Playground Games Joins TIGA

By November 23, 2011 Press Releases

TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, today announced Playground Games as it newest member. Playground Games is an independent video game development studio founded in 2009 by games industry veterans Gavin Raeburn, Trevor Williams and Ralph Fulton. The company is one of the UK’s fastest-growing game studios, having grown to more than 70 full-time employees at its HQ in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.

Trevor Williams, Chief Operating Officer at Playground Games, explains the reason why the studio decided to join TIGA:

“At Playground Games our vision is to build a UK development studio which can compete with the very best in the world, creating big budget console games for a global audience. TIGA is an unrelenting and passionate campaigner for our industry and continues to provide a strong voice for UK development in these challenging times. Playground also believes firmly in the enduring quality of the UK development sector so there is great synergy between our two organisations. We look forward to working with TIGA in the coming years.”

Dr. Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO welcomed Playground Games to TIGA:

“The team behind Playground Games have over 20 years’ experience in the video games industry. It is hugely inspiring to see the team working to build a world beating studio. I am proud to welcome Playground Games as a TIGA member and we look forward to working with them in the months and years ahead.”

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Notes to editors:
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 games publishers, outsourcing companies, technology businesses and universities amongst our membership. In 2010 TIGA won two business awards including ‘Trade Association of the Year’ from the Trade Association Forum.
 
In 2011, TIGA won six business awards including ‘Trade Association of the Year’ from the Trade Association Forum and ‘Outstanding Organisation’ from the Chartered Management Institute. Richard Wilson won the ‘Leadership Award’ from the Trade Association Forum and the ‘Outstanding Leader’ award from the Chartered Management Institute. TIGA is an Investors in People organisation. TIGA is the trade association representing the UK’s games industry. Our vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to do games business.

Our mission is to fight for the interests of game developers. To achieve our vision and mission we focus on the delivery of three strategic objectives: effective political representation, profile raising and helping our members commercially. 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.

For further information, please contact Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO on: 07875 939 643, or email richard.wilson@tiga.org.
 
For information about Playground Games, please see: http://www.playground-games.com/

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