2026 Economic Impact Report

The video game industry, while having a presence in all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, is highly concentrated in a handful of states. California is home to over 36,000 jobs, accounting for 44% of industry employment. Washington, Texas, New York, and Florida round out the top five states, accounting for 74% of the industry’s employment. While some companies have discontinued remote work opportunities, the increased use of the hybrid modality (workers with a specific office location who can also work one or more days a week at home) is an increasingly important option offered by the U.S. video game industry. Additionally, the industry employs workers that work remotely from home or other locations without a defined corporate office site, while an emerging set of companies operate fully remote, with the entire workforce working off site connected with just a basic mailing address. In 2025, these remote and fully remote workers accounted for 14,461 jobs, or 17% of total U.S. video game industry employment.