Nearly 9% of the UK's game industry brain drain is flowing to Canada

The labor force in the UK gaming industry has shrunk nearly 9% since 2008, according to the latest statistics, the November 5 news.　　According to a survey conducted by one agency, 73% of the people surveyed chose to travel to Canada. This is an astonishing slowdown, for the first time revealing the great dilemma that the UK gaming industry is now facing. More and more developers have moved their offices abroad.　　The British government's recent cancellation of tax rebates for the gaming industry in the country has brought the UK gaming industry into the winter ahead. In particular, as a British game developers gathering place in Dundee area, after the collapse of Realtime worlds, unexpectedly chain triggered local up to 60% of the game labor force population loss. According to a survey published by games Investor Consulting, an investment consultancy, there are fewer than 160 full-time game workers in the Dundee area.　　Just realtime world a developer at peak time can absorb 250 full-time staff employment.　　Games Investor Consulting manager Rick Gibson believes that while there are still a lot of part-time game employees, the UK gaming industry as a whole is experiencing a big loss. "Many of them have been lost to developers in other countries overseas," said Rick Gibson. "The data are hard to gather, but according to a survey we made last year, 73% of the people chose to travel to Canada."　　"The game industry in Canada is vibrant, unlike the current panic in the UK gaming industry," he said.　　The local government has offered up to 40% tax rebate policies, with many gaming operators flocking to the country's Ontario Prov. and Quebec, Prov. to settle down 35% of the local employment pressure. Last July, Ubisoft announced that it would spend $473 million on a new large studio in Toronto and plan to offer more than 800 jobs over the next decade.　　They have already had a studio in Montreal and are responsible for developing the "Assassin's Creed" series. THQ has also recently announced that it will offer more than 400 jobs in a new job in Montreal.　　The head of the company said it had considered settling in the UK before. Bobby Kotick, chief executive, said in an interview that they were unwilling to invest in the UK. "Prices in Britain are too high, especially in London," he said. It's hard to imagine how much we pay for the people who live there. "It is clear that Britain is no longer the center of the world's gaming industry, even though we have been brilliant," said Michael French, editor-in-chief of the British develop website. "But now, half of our game people have chosen to go abroad, and three-fourths of them have gone to Canada." "he added. (Digging the shell net)