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Computer and video game industry
The video game industry (formally referred to as interactive entertainment) is the economic sector involved with the development, marketing and sale of video games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and employs thousands of people worldwide.
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Atari
Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA). Atari Interactive has in...
Date founded:
- 1972
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Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded in February 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce. Based in Irvine, California, the...
Date founded:
- 1991
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Capcom
Alph Lyla, also known as Alfh Lyra or Alpha Lyla, is Capcom's "house band" composed of Capcom developers. Their best known work is most likely the soundtrack of the popular fighting-game Street Fighter II.
Some well-known members of this band are:...
Date founded:
- May 30, 1979
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Coleco
Coleco was an American company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as "Connecticut Leather Company". It became a highly successful toy company in the 1980s, known for its mass-produced version of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and its video game consoles...
Date founded:
- 1932
Place founded:
id Software
id Software is an American video game development company from Mesquite, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian...
Date founded:
- Feb 1991
Lionhead Studios
Lionhead Studios is a British computer game development company led by industry veteran Peter Molyneux, and acquired by Microsoft Game Studios in April 2006. Lionhead started as a breakaway from the developer Bullfrog, which was also founded by...
Date founded:
- 1997
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LucasArts
LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s. Today, it mainly...
Date founded:
- May 1982
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Nintendo
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small...
Date founded:
- Sep 23, 1889
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Raven Software
Raven Software is an American video game developer. The company was founded in 1990 by brothers Brian and Steve Raffel. In 1997, Raven made an exclusive publishing deal with Activision and was subsequently acquired by them.
Raven has a history of...
Date founded:
- 1990
Sonic Team
Sonic Team (ソニックチーム, Sonikku Chīmu) is a Japanese computer and video game developer established in Ota, Tokyo, Japan in 1990, originally known as Sega AM8. The Japan-based division is also known as G.E. Department Global Entertainment. The studio...
Date founded:
- 1988
Sega
Sega Corporation (株式会社セガ, Kabushiki-kaisha Sega) is a multinational video game software and hardware development company, and a home computer and console manufacturer headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. The company had success with both arcades and...
Date founded:
- 1951
Place founded:
Westwood Studios
Westwood Studios was a computer and video game developer, founded in 1985 as Westwood Associates by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle and based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Westwood is best know for developing game series in the real-time strategy, adventure,...
Date founded:
- 1985
Place founded:
The 3DO Company
The 3DO Company (formerly THDO on the NASDAQ stock exchange), also known as 3DO, was a video game company. It was founded in 1991 under the name SMSG, Inc. (for San Mateo Software Games) by Electronic Arts co-founder Trip Hawkins in a partnership...
Date founded:
- 1991
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Ritual Entertainment
Ritual Entertainment was a computer game software developer established in 1996 and based in Dallas, Texas. It was formerly known as Hipnotic Interactive, during which period they began development of their signature computer game SiN.
Members of...
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Bungie Studios
Bungie is an American video game developer founded in May 1991 under the name Bungie Software Products Corporation by two undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, Alex Seropian and Jason Jones. Originally based in Chicago, the company...
Date founded:
- May 1991
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Activision
Activision (ATVI) is an American video game developer and publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles. Its...
Date founded:
- 1979
Sierra Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Sierra On-Line) was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems by Ken and Roberta Williams. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company was last owned by a subsidiary of...
Date founded:
- 1979
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Valve Corporation
Valve Corporation is an American video game development company based in Bellevue, Washington, USA that was founded in 1996, and made famous by its first product, Half-Life, which was released in November 1998.
Valve was founded as an L.L.C. based...
Date founded:
- 1996
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Turbine, Inc.
Turbine, Inc. (formerly Turbine Entertainment Software, Second Nature, and originally CyberSpace, Inc.) is an American computer game developer that pioneered 3D massively multiplayer role-playing games (MMORPGs). Turbine was founded by Jon Monsarrat...
Date founded:
- 1994
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Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks, LLC, a ZeniMax Media Company, is a developer and publisher of video games. The company is based in Rockville, Maryland, in the United States. With a broad panoply of games in role-playing, racing, simulation, and sports, Bethesda...
Date founded:
- 1986
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Funcom
Funcom Productions A/S (OSE: FUNCOM) is a Norwegian video game developer specializing in online games. It is best known for the Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game (MMORPG) titles Age of Conan, Anarchy Online, and its The Longest Journey...
Date founded:
- 1993
Place founded:
Treasure Co. Ltd
Treasure is a Japanese video game developer, founded by former employees of Konami on June 19, 1992. Treasure is best known for classic-style action games that employ innovative gameplay systems. Their greatest commercial successes have been games...
