Catch Up on the 2025 UK Best Places to Work Awards by GamesIndustry.biz

Last week, the Royal Institution in London hosted the UK Best Places to Work Awards 2025, and the full ceremony can now be streamed online. The awards acknowledged 23 companies across three categories - small, medium, and large - for their exceptional staff support. Additionally, special awards were presented to Behaviour Interactive, Maverick Games, NaturalMotion, Observer Interactive, Rare, and Wushu Studios, with Alison Lacy receiving the G Into Gaming Award. You can watch the awards ceremony in its entirety by clicking on the video link below. The 2025 Best Places to Work Awards were sponsored by Amiqus, Games London, ICO Partners, Lighthouse Games, and Playground Games. The complete list of winners is as follows: Diva, Fireshine Games, ForthStar, ICO Partners, Indigo Pearl, Mastered, MLC Studio, Nosebleed Interactive, Sweet Justice Sound, Swipe Right PR, Tanglewood Games, and Uplift Games in the small category; Behaviour Interactive, Dovetail Games, Expression Games, Lighthouse Games, Maverick Games, NaturalMotion Games, Playstack, Rocksteady, Studio Gobo, and Wushu Studios in the medium category; and Playground Games in the large category. The special award winners include Alison Lacy from Radical Forge, and the winners of various other categories such as Behaviour Interactive, Maverick Games, NaturalMotion, Observer Interactive, Rare, and Wushu Studios.