I’d tut tut on the countless, rapacious pursuit of wealth for its personal sake that defines our society, however on the finish of the day, I nonetheless wish to know who’s making the large bucks and picture what I would do with them, child. Fortunately, The Sunday Occasions has simply come out with its Wealthy Listing of the 30 wealthiest figures within the UK video games trade.
On the prime of the listing are Igor and Dmitry Bukhman, whose names, video games, and studio I had by no means heard of earlier than beholding this very listing. The brothers based and personal Playrix, a 4,000 person-strong developer of free-to-play cell video games, with their most notable releases being Township, Fishdom, Homescapes, and Gardenscapes. I suppose I am comfortable for them and their eye-watering £12.5 billion fortune.
Previous a metaverse man and the founding father of Sweet Crush developer King, now the oft-forgotten third pillar of Activision Blizzard King, you may run into some wealthy guys extra PC players will acknowledge: Dan and Sam Houser, who lay declare to an estimated £350 million fortune. Co-founders of the area of interest indie developer, Rockstar Video games, their fortune was constructed on income from Rockstar’s breakout hits: The Warriors in 2005 and Bully in 2006. These video games’ runaway success have allowed Rockstar to bask in much less profitable ardour tasks like Grand Theft Auto and Crimson Useless Redemption.
The largest shock, at the very least for me, is #6 on the listing: Garry’s Mod’s titular creator, Garry Newman. I suppose it should not be a shocker. Garry’s Mod is a ubiquitous presence in PC gaming, and regardless of the title, it is a $10 standalone recreation. Newman’s Facepunch Studios can be behind the extremely profitable Rust, and his deep pockets have me a lot much less frightened about Newman’s imminent Skibidi Bathroom-related authorized battles.
There’s so much to dig into with the 30-person listing: PewDiePie continues to be wealthy as hell, imagine it or not, and I undoubtedly felt my coronary heart heat on the sight of Luca Galante, founding father of poncle and creator of Vampire Survivors, at #26. It is a bit of a bummer and never precisely stunning that there are solely three girls on the listing, however I do not know if “extra girls within the UK video games trade 1%” ought to change into our subsequent rallying cry for gender equality within the pastime. One factor we are able to all agree on although: The folks I actually like and admire on the listing like Galante and Newman are simply cool guys with expertise who additionally obtained fortunate, and the remainder of them ought to be paying extra taxes.
