List of studios

Founded in 2015, 10 Chambers Collective is an independent studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. The studio was founded by Ulf Andersson who also co-founded Overkill Software and was the game designer behind the PAYDAY franchise

2K Czech (earlier Illusion Softworks) is a czech affiliate of Take 2 company which focuses on development video games. Studio is well-known for its games, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. In 2004 was announced closing 2K Prague branch.

2K is a global developer, dealer, distributor and publisher of interactive software games. 2K Games is a daughter company of Take-Two Interactive company.

4A Games was founded in Kiev but it was moved to Malta after 9 years in 2014. However, Ukrainian offices were retained to focus on the Eastern European market. The developers are known mainly because of their successful Metro series.

Purely publishing studio for platforms from Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony is based in Milan and was founded in 2006 with the original name 505 Game Street. Currently, it is a subsidiary of Digital Bros and it has several divisions all over the Europe where it publishes its games.

A studio estabilished in California. At the beginning they were selling games on ATARI but nowadays Activision is one of the largest game studios in the world.

The studio has been founded by a group of people who are passionate about making games and their tentacles are spreading all around the globe.

The independent studio based in Brno, Czechia. A developer studio focuses on 2D point and click games.

American company pursuing eshop Amazon, IMDb.com website and is the owner of streaming service Twitch.tv.

French video game studio and publisher. The company focuses on platforms like iOS, Mac OS, PC, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS.

The legendary company with iconic Steve Job is most-known mainly because of its unique hardware like iPod, iPhone, iPad or Mac computers. Thanks to this, Apple grew from garage-based company to one of the most successful business of all the time.

A video game studio which stands behind games like Dishonored or Prey.

The company was founded with the original name GT Interactive Software but it was renamed to Infogrames after 6 years. In this composition, it was operating until 2008 when the studio was renamed once again to the current Atari name.

The tiny two-member studio which create games with passion and care.

A video games studio with a commitment to innovation. They focus on fast-paced development without compromising quality thanks to next-gen tech and talent.

The Swedish game developer located in Stockholm is also known under the original name Fatalist Development AB. The studio was founded in 2003 by Linus Blomberg and Christofer Sundberg while it is focused on developing games with an open world.

The studio originally named as “Namco” was merged with the “Bandai” company in 2006 and in this particular composition, it releases and develops its games until now. It also entered the Guinness World Records because it released the most TV commercials for the same product.

This Canadian studio from Quebec became popular mainly thanks to the games based on world-known movie titles but later on, it also prepared several remasters and ports and it also participated in the development of COD games. Since 2005, the studio is a subsidiary of Activision.

The studio was founded in 1993 under the original name Blank, Berlyn and Co. and was developing apps for Apple Newton. However, it started to expand to PC and console market soon and was renamed to Eidetic. In 2000, it was acquired by Sony and changed the name to Bend Studio.

Independent game designer who teaches about gaming design at NYU Game Center and is a member of the faculty.

Bethesda was founded in 1986 by Christopher Weaver who lived in a town with the same name (Bethesda). The studio is best known thanks to the RPG series called The Elder Scrolls.

Veterans of the video game industry. Aim is to create a new set-up, specialized in Narrative Adventure & Role Playing Games. In the past, have gained a strong experience on working on titles such as : Watch Dogs, Game of Thrones or Far Cry 3.

Bigmoon Entertainment is a smaller Portugal studio which develops games of all kinds but is typical mainly of developing various racing game including licensed IPs such as Dakar 18, WRC 5, MotoGP 13 and several others.

The studio located in Edmonton was quite interestingly founded by three newly graduated medical doctors who were developing games in their free time. Since 2007, BioWare is owned by Electronic Arts which it develops their games for (e. g. Mass Effect and Dragon Age).

Bishop Games is a games developer based in the heart of Quebec City, Canada. Founded in February 2014, the company started as a crazy dream between three aspiring and ambitious video game fanatics. Bishop Games’ mission is simple: to make fun and unique video games.

Black Forest Games is a German video game developer based in Offenburg, Germany. The company was founded in 2012 by Andreas Speer and Adrian Goersch. The company was formed by former members of the now-defunct Spellbound Entertainment company.

