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List of video game publishers
List of video game publishers
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• 1C Company • 2K Games (Publishing label of Take-Two Interactive) • 3DO (console manufacturer) (defunct) • 505 Games
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• Acclaim Entertainment (defunct) - Now known as Acclaim Games • Accolade (Acquired by Atari née Infogrames, name retired) • Activision (Merged with Vivendi Games to form Activision Blizzard in July 2008, Part of Activision Blizzard as well) • Activision Blizzard • Aventurine S.A. • Agetec • Akella • Alten8 • Aspyr Media • Atari (Acquired by Infogrames) • Atlus
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• Bandai Games (merged with Namco as Namco Bandai Games) • Bethesda Softworks • Big Fish Games • Boonty • Brøderbund (Acquired by Ubisoft, eventually sold to The Learning Company, no longer publishes video games) • Disney Interactive Studios • Blizzard Entertainment (Part of Activision Blizzard as of July 2008) • Brash Entertainment (defunct) • Buka Entertainment (Acquired by 1C Company) • Bungie
This is a list of video and computer game publishers, past and present. Some of the publishers may also have large in-house development efforts (or studios), but also publish titles from other developers. The list below includes both current and defunct companies.
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• • • • • • • • • • Capcom Cdv Software Entertainment City Interactive S.A. Codemasters Coleco (console manufacturer) (defunct) Compedia Conspiracy Entertainment Core Design Crave Entertainment Crystal Dynamics (Acquired by Eidos Interactive)
H
• Hasbro Interactive (Acquired by Atari née Infogrames) • Her Interactive • Hudson Soft (Acquired by Konami)
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• Ignition Entertainment • Imagic (defunct) • Infocom (Acquired by Activision, name retired) • Infogrames (Renamed Atari) • Interceptor Micros (defunct) • Interplay Entertainment • inXile Entertainment
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• Data East (defunct) • Deep Silver • Dreamcatcher Games (Acquired by JoWooD Productions)
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• Jaleco (no longer publishes video games) • JoWooD Productions
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• Eidos Interactive (Acquired by SCi Entertainment then by Square Enix) • Electronic Arts • Empire Interactive (defunct) • Enix (Merged with Squaresoft as Square Enix) • Epyx (defunct) • Epic Games
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• Kemco • Koei (merged into Tecmo Koei Holdings) • Konami
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• • • • Legacy Interactive Lighthouse Interactive (defunct) Linux Game Publishing LJN (Publishing label for Acclaim Entertainment, defunct) • LucasArts • Lionhead Studios
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• First Star Software • Fox Interactive • Fresh Games (Publishing label for Eidos Interactive) • Funcom
G
• Gamecock (Acquired by SouthPeak Interactive) • Global Star Software (Publishing label of Take-Two Interactive, name retired) • GOD Games (Acquired by Take-Two Interactive, name retired) • Got Game Entertainment • Gremlin Interactive (Acquired by Atari née Infogrames, name retired) • GT Interactive (Acquired by Atari née Infogrames)
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• Mad Genius Software (defunct) • Matrix Games • Mattel Interactive (console manufacturer) (Merged with The Learning Company) • Melbourne House (computer games and books) • Mercury Games [1] • Merscom • Microïds • MicroIllusions (defunct) • MicroProse (Acquired by Hasbro Interactive, name retired) • Microsoft Game Studios • Midway Games
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• Mindscape, Inc. (No longer publishes video games) • MUSE Software (defunct) • Myelin Media
List of video game publishers
• Shrapnel Games • Sierra Entertainment (Folded into Activision Blizzard) (defunct) • SNK Playmore • Spell Bound • Sony Computer Entertainment • Sony Pictures Digital (mobile phone games) • SouthPeak Interactive • Spectrum Holobyte (Acquired by Hasbro Interactive) • Squaresoft (Merged with Enix to create Square Enix) • Square Electronic Arts (Owned by Square and Electronic Arts. Folded back into Square and changed to Square Enix) • Square Enix • Stardock • Strategic Simulations, Inc. ("SSI") (Acquired by Ubisoft, name retired) • Strategy First • Sunsoft (Closed U.S. Offices, operates out of Japan)
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• Namco (Merged with Bandai Games as Namco Bandai Games) • Namco Bandai • NCSoft • Neoact • New World Computing (purchased by 3DO) • Nintendo
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• Ocean Software (Acquired by Atari née Infogrames, name retired) • Origin Systems (Acquired by Electronic Arts) • O~3 Entertainment
P
• • • • • • • • Paradox Interactive Penguin Software (defunct) Phantom EFX Playlogic Entertainment, Inc. Play Ten Interactive PopCap Games Programma International (defunct) Psygnosis (defunct)
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• Taito (Acquired by Square Enix) • Take-Two Interactive • TalonSoft (Acquired by Take-Two Interactive, name retired) • Taxan (No longer publishes video games) • Technos Japan Corporation (defunct) (Assets acquired by Atlus) • Tecmo (merged into Tecmo Koei Holdings) • Tengen (defunct) • The Learning Company (Merged with Mattel Interactive, no longer publishes video games) • THQ • Titus Software (defunct) • Tradewest (Acquired by Midway Games, name retired) • Topware Interactive • TT Games (Merger of Giant Interactive and Traveller’s Tales) (Acquired by Warner Bros. Interactive)
R
• Rare (Acquired by Microsoft Game Studios) • redspotgames (independent publisher for Dreamcast, GP2X, Nintendo DS and Xbox Live Arcade) • Rising Star Games • Rocket Science Games (defunct) • Rockstar Games (Currently a publishing label for Take-Two Interactive)
S
• Sammy Studios (merged with Sega as Sega Sammy Holdings) • SCi Entertainment (Changed name to Eidos plc, acquired by Square Enix) • Sega (merged with Sammy Studios as Sega Sammy Holdings) • Sega Sammy Holdings
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• Ubisoft • Ultimate Play The Game (defunct) • Ultra Games (Publishing label for Konami, name retired) • US Gold (Acquired by Eidos Interactive)
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• Virgin Interactive Entertainment (defunct) • Vivendi Games (Merged with Activision to form Activision Blizzard in July 2008) • Valusoft
X
• Xseed Games • XS Games
Z
• Zuxxez Entertainment • Zoo Digital Publishing
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• Warner Bros. Interactive
See also
• List of indie game developers
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