Communications MDR
Communications MDR is an organization that publishes reports on the video game industry, covering how video game companies are financed internationally and how they scale up, with best practices.
Documents
Insights and Best Practices on Scaling up Video Game Companies
Prepared for Interactive Ontario, funded by Ontario Creates and submitted by Communications MDR in October 2022, this study examines how video game companies scale up.
- The study identifies eight success factors for videogame scale-ups, grouped into internal factors and external factors shaped by the environment.
- Videogame scale-ups are described as achieving growth rates that the study says pale other sectors' high-growth benchmarks, which it attributes to digital distribution.
- The authors state that most programs examined have minimum eligibility requirements, and some require a game to have launched and be generating revenue.
An International Review of Financing for Video Game Companies
This study, prepared by Communications MDR for Interactive Ontario and last updated September 15, 2021, reviews public and private financing for video game companies in peer jurisdictions including the UK, US, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the EU, the Nordic region, Israel, and, where information was available, South Korea…
- Private investment in the video game sector rose 77% in 2020 over 2019, reaching USD 13.2B.
- The US provides no direct federal funding program for video games, but provides indirect support through the Federal R&D Tax Credit.
- The US R&D tax credit provides a 20% credit against eligible expenditures and can be carried forward for up to twenty years.
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