After establishing the Blizzard Entertainment label in 1991 in California, the company quickly became one of the most popular and well-respected makers of computer games. By focusing on creating well-designed, highly enjoyable entertainment experiences,

Bloober Team SA is an independent producer of video games, the games are known for their difficulty and challenging gameplay. The company was founded in 2008 by Peter Babieno and Peter Bielatowicz.

Australian studio which focuses on mobile platforms and creates games with passion with all kind of creativity which has no limits in.

The studio based in Seongnam recorded an unbelievable success thanks to its PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds game which was released in 2017. Since then, this local studio became a world-known company.

Czech company founded in 1997 by brothers Mark and Ondřej Španěl. The first act of this company was Operation Flashpoint

Bonus Level Entertainment is reinventing 16-Bit! We are an independent game developer, founded by Rupert Ochsner and Holger Kuchling, located in Munich, Germany.

Bulkhead Interactive is a game developer based in Derby, UK. The studio is currently developing multiple titles for Steam, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

The studio from Washington originally based in Chicago was originally focused on Macintosh games, but it was acquired by Microsoft in 2000 and started to develop the Xbox’s “killer series” named Halo. In 2007, Bungie became and independent studio collaborating with Activision.

The studio founded by Robert Baker and Chris Mallinson who just wanted to bring the old racing game Rollcage back to life and give it a new breath.

The American studio based in Washington became famous very quickly after it had released the first game Firewatch in 2016. In April 2018, the studio was acquired by Valve Corporation which is currently the publisher of all the games of Campo Santo.

Capcom, originally named as I.R.M. Corporation, is a typical Japanese studio developing games with Manga style animations. The company has published several world-known and million-selling games, such as Street Fighter, Resident Evil or Devil May Cry.

The Polish studio located in Warsaw was founded by Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński as just a distributor of foreign games with added Polish localization. In 2002, an independent developer studio was established and it started to produce the well-known “The Witcher” series.

Chibig is a small independent studio focused originally on animated games developed for mobile platforms iOS and Android. After a great success of their Deiland game, the developers focused also on PC and game consoles which they port their games on.

Two brothers with a passion to develop games.

Chucklefish Limited is an independent British video game developer and publisher based in London. Founded in June 2011 by Finn Brice, the company specialises in action-adventure games. Chucklefish is well known for Starbound game and thanks to Stardew Valley as a publisher.

The Canadian studio based in Montreal was founded by Guillaume Provost who decided to start his own business after he had worked for several video gaming developers. In 2018, the studio was acquired by Microsoft which Compulsion Games started to develop games for.

Eric Barone is an american soloist developer who made a game named Stardew Valley which was released in 2016. After the graduation he could not find a job in gaming industry so he took a chance to create his own indie game.

The British studio Creative Assembly was firstly making just older games ports for MS-DOS but it became most known thanks to the Total War series which influenced development of strategies a lot. Since 2005, the company is a subsidiary of Sega.

The British studio was originally a technology company which produced RenderWare engine used also in several Grand Theft Auto games. After the studio was acquired by Electronic Arts, it started to work on racing games from the Burnout and Need for Speed series.

The Croatian developer based in Zagred was originally just a small “garage” studio that managed to record an unbelievable success thanks to the legendary Serious Sam series which is know all over the world.

As an independent studio, it was established in 1992 in San Francisco. After 6 years, the studio was bought by Eidos Interactive which was further acquired by Square Enix in 2009. As a result, Crystal Dynamics is owned by Square Enix until now.

Daedalic Entertainment is a publisher and developer of high-quality computer and video games, with a strong focus on engaging narratives and compelling characters

Dark Star games is an indie studio behind the title Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption. Courageous because the game could be equal to much more known titles.

Creative film editor and artist, solo developer of The First Tree and Home is Where One Starts.

Worldwide leader in the development of massive blockbuster multiplayer games. Daybreak Games stands behind the games like Everquest, Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons online.

The studio was founded in 2001 in Frankfurt. Founders were people from Artex Software. Deck13 has recently become more popular for their action RPG Lords of Fallen and The Surge.

This pure publisher has published more than 200 games since its establishment in 2002 including well-known series such as Dead Island, Metro and Saints Row. The big drop of THQ also helped this company to publish even more titles.

Denuvo Anti-Tamper, or Denuvo, is an anti-tamper technology and digital rights management (DRM) scheme developed by the Austrian company Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH. It is a kind of protection system which does not allowed pirates illegally make copies and share on Internet.

