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Best video game developers (all time)
A ranking of video game development companies.
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Red Storm Entertainment
(1996)Red Storm Entertainment (also known as Ubisoft Red Storm) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ubisoft, specializing in video games and related merchandise, mainly based on the works of the writer Tom Clancy. The company develops and m...
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Sonic Team
(1990)Sonic Team (ソニックチーム Sonikku Chīmu?) is a Japanese video game developer established in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan in 1990. Sonic Team is best known for the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and either develop or supervise all products within the s...
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Bohemia Interactive
(1999)Bohemia Interactive (BI), also known as Bohemia Interactive Studio (BIS), is an independent developer and publisher of video games, based in Prague, Czech Republic. Founded in 1999, the company's CEO is Marek Španěl, who is also t...
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Hidden Path Entertainment
(2006)Hidden Path Entertainment (also known as Hidden Path) is an American video game development company based in Bellevue, Washington, United States. It was founded in 2006 by Michael Austin, Jim Garbarini, Dave McCoy, Jeff Pobst, and...
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Firaxis Games
(1996)Firaxis Games is an American video game developer founded in 1996 by Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs, and Brian Reynolds upon leaving MicroProse. Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, the company is best known for its Civi...
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Daybreak Game Company
(1998)Daybreak Game Company (formerly Sony Online Entertainment) is a video game developer and video game publisher. It is a division of Columbus Nova. They are known for creating massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), including Ev...
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Zen Studios
(2000)Zen Studios is a video game developer and publisher known for their pinball game franchises, Pinball FX and Zen Pinball. Their games have been released for various game platforms including Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita...
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Digital Extremes
(1993)Digital Extremes is a Canadian computer and video game developer founded in 1993 by James Schmalz, best known for its co-creation of Epic Games' highly successful Unreal series of games. Digital Extremes is headquartered in London...
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Team Ninja
(1995)Team Ninja (Japanese: チームニンジャ?) is a Japanese video game development studio of Koei Tecmo, founded in 1995. It was formerly led by Tomonobu Itagaki and is best known for the Ninja Gaiden action-adventure game series and the Dead o...
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Naughty Dog
(1984)Naughty Dog, Inc. (known as Jam Software before renaming in 1989) is an American video game developer based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984 as an independent developer, the studio was acq...
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Mojang
(2009)Mojang AB is a Swedish video game developer founded in May 2009 under the name Mojang Specifications by game programmer Markus Persson, best known for creating the popular independent game Minecraft, a sandbox game. It is currentl...
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Capybara Games
(2003)Capybara Games is an independent game studio based out of Toronto, Canada. It focuses on the development of iPhone, Nintendo DS, and downloadable console games. The studio was founded in 2003 from a collection of Toronto IGDA memb...
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EA Canada
(1983)EA Canada is a video game developer located in Burnaby, British Columbia. The development studio opened (as Distinctive Software) in January 1983 and is EA's largest and oldest studio.
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Take-Two Interactive
(1993)Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (stylized as Take2), also known as Take-Two, is an American multinational publisher, developer, and distributor of video games and video game peripherals. Take-Two wholly owns Rockstar Games and...
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Techland
(1991)Techland is a Polish video game developer, founded in 1991 by Paweł Marchewka. They are best known for developing Call of Juarez and its prequel Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Western-themed first-person shooters. They also devel...
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United Front Games
(2007)United Front Games is a Canadian development studio based in Vancouver. They currently create titles for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows. They are the developers of ModNation Racers and Sleeping Dogs in addition...
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Zoë Mode
(2007)Zoë Mode is a subsidiary studio of Kuju Entertainment based in Brighton. Zoë Mode’s games portfolio covers a variety of genres and comprises big-brand entertainment, original social games and use of motion capture technologies suc...
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3D Realms
(1987)3D Realms (legal name Apogee Software, Ltd.) is an American video game publisher and video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987. It is best known for popularizing the shareware distribution mo...
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Frictional Games
(2006)Frictional Games, Inc. is an independent video game company located in Helsingborg, Sweden. The developer comprises a small core team and is led by Thomas Grip and Jens Nilsson. Certain key roles such as Music are performed by ext...
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Grasshopper Manufacture
(1998)Grasshopper Manufacture, Inc. (グラスホッパー・マニファクチュア Gurasuhoppā Manifakuchua) is a Japanese video game developer founded on March 30, 1998 in Suginami, Japan...
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Hello Games
(2009)Hello Games is a British video game developer and publisher based in Guildford, England. The brand is known for the Joe Danger series.
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Arkane Studios
(1999)Arkane Studios is a French video game developer based in Lyon, France. It was founded in 1999, and released its first game, Arx Fatalis, in 2002. Arkane Studios opened an Austin, Texas-based office in July 2006.
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Crystal Dynamics
(1992)Crystal Dynamics is an American video game developer that was founded in 1992 by Judy Lang, Madeline Canepa and Dave Morris. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, it was acquired by Eidos Interactive in 1998. After Square Enix's ac...
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Beamdog
(2009)Beamdog, also known by its division Overhaul Games, is a game developer and digital distributor. Beamdog was founded in 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Electronic Arts
(1982)Electronic Arts, Inc. (EA), also known as EA Games, is an American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games headquartered in Redwood City, California. It was founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Ha...
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Criterion Games
(1993)Criterion Games (officially called Criterion Software) is a British video game developer based in Guildford, Surrey that are best known for their work on the racing video game series Burnout and various Need for Speed games...
