The source defines the gaming industry as: "All companies whose core activities include at least one of the following processes in the value chain: the development, production, publication, facilitation and/or electronic distribution of electronic games."
The game company amount is based on updating the Games Monitor 2012 database, adding new companies via Control and Dutch Game Garden networks, including companies from sources like newspapers, Google, startupdelta.org, fs6.com; all companies have been cross-referenced with data from the Chamber of Commerce and verified by Control, NEO Observatory/TNO and Dutch Game Garden.
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Number of game companies in the Netherlands 2018, by type of company
This statistic shows the number of game companies in the Netherlands in 2018, by company type. As of 2018, there were roughly *** game developer companies in the Netherlands, out of a total of *** companies in the game industry.
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