The American publisher from Texas was established in 2008 when it was founded by two executives of Gathering of Developers and Gamecock Media Group. The company has become known mainly thanks to the HD version of Serious Sam which it published.

The studio fully named as Digital Illusions CE AB develops its games in Stockholm and since 2006, it is a subsidiary of Electronic Arts. It has produced several well-known games (e. g. Battlefield and Mirror’s Edge) and it is also a producer of EA’s Frostbite engine.

Digital Extremes was developed by James Schmalz. Their best known titules are Unreal Tournament and Warframe.

Dontnod is a French video game developer based in Paris. Founded in 2008, it started development on the action-adventure Remember Me (2013). The success has come after releasing Life is Strange.

Double Fine Productions is an award-winning, independent game development studio founded in 2000 by games industry veteran Tim Schafer. Located in San Francisco’s South of Market district, Double Fine is committed to making high-quality games with an emphasis on originality,

Founded in 1982 by Tripe Hawkins. From the beggining EA was only a publishing company, but gradually began to develop its own games. Among the most famous are series like Need For Speed, FIFA, Battlefield Crysis ..

Endnight Games is a 4-person indie studio developing The Forest. This studio is currently based in Vancouver, Canada.

Epic Games Studio is based in North Carolina, USA. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney and Mark Rein in 1991. The company is known for games as Unreal or Fortnite.

Originally independent Swedish studio located in Stockholm is currently owned by its publisher, THQ Nordic. It became more popular mainly after Gamescom 2017 where the studio announced its game Biomutant.

British independent studio founded in 2004 by Garry Newman in England. The company is known for Rust and Garry's Mod.

Fantasy Flight Games was founded in 1995 in USA. Firstly, the publishing studio was focused only on board games but now transforms its hobbies in videogaming industry. The studio is the market leader with board games, role play games and interested in miniature gaming categories.

Fat Dog Games is a former mobile game developing company, which has been presented on the market since 2014. The founders of Fat Dog Games have also created Warappa in 2016. As Warappa, the company specialized in producing games, gamified products, mobile, VR and AR apps.

An independent gaming studio situated in Stockholm. Fatshark developed a world-famous game Warhammer.

An independent game developer is based quite untypically at one of the coldest place in Russia where temperatures decrease down to -70 °C. Their first game The Wilds Eight was released in 2017 and was the similar genre as all the other zombie survival games of the studio.

Video Game publisher and distributor, which was founded in 1996 in Paris. Their well known games are TrackMania, Sherlock Holmes, The Surge or adventure Runaway.

Small independent Polish studio led by former members of the CD PROJEKT. They were just behind games like Witcher 2 and 3. Now they releasing their first project SEVEN.

Forgotten Empires is an independent full-service game developer focused on Windows PC games and mobile apps. While headquartered in the U.S., our team consists of 51 passionate individuals from around the globe, each of whom brings a unique skill set and perspective to the table.

Freebird Games is an indie game development studio founded by Kan (Reives) Gao as a personal outlet, to tell stories through the form of interactive narratives and music.

Frictional Games is independent video-game developer studio based in Sweden founded in 2007 by Thomas Grip and Jens Nilsson. The company focuses on developing survival horror games. The best known games are Amnesia: The Dark Descent and SOMA.

Independent rogue developers from Tokyo who're working on their first game titled Vane. Indie studio is filled by personalities who had been working on Battlefield 3 or The Last Guardian.

Japanese video game development studio which was founded in November 1986. Studio is primarily popular outside of Japan for being the developers of the Armored Core and Souls series, as well as Bloodborne.

Frozenbyte is Finnish development studio which is behind the fantasy-action series titled Trine.

The Norwegian developer located in Oslo has also offices in US and previously operated in Beijing, Dublin, and Montreal. It is focused mainly on the development of MMORPG games like Age of Conan, Anarchy Online, and The Secret World but it also publishes games of small studios.

Future Games was a video game company based in Beroun, Czech Republic. The company focused mostly on adventure games. The studio was closed in 2011 due to financial problems after release of Alter Ego. One of the most well known adventure is The Black Mirror.

A studio based in Germany in Haarlem. The studio publishes by itself or with a help of publishers. Create the games which play themselves with the help of teams dispose of needed abilities and creativity.

