Amir Satvat has figured out how many job openings there are in games and where they are in the world.

Game job seekers: Here’s updated data on where the 14,162 game jobs are open globally | Amir Satvat

Amir Satvat, the game industry job resource quant, announced that he has created the most accurate geographic mapping of open video games jobs ever created with a list of 14,162 jobs that are open now in the game industry across the globe.

It took Satvat, a director of business development at Tencent, more than two years to come up with this geographic mapping of game job roles. Back when I asked him about this, his v1.0 of the Games Jobs Workbook listed only 400 jobs. Now this list, on its 14th version, uses data from a new method that Satvat says is 95% to 99% accurate, with the data being generated semi-automatically, with a way to verify accuracy, and a process to extract location data for each job at an individual level.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.