Video Game Companies
Appearance
Particularly before the Video Game Crash of 1983, video games were historically considered part of the home video market, and video stores today continue to sell video games. These are the companies that developed and/or distributed those games, some of which released their own traditional home video product as well.
Active companies[edit]
Subsidiaries and/or divisions that are no longer active are marked with asterisk (*).
Activision[edit]
Atari[edit]
Bandai Namco Holdings[edit]
- Bandai Namco Entertainment
- B.B. Studio (formerly BEC)
- Bandai (prior to the merger with Namco) (also includes Angel, Banalex, Ma-ba, and Yutaka)
- Toy Soldiers* (including DreamWorks)
- Banpresto*
- D3 Publisher
- Namco* (prior to the merger with Bandai)
- Namco Tales Studio* (formerly Wolf Team)
Capcom[edit]
Electronic Arts[edit]
- Electronic Arts
- BioWare
- Codemasters
- Danger Close Games* (also includes DreamWorks Interactive and EA Los Angeles)
- DICE
- Glu Mobile
- Amaze Entertainment* (also includes Adrenium Games, Griptonite Games, The Fizz Factor and KnowWonder)
- Origin Systems*
- PopCap Games
- Respawn Entertainment
Konami[edit]
Microsoft[edit]
Nintendo[edit]
Sega Sammy Holdings[edit]
- Sammy Corporation (also includes Treco)
- Sega
Sony[edit]
- Sony Imagesoft*
- Sony Interactive Entertainment (formerly Sony Computer Entertainment)
- 989 Studios
- SCE Studio Liverpool* (formerly Psygnosis)
Square Enix[edit]
Tencent[edit]
Other companies[edit]
- Agetec (also includes Nexoft and ASCII Entertainment)
- Altron
- Aquaplus
- Arc System Works
- Technos Japan* (also includes American Technos)
- Asmik Ace Entertainment
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Broccoli
- Bungie
- Camelot Software Planning
- Cave
- Crystal Dynamics
- D4 Enterprise
- Compile Heart (also includes Compile)
- Compile Maru
- Digital Eclipse (also includes Backbone Entertainment)
- Digital Leisure
- Disney Interactive Studios
- Elite Systems (includes Motivetime)
- Encore Software
- Eutechnyx
- Game Freak
- Gearbox Software
- HAL Laboratory
- HB Studios
- Heavy Iron Studios
- High Voltage Software
- Idea Factory
- Imagineer (also includes Rocket Company)
- Incredible Technologies
- ININ Games
- Kemco
- KID
- Koei Tecmo
- Majesco Entertainment
- Marvelous Entertainment
- Natsume Atari (formerly Natsume)
- Nihon Game (formerly Culture Brain)
- Pony Canyon
- Quicksilver Software
- Realtime Associates
- Rebellion
- Running with Scissors
- SNK
- Sunsoft
- Take-Two Interactive
- Rockstar Games
- 2K Games
- 2K Play (also includes Global Star Software)
- Visual Concepts
- Gotham Games*
- TDK Mediactive (also includes Sound Source Interactive)*
- Telegames
- THQ Nordic (formerly Nordic Games prior to acquiring the THQ name)
- Tomy (also includes Takara)
- Torus Games
- Tose (a "ghost developer"; they are uncredited for almost all the games they worked on)
- Toys for Bob
- Ubisoft
- Ubisoft Reflections (formerly Reflections Interactive)
- Universal Entertainment Corporation (formerly Universal (1969-1998) and Aruze (1998-2009))
- Valve Corporation
- Victor Entertainment (also includes JVC Entertainment)
- Warner Bros. Games
- Midway Games*
- Midway Home Entertainment* (also includes Williams Entertainment and Tradewest)
- Time Warner Interactive* (also includes Tengen)
- NetherRealm Studios
- TT Games
- Turner Interactive*
- Midway Games*
Defunct/dormant companies[edit]
- 20th Century-Fox Games
- The 3DO Company (also includes Studio 3DO)
- Absolute Entertainment (also includes Imagineering)
- Acclaim Entertainment (also includes Acclaim Distribution)
- Acclaim Studios Austin (formerly Iguana Entertainment)
- Acclaim Studios London (formerly Probe Entertainment)
- Acclaim Studios Manchester (formerly Software Creations)
- Acclaim Studios Salt Lake City (formerly Sculptured Software)
- Arena Entertainment
- Flying Edge
- LJN
- Active Enterprises
- American Multiple Industries
- American Video Entertainment
- Animation Magic
- Appaloosa Interactive (also includes Novotrade International)
- Argonaut Games
- BAM! Entertainment
- Bits Studios
- Blitz Games (also includes Interactive Studios)
- Box Office
- Broderbund Software (also includes Red Orb Entertainment)
- Camerica
- CBS Electronics
- Coconuts Japan
- Coleco Industries
- Commodore International
- Conspiracy Entertainment
- Core Design
- Crave Entertainment
- Data East
- Digital Pictures
- Domark
- DTMC
- Eidos Interactive
- Electro Brain
- Epyx
- Fotomat Video
- Fox Interactive
- Fujisankei Communications International (FCI)
- The Game Factory
- Games by Apollo
- GameTek
- Padded Cell Studios (also includes ACME Interactive and Malibu Interactive)
- General Computer Corporation (GCC)
- GTE Entertainment
- Hi-Tech Expressions
- Hot-B
- Human Entertainment
- Imagic
- INTV Corporation
- Irem
- Jaleco
- Kaneko
- Krome Studios Melbourne (formerly Beam Software)
- K-TEL Vision
- The Learning Company
- Left Field Entertainment
- Lenar
- Malibu Interactive (also includes ACME Interactive)
- Mattel Electronics
- Mattel Interactive (also includes Mattel Media)
- Mindscape (also includes The Software Toolworks)
- Morning Star Multimedia
- NEC Interchannel
- NewKidCo
- Ocean Software
- Pack-in-Video
- Paramount Interactive
- Panasonic Interactive
- Philips Consumer Electronics
- Magnavox
- Philips Interactive Media (also includes American Interactive Media)
- PlayAround
- Radiance Software
- Rage Software
- RazorSoft
- Raya Systems
- ReadySoft
- Renovation Products
- Romstar
- Sachen
- Sage's Creation
- SCI Entertainment Group
- Seika Corporation
- Shadowsoft
- ShareData (also includes American Game Cartridges)
- Simon & Schuster Interactive
- SOFEL
- SouthPeak Games
- Spectravision
- Starpath
- Taxan
- TDK Core
- TDK Mediactive Europe
- Telenet Japan (also includes Laser Soft, Renovation Game, Renovation Products, Riot, Commseed and Telenet Jr.)
- Telltale Games
- THQ (also includes Broderbund Software's New Ventures division, Black Pearl Software and Malibu Games)
- Tiertex Design Studios
- Tiger Electronics
- Tigervision
- Titus Software
- Toho
- Tonkin House
- Triffix Entertainment
- Universal Gamex
- U.S. Games
- U.S. Gold
- Vatical Entertainment
- Viacom New Media
- Vic Tokai
- Video System
- Virgin Interactive Entertainment (also includes Arcadia Systems and Virgin Games)
- WaveQuest
- Westone Bit Entertainment
- Wizard Video
- Xonox
- Zoo Publishing (also includes Destination Software)