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The global gaming industry will be worth $30 billion by 2010 and Philippines gaming industry is seriously looking at the market to get some lucrative gaming outsourcing contract. Inquirer.net reports: local game developers are looking to ride the outsourcing wave and likewise get juicier contracts from overseas.

Next month’s e-Services conference marks the first participation of gaming as an industry, alongside other segments within BPO (business process outsourcing) such as call centers, software development and medical transcription.

The local game industry is smaller compared to these other segments. According to Dizon, also president of Flipside Games, local game development companies employ only about 300 workers.Source

An IDC study done one and half years ago suggested that the gaming industry in Philippines enjoys tremendous growth since its inception in 2003, online gaming has become one of the most dynamic niche segments of the Philippine information and communication technology (ICT) landscape. Evolving to become a content-rich, highly profitable, and community-based interactive activity, online gaming has driven various sectors and SPs from the ICT ecosystem to enter the market in hopes of getting their own slices of this large and much hyped-about pie. Still, there remain a number of issues that are seen to affect the industry's performance such as poor service quality, market saturation, government regulation, and piracy.

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