List of video game publishers

This is a list of video game publisher companies. A video game publisher may specialize in only publishing games for developers, or may either have in-house development studios or own subsidiary development companies. Some developers may publish their games themselves.

This list includes both active and inactive companies. Active publishers are either run independently or as a subsidiary of another company. Inactive publishers may either be defunct outright or still exist but no longer involved in video game publishing.

List

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Active independently

Active as subsidiary of larger game publisher

Defunct / no longer active in video game publishing

Publisher	Headquarters	Est.	Notable games published	Notes
07th Expansion	Japan	2002	Higurashi When They Cry Umineko When They Cry Ciconia When They Cry
11 bit studios	Warsaw , Poland	2010	Frostpunk This War of Mine Moonlighter	Also a video game developer, marketer, and distributor
1C Company	Moscow, Russia	1991	Il-2 series Men of War series	Specializes in localization for Russia.
2K Games	Novato, California, United States	2005		Also a video game marketer and distributor. Subsidiary and publishing label of Take-Two Interactive.
3D Realms	Garland, Texas, United States	1987	Duke Nukem series	Also a video game developer. Also known as Apogee Software, Ltd.
The 3DO Company	Redwood City, California, United States	1991	Army Men	Also a video game and video game console developer.
505 Games	Milan, Italy	2006		Publishing division of Digital Bros. group.
5pb.	Tokyo, Japan	2005	Memories Off	Label of KID until 2006, and of Cyberfront since then.
7th Level	Dallas, Texas, United States	1993	Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time	Defunct in 1998.
A&F Software	Rochdale, UK	1981	Chuckie Egg	Merged with MC Lothlorien in 1986 to become Icon Design Ltd.
Aackosoft	Zoeterwoude, Netherlands	1983	Various MSX games	Defunct in 1988.
Aardvark Software	UK	1983	Frak!	Defunct in 1989.
ABC Software	Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerland	1991		Acquired by Electronic Arts in 1998.
Absolute Entertainment	Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, United States	1986	A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia	Defunct in 1995.
Access Software	Salt Lake City, Utah, United States	1982	Tex Murphy	Acquired by Microsoft in 1999; defunct in 2006.
Acclaim Entertainment	Glen Cove, New York, United States	1987	Turok Burnout WWF WrestleMania	Brand name acquired by Acclaim Games, and intellectual property acquired by Throwback Entertainment.
Accolade	California, United States	1984	Hardball! series Star Control series Test Drive series	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Atari, SA née Infogrames in 1999, name retired.
Acornsoft	Cambridge, England, UK	1980	Various Acorn Electron games	Rights sold to Superior Software in 1986.
Acquire	Tokyo, Japan	1994	Akiba's Trip	Acquired by GungHo Online Entertainment in 2011
Active Gaming Media AGM	Osaka, Japan	2006		PLAYISM part of Active Gaming Media Inc., focuses on the localization and distribution of video games.
Activision	Santa Monica, California, United States	1979	Call of Duty Guitar Hero Spyro	Also a video game developer. Acquired Neversoft in 1999 and Infinity Ward in 2003; acquired several other developers as well. Merged with Vivendi to form Activision Blizzard in 2008.
Activision Blizzard	Santa Monica, California, United States	2008		Formed by merger between Activision and Vivendi Games in 2008.
Addictive Games	Milton Keynes, England, UK	1982	Football Manager	Acquired by Prism Leisure Corporation in 1987, which continued to use the Addictive Games label until 1992.
