List of most popular video game publishers (all time)

Valve Corporation (formerly Valve Software, commonly referred to as Valve) is an American video game development and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, United States. Its European-based office open...

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles, Michael Morhaime, Frank Pea...

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...

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...

Telltale Games, Inc is an American independent digital developer and publisher founded in June 2004 as Telltale, Incorporated. Based in San Rafael, California, the studio includes designers formerly employed by LucasArts. Its busi...

Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. (株式会社スクウェア・エニックス・ホールディングス Kabushiki-gaisha Sukuwea Enikkusu Hōrudingusu) is a Japanese video game developer, publisher, and distribution company that is best known for its role-playing video game fra...

Koei Tecmo Holdings Co., Ltd. (コーエーテクモホールディングス株式会社 Kōē Tekumo Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-gaisha), is a holding company created in 2009 by the merger of Japanese video game companies Koei and Tecmo. It was founded as Tecmo Koei Holdings...

Bethesda Softworks, LLC is an American video game publisher. A subsidiary of ZeniMax Media, the company was originally based in Bethesda, Maryland, and eventually moved to their current location in Rockville, Maryland. Consisting...

Interplay Entertainment Corporation is an American video game developer and publisher, founded in 1983 as Interplay Productions by Brian Fargo. As a developer, Interplay is best known as the creator of the original Fallout series...

Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. (originally Ubi Soft Entertainment, S.A. until 2003) is a French multinational video game developer and publisher, headquartered in Montreuil, France. It is known for developing games for several acclaim...

Microsoft Studios is the video game production wing for Microsoft, responsible for the development and publishing of games for the Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Games for Windows, Steam, Windows Store, and Windows Phone platforms. The...

Enix Corporation (株式会社エニックス Kabushiki-gaisha Enikkusu) was a Japanese company that produced video games, anime and manga. The company was founded by Yasuhiro Fukushima on September 22, 1975 as Eidansha Boshu Service Center (株式会社営団...

Square Co., Ltd. (株式会社スクウェア Kabushiki-gaisha Sukuwea) was a Japanese video game company founded in September 1983 by Masashi Miyamoto. It merged with Enix in 2003 and became Square Enix. The company also used SquareSoft as a brand...

Konami Holdings Corporation (commonly referred to as Konami) is a Japanese producer of numerous toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines and arcade cabinets, and formerly a developer and publisher of video games. It al...

Beamdog, also known by its division Overhaul Games, is a game developer and digital distributor. Beamdog was founded in 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

LJN Toys, Limited was an American toy company and video game publisher in operation from 1970 to 1995. It manufactured toy lines and released battery operated water guns and video games based on licensed properties from movies, te...

Kemco Corporation (株式会社ケムコ Kabushikigaisha Kemuko), sometimes referred to as Kotobuki Systems Co., Ltd., is a Japanese video game developer and publisher established in 1984 as a subsidiary of Kotobuki Engineering & Manufacturing...

505 Games Ltd. is a global publisher of video games founded in 2006, and is a subsidiary of Italian company Digital Bros. S.p.A. The company publishes games globally for leading platforms along with console and handheld systems fr...

Aksys Games Localization, Inc. is a video game publisher that specializes in translating and localizing Japanese video games for English-speaking markets. It was founded by Akibo Shieh in 2006. Some of its clients include Bandai N...

Feral Interactive is a video game publisher for OS X and Linux founded in 1996. Feral Interactive has worked with publishers such as Square Enix, 2K Games, Sega, TT Games, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Codemasters. Fe...

SouthPeak Games (often called SouthPeak Interactive) is a video game publisher of titles in Europe and North America.

Mistwalker Corporation (ミストウォーカー Misutowōkā) is a Japanese video game development studio founded by Hironobu Sakaguchi (the creator of the popular Final Fantasy series) in 2004, with the financial backing of Microsoft. The logo an...

Nihon Falcom Corporation (日本ファルコム株式会社 Nihon Farukomu Kabushiki-kaisha) is a Japanese video game company. The company was founded in March 1981 by Masayuki Kato...

Zushi Games, formerly Zoo Digital Publishing or Zoo Digital, was a British video game publisher. Based in Sheffield, Zushi is the owner of the multi-million selling Premier Manager series and best known for Alien Hominid. Zushi pu...

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.

Double Eleven is a British video game developer and video game publisher based in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom. It was founded by former Rockstar Games developers, Lee Hutchinson and Matt Shepcar, in 2009...

GSC Game World (GSCGW) is a Ukrainian video game developer. Founded in 1995 in Kyiv, Ukraine, it released titles such as Cossacks: European Wars, American Conquest, Alexander, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: C...

Codemasters Software Company Ltd., or Codemasters Birmingham or CodeMasters (earlier known as Code Masters) is a British video game developer and publisher founded by David Darling and his brother Richard in 1986...

Refract Studios is an indie video game manufacturing company. The main participants in the company include Kyle Holdwick, Jordan Hemenway, and Jason Nollan. On November 16, 2012, Refract successfully funded a game called Distance...

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...

Tribute Games is an independent game studio in Montreal, Canada. It focuses on retro games for Microsoft Windows, iOS and downloadable console games. It was founded in 2011 by ex-Ubisoft employees Jonathan Lavigne, Jean-Francois M...

System 3 Software Limited (known as System 3 Software Ltd. until 1991 and Studio 3 Interactive Entertainment Ltd. from 1999 to 2003) is a British video game developer and publisher founded in 1982 by Mark Cale...

MOSS is a Japanese video game company created in 1993. After the bankruptcy of Seibu Kaihatsu, the development staff of that company formed MOSS, then bought the development rights to the Raiden franchise in order to keep working...

Inti Creates Co., Ltd. (株式会社インティ・クリエイツ Kabushiki-gaisha Inti Kurieitsu) is a Japanese video game development company formed by ex-Capcom staff in May 1996, best known for the creation of the Mega Man Zero series and Mega Man ZX se...

Arc System Works (アークシステムワークス Āku Shisutemu Wākusu) is a video game developer and publisher based in Yokohama, Japan. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, Arc System Works is best known for its arcade 2D fighting game franchises, Gu...

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...

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

Microïds is a French software brand belonging to Anuman Interactive that publishes and develops video games. In recent years the company's collection of brands and game licenses has grown since being a part of MC2 France. In late...

Beatshapers Ltd. is a Ukrainan video game developer and publisher working on global markets for handhelds, consoles and Apple Inc. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad.

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

D3 Publisher Inc. (株式会社ディースリー・パブリッシャー Kabushiki-gaisha D3 Paburisshā) is a Japanese video game publisher founded on February 5, 1992...

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.

Infogrames Entertainment, SA (IESA) was an international French holding company headquartered in Lyon, France. It was the owner of Atari, Inc., headquartered in New York City, U.S. and Atari Europe. It was founded in 1983 by Bruno...

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...

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...

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