Ukie announces Westminster Games Week 2026

We are taking games to Parliament!

Westminster Games Week is a three-day celebration of the UK games industry, hosted in the heart of Westminster, sponsored by Side and powered by Ukie.

As a nation, we should be proud of the thousands of businesses that make up the UK Games Industry.

Name a city in the UK, and chances are, there’s a games studio there.

Manchester, Liverpool, Guildford, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast and the list of thriving game-making cities keeps growing.

The UK video games industry is a homegrown success story, contributing over £6bn in Gross Value Added to the economy. We hold a 7% share of the entire global games market, putting us in the same tier as the US, Japan and South Korea.

Consumers spend nearly £9 billion annually on games in the UK, and with over 2,000 games businesses operating across the country, 55% of them based outside London and the South East, this is an industry woven into the fabric of every nation and region of the UK.

Through years of sustained lobbying by Ukie, Government has come a long way in recognising the potential of our industry and putting in place policy measures that support our growth.

Now we are making the case at the highest levels for the long-term investment, recognition and support that our fantastic UK studios deserve.

A huge thank you to Side for sponsoring the week.

By invite only – we’ll see you next month.