List of video game developers, sorted by date - oldest first (all time)

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...

Ubisoft Montreal (French: Ubisoft Montréal) is a Canadian subsidiary of the French video game developer Ubisoft, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1997, initially developing low-profile projects, the studio is now on...

Team Ico (stylized as Team ICO) is a Japanese video game development team led by game designer Fumito Ueda. It is part of SCE Japan Studio's Product Development Department #1. Team Ico developed the games Ico and Shadow of the Col...

Ratloop, Inc. is a game developer based in Houston, Texas (originally Richmond, Virginia).

Quantic Dream is a French video game developer based in Paris, France, founded in 1997. The company also supplies motion capture services to the film and video game industries. They are well known for their interactive drama story...

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...

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.

Rockstar Games is a multinational video game developer and publisher based in New York City, owned by Take-Two Interactive following its purchase of British video game publisher BMG Interactive. The publisher is known for the Gran...

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...

Edge of Reality is an independent American video game developer founded in 1998 and based in Austin, Texas that has developed video games for various consoles The company has two development teams, one of which works on licenses a...

Level-5 Inc. (株式会社レベルファイブ Kabushiki-gaisha Reberu Faibu) is a video game developer and publisher based in Fukuoka, Japan.

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...

Clap Hanz, Ltd. (株式会社クラップハンズ Kabushiki-Gaisha Kurappu Hanzu) is a video game developer located in Japan.

Polyphony Digital, Inc. is an internal video game development studio of Sony Computer Entertainment, part of SCE Worldwide Studios. Originally a development group within Sony Computer Entertainment known as Polys Entertainment, af...

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,...

Rockstar Toronto (formerly Rockstar Canada) is an in-house game development team for Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive, located at 586 Argus in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, a town located approximately thirty-five kilometres w...

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...

Rockstar New England, formerly Mad Doc Software, is a computer game development company founded in 1999 by Dr. Ian Lane Davis. The company is based in New England in Andover, Massachusetts, just north of Boston.

Heavy Iron Studios is an American video game developer, based in Los Angeles, California. They were a wholly owned subsidiary of THQ until being spun off as an independent company in May 2009 as part of a cost-cutting move. They a...

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.

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...

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...

Gearbox Software, LLC is an independent American video game development company based in Plano, Texas. The developer is best known for the Borderlands franchise. The company also owns the intellectual property of Duke Nukem and Ho...

Crytek is a German video game company, founded in 1999 by brothers Cevat, Avni, and Faruk Yerli, that is headquartered in Frankfurt.

Guerrilla Games is a first party video game developer and wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment. The company is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Cambridge, UK...

Frogwares is an independent video game development studio, with branches in Ukraine, and Ireland.

2K Australia was an Australian video game developer based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The studio was founded in 2000 as Irrational Canberra with Jonathan Chey taking the helm, and in 2007 they changed their name to...

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.

Silicon Studio is a Japanese computer graphics technology company and video game developer based in Tokyo. As a technology company, Silicon Studio has produced several products in the 3D computer graphics field, including middlewa...

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...

Gameloft SE is a French video game developer and publisher headquartered in Paris.

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.

Psyonix, Inc. is an American video game development studio based in San Diego, California. The company focuses on its own development, as well as contributing to larger companies and publishers utilizing the Unreal Engine...

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...

Vicious Cycle Software is a video game development company based in Morrisville, North Carolina, United States.

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...

HB Studios is a Canadian video game developer founded in 2000 and located in Nova Scotia, Canada. They are best known for their rugby and cricket games, released on the EA Sports label.

Ninja Theory, Ltd. is an independent video game developer based in Cambridge, England. Originally founded as Just Add Monsters in March 2000, the company was purchased by former Argonaut Games CEO Jez San in November 2004...

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...

Double Fine Productions is an American video game developer founded in July 2000 by Tim Schafer after his departure from LucasArts. He started Double Fine with programmers David Dixon (Ocean of America, Capcom, LucasArts) and Jona...

Deck13 Interactive is a German video game company based in Frankfurt, Germany. They are best known for adventure games like Ankh, Ankh: Heart of Osiris and Jack Keane.

Ubisoft Milan is an Italian videogame development studio, operated by publisher company Ubisoft, which is located in Buccinasco, Milan, Italy.

Bethesda Game Studios is an American in-house development team at Bethesda Softworks established in 2001. Previously synonymous with parent publisher Bethesda Softworks, the studio's name and logo were established with the release...

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...

SNK Playmore Corporation (株式会社SNKプレイモア Kabushikigaisha Esu Enu Kei Pureimoa) is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. They are the current owners of the SNK video game brand as well as the Neo Geo video game platfor...

Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design Ltd) is a British video game developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland, best known for creating the Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings franchises in its earlier guise as DMA. Since September 1999 the co...

CD Projekt RED is a Polish video game developer founded in 2002 as a development studio of CD Projekt. The studio is best known for developing The Witcher games, based on the book series of the same name by Polish author Andrzej S...

Gaijin Entertainment is a Russian video game development company established in 2002.

Ice-Pick Lodge is a video game developer based in Moscow, Russia, established in 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...