Gathering of Developers (God games or just Gathering) was a Texas publishing company founded in January 1998. Company goals were to connect publishers and developers from independent studios which would be helpful in controlling indie projects.

The company from Texas was founded by former employees of 3D Realms and Bethesda Softworks while it was originally developing expansions and ports of Valve’s games. However, the studio has also created two very popular franchises – Brothers in Arms and Borderlands.

A small independent studio genDESIGN is led by one of important persons in video game industry – Fumito Ueda. Originally, the studio was working as a Sony’s division called Team Ico. At that time, it released games Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian.

The Swedish subsidiary of Electronic Arts located in Gothenburg was originally founded as EA Gothenburg. Currently, the studio has two more locations in United Kingdom and Romania and is developing new episodes of the world-known Need for Speed series.

The Giants Software, a Swiss studio, is famous for its "Farming Simulator" series, one of the best simulators ever made.

The American company located in Mountain View in Silicon Valley is currently one of the biggest giants in the area of software products and internet services. It was founded in 1998 by two friends Larry Page and Sergey Brin during their Ph.D. studies.

A studio which has not produced a single game (yet :-P) but which works on this web so a thematic articles can appear here. It is based in the heart of Moravia, Czech Republic and its goal is to bring everyday gaming news to passionate players.

Indie studio which works from around the world. Their motto is that games need to be more than thinly-disguised slot machines optimized solely to generate profit.

The small indie developer based in South England is focused mainly on card and other logical games released not only on Windows and macOS but also on mobile devices.

The first-party developer is famous especially thanks to the Killzone series. It was founded in 2000 after merging three developers – Lost Boys Games, Orange Games, and Digital Infinity. In 2005, it was bought by Sony and started to develop the games exclusively for PlayStation.

Studio is composed by designers, directors, producers, and publishers. We pour our passion into every project and team that we work with. We push boundaries and excite players.

Gunfire Games is small studio which made game such a Darksiders and Chronos.

Hangar 13 is an American firm focused on developing games. Studio was founded in December 2014 as a daughter company of 2K Games. Based in Novatu in California in the area of earlier airport Hamilton Army Airfield. Two studios are in Czech republic.

The developer from Massachusetts in the USA with the full name Harmonix Music Systems is a studio that always focused only on rhythm-based games so it is popular thanks to the titles such as Amplitude, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, or Audica.

The small studio was founded by programmers who originally worked on Brothers: A Tale of Two Son inside Starbreeze Studios. The establishment was supported by a well-known film director Josef Fares who takes care of unique stories present in the developed games.

Hewlett-Packard, HP, in short, is the multinational company engaged in information technologies based in Palo Alto in California, USA. Hewlett-Packard is one of the biggest companies in the field around the world active in almost every country in the world.

Studio founded in 2005 by Erezem Goren and Todd Harris, best known for games like Smite or Paladins.

Two-men studio, one man is from Ukraine and another from Russia. Political situations forced them to move to Lithuania where they have been developing games for more than 8 years.

Holospark is an independent game developer which is focused mainly on PC games but it also develops titles for consoles and for VR. The studio contains developers who previously worked on games like Destiny 2, F.E.A.R, Bioshock Infinite or inFamous.

The American studio based in Wisconsin was founded in 1997 by former employees of Raven Software while except for video games, the company developed also several board and card games. The studio is known mainly thanks to the popular game Prey released in 2006.

Humble Bundle is a program of collection PC games sold via website for any price which is set by the buyer.

The American company was founded by only four members but currently, it employs more than 200 people. The studio gained the biggest fame during the time of MS-DOS because it participated in development of 3D technologies in games like Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake.

IllFonic is an independent videogame studio located in Golden, Colorado. IllFonic is committed to delivering AAA games digitally to consoles and PC at an affordable price. IllFonic utilizes many avenues in pop culture to cross brand its products in film, television, sports.

A four-member Polish studio that is worth the game like Euro Truck Simulator and Super Hot.

The studio was founded in 2002 in Los Angeles. One of the developers who are responsible for the famous FPS game series Call of Duty.

Insomniac Games is a studio that has released many big and small titles. Their games are mostly exclusive to the Playstation platform(Resistance, Spyro, Ratchet and Clank), but there are exceptions such as Sunset Overdrive (XONE exclusive ) or FUSE (multiplatform title).

