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Who won the UK Best Places To Work Awards 2026?
The main awards named winners in small, mid-sized, and large-company categories. The lists below preserve the category labels and names reported by GamesIndustry.biz.
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Small companies
- Fireshine Games
- Lively
- MLC Studio
- Playstack
- Silent Games
- Snap Finger Click
- Stellar Entertainment Software
- Swipe Right
- Tanglewood Games
Mid-sized companies
- Behaviour Interactive UK
- Electric Square
- Expression Games
- Fenris Creations
- Hangar 13
- HundredStar Games
- Kinetic Games
- Maverick Games
- Rare
- Studio Gobo
- Wushu Studios
Large companies
- Frontier Developments
- Jagex: The RuneScape Company
- Playground Games
- TT Games
Who won the special awards?
| Award | Winner |
|---|---|
| G Into Gaming Award | Jo Haslam, Design Director at Snap Finger Click |
| Corporate Social Responsibility Award | Jagex: The RuneScape Company |
| Diversity Award | Snap Finger Click |
| Education Award | Dink |
| Environmental Award | Rare |
| Health and Wellbeing Award | Hangar 13 |
| Training and Development Award | NaturalMotion Games |
| HR Hero Award | Leah Wilson, IO Interactive |
How were the awards judged?
The GamesIndustry.biz-attributed report says the employee survey contributed 80% of the score and the company survey contributed 20%. It does not describe the survey questions, response rates, scoring thresholds, or validation process, so the published weighting alone does not show how individual workplaces were assessed.
When and where were the awards held?
The ceremony took place at the Royal Institution in London on October 1, 2026, after the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit. The summit drew 79 representatives from 41 companies. Liz Prince MBE, Business Manager at Amiqus, described the summit as a setting for discussion and shared learning, with the awards highlighting studios and businesses. The event report also quotes Playground Games HR and Recruitment Director Paul Evans supporting recognition of the UK’s mid-sized studios.
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What the awards do—and do not—show
The special-award categories recognize distinct areas such as diversity, education, environmental responsibility, health and wellbeing, and training and development. That range shows what the programme chose to recognize; a listed award by itself is not independent verification of workplace outcomes. The main-category lists are category recognitions, not a ranked league table.
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