TIGA, the trade association representing the UK’s games industry, today announced Beriah as its newest member.
Beriah is a co-development company, which specialises in providing the games industry with flexible, modular development services. The team at Beriah are experienced in helping studios with a range of solutions from reducing development costs to overcoming bandwidth issues, bolstering R&D, tools or tech work, or improving creativity.
Kevin Hassall, Beriah Managing Director, explains: “Put simply, at Beriah we free developers from their resource constraints and help them find practical solutions to development challenges. Every developer and every issue is different and as such every solution is unique. Our flexibility and experience allow us to tailor make a unique program for each issue, which means the client is always getting the very best in terms of quality, efficiency and cost effectiveness.””
On joining TIGA Hassall adds: “We are impressed by the work TIGA is doing to help UK developers address the issues they face in terms of skills shortages and recruitment through the Play Together initiatives. In these turbulent times we need practical programs like this to support the UK games industry and we hope to work with TIGA on this and similar initiatives in the future.””
Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO stated: “Our members often face a number of quite unique challenges due to the cyclical nature of game development. Companies like Beriah are adept in assisting games businesses find the best solutions to these problems. Beriah’s expertise and knowledge will make an important contribution to the TIGA community.””
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About TIGA:
TIGA is the trade association representing the UK’s games industry. The majority of our members are either independent games developers or in-house publisher owned developers. We also have outsourcing companies, technology businesses and universities amongst our membership.
TIGA’s vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to do games business. We focus on three sets of activities: political representation, generating media coverage and developing services that enhance the competitiveness of our members. This means that TIGA members are effectively represented in the corridors of power, their voice is heard in the media and they receive benefits that make a material difference to their businesses, including a reduction in costs and improved commercial opportunities.
About Beriah:
Beriah builds game developments for a variety of video game companies, working confidentially with a range of developers in the UK and beyond. Pioneering modular development and co-development approaches, Beriah enables its clients to maximise their flexibility in tackling game development challenges, helping developers to maximise their efficiency on platforms from iPhone to next gen.
For further information, please contact: Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO on: 0845 0941095; Mob: 07875 939643; or Email: richard.wilson@tiga.org, or, Eva Whitlow, TIGA PR Manager on: 07814 039 983, or email eva@tiga.org.
For more information on Beriah please contact Kevin Hassall on kevin.hassall@beriah.net.