Interior Night is a studio which was founded by ex-Quantic Dream developers and which is led by Caroline Marchal. The developers took part in development of games like Heavy Rain or Beyond: Two Sould but now, they are serving us their own narrative games.

An independent studio which was a subsidiary of Eidos Interactive and Square Enix earlier was originally founded as ASX Nr. 14.811 but was renamed to Mermaid Invest after two years. Since 2000, it works under the current name and is best-known because of the Hitman series.

The studio from Lyon was founded by ex-members of Eden Games which worked on games like Need for Speed or Test Drive Unlimited. After the company succeeded with its game The Crew, it was acquired by Ubisoft in 2015.

Jam City is a Los Angeles-based mobile studio founded in 2010 in Los Angeles with global reach and the creative force behind 6 of the Top 100 highest grossing games across Google Play and Apple App Store.

German independent studio based in Berlin which earlier developed projects for many worldwide brands such as BMW and Gazprom.

Blow studied IT together with creative writing. The last semester before graduation he left the university and in that time his carrier of indie developer has started.

The studio was founded in 1997 under the name of Ohlmann Peter & Sprys Adam GbR in Mühlheim an der Ruhr, The studio was founded by Peter Ohlmann and Adam Sprys. Since 1998, the studio has been named Joymania Entertainment until 2002.

KING Art is an independent game developer based in Bremen, Germany. We have many years of experience in creating high-quality games for all major platforms. We currently have 40 employees across several teams at our offices in Bremen and work with roughly as many freelancers.

A studio founded by video-gaming icon Hideo Kojima who is famous because of the Metal Gear series. The studio was originally formed as a subsidiary of Konami where Kojima was working before however after some conflicts in 2015, Kojima Productions became an independent studio.

Originally, the company was focused quite untypically on jukebox rental and repair but it started to develop their own games pretty soon, already in times of NES and SNES consoles. The popularity of the studio is preserved until today’s days.

Independent developer with a passion to create games. Cowork as a designer for Dreamworks or Universal.

MachineGames was established in 2009 by former founding members of Starbreeze Studios and acquired by ZeniMax Media in 2010. Located in Uppsala, Sweden, MachineGames is a studio comprised of a seasoned group of developers recognized for their work creating story-driven games.

This studio was founded by Tomasz Dutkiewicz in 2016. The studio is composed of nine members who previously worked on AAA titles such as The Witcher 3, The Division. Their first project is the survival game called Agony.

Maple Media is a mobile media, advertising and technology company that acquires and operates mobile applications and mobile games.

The developer became famous already as an independent studio with the original name Maxis Software thanks to its SimCity game which was one of the most popular game ever because of a unique simulation genre. Since 1997, Maxis is a part of EA which releases its The Sims games.

A British independent studio consisting of a team about one hundred people. Mediatonic is known primarily for games such as Fable Fortune, Heavenstrike Rivals or Amateur Surgeon

US multinational company with headquarters in California and with wide range of activities from software development to game and mobile devices. It aquired its reputation in game industry especially thanks to release of their Xbox game consoles.

A studio based in Münich, Germany stands behind The Last Tinker: City of Colors and Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun.

Turkish independent studio working on games for mobile platforms placing emphasis on story.

Studio founded in 2009 under the title Mojang Specification, by Markus Persson. In September 2014, it was bought by Microsoft for $ 2.5 billion.

Monolith Productions is an American video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington. It was founded in October 1994 by Brian Goble, Garrett Price, Paul Renault, Toby Gladwell, Brian Waite, and Jace Hall. The company is known for their games FEAR and Middle Earth.

Little brave studio which was founded in Hamilton, Ontario in Canada. Studio has been 10 years along various of projects. The core team of the studio are very talented individuals who pushes their skill to a new level. New opportunities are welcome due to new ambitious projects.

One-man studio which has developed games like Shadows series and Slendieval.

The studio was founded in California by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin with original name Jam Software, however it was renamed to Naughty Dog, Inc. in 1989. Very imporant moment came also in 2001 when the company was bought by Sony Computer Entertainment.

The American company from California was founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. Originally, it was focused on renting and selling DVD movies but it became popular mainly due to its streaming service. Since 2012, Netflix is an active producer of entertainment products.

The American studio located in Chicago was established as a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment which it develops games for. The studio works on games from the well-known Mortal Kombat and Injustice series.

