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  • HexaDriveMasakazu Matsushita established HexaDrive in February 2007 within Osaka, Japan. He arrived at this decision after years of work as a programmer for Capcom.
  • NeoBards EntertainmentOn the 15th of February 2017, NeoBards Entertainment opened its doors in Hong Kong. The company emerged from a team of veterans who had previously worked…
  • M2 (game developer)M2 is a Japanese video game developer and publisher whose work touches nearly every major classic gaming franchise you can name.
  • Ubisoft TorontoUbisoft Toronto opened its doors in September 2010, born from an unusual promise: unlike every other Ubisoft studio in the world, it would be allowed to lead…
  • SegaSega is a Japanese video game company whose history reads like a map of the entire industry's evolution. It began not with video games at all, but with slot…
  • Polygon MagicPolygon Magic is a Japanese video game developer with a catalogue spanning arcade cabinets, home consoles, handheld systems, mobile social platforms, and…
  • Team SilentKonami Computer Entertainment Tokyo established Team Silent to handle the first four entries in a new horror franchise. The group operated within the larger…
  • DimpsDimps, a Japanese video game developer based in Osaka, built its reputation on some of the most beloved franchises in gaming history.
  • System SacomSystem Sacom, also known as System Sacom Sales Corp., operates from an office in Tokyo. This Japanese electronics company sells electronic devices to the…
  • Double Helix GamesDouble Helix Games arrived on the map not through a founding story but through a collision of two older ones. On the 9th of October 2007, Foundation 9…
  • Sony Interactive EntertainmentSony Interactive Entertainment began as a joint venture between Sony and Sony Music Entertainment Japan, founded in Tokyo in 1993 to do something neither…
  • Team NinjaTeam Ninja was born out of a financial crisis. In the mid-1990s, the Japanese gaming company Tecmo was struggling to stay solvent, and management made a…
  • Kojima ProductionsKojima Productions exists twice. Once as a name inside Konami, and once as a name on the door of an independent studio in Shinagawa, Tokyo.
  • TencentTencent is a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Shenzhen, and it sits behind products used by more than a billion people every…
  • Koei TecmoKoei Tecmo is one of Japan's most storied video game holding companies, born from a merger that almost did not happen. In August 2008, a rival corporation…
  • NintendoNintendo was founded on the 23rd of September 1889, not as a game company, but as a playing card business. Craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi set up shop in…
  • Square (video game company)Square, the Japanese video game developer known internationally as SquareSoft, began its life in September 1983 not in a gleaming tech campus but in a former…
  • Bloober TeamOn the 6th of November 2008, Piotr Babieno and Piotr Bielatowicz launched Bloober Team in Kraków. The new studio began with twenty employees working out of a…
  • Screen Burn (company)Jon McKellan and Omar Khan established No Code on the 19th of August 2015 in Glasgow, Scotland. McKellan had previously directed DLC packs for Alien…
  • Yuke'sYuke's Co. Ltd. began life in Osaka in 1993 with a name borrowed from a high school nickname. Founder Yukinori Taniguchi established the company on the 26th…
  • Kadokawa ShotenGenyoshi Kadokawa established Kadokawa Shoten on the 10th of November 1945 in Tokyo. The company began its publishing journey with a specific imprint called…
  • Silicon KnightsSilicon Knights filed for bankruptcy on the 16th of May 2014, the final act of a studio that had once been handpicked by Nintendo itself.
  • Nihon FalcomNihon Falcom takes its name from a science fiction film. The founders wanted to evoke the Millennium Falcon, but changed the final "n" to an "m" to match the…
  • Square EnixSquare Enix was born from the union of two companies that had long watched each other across Japan's video game landscape.
  • Annapurna InteractiveAnnapurna Interactive opened its doors on the 1st of December 2016 as a division of Annapurna Pictures. The company aimed to publish games that were…
  • Kuju (company)Ian Baverstock and Jonathan Newth opened Simis in 1989. The company produced flight simulator programs like MiG-29 Fulcrum.
  • SNKSNK began not as a video game company but as Shin Nihon Kikaku, a small Japanese firm founded in 1973 by Eikichi Kawasaki.
  • Good Smile CompanyGood Smile Company sells some of the most recognizable figurines in the world, yet the company began not as a toy manufacturer but as an event management and…
  • KonamiKonami began life on the 21st of March 1969 as a jukebox rental and repair shop in Toyonaka, Osaka. Three men started it together, two of whom had met while…
  • Xbox Game StudiosIn March 2000, Microsoft transitioned its internal Games Group into a wholly separate division named Microsoft Games. This move coincided with the public…
  • NamcoNamco started with two hand-cranked rocking horses on a department store rooftop in Yokohama. Masaya Nakamura, the son of a shotgun repair business owner…
  • Media MoleculeMedia Molecule is a British video game studio built on a paradox: a company that wanted to make world-class games with as few people as possible.
  • Climax StudiosKarl Jeffery established Images Software Ltd. on the 3rd of February 1988 in Portsmouth, England. The new company began its life by developing and porting…
  • CapcomCapcom sits behind some of the most recognizable titles in video game history. Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Monster Hunter, Mega Man, Devil May Cry, and…
  • Electronic ArtsElectronic Arts began with a meeting in February 1982, when Trip Hawkins walked into the offices of Sequoia Capital and pitched a company he was calling…
  • Eidos InteractiveEidos Interactive began not in a boardroom but in a family living room at Christmas 1983, when a young advertising account executive named Dominic Wheatley…
  • Blizzard EntertainmentBlizzard Entertainment started life in February 1991 with three UCLA graduates, a borrowed $10,000 from a grandmother, and a business park office near the…
  • Origin SystemsOrigin Systems, Inc. was founded on the 3rd of March 1983 in a garage in Houston, Texas. The founders were Richard Garriott, his brother Robert, their father…
  • Behaviour InteractiveQuebec City, 1992. A small team gathered to launch Megatoon, a video game development studio that would eventually become Behaviour Interactive.
  • ZyngaZynga, the company named after a bulldog, reached ten million daily players in just six weeks after launching FarmVille on Facebook in June 2009.
  • Hudson SoftHudson Soft began as CQ Hudson, an amateur radio shop in Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Japan. The business opened on the 18th of May 1973, founded by brothers Yuji…
  • FromSoftwareFromSoftware, Inc. began life not in the world of dragons and darkness, but in the far more prosaic territory of business software.
  • ASCII CorporationASCII Corporation was a Japanese publishing company based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and its story begins with an unusual origin: it started not as a publisher, but…