Date founded:
- Jun 19, 1992
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Loki Software
Loki Software, Inc. (sometimes also called Loki Games or Loki Entertainment Software) was a software firm based in Tustin, California, United States, that ported several computer games from Microsoft Windows to Linux. It took its name from the Norse...
Date founded:
- 1998
Place founded:
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts (EA) is the
world’s leading independent developer and publisher of interactive
entertainment software for advanced console systems such as the PlayStation® 3,
PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the PSP™ (PlayStation®...
Date founded:
- 1982
Place founded:
Konami
Konami Corporation (コナミ株式会社, Konami Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 9766 NYSE: KNM SGX: K20) is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video...
Date founded:
- Mar 21, 1969
Place founded:
Interplay Entertainment
Interplay Entertainment Corporation (OTCBB: IPLY) 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...
Date founded:
- 1983
Place founded:
Rare Ltd
Rare, Ltd. (formerly known as Rareware) is a British video game development company. It was founded in 1982 by brothers Tim and Chris Stamper as Ashby Computers and Graphics Ltd. (ACG). Publishing as Ultimate Play the Game, they developed games for...
Date founded:
- 1982
Place founded:
MicroProse
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.
Founded in 1982 by Bill Stealey and Sid Meier, Microprose Software, Inc was...
Date founded:
- 1982
Firaxis Games
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 games and is based in Sparks, Maryland in the United States.
Firaxis has...
Date founded:
- 1996
Namco
Namco Ltd. (株式会社ナムコ, Kabushiki Kaisha Namuko), is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. The company is most famous for creating Pac-Man, the best-selling arcade game in history. Following a merger with...
Date founded:
- 1955
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3D Realms
3D Realms (legal name Apogee Software, Ltd.) is a publisher and video game developer based in Garland, Texas established in 1987. It is best known for popularizing the shareware distribution model and as the creator of franchises on the PC such as...
Date founded:
- 1987
Place founded:
Hudson Soft
Hudson Soft Company, Limited (株式会社ハドソン, kabushiki-gaisha Hadoson) is a electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in Japan. It was founded on May 18, 1973. Initially, Hudson dealt with personal computer products, but has expanded to the...
Date founded:
- May 18, 1973
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Acclaim Entertainment
Acclaim Entertainment was an American video game developer and publisher. It developed, published, marketed and distributed interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn,...
Date founded:
- 1986
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Ultra Games
Ultra Software Corporation was a spinoff company created in 1988 as a subsidiary of Konami of America, in an effort to get around Nintendo of America's strict licensing rules. One of these rules was that a third-party company could only publish up...
Date founded:
- 1988
Irem
Irem (アイレム, Airemu) is a Japanese video game console developer and publisher, and formerly a developer and manufacturer of arcade games as well. The company has its headquarters in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture.
The company is probably best known for...
Date founded:
- 1974
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Data East
Data East Corporation (データイースト株式会社, Dēta Īsuto Kabushikigaisha) also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, when it declared bankruptcy. Their main headquarters were located in...
Date founded:
- 1976
Koei
Koei Co., Ltd. (株式会社コーエー Kabushiki gaisha Kōē), formerly 光栄 (Kōei)) is a Japanese video game publisher, developer, and distributor founded in 1978. The company is best known for its historical simulation games based on the novel Romance of the Three...
Date founded:
- 1978
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Take-Two Interactive
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) (or Take-Two, also known as Take2) is an American publisher, developer, and distributor of video games and video game peripherals. The company's headquarters are in New York City, United States,...
Date founded:
- 1993
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Rockstar Games
Rockstar Games (studio known as Rockstar Games NYC) is a video game developer and publisher owned by Take-Two Interactive. The brand is mostly known for the Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne and Midnight Club series. It comprises studios that have been...
Date founded:
- 1998
Ion Storm Inc.
Ion Storm Inc. (sometimes spelled ION Storm) was a Texas based developer of computer games founded by John Romero (a co-creator of the Doom franchise), Tom Hall, Todd Porter, and Jerry O'Flaherty, under the slogan "Design is Law". At the time it was...
Date founded:
- Nov 15, 1996
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Ambrosia Software
Ambrosia Software is a predominantly Macintosh software company located in Rochester, New York. Ambrosia produces utilities and games. Its products are distributed as shareware; demo versions can be downloaded and used for up to 30 days.
Ambrosia's...
Date founded:
- Aug 18, 1993
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Sports Interactive
Sports Interactive is a computer games development company currently based in Old Street, Central London and owned by the Japanese software and video game company Sega. It is the developer of the popular games Football Manager, NHL Eastside Hockey...
Date founded:
- 1997
Looking Glass Studios
Looking Glass Studios was a computer game development company during the 1990s.
