Welcome to Game Republic
Game Republic is an industry-led games network for the Yorkshire and Humber region. As well as being a great place to live and work, this north of England county boasts one of the world's top-performing regions for games development, with such talented companies as Rockstar Leeds, Sumo Digital, Team 17, Tuna and Revolution Software within our borders.
At Game Republic our sole aim is to create more games business for Yorkshire, hosting regular networking events, investing in games projects, supporting companies with PR and marketing, assisting companies travelling to international events and more.
We're also passionate about creating better links between academia and the industry, with past events including "AI & Avatars" in association with the University of Bradford and the hugely successful Student Showcase, which this year took place at Sheffield Hallam University on Tuesday 5th May.
In 2007, Game Republic was fully integrated into Screen Yorkshire, allowing the games sector in the region access to Screen Yorkshire's strategic investment funds. If you want to know more about the games industry in Yorkshire and the UK, or to find out about the support available, contact jamie@screenyorkshire.co.uk or you can also follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/gamerepublic
Eurogamer Expo 200927th/28th October, Royal Armouries, Leeds
The UK's biggest consumer videogames event came to Leeds on 27th/28th October, and was a huge success for Eurogamer, Game Republic/Screen Yorkshire and all the games companies in the region. More than 4000 Yorkshire videogamers played all the biggest upcoming games including world exclusive first plays of Aliens vs Predator, Alien Breed Evolution, New Super Mario Bros Wii and Cletus Clay.
In addition, the Gamesindustry.biz Career Fair featured many of our region's games developers and universities, allowing anyone interested in getting into the games industry to get essential advice and information - including entertaining sessions from Team17, Media Mill and Just Add Water Ltd.
Coverage on the event was far and wide, with TV reports from BBC Breakfast News, BBC Look North and GMTV, as well as features on dozens of local and national newspapers, websites and radio stations.
To see a video from the event click here
For photos from this event, hit this link
