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  • TaitōUkrainian refugee Michael Kogan established a business in Shanghai during 1944 called Taitung. The name combined the Chinese characters for Judea and East to…
  • SegaOn the 3rd of June 1960, Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart established a new company in Tokyo to take over the assets of Service Games of Japan.
  • Sony Interactive EntertainmentIn 1993, Sony and Sony Music Entertainment Japan jointly established Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. in Tokyo to handle the company's ventures into the…
  • TencentIn November 1998, five men gathered in a small office in Shenzhen to launch a company they named Tencent. The name came from the Chinese characters for…
  • NintendoOn the 23rd of September 1889, a craftsman named Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a small unincorporated establishment in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto.
  • Square (video game company)In September 1983, a software subsidiary named Square emerged within Den-Yu-Sha, an electric power conglomerate led by Kuniichi Miyamoto.
  • KodanshaSeiji Noma established Kodansha in 1909 as a spin-off of the Dai-Nippon Yūbenkai, also known as the Greater Japan Oratorical Society.
  • 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…
  • EnixYasuhiro Fukushima stood at the helm of Eidansha Boshu Service Center on the 22nd of September 1975. The company began as a publisher for real estate…
  • Square EnixSquare Enix began as two separate entities with distinct origins. Enix was founded on the 22nd of September 1975, by Yasuhiro Fukushima, an architect turned…
  • 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…
  • SNKEikichi Kawasaki stood in a small office in Osaka on the 22nd of July 1978 and signed papers to reorganize Shin Nihon Kikaku into a stock company.
  • KonamiKagemasa Kōzuki opened a small business in Toyonaka, Osaka, on the 21st of March 1969. He rented and repaired jukeboxes for local bars and restaurants.
  • 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…
  • NamcoOn the 1st of June 1955, Japanese businessman Masaya Nakamura founded a company in Ikegami, Tokyo. The son of a shotgun repair business owner, Nakamura…
  • CapcomKenzo Tsujimoto stood at the helm of Irem Corporation in 1979 when he established a new entity called I.R.M. Corporation on the 30th of May 1979.
  • Electronic ArtsTrip Hawkins left Apple Inc. in February 1982 to launch a new venture called Amazin' Software. He met with Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital just months…
  • ZyngaMark Pincus launched Zynga in April 2007 under the name Presidio Media. The company changed its name to Zynga in July 2007, adopting a bulldog logo named…
  • 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…