Veronika Mikhailova

3 of the 9 richest British game owners work at King

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The Sunday Times has published an annual list of the richest Britons. Nine out of 1000 positions in it are for representatives of the game dev. Moreover, a third of the seats went to immigrants from King.

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Right now, Mel Morris, the co—founder of King, has the largest fortune in the British industry.

His wealth is estimated at $625 million. Over the past year, it has grown by $18.2 million. This allowed Morris to take 267th place in the overall standings.

After him comes another multimillionaire from King — Riccardo Zacconi, the publisher’s CEO. His fortune has almost reached half a billion dollars ($497 million), and he is 320th on the list.

From King comes the third rich man according to the publication. This is Sebastian Knutson, the game designer of the popular match-3 Candy Crush Saga. He was in 540th place thanks to savings of $273 million.

In addition to two natives of King, only Rockstar co-founders Sam and Dan Houser (Sam & Dan Houser) got into the top 500. Their total capital reaches $376 million, and they are in 418th place.

Other famous names from gamedev in this list:

  • 533rd place — co-founder of the British retailer GAME Neil Taylor (Neil Taylor) with $279 million;
  • 638th place — Team17 top manager Debbie Bestwick with $237 million (she is the only newcomer in this top associated with game development)
  • 680th place — immigrants from Frontier Developments David Braben and Wendy Irvin-Braben (David Braben & Wendy Irvin-Braben) with a total of $220 million;
  • 783rd place — Simon and Yu-Lin Wilson (Simon & You-Lin Wilson), who created the developer of social casinos InTouch, with $189 million;
  • 805th place — Paddy Burns, co-founder of the Scottish 4J Studios, with $182 million.

Note that the fortune of the founders of Frontier Developments has grown the fastest since 2019 (it has risen by $60 million). This company is behind the RollerCoaster Tycoon strategy series, as well as Jurassic World Evolution. In addition, she released one of the highest-grossing Steam novelties of November 2019 — Planet Zoo.

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