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Best video game publishers (all time)
A ranking of video game publishing companies.
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Blizzard Entertainment
(1991)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
(1998)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...
Square
(1983)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...
Bethesda Softworks
(1986)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
(1983)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...
Valve Corporation
(1996)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...
Telltale Games
(2004)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...
Koei Tecmo
(2009)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...
Ubisoft
(1986)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...
Konami
(1969)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...
Square Enix
(2003)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...
Enix
(1975)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...
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...
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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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...
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...
Daybreak Game Company
(1998)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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Zen Studios
(2000)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...
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,...
Gaijin Entertainment
(2002)Gaijin Entertainment is a Russian video game development company established in 2002.
Digital Extremes
(1993)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...
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...
Infogrames Entertainment, SA
(1983)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...
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.
D3 Publisher
(1992)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...
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...
Midway Games
(1988)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
(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...
Capcom
(1979)Capcom Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社カプコン Kabushiki-gaisha Kapukon), or Capcom, is a Japanese developer and publisher of video games, known for creating multi-million-selling franchises such as Mega Man, Street Fighter, Resident Evil,...
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...
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...
Deep Silver
(2002)Deep Silver is a German video game publisher based in Planegg, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of German multinational corporation Koch Media. Since its founding in 2002, Deep Silver has published and co-published several major t...
Activision
(1979)Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles. Its first products were cartrid...
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...
Eidos Interactive
(1990)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...
Square Enix Europe
(2009)Square Enix Limited, doing business as Square Enix Europe, is a British publisher of video game software wholly owned by Square Enix. Square Enix Europe has its head office in the 240 Blackfriars Road in London Borough of Southwar...
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.
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...
Nordic Games
(1993)Nordic Games Group AB is a Swedish computer game publisher and retail company based in Karlstad, Sweden. Its core portfolio comprises products and brands which were acquired from JoWooD Entertainment and DreamCatcher Interactive i...
LucasArts
(1982)LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game publisher and licensor. Until 2013, it was also a video game developer. LucasArts is best known for its graphic adventure games, as well as games based on the Star War...
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...
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...
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...
Natsume
(1987)Natsume Company Ltd. (ナツメ株式会社 Natsume Kabushiki kaisha) is a Japanese video game developer and publisher in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan founded on October 20, 1987. Its American branch, Natsume Inc., is located in Burlingame, Californi...
Bandai Namco Entertainment
(2005)Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. (BNEI) (株式会社バンダイナムコエンターテインメント Kabushiki Gaisha Bandai Namuko Entāteinmento) is an arcade, mobile and home video game publisher, based in Japan. The company also publishes video, music and other ente...
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