The company originally formed as Looking Glass Technologies, when Blue Sky Productions and Lerner Research merged.
Their games were regarded for demonstrating innovative...
Date founded:
- 1990
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Eidos Interactive
Eidos Interactive Ltd. was a video game developer and publisher based in England. It is now part of Square Enix Europe.
Its best-known game series include Tomb Raider, Hitman, Commandos, Deus Ex, Legacy of Kain, Thief, Timesplitters, and Fear Effect...
Date founded:
- 1990
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Technos Japan Corporation
Technōs Japan Corporation (株式会社テクノスジャパン, Kabushiki-gaisha Tekunosujapan) is a defunct Japanese video game developer, best known for the Kunio-kun (which includes Renegade, Super Dodge Ball and River City Ransom) and Double Dragon franchises. The...
Date founded:
- 1981
Legend Entertainment
Legend Entertainment was an American developer of computer games, best known for their complex, distinctive adventure titles (1990-98).
The company was founded in 1989 by Bob Bates and Mike Verdu after the end of Infocom. Their goal was to design...
Date founded:
- 1989
Intelligent Systems
Intelligent Systems Co., Ltd. (株式会社インテリジェントシステムズ, Kabushiki-Gaisha Interijento Shisutemuzu) is a Japanese First-Party video game developer and internal team of Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Intelligent Systems came into being when members of Nintendo's...
Date founded:
- Dec 1986
Place founded:
Atlus
Atlus (株式会社アトラス, Kabushiki-gaisha atorasu) is a Japanese computer and video game developer, publisher, and distributor headquarted in Tokyo, Japan. It is known for developing the role-playing series Shin Megami Tensei which, counting spin-offs, has...
Date founded:
- 1986
Place founded:
EA Sports
EA Sports is a brand name used by Electronic Arts since 1993 to distribute games based on sports. Formerly a gimmick inside Electronic Arts sports games, that tried to mimic real-life sports networks, calling themselves "EA Sports Network" (EASN)...
Date founded:
- 1982
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Midway Games
Midway Games, Inc. (formerly Midway Manufacturing) is an American corporation in bankruptcy as of 2009. Founded as an amusement game manufacturer, it was a video game publisher and developer from 1973 to 2009. Midway published and developed titles...
Date founded:
- 1988
Game Freak
Game Freak, Inc. (株式会社ゲームフリーク, Kabushiki-gaisha Gēmu Furīku) is a Japanese video game developer that currently creates games exclusively for Nintendo. It has developed the Pokémon series of role-playing games (RPGs) and several other games.
The...
Date founded:
- Apr 26, 1989
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Ensemble Studios
Originally founded as an independent developer in 1995, Ensemble Studios was a Microsoft-owned developer from 2001 to 2009, when it was officially disbanded. Ensemble has developed many games including the Age of Empires game series and Halo Wars....
Date founded:
- 1995
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THQ
THQ Inc. (Toy Headquarters) (NASDAQ: THQI) is a worldwide international American developer and publisher of video games. It has made games such as part of the 'Call Of Duty' series. Founded in 1989, the company develops products for video game...
Date founded:
- 2007
Place founded:
Microsoft Game Studios
Microsoft Game Studios is a brand owned by Microsoft and introduced in 2002 to represent the company as a video game publisher, coinciding with the launch of the Xbox. Games published by Microsoft under the MGS label are typically released for the...
Date founded:
- 1990
Place founded:
CD Projekt
CD Projekt is a Polish video game publisher. The company was founded in May 1994 by Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński. From the beginning their goal was to publish software in the Polish market on compact discs. The company became the first Polish...
Date founded:
- 1994
Place founded:
Bullfrog Productions
Bullfrog Productions was a UK computer game developer that was founded in 1987 by Les Edgar and Peter Molyneux. The company achieved recognition in 1989 for their third release, Populous.
At the time of the company's founding, Edgar and Molyneux...
Date founded:
- 1987
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Acornsoft
Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and 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...
Date founded:
- 1982
Digital Illusions CE
EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment AB (EA DICE) is a Swedish video game developer, wholly owned by Electronic Arts, best known for the Battlefield video game series and the recently-released Mirror's Edge.
DICE was started by four people:...
Date founded:
- 1988
Place founded:
Digital Anvil
Digital Anvil was a computer game company. It was founded in 1996, when Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts left Origin Systems, Inc., along with many other employees.
According to Chris Roberts, Digital Anvil was created to bring back the "small...
Date founded:
- 1996
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Monkeystone Games
Monkeystone Games was a video game developer and publisher founded by John Romero, Tom Hall, Stevie Case, and Brian Moon. The company's focus was on mobile games. Since its inception in July 2001, Monkeystone published several titles on multiple...
Date founded:
- 2001
