All those dedicated gamers spending even more time in front of consoles, and the casual players who have joined their ranks during lockdown, have been good news for British developers of video games (Simon Duke writes). Business has been booming during the pandemic and this week Frontier Developments, the maker of Elite Dangerous and Jurassic World Evolution, said that it would generate record revenues this year.
Yesterday, there was similarly upbeat message from Team 17, the maker of the Worms franchise. The Wakefield-based company reported bumper results for the first half of the year and, like Frontier, is bullish about its prospects.
Revenues rose by 28 per cent to £39 million in the six months to the end of June thanks to the Covid-19