The Adventure Company	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	2002	Still Life	Label of DreamCatcher Interactive until 2006, of JoWooD Productions Software from then until 2011, and of Nordic Games since then.
Adventure International	Longwood, Florida, United States	1978	Adventureland	Defunct in 1985.
Adventure Soft	Birmingham, England, UK	1983	Simon the Sorcerer	Still sells old games but no longer publishes new games under the name.
Affect	Japan	1990		Defunct in 2008.
Agatsuma Entertainment	Tokyo, Japan	1997	Drawn to Life	Defunct in 2016.
Âge	Tokyo, Japan	1999	Akane Maniax	Division of Acid Co., Ltd.
AGEod	Grenoble, France	2005	Birth of America	Acquired by Paradox Interactive in 2009 and renamed to Paradox France. They became independent in 2012 and their games are now published by The Slitherine Group.
Agetec	Sunnyvale, California, United States	1998		Focuses on distributing Japanese titles in the US.
Akabeisoft2	Japan	2005	Sharin no Kuni: The Girl Among the Sunflowers
Akella	Moscow, Russia	1995	Age of Sail II Age of Pirates series Sea Dogs	Also a video game developer. Defunct in 2012.
Akupara Games	Los Angeles, California, United States	2016	Whispering Willows The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor	Also a video game developer, and does work for hire console and mobile porting.
Aksys	Torrance, California, United States	2006	Guilty Gear series
ALcot	Japan	2003	Clover Heart's
Alawar	Novosibirsk, Russia	1999	Beholder_(video_game) Do Not Feed the Monkeys Farm Frenzy	Also a video game developer, marketer, and distributor.
AliceSoft	Japan	1989	Tournament of the Gods
AlphaDream	Tokyo, Japan	2000	Koto Battle: Tengai no Moribito	No longer publishes video games.
ADK	Ageo, Saitama, Japan	1980	Exciting Soccer	Known as Alpha Denshi Corporation in 1993. Defunct in 2003.
Alchemist	Tokyo, Japan	1991	Baldr Force	Defunct in 2016.
Alligata	Sheffield, UK	1983	Blagger	Acquired by Superior Software in 1987.
Allumer	Tokyo, Japan	1983	Blandia	Defunct in 1999.
Alten8	Luton, England, UK	2005	Space Tanks	Also a video game developer.
Alternative Software	Castleford, UK	1985	Count Duckula
American Game Cartridges	Chandler, Arizona, United States	1990	Chillder	Defunct in 1994.
American Laser Games	Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States	1989	Mad Dog McCree	Acquired by its former division, Her Interactive, in 1999.
American Video Entertainment	San Jose, California, United States	1990	Wally Bear and the NO! Gang	Published last game in 1994.
Amplitude Studios	Paris, France	2011	Endless Space	Acquired by Sega in 2016 and their games are now published by Sega.
Amsoft	Brentwood, Essex, UK	1984	Various Amstrad CPC games	Publishing arm of Amstrad until 1989.
ANALOG Software	Worcester, Massachusetts, United States	1981	Various Atari 8-bit games	Software publishing arm of ANALOG Computing. Defunct in 1989.
Antic Software	Marion, Ohio, United States	1982	Caverns of Mars II	Software publishing arm of Antic. Defunct in 1990.
Anuman	France	2000		Also a video game developer.
APF Electronics Inc.	New York City, United States	1970	APF TV Fun	Defunct in 1983.
Apogee Software	United States	2008		Also a video game developer.
Apple Inc.	Cupertino, California, United States	1976	Lemonade Stand	Known as Apple Computer until 2007.
Aquaplus	Osaka, Japan	1994	Utawarerumono
AQ Interactive	Tokyo, Japan	2005	Bullet Witch	Defunct in 2011.
Arcadia Systems	Costa Mesa, California, United States	1987	Silver Surfer	Division of Mastertronic. Defunct in 1991.
Arcen Games	Durham, North Carolina, United States	2009	AI War series A Valley Without Wind series The Last Federation
Arc System Works	Tokyo, Japan	1988	BlazBlue series Guilty Gear series	Also a video game developer.
