Games sector

Join our growing games ecosystem. Our experienced specialist team can guide you through the entire process. Whatever your unique needs, from financing your next move, to helping you to find the right studio space, we're here to help.

Your money can go further in Wales, with house prices 30% lower than the UK average, and competitively priced commercial property.

Co-working spaces can be found right across Wales. Tramshed Tech continues to grow, expanding from Cardiff to Newport and more recently Swansea.  Offering spaces for start-ups in welcoming communities of likeminded individuals, providing business mentoring, accelerator programmes and many other support functions.

Alongside space for startups, we also have the infrastructure for global players. Wales has become one of Europe’s most attractive destinations for data centre investment with its combination of strong data connectivity and proximity to London. The Vantage Data Centre operates its largest hyperscale data centre in Wales, while Microsoft has invested heavily in building a next-generation AI-enabled data centre in Newport.

Wales’ more balanced pace of life is ideal for entrepreneurs and families looking for breathing space.  Surrounded by National Parks, coastal walks and areas of outstanding natural beauty on your doorstep, it’s so easy to swap screen time for green time.

Talk to the team about locating your games company in Wales.

The Welsh Government via our team here at Creative Wales can offer a bespoke funding package to companies setting up in Wales. 

For example, Wales is a proud home to US Games company Rocket Science, who chose Cardiff as the location for its European HQ. Following financial and practical support from the Welsh Government and Creative Wales, Rocket Science brought its brilliant back-end expert engineering co-development skills here to Wales.

We can offer games companies support for capital investment and aid for job creation and regularly offer other funding opportunities including:

Development funding enabling studios to allocate resources and hire freelancers to produce a short playable demo and a high-quality pitch deck.

Scale up funding supporting game studios registered in Wales to present to investors and publishers to seek investment for full production.

Production funding for businesses creating digital content aimed at International audiences.

We take pride in each business we support, and we want to see them all succeed. We maintain strong personal relationships with each of our businesses and share every opportunity available to help them on their way to achieving their goals. 

We have strong relationships with the creative industries and academia in Wales and can help you make connections and access a pipeline of creative talent. Whether you wish to expand in the games sector or collaborate with animators, musicians or other creatives, we can help make it happen.

When it comes to talent development, The University of South Wales (USW) stands out for game design, animation and VFX, with graduates contributing to world-renowned titles.

Cardiff, Swansea, Wrexham, Cardiff Met and University Wales Trinity St David all offer specialist courses in computing, digital arts and immersive tech – creating a vibrant academic network powering Wales’ growing games industry.

Welsh colleges meanwhile provide a strong foundation for creative and technical talent, offering practical courses in game development, digital media, computing and eSports and producing a steady flow of talented graduates ready to join the workforce.