Niantic, Inc. is an American software development company based in San Francisco, which is best known for developing the augmented reality mobile games Ingress and Pokémon Go. The company was formed as Niantic Labs in 2010 by Keyhole.

Ninja Theory, Ltd. (formerly Just Add Monsters) is an independent video game developer based in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. The studio is well known for the last game which was published 08. 08. 2017, Hellblade. The game was nominated in The Gaming Award.

Currently one of the leading companies which was founded already in 19th century as a game card producer. After a less successful businesses (cab or hotel service), the company started developing games in 1970s which helped it to get the reputation it has nowadays.

NODACOY is a small, indie team of designers, writers, musicians and artists. A year or so ago we started a game jam that would eventually become HECKPOINT, a frantic hack ‘n’ slash, shoot ’em up. It started with a single image – an attempt to make a pixel art board game.

Obsidian Entertainment is privately held company focusing on developing video games which stands behind games like South Park, Pillars of Eternity or Fallout: New Vegas.

Oculus Rift is a company which is subordinate to a Facebook company and is active in the field of virtual reality.

Ondřej Švadlena is a game developer developing game Beware in the Unity3D engine.

OSome studio is a creative independent company working on survival puzzle horror title White Night right now.

The studio based in Stockholm was established in 2009 by the original founders of the defuncted studio Grin. Currently, it is a subsidiary of Starbreeze Studios which it was bought by in 2012. Overkill Software has become publicly known mainly because of the PAYDAY series.

Oxymoron Games is a new independent Prague-based studio founded by industry veterans who worked on games like Mafia II, Mafia III, Quantum Break, Top Spin 4 or Euro Truck Simulator. In 2016 they left the world of AAA to follow their dream.

The software oriented firm based in Oregon and a video game publisher specializes for iOS and MacOS platforms.

The studio cooperates with B2B customers. Using different types of videogame technologies.

Phoenix Labs is located in Vancouver. It is a small studio containing about 40 people who are mostly from Bioware and Blizzard and who really do love making games for other people.

Playdead is an independent game developer and publisher based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The company was founded in 2006 by game designer Arnt Jensen. Since then, we have made LIMBO and INSIDE. Today, we are a team of more than 25 creative professionals.

The British studio from Royal Leamington Spa was founded by several experienced developers coming from different world-known studios developing racing games (Criterion Games, Codemasters, etc.). The most popular franchise is their Xbox exclusive Forza Horizon series.

Playtonic Games is an independent gaming studio based on creative talents who are behind some of the most popular platform games of the past.

PlayWay is a Polish studio which focuses on high-quality PC and console games. The studio has over 103 released games on the list.

Captivated by the continuing advancements of virtual reality, Polyarc's founders found it impossible to ignore such energizing and momentous possibilities.

Originally just a small developing group called Polys Entertainment was part of Sony Interactive Entertainment. But after a great success of the Gran Turismo series, the studio got the current name, greater autonomy and became a subsidiary of Sony.

The studio is composed of only one member – Cliff Harris. Harris started to despise big corporate developers after jobs in Lionhead Studios and Elixir so he founded his own business. He releases only games which he codes for himself, eventually games from small indie developers.

An American video game development studio based in San Diego, California. The company was formed in 2000 by Dave Hagewood, after developing Internet and multimedia software under the name WebSite Machines, Rocket League is one of the most games developed by this studio.

The studio from Paris was founded by one of the icon of video game industry – David Cage. Except several first products, the studio is fully focused on interactive and narrative games (e. g. Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls).

Founded in 1982 by brothers Tim and Chris Stamper, by the name Ashby Computer Graphics (ACG). In 2002 company was bought by Microsoft for a record $ 337 million.

The studio located in Oxford was founded by two brothers and gradually expanded to a world-known developer and publisher which owns IPS such as Sniper Elite and Evil Genius. Since 2000, it also sells printed copies of comic books.

The independent studio Red Barrels was founded by three ex-Ubisoft and ex-EA developers who wanted to try to develop games on their own. So far, the developers have released only one bigger series called Outlast.

The Finnish studio located in Helsinki was founded by two brothers Atte and Antti Ilvessuo under the original Finnish name Punainen Ilves Laboratoriot. The studio is popular thanks to the racing series Trials which is also the reason why Ubisoft acquired the studio in 2011.

