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Best video game developers (all time)
A ranking of video game development companies.
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MicroProse
(1982)MicroProse was a U.S. video game publisher and developer, founded in the United States by "Wild" Bill Stealey and Sid Meier in 1982 as MicroProse Software Inc. It developed and published numerous games, many of which are regarded...
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Id Software
(1991)Id Software (sometimes erroneously capitalized as ID Software) is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softd...
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Project Siren
(2004)Project Siren is a video game development team that works within SCE Japan Studio. It is best known for the survival horror series Siren, released for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3. The team is conducted by game designer and dir...
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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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Gaijin Entertainment
(2002)Gaijin Entertainment is a Russian video game development company established in 2002.
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Hasbro Interactive
(1995)Hasbro Interactive was an American video game production and publishing subsidiary of Hasbro, the large game and toy company. Several of its studios were closed in early 2000 and most of its properties were sold to Infogrames whic...
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Cryptic Studios
(2000)Cryptic Studios is an American video game developer specializing in massively multiplayer online role-playing games. It is headquartered in Los Gatos, California and is a wholly owned Perfect World subsidiary.
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Blueside
(2003)Blueside is a video game publisher and developer located in Seoul, South Korea. It is mainly known for its popular game series Kingdom Under Fire.
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Trendy Entertainment
Trendy Entertainment is an American independent game development studio, founded by Agapitus Lye and Jeremy Stieglitz. It is located in Gainesville, Florida. Trendy Entertainment is a developer of Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows,...
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MachineGames
(2009)MachineGames (corporate name MachineGames Sweden AB) is a Swedish video game developer based in Uppsala, Sweden. It was founded in 2009 by Fredrik Ljungdahl, Jerk Gustafsson, Jens Matthies, Jim Kjellin, Kjell Emanuelsson, Magnus H...
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Team Bondi
(2003)Team Bondi was an Australian independent third-party game developer. The company was responsible for the development of the Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 game L.A. Noire, which was published by Rockstar Games in May 2011. A...
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Ubisoft Montpellier
(1989)Ubisoft Montpellier is a French video game developer whose headquarters are located in Montpellier. The studio is known for working on franchises like Rayman and Beyond Good & Evil and for having created the UbiArt Framework engin...
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Giant Sparrow
(2009)Giant Sparrow is an independent video game company based in Santa Monica, California. Their first game The Unfinished Swan was released in 2012 for the PlayStation 3 and 2014 for PlayStation 4...
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RedLynx
(2000)RedLynx Ltd. is a multi-platform Finnish video game developer and publisher based in Helsinki, Finland. It was founded in 2000 and is now owned by Ubisoft.
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Respawn Entertainment
(2010)Respawn Entertainment is an American video game development studio founded by Jason West and Vince Zampella, who created and were responsible for the development of the Call of Duty franchise at Infinity Ward before 2010...
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Infinity Ward
(2002)Infinity Ward is an American video game developer. They developed the video game Call of Duty, along with five other installments in the Call of Duty series. Vince Zampella, Grant Collier, and Jason West established Infinity Ward...
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Croteam
(1993)Croteam is a Croatian independent video game developer based in Zagreb. The company was established in 1993 and is best known for creating the first-person shooter series Serious Sam.
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Curve Digital
(2005)Curve Digital (developing as Curve Studios and porting as Carbon) is a British video game development and video game publishing company established in 2005. As well as developing a number of their own games, Curve have also ported...
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Artdink
(1986)Artdink (株式会社アートディンク) is a Japanese developer of video games, based in Tsukishima, Tokyo.
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Bossa Studios
(2010)Bossa Studios is a UK-based developer of games for mobile, PC and console. Bossa was founded in 2010 by Henrique Olifiers, Ric Moore, Imre Jele and Roberta Lucca. Bossa were acquired by Shine Group in September 2011 for an undiscl...
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Dimps
(2000)Dimps (ディンプス Dinpusu) is an Osaka, Japan-based video game development studio with an additional office in Tokyo, Japan. Employing a staff of 218 people, it is known for developing such games as the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai trilogy f...
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tri-Ace
(1995)tri-Ace, Inc. (株式会社トライエース Kabushiki Gaisha Toraiēsu) is a Japanese video game development company formed in March 1995 by former Telenet Japan employees Yoshiharu Gotanda (programmer, current tri-Ace President), Masaki Norimoto (g...
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Streum on studio
(2007)Streum on Studio are French developers of computer games based in France. The company was founded in 2007. The company is best known for E.Y.E and the Half-Life mod Syndicate Black Ops. They are now working on Space Hulk: Deathwin...
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17-BIT
(2009)17-BIT is an indie video game developer and the creator of Skulls of the Shogun and Galak-Z: The Dimensional. The company was founded in 2009 by Jake Kazdal, formerly a Sega Japan developer, who wants to make games with a 16-bit e...
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Beenox
(2000)Beenox is a video game developer, established in Québec City, Québec. Founded in 2000 by Dominique Brown, the studio became a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision on May 25, 2005...
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Vicarious Visions
(1990)Vicarious Visions is an American video game developer. The headquarters of Vicarious Visions is located in Menands, New York.
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Flying Wild Hog
(2009)Flying Wild Hog is a video game production studio based in Warsaw, Poland.
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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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Tequila Works
(2009)Tequila Works is a video game developer located in Madrid, Spain. It was established in 2009 by some of the former employees of Blizzard Entertainment, MercurySteam Entertainment, Pyro Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe a...
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Milestone S.r.l.
(1994)Milestone S.r.l. is an Italian video game developer with headquarters in Milan. It was founded in 1994 by Antonio Farina as Graffiti, and soon renamed to Milestone in 1996. Best known for the successful Superbike and WRC FIA serie...
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Ubisoft Barcelona
(1998)Ubisoft Barcelona is a Spanish studio who develops video games, operated by publisher company Ubisoft, which is located in Sant Cugat del Vallès – Barcelona - Spain.
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Beatshapers
(2006)Beatshapers Ltd. is a Ukrainan video game developer and publisher working on global markets for handhelds, consoles and Apple Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad.
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Vicious Cycle Software
(2000)Vicious Cycle Software is a video game development company based in Morrisville, North Carolina, United States.
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Acquire
(1994)ACQUIRE Corp. (株式会社アクワイア Kabushikigaisha Akuwaia) is a video game developer based in Japan, mainly known for their Tenchu and Way of the Samurai series...
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Exient Entertainment
(2000)Exient Entertainment (also known as Exient Limited) is an independent video game developer based in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is known for its ports of various games on the Madden NFL, FIFA, Need for Speed, The Sims and Tiger Woo...
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Alientrap
(2002)Alientrap Games is an independent video game developer led by Lee Vermeulen and Jesse McGibney.
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Ubisoft Toronto
(2009)Ubisoft Toronto is a subsidiary of French video game developer Ubisoft located in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 2009, Ubisoft Toronto was officially announced on 6 July 2009, with the studio location being officially confirmed on 4...
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Ubisoft Quebec
(2005)Ubisoft Quebec (French: Ubisoft Québec) is Canadian video game developer Ubisoft's North American studio located in Quebec City, Quebec. Founded as a subsidiary of Ubisoft in June 2005, initially developing low-profile projects, t...
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