Computer Game Publisher

Ubisoft Entertainment (formerly Ubi Soft) is a French computer and video game publisher and developer with headquarters in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France. The company has facilities in over 20 countries, including development studios in Montreal and Québec City, Quebec,...

Red Orb Entertainment was a division of the Brøderbund software company created to market its gaming titles, distinguishing them from its considerable library of edutainment titles, which it marketed to schools. The name comes from the first six letters of "Broderbund,...

Interplay Entertainment Corporation is an American video game publisher and developer. The company was founded as Interplay Productions, Inc. in Southern California in 1983 with Brian Fargo as president and three programmers, Jay Patel, Troy Worrell and Bill Heineman...

Brøderbund Software was an American maker of computer game, educational software and The Print Shop productivity tools. It was best known as the original creator and publisher of the popular Carmen Sandiego games. The company was founded in Eugene, Oregon, but moved to...

Mindscape is an international software publishing company, previously part of The Learning Company. As of 2004, the group has offices in France, England, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Asia, Australia and Latin America. It has an annual turnover of €38 million and...

MicroProse, as a corporation and brand name, has been owned by several entities since its original founding by Sid Meier and Bill Stealey in 1982, as Microprose Software, Inc. Founded in 1982 by Bill Stealey and Sid Meier, Microprose Software, Inc was primarily known...

Electronic Arts (EA) is an American developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of computer and video games. Established in 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and...

Ariolasoft was a German computer game developer, publisher and distributor. They released approximately ten games for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amiga systems, and also were notable for being the distributor for the Sega Master System in Germany between at...

Sierra Entertainment, Inc. is an American computer game developer and publisher headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company is currently a subsidiary of Vivendi Games (a subsidiary of Vivendi SA). Sierra itself owns four in-house development studios: High...

Gathering of Developers (aka God Games and Gathering) was a Texas-based PC and video games publishing company, founded in January 1998 with the mission to bridge the gap between publishers and independent game developers. Fueled by past publishing experiences and...

Infocom was a United States-based software company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction. They also produced one notable business application, a relational database called Cornerstone. Infocom was founded on June 22...

Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) was a computer game developer and publisher with over 100 titles to its credit since its founding in 1979. It was especially notable for its numerous wargame, and for the groundbreaking Panzer General series. The company was founded...

Firaxis Games is a computer game developer. It was founded in 1996 by Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs, and Brian Reynolds upon leaving Microprose. The company focuses on strategy game and is based in Hunt Valley, Maryland in the United States. Firaxis has produced several...

Nintendo Company Ltd. (任天堂株式会社 Nintendō Kabushiki-kaisha; , , ) is a Japan multinational corporation founded on September 23 1889 in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. In the mid-twentieth century, the company tried several small...

Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher originally based in Alameda, California. The company was founded in 1983 and was most famous for its simulation games, notably the Falcon line, and Vette!, a driving simulator from 1989. Spectrum...

Activision, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher. It was the first independent developer and distributor of video game for gaming consoles, founded on October 1 1979. Its first products were cartridges for the Atari 2600 video console system, and it...

Bethesda Softworks, LLC, a ZeniMax Media Company, is a developer and publisher of computer and video games. Bethesda Softworks has been a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment content for over two decades. Founded in 1985 by Christopher Weaver in...

Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games, is an American computer game developer and publisher headquartered in Irvine, California. In December 2007 it was announced that Vivendi Games would merge with Activision, using Blizzard's name for the resulting...

Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is a game development and game publishing division of Sony that is best known for creating massively multiplayer online game, including EverQuest, EverQuest II, PlanetSide, Star Wars Galaxies and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes which have...

Strategy First is a software company based in Montreal, Canada. Founded in 1990, the company has published numerous well-known games, such as the Disciples series, Jagged Alliance series, Space Empires series, and Galactic Civilizations. They are a distribution partner...

Matrix Games is a publisher of computer games, specifically strategy games and wargames. They are based out of Staten Island, New York. Their focus is primarily on war games and turn-based strategy but the company is by no means limited to the wargaming market....

THQ Inc. (Toy Headquarters) is a global American developer and publisher of video games. The company develops products for video game consoles, handheld game systems, as well as for personal computers and wireless devices. THQ's titles span most major interactive...

Stu Megan, now semi-retired, has been a computer software professional since 1968, having worked on everything from early core memory computers using only switches for control to recent internet technology products such as Directory Server, [in use by over 80% of...

Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and was a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages -...

LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was famous for its line of graphic adventure game, although today it mainly publishes games based on the Star Wars franchise. The company was founded in May 1982 as...

Delphine Software was a French video game developer. They were famous for their games Another World and Flashback, which bore a similarity to Prince of Persia, both in gameplay and in utilizing rotoscoped animation. They were also known for their Moto Racer series. ...

U.S. Gold was a British video game publisher and developer from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s, producing numerous titles on a variety of 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit platforms. U.S. Gold was founded in Birmingham in 1984 by Geoff Brown as the publishing division...

is a video game development company founded on April 16, 1971 as a division of Sun Corporation, itself a division of Sun Electronics, or Sun Denshi (サン電子) in Japan (its U.S. subsidiary operated under the name Sunsoft of America, though games they published showed a...