If you are a game developer the best place to get a job is still in the state of California. Despite comments by Electronic Arts' CEO that it's getting too expensive to run a game development business in that part of the US, a new census of game developers from Think Services shows that 46 percent of them (20,815) in the US work in California. Washington is next with over 4,500 developers and Texas is third with over 2,600 developers.

Overall there was a slight rise in the US of people working in the game industry with 44,806 people registered in the census compared to 44,400 in 2008. However, Canada has had an explosion of game employees from 9,500 in 2008 to 12,480 game developers this year.