List of studios
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Santa Monica Studio
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.
Country of origin: USA
Founded: 1999
SEGA
Software and Hardware company and ex-giant in the area of home computers, consoles and video games. Since 2001 focuses on developing software.
Country of origin: Japan
Founded: 3. 6. 1960
Shiro Games
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.
Country of origin: France
Founded: 2012
Sledgehammer Games
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.
Country of origin: USA
Founded: 28. 8. 2009
Slightly Mad Studios
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.
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Founded: 2009
Sony Interactive Entertainment
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.
Country of origin: Japan
Founded: 16. 11. 1993
SpectreVision
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.
Country of origin: USA
Founded: 2010
Square Enix
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.
Country of origin: Japan
Founded: 22. 9. 1975
Starbreeze Studios
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.
Country of origin: Sweden
Founded: 1998
StudioMDHR
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.
Country of origin: Canada
Founded: 25. 10. 2013
Stunlock studios
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.
Country of origin: Sweden
Founded: 2010
Sucker Punch
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.
Country of origin: USA
Founded: 1997
Sumo Digital
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.
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Founded: 2003
Supermassive Games
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.
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Founded: 1. 9. 2008