The Finnish studio has become popular thanks to the development of the Max Payne game. However, the studio sold all the rights to this game to Take-Two Interactive and it started to develop games for Microsoft Studios. As a result, Alan Wake and Quantum Break, have been released.

This video gaming studio was founded by Jason West and Vince Zampella from Infinity Ward where they had worked earlier. The studio worked on Titanfall or Apex: Legends.

The studio, located in Santa Monica, California, is known for its first and only League of Legends. League of Legends is one of the most played games these days.

Indie world-class studio founded in 2009 by veterans from Ensemble Studios. The studio focuses on many platforms and their games appeal to massive audiences.

The American studio owned by the Take-Two Interactive with headquarters in New York City was originally founded by the group of five people. Currently, it is one of the most well-known studios and it focuses on open-world games such as Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead or Midnight Club.

The studio originally founded in Santa Monica, California is a part of SIE Worldwide Studios. It is fully owned by Sony which means it exclusively developes games for PlayStation. It is known especially thanks to the God of War series or their Kinetica engine.

Software and Hardware company and ex-giant in the area of home computers, consoles and video games. Since 2001 focuses on developing software.

Shiro Games is an independent gaming studio based in Bordeaux, France. The studio was founded in 2012 by Sebastian Vidal and Nicolas Cannass. Among the most famous projects are Evoland and the current Northgard.

The californian studio founded by Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey was created after the pair had left Visceral Games known thanks to the Dead Space game. The company is currently a subsidiary of Activision which has developed several Call of Duty games from the famous series.

The British studio is based in London and in 2010, it was marked as the 17th most successful developer in the Develop 100 list. Since 2009, it owns Blimey! Games company and it is focused on racing games such as Need for Speed: Shift and Project CARS.

One of many Sony subgoups with name often abbreviated as SIE. Thanks to enormous success of PlayStation 1 console in 1994, this studio helped Sony to expand from Japan to the whole world and become one of the leading companies in electrotechnology area.

The American company from LA is focused mainly on movie production but it does not hesitate to work also on interesting narrative games is there’s an opportunity. It was founded under the original name The Woodshed while the popular actor Elijah Wood was one of the co-founders.

The studio located in Tokyo got its current form in April 2003 after a merger between Enix Corporation and Square Co., Ltd. In 2009, the company acquired also Eidos Interactive together with titles Tomb Raider, Deus Ex or Hitman.

Starbreeze is an independent creator, publisher and distributor of high-quality entertainment products with three business areas covering own Games development, games Publishing and Virtual Reality.

The small independent studio was founded by two brothers - Chad and Jared Moldenhauer. With the help of several next designers and programmers, they created their first product Cuphead which was exceptionally successful and boosted the studio’s respect to the top level.

The company was founded in 2010 by a group of enthusiastic students who combined their dreams and wanted to create something more. Over time, they have become one of the best game studios in Scandinavia.

The originally independent developer from Washington started to collaborate with Sony already in 2000. But after a great success of their most popular series called Infamous, Sony decided to acquire the studio in 2011 in order to expand its number of subsidiaries.

The British studio from Sheffield was founded by the former employees of Infogrames Studios Sheffield (originally Gremlin Interactive) which was closed in 2003. Although the studio was acquired by Foundation 9 Entertainment in 2007, it regained the independence in 2014.

British studio developing games under the influence of Sony which it cooperates with. As a result, nearly all of their games have been released exclusively only for PlayStation system. This studio is appreciated especially for their innovative way of storytelling in video games.

American video game distributor and publishing studio based in USA, New York. After Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts the third largest publisher in the world.

Videogame studio was founded in 2010 in Japan, Tokio. The studio was founded by Shinji Mikami. That year Tango Gameworks was acquired by ZeniMax Media. The most known game made by Tango Gameworks are The Evil Within 1 and 2.

The independent studio which stands behind the title Little Nightmares.

British company Team 17, with a current number of 75 staff members. It developed the world-famous Worms series

Team Bondi was an Australian independent third-party game developer. The company was responsible for the development of the Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 game L.A. Noire, which was published by Rockstar Games in May 2011.

The Japanese studio led by iconic Fumito Ueda was part of Sony until 2011 when Fumito left Sony and established a new independent company called genDESIGN. The studio developed several world-known hits such as Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian.