Argus Press	UK	1966	Nether Earth	Published games through its Argus Press Software division, which was acquired in 1987 and renamed Grandslam Entertainment.
Arika	Tokyo, Japan	1995	Technicbeat	Also a video game developer.
Ariolasoft	Germany	1983		Software publishing arm of Ariola Records. Reestablished as United Software in 1990.
Armor Games	United States	2005		Published flash titles before branching out into mobile, PC, and console markets.
Arsys Software	Tokyo, Japan	1985	Star Cruiser	Defunct in 2001.
Artdink	Tokyo, Japan	1986	A-Train
Artic Computing	Brandesburton, UK	1980	Bear Bovver	Defunct in 1986.
Arush Entertainment	Scottsdale, Arizona, United States	1999	Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project	Acquired by HIP Interactive in 2004; defunct in 2005.
Arxel Tribe	Slovenia	1989	The Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin	Last game published in 2003.
Ascaron	Gütersloh, Germany	1992	The Patrician	Known as Ascom until 1996. Defunct in 2009. Most assets acquired by Kalypso Media.
ASC Games	Darien, Connecticut, United States	1992	Sanitarium	Defunct in 2000.
Asmik Corporation of America	Japan	1985		Merged with Ace Entertainment.
Aspyr Media	Austin, Texas, United States	1996		Specializes in porting Windows games to Mac OS.
Astragon	Mönchengladbach, Germany	2000	Family Park Tycoon
Atari, Inc	Sunnyvale, California, United States	1972	Pong Breakout Asteroids Centipede	Bought by Warner Bros. in 1976. Closed in 1984, assets split between Atari Corporation and Atari Games.
Atari, SA	Paris, France	2003	Enter the Matrix Transformers Unreal Tournament 2004 Star Trek Online	Formerly GT Interactive Software, became full subsidiary of Atari, SA in 2008.
Athena	Japan	1987	Sword Master	No longer publishes video games.
Atlantis Software	London, England, UK	1984	Cops 'n' Robbers	Defunct in 1992.
AQ Interactive	Tokyo, Japan	2000		Also a video game developer.
Artech Digital Entertainment	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	1982	Mystery at the Museums	Defunct in 2011.
ASCII Corporation	Tokyo, Japan	1977		Acquired by Kadokawa Group Holdings in 2004.
Atlus	Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan	1986	Persona series Devil Survivor series	Also a video game developer. Purchased by Sega in 2013.
Attic Entertainment Software	Albstadt, Germany	1990	The Oath	Defunct in 2001.
Audiogenic Limited	Reading, Berkshire, UK	1975	Various Commodore PET games	Defunct in 1985; reformed as Audiogenic Software Ltd.
August	Japan	2001	Princess Holiday
Auran Development	Helensvale, Queensland, Australia	1995	SpellForce: The Order of Dawn	Now known as N3V Games.
Automata UK	Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK	1977	Deus Ex Machina	Defunct in 1985.
Autumn Games	New York City, United States	2007	Skullgirls	Focused on providing publishing services for independent developers for digital platforms.
Avalon Hill	Renton, Washington, United States	1954	Achtung Spitfire!	Acquired by Hasbro in 1998.
Aventuras AD	Spain	1987	Various text adventure games	Defunct in 1992.
Aventurine SA	Athens, Greece	2002	Darkfall	Also a video game developer.
BAM! Entertainment	San Jose, California, United States	1999	Bujingai	Dormant since 2004.
Bandai Games	Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan	1950		Video game operations merged with Namco as Namco Bandai Games. No longer publishes video games.
Bandai Namco Entertainment	Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan	1955	Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
Banpresto	Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan	1977		Acquired by Namco Bandai Holdings. No longer publishes video games.
BBC Multimedia	London, England, UK	1995	Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors	Defunct in 2005.
