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Best video game developers (active now)
A ranking of video game development companies.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sony Computer Entertainment
(1993)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...
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Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
(2015)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...
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2K Games
(2005)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...
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Rockstar Leeds
(1997)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...
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Rockstar London
(2005)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,...
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Rockstar New England
(1999)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.
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Rockstar North
(2002)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...
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Rockstar San Diego
(1984)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...
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Rockstar Toronto
(1999)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...
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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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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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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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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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Ubisoft Blue Byte
(1988)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...
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Namco
(1955)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...
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Bandai
(1950)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...
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SNK Playmore
(2001)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...
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
(1993)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...
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Warner Bros. Games Montréal
(2010)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...
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Tecmo
(1967)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...
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Koei
(1978)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...
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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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