American independent studio which stands behind the hit Super Meat Boy. Two-membered team consist designer Edmund McMillen and programmer Tommy Refenes.

The Polish studio is located in Wroclaw and it became popular mainly thanks to the Call of Juarez series which was followed by other popular games such as Dead Island and Dying Light. Thanks to that, the company opened two new offices in Warsaw and Vancouver.

American independent video game developer and publisher founded in June 2004. Based in San Rafael, California, the studio includes designers formerly employed by LucasArts. Its business model revolves around episodic gaming.

The Adventure Company is a publishing label of Nordic Games. It is formally a division of DreamCatcher Interactive but was sold to Nordic Games in 2011. Publishes mainly adventures.

The company was founded by three developers from Poland in 2012. At this time, 8 developers work in the studio and their well known title is Vanishing of Ethan Carter.

A small Swedish studio located in Malmö is composed of developers who previously worked on games like Hitman or Payday. After the studio had created a couple of small indie games, it came with an interesting and ambitious new IP called Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.

The Canadian studio based in Vancouver was formerly known as Zipline Studios, Microsoft Game Studios Vancouver, or Black Tusk Studios. Currently, it’s a subsidiary of Microsoft where it develops Gear of War games after the series had been acquired from Epic Games.

The Polish studio located in Gliwice was founded by three persons while two of them were the former employees of People Can Fly where they worked on the Painkiller series. After completing several outsourcing contracts, the studio later started to develop its own games.

Under the original name Nordic Games, the Austrian studio was founded by a Swedish entrepreneur named Lars Eric Olof Wingefors. However, the company started to expand to the whole world and acquired several known studios such as THQ whose name it accepted.

The studio was set up in Karlsruhe, Germany, and is known for its release of the Two Worlds series that created Reality Pump Studios. In January 2001, TopWare filed for bankruptcy and all rights were acquired by the publisher Zuxxez.

The American developer from California was founded as an independent studio but it was acquired by Activision after 5 years in 2001. Currently, the studio develops new Call of Duty episodes but it also created several sports games or Spider-Man episodes.

The British studio is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment which it develops games for. The studio was founded through the merger of Traveller’s Tales and Giant Interactive Entertainment and is currently popular mainly thanks to the development of LEGO games.

Working on Two Point Hospital. Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

An international publisher with more than 20 studios all over the world was originaly founded by five borthers in a small village called Carentoir. Thanks to its current revenues in billions of euros, it has become one of the most successful publisher ever.

The studio located in Seattle was founded in 2009 by Jeff Strain, a former employee of Blizzard. In 2011, the company started a tight and long-term collaboration with Microsoft, which it develops its games for. The studio is fully focused on zombie games.

The studio was founded by former Microsoft employees as a small company but after a great success of the first product Half-Life, it expanded to the whole world. In 2004, Valve launched Steam which helped it to become one of the most profitable video game company.

Indie publishing studio which goal is to help indie developers at huge video game market of big giants.

The North American studio from New York was founded in 1990 by two brothers Karthik and Guha Bala already during high school studies. Thanks to the success of their games, the studio was acquired by Activision in 2005 and became its subsidiary.

Vivendi is a French multinational mass media conglomerate headquartered in Paris founded in 1853. The company has activities in music, television, film, video games, telecommunications, tickets and video hosting service.

Warhorse studios was founded in 2011 by Dan Vávra and Martin Klíma. It's a new independent game development studio based in Prague.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, is a premier worldwide publisher, developer, licensor and distributor of entertainment content for the interactive space across all platforms, including console, handheld, mobile and PC.

Ukrainian indie team of developers who have experiences with PC and mobile games as well.

Studio Wildcard was founded in 2014 with the mission of bringing AAA quality to ambitious indie productions designed for core gamers. With countless years of combined industry experience across multiple independent and studio-backed titles, Wildcard's core team has grown.

This small independent studio was established in 2019 by the former employees of Infinity Ward, the group of two programmers. The main focus of the studio is to develop interesting and untypical tactical RPG games.

A video game publishing studio based in Watford in the United Kingdom.

The Swedish studio from Gothenburg was founded in 2001 by Klaus Lyngeled after he had left Shiny Entertainment because he wanted to try game development and company leading on his own. After several mobile games, the studio started to develop indie games for PC and consoles.