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Visceral Games
(1998)Visceral Games (formerly EA Redwood Shores) is an American video game development studio internally owned by Electronic Arts. They are perhaps best known for the Dead Space series. Visceral Games recently made Battlefield Hardline...
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343 Industries
(2009)343 Industries (abbreviated to 343i) is an American video game developer located in Kirkland, Washington. Named after the Halo character 343 Guilty Spark, the company was established in 2009 by Microsoft Studios to oversee the dev...
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ZeniMax Online Studios
(2007)ZeniMax Online Studios is a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media Inc. specializing in the development of massively multiplayer online games. The company developed The Elder Scrolls Online. ZeniMax Online Studios has around 250 employees. I...
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Zombie Studios
(1994)Zombie Studios was an American independent video game developer of console, PC, mobile and web-based games. It was formed in 1994 as Zombie, LLC by Joanna Alexander and Mark Long, formerly of the Sarnoff Research Center. Alexander...
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Atlus
(1986)Atlus Co., Ltd. (株式会社アトラス Kabushiki-gaisha Atorasu) is a Japanese video game developer, publisher and distribution company based in Tokyo, and a subsidiary of Sega. It is best known for developing the Megami Tensei, Persona, Etria...
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Avalanche Studios
(2003)Avalanche Studios is a video game developer based in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in March 2003 by Christofer Sundberg and Linus Blomberg. Avalanche Studios focuses on developing open world projects and bases them on the Aval...
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Eidos Interactive
(1990)Eidos Interactive, is a former British software technology developer and video game publisher, now operating as Square Enix Europe. Eidos plc was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton...
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TopWare Interactive
(1995)TopWare Interactive is a video game publisher and developer located in Karlsruhe, Germany. It is best known for publishing the Two Worlds series, which was created by Reality Pump Studios.
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Parallax Software
(1993)Parallax Software was a video game developer best known for creating the Descent series of computer games. Parallax Software was started in 1993 by Matt Toschlog and Mike Kulas. After the release of Descent II in 1997, the company...
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THQ
(1989)THQ Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher. Founded in 1989, the company developed products for video game consoles, handheld game consoles, as well as for personal computers and wireless devices. Its name derives...
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Monolith Soft
(1999)Monolith Soft, Inc. (株式会社モノリスソフト Kabushiki-Gaisha Monorisu Sofuto) is a Japanese video game development studio. The company was formed in 1999 by Tetsuya Takahashi shortly after the completion of the first game he was in charge of...
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SCE Japan Studio
(1993)SCE Japan Studio (SCEJ) (ソニー・コンピュータ・エンタテインメント・ジャパン・スタジオ) is the Japanese production and development arm of the parent company Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), most well known for the Ape Escape, Loco Roco and Patapon series. Jap...
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SCE Worldwide Studios
(2005)Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, officially abbreviated SCE Worldwide Studios, is a group of video game developers owned by Sony Computer Entertainment which was established in 2005. It is a single internal entity ov...
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Sucker Punch Productions
(1997)Sucker Punch Productions is an American production company founded in 1997 and based in Bellevue, Washington. It was an independent company until August 2011, but has worked exclusively with Sony Computer Entertainment since 2000...
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Treyarch
(1996)Treyarch is an American video game developer company, founded in 1996 by Peter Akemann and Doğan Köslü (aka Don Likeness), and acquired by Activision in 2001. Located in Santa Monica, California, it has produced multiple games, in...
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Supermassive Games
(2008)Supermassive Games is a British video game developer based in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom that are best known for their work on the 2015 interactive drama survival horror video game Until Dawn.
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Housemarque
(1995)Housemarque is an independent game developer that creates downloadable games based on original game concepts and licensed IP’s. Housemarque is located in Finland; established in 1995, it is one of the oldest Finnish video game com...
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Bloober Team
(2008)Bloober Team is a Polish video game development studio located in Kraków, Poland. The company was founded in 2008. Their first game – Double Bloob - was released in 2011 for Nintendo DSiWare. Their second game, Music Master Chopin...
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Nippon Ichi Software
(1991)Nippon Ichi Software, Inc. (日本一ソフトウェア Nippon Ichi Sofutowea, known as Prism Kikaku Ltd. from July 1993 to July 1995) is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. They are responsible for such titles as Disgaea: Hour of Darkne...
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Evolution Studios
(1999)Evolution Studios Ltd. is a British video game developer. The company was founded in 1999 by Martin Kenwright (Digital Image Design) and Ian Hetherington (Psygnosis), following the purchase of DID's publisher Ocean Software by Inf...
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HAL Laboratory
(1980)HAL Laboratory, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社ハル研究所 Hepburn: Kabushiki Gaisha Haru Kenkyūjo) is a Japanese developer that was founded on February 21, 1980 that is closely affiliated with Nintendo. It is headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. H...
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Jagex
(2001)Jagex Games Studio, based in the St John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge and usually referred to as Jagex, is the UK’s largest independent developer and publisher of online games. It is best known for Runescape, the world's large...
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Fun Bits Interactive
(2010)Fun Bits Interactive is an American video game developer founded in 2010 by the core team previously working as Titan Studios. In 2010, three of the team members from Fat Princess of Titan Studios started Atomic Operations, which...
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Wargaming
(1998)Wargaming Public Co Ltd is an international game developer and publisher headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. Although its original Belarusian studio in Minsk remains an important hub and has been described as the heart of Wargaming,...
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