List of most popular video game developers (all time)

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...

Koei Co., Ltd. is a Japanese video game publisher, developer, and distributor founded in 1978. The company is known for its historical simulation games based on the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, as well as simulation games...

Tecmo Co., Ltd. (テクモ株式会社 Tekumo kabushikigaisha), was a Japanese video game corporation founded in 1967. It had its headquarters in Kudankita, Chiyoda, Tokyo. and its subsidiary, Tecmo Inc, was located in Torrance, California. Tec...

WB Games Montréal inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and was known for developing Batman: Arkham Origins...

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Inc. (WBIE) is a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and a leading publisher, developer, licensor and distributor of entertainment content for the interactive space across all platfo...

Midway Games was an American video game developer and publisher. Their titles included Mortal Kombat, Ms. Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Rampage, the Cruis'n series, NFL Blitz, and NBA Jam. Midway also acquired the rights to video gam...

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...

Bandai Co., Ltd. (株式会社バンダイ Kabushiki-gaisha Bandai) is a Japanese toy making and video game company, as well as the producer of a large number of plastic model kits. It is the world's third-largest producer of toys (after Mattel a...

Namco Limited (株式会社ナムコ Kabushiki Gaisha Namuko) (commonly referred to as Namco) is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two compani...

Ubisoft Blue Byte (formerly Blue Byte Software) is a video game developer and publisher based in Düsseldorf, Germany, founded in 1988. The company has produced popular titles like Battle Isle and The Settlers. In 2001, the company...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Rockstar San Diego (formerly Angel Studios) is an American video game development studio, under the Rockstar Games umbrella. The studio pioneered open world racing games with the Midtown Madness and the award-winning Midnight Club...

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...

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.

Rockstar London is a British video game developer, and in 2005 was the second newest studio to join the Rockstar Games family. Notable productions include Manhunt 2 for the PlayStation 2. Rockstar London is located on Kings Road,...

Rockstar Leeds (formerly Mobius Entertainment) is a British video game developer, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Since 2004 Rockstar Leeds has been part of the multinational company Rockstar Games, owned by Take-Two Interactive...

2K Games, Inc. is an American global developer, marketer, distributor and publisher of video games, like Borderlands, Civilization V, The Darkness, NBA 2K and more recently, WWE 2K. 2K Games is a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive...

Nintendo Research and Development 2 (任天堂開発第二部 Nintendo Kaihatsu Dainibu2) (R&D2) was a team within Nintendo that developed software and peripherals. R&D2 ported several of the Nintendo Research & Development 1and Nintendo R&D3 gam...

The Nintendo Software Planning & Development Division (Japanese: 任天堂 企画開発本部 lit. Nintendo Planning and Development Division) (commonly abbreviated to Nintendo SPD) was a research, planning and development division housed inside th...

Nintendo Research and Development 1 (任天堂開発第一部) (R&D1) was Nintendo's oldest development team. Its creation coincided with Nintendo's entry into the video games industry, and the original R&D1 was headed by Gunpei Yokoi. The develo...

Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development (Japanese: 任天堂企画制作本部 lit. Nintendo Planning and Production Division), or Nintendo EPD, is the largest division inside the Japanese video game company Nintendo. It was created in Septem...

Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. (SCEI) is a Japanese multinational video game company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry, and is a wholly owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products & Services G...