Invest Liverpool City Region
Welcome to the Liverpool City Region: a global gateway, a place for pioneers and a cultural and sporting powerhouse.
It’s a region built on international trade, driven by innovation and primed for investment.
IBM, Sony, Tencent, and many more already recognise the city region's invaluable assets. With new tailored facilities, low costs and wide-ranging financial incentives, the city region is geared to welcome investors and businesses of all sizes to one of the most famous, dynamic, inclusive, connected and forward-thinking places in the world.
The Liverpool City Region’s video games heritage dates back to the 1980s as the home of trailblazing British games developer Psygnosis, which was acquired by Sony in 1993.
Liverpool business are responsible for some of the best-known titles in the world including; WipEout, Project Gotham Racing, Formula One, the Playroom and many others. The expertise and pedigree of Liverpool businesses in a global context is highly regarded and sought after.
The games industry, predicted to be worth $321 billion globally by 2026 according to PWC, has already proven to be a valuable source of foreign direct investment into Liverpool. In 2020, Sweden’s Avalanche Studios – creators of the wildly popular Just Cause franchise – chose the city as its only location outside of Sweden. In June 2022 global games services provider, Universally Speaking , expanded its UK footprint to open a specialist studio in Liverpool, offering localisaton and testing to complement its Bedfordshire base. In September 2025 The Game Assembly, a specialist game developer educator, will open its doors to students in Liverpool at its first physical location in the UK.
