people.　　Industry insiders believe that the federal and state governments should launch their own game-industry stimulus, prompting gaming companies to put more jobs in the United States to prevent these jobs from moving to Canada. In the United States, the largest player in the gaming industry is California, which has 20,815 game developers. Washington state and Texas separated 二、三位, the number of practitioners are about 4500 and 2600 respectively.　　The gaming industry in New York State, Massachusetts, Illinois State, Florida State and Maryland also has more than 1000 people. Game Developer Researc's report counted more than 700 gaming companies in the United States and Canada, but did not include gaming tools, game outsourcing/service companies, external PR companies, marketing companies, legal companies and the contact and authorization departments of large media companies.　　Game Developer estimates that these companies also created 18,000 jobs in North American markets. After the financial crisis and the recession, game publishers closed more than 60 game development studios from the second half of 2008 to the beginning of 2009, with publicly announced layoffs of up to 8452 people.　　Wanda M2, an analyst at Wanda Meloni, thinks this is equivalent to 12% of the gaming industry. After that, the game issuer also continued to lay off 2200 people, most of which took place between October 2009 and December, says Mello. In addition, 3 game studios have been closed, bringing the total number of closed gaming studios to 15 this year. (D-Gold)