August 17, 2026

Games, and the engine and tools work behind them. Licensed to sponsor visas in Ireland.

• 1 way in found.
• The IND's register of licensed sponsors lists Activision Blizzard International B.V., KVK 34324431 as licensed to sponsor visas for the Netherlands. Nothing on their pages establishes that this entity is them.
• Ireland's Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment lists Activision Blizzard Ireland Ltd as issued 12 employment permits in 2025.
• Their GitHub organisation @Activision gives its location as “United States of America”.
• Most of the code under github.com/Activision is C++, Python, NSIS, C (6 of 6 repositories counted).

Document rendering — Ghostscript, MuPDF, PyMuPDF. Drawing pages rather than frames, same problem underneath.

• 1 way in found.
• GitHub counts a native core alongside both mobile platforms in one repository of theirs: thirdparty-zxing-cpp.
• Most of the code under github.com/ArtifexSoftware is C, C#, HTML, C++ (52 of 52 repositories counted).

Sound, picture and display technology. Licensed to sponsor visas in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

• 1 way in found.
• The Home Office's register of licensed sponsors lists Dolby Europe Limited of London as licensed to sponsor visas for United Kingdom. Their own pages place them in that town.
• Ireland's Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment lists Dolby International AB as issued 2 employment permits in 2025.
• Their pages say the work happens at a place: “we expect most employees will be in the office more than zero days a week and less than five days a week”
• People work globally, including in Wroclaw, Sweden, Nuremberg, San Francisco, Beijing and Sydney, with employees in offices across 20+ countries; Dolby enables remote work but expects most employees to work in the office more than zero and fewer than five days a week, while internships are based in listed global offices. Their words: “Wroclaw, Sweden, Nuremberg, SF, Beijing, Sydney”; “our offices in 20+ countries”; “We believe in enabling remote work”; “we expect most employees will be in the office more than zero days a week and less than five days a week”; “Internships are available in many of our global offices including the Atlanta, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Burbank, Shenzhen, Sydney, Wroclaw, London, Nuremburg, Beijing, and others.”.
• GitHub counts a native core alongside both mobile platforms in 2 repositories of theirs: caf-platform-system-core, aosp-platform-system-core.
• Most of the code under github.com/DolbyLaboratories is C++, Java, C, Jupyter Notebook (56 of 56 repositories counted).

A mobile-first 3D engine and animation editor, built by a team inside Ant Group.

• 1 way in found.
• Their GitHub organisation @galacean gives its location as “Hangzhou, China”. Nothing else of theirs we hold confirms that this account is them.
• GitHub counts a native core alongside both mobile platforms in one repository of theirs: effects-native.
• Most of the code under github.com/galacean is C++, TypeScript, HTML, JavaScript (33 of 33 repositories counted).

Android emulators and virtual devices for development and testing. All 44 of their public repositories are C, C++, Assembly and Makefile.

• 1 way in found.
• Their GitHub organisation @Genymobile gives its location as “Paris, Lyon, San Francisco”. Nothing else of theirs we hold confirms that this account is them.
• GitHub counts a native core alongside both mobile platforms in 2 repositories of theirs: f2ut_system_core, f2ut_platform_platform_bionic.
• Most of the code under github.com/Genymobile is C, C++, Assembly, Makefile (44 of 44 repositories counted).

A multimedia framework — codecs, filters and plugins for playback and streaming. Mostly C.

• 1 way in found.
• GitHub counts a native core alongside both mobile platforms in 2 repositories of theirs: gst-plugins-bad, gst-examples.
• Most of the code under github.com/GStreamer is C, Rust, C++, C# (25 of 25 repositories counted).

Servo — a browser rendering engine written in Rust, and a WebView for embedding web content. Rendering as the whole product.

• 1 way in found.
• The Home Office's register of licensed sponsors lists Linux Foundation UK Limited of Marlow as licensed to sponsor visas for United Kingdom. Nothing on their pages establishes that this entity is them.
• Most of the code under github.com/servo is HTML, C, C++, Rust (123 of 123 repositories counted).

An open-source 3D engine for games, robotics simulation and other 3D work.

• 1 way in found.
• Most of the code under github.com/o3de is HTML, C++, Roff, JavaScript (56 of 56 repositories counted).

PlayStation — console, engine and graphics work. Licensed to sponsor visas in Ireland, and the only one of these ten advertising anything the day we looked.

• 1 way in found.
• The Home Office's register of licensed sponsors lists Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited of London as licensed to sponsor visas for United Kingdom. Nothing on their pages establishes that this entity is them.
• Ireland's Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment lists Sony Interactive Entertainment Ireland Limited as issued 2 employment permits in 2025.
• Their GitHub organisation @SNSystems gives its location as “Bristol UK”.
• Their careers page listed 50 roles altogether on the day it was read.
• Their careers page listed a role above the ordinary grade on the day it was read: “Programmeur·euse I.A. Senior”, “Programmeur·euse I.A. Senior/AI Programmer”, “3D Character Art LeadRemote” and 16 more.
• Most of the code under github.com/SNSystems is C++, C, Objective-C, Objective-C++ (5 of 5 repositories counted).

A GPU-accelerated HTML renderer for embedding web pages in games and native apps. The repository behind the pill below is their fork of SDL, not their own renderer.

• 1 way in found.
• GitHub counts a native core alongside both mobile platforms in one repository of theirs: SDL.
• Most of the code under github.com/ultralight-ux is C, C++, HTML, JavaScript (13 of 13 repositories counted).