Oregon’s Video Game Industry Is Coming Off Its Biggest Year Ever. It’s Only Going to Keep Growing.
15 Jan 2020
Maybe you don’t consider yourself a gamer—or it could just be you haven’t found the right game. Chances are, the one for you is being made somewhere in Oregon.
In Oregon, the game has changed—and so have the games.
Over the past decade, the state's masters of warfare, zombie apocalypses, and more personal adventures have taken Oregon's video game industry up a level.
A report by the Entertainment Software Association in 2016 found that game development in Oregon contributes nearly $200 million to the economy and employs 2,000 workers—making it the eighth-biggest market in the country, according to Fortune.
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