The city’s digital games industry took flight during the past decade, tripling its employment numbers in 12 years, as creative and technology workers tried to style a place for themselves in the fast-growing, lucrative industry, according to a report issued by the Mayor’s Office for Media and Entertainment
The local industry created $2 billion in economic output, supporting 7,600 full-time jobs and 18,000 affiliated freelancers and paying $762 million in wages.
New York isn’t viewed as a center for gaming, with leading companies based elsewhere; however, smaller outfits are creating jobs, and city universities offer training.
Around the world, consumer gaming has boomed as an industry with $180
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