Beagle Bros	San Diego, California, United States	1980	Beagle Bag	Defunct in 1991.
Bergsala Lightweight	Tokyo, Japan	1995	Apron of Magic
Berkeley Systems	Berkeley, California, United States	1987	You Don't Know Jack	Acquired by Sierra in 1997. Defunct in 2000.
Bethesda Softworks	Rockville, Maryland, United States	1986	Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas Elder Scrolls Wolfenstein: The New Order The Evil Within Doom (2016)	Also a video game developer.
Beyond Software	United Kingdom	1983	Lords of Midnight	Acquired by Telecomsoft in 1985.
Big Fish Games	Seattle, Washington, United States	2002	Virtual Villagers	Acquired by Aristocrat Technologies in 2018
Big Five Software	Van Nuys, California, United States	1980	Miner 2049er	Defunct in 1984.
Black Bean Games	Gazzada Schianno, Italy	2004	SBK-07: Superbike World Championship	Merged with Milestone S.r.l. in 2012.
Blue Byte	Düsseldorf, Germany	1988	The Settlers	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Ubisoft and their games are now published by Ubisoft.
Broderbund	United States	1980	Myst Prince of Persia	Acquired by Ubisoft, eventually sold to The Learning Company. No longer publishes video games.
Black Legend	Welwyn, UK	1993	Football Glory	Defunct in 1996.
Blizzard Entertainment	Irvine, California, United States	1991	Diablo series StarCraft series Warcraft series Hearthstone Heroes of the Storm Overwatch	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Davidson & Associates in 1994, renamed from Silicon & Synapse. Acquired by CUC International in 1996, which merged into Cendant in 1997 and was sold to Havas in 1998. Acquired by Vivendi and become part of Vivendi Games group in 1998. Merged into Activision Blizzard in 2008.
Blue Ribbon	Doncaster, UK	1985	3D Dotty	Label of CDS Micro Systems. Defunct in 1991.
Bohemia Interactive	Prague, Czech Republic	1999	ARMA series
Box Office, Inc.	St. Paul, Minnesota, United States	1987	ALF: The First Adventure	Published last game in 1989.
Brash Entertainment	Hollywood, California, United States	2007	Jumper: Griffin's Story	Defunct in 2008.
Broccoli	Tokyo, Japan	1994	First Kiss Story II
Bug-Byte	Liverpool, UK	1980	Manic Miner
Bubble Bus Software	Tonbridge, Kent, UK	1982	Starquake	Defunct in 1989.
BudgeCo	California, United States	1981	Raster Blaster	Defunct in 1983.
Bullet-Proof Software	Japan	1980	The Black Onyx	Defunct.
Bungie	Bellevue, Washington	1991	Destiny Marathon Trilogy Abuse	Also a video game developer. Formerly a subsidiary of Microsoft. Formerly had a publishing deal with Activision.
C&E	Taipei, Taiwan	1990	Super Fighter	No longer publishes video games.
California Dreams	California, United States	1987	Blockout	Publishing label of Logical Design Works. Defunct in 1991.
California Pacific Computer Company	Davis, California, United States	1979	Akalabeth: World of Doom	Defunct in 1983.
Camerica	Chicago, Illinois	1988
Canal+ Multimedia	France	1984	Paris 1313	Publishing arm of the Canal+ Group. No longer publishes video games.
Candy Soft	Japan	1996	Tsuyokiss
Capcom	Osaka, Japan	1979	Mega Man Street Fighter Resident Evil Devil May Cry	Also a video game developer.
Capstone Software	Miami, Florida, United States	1984	William Shatner's TekWar	Subsidiary of IntraCorp. Defunct in 1996.
Caramel Box	Japan	2002	Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru	Division of HOBIBOX. Formerly known as HimeyaSoft.
Carry Lab	Japan	1981	Various PC-88, FM-7, and MSX games	Defunct.
Casady & Greene	United States	1984	Sky Shadow	Defunct in 2003.
Cases Computer Simulations	London, England, UK	1982	Arnhem	Published last game in 1994.
Cave	Tokyo, Japan	1994	DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou
CBS Electronics	United States	1982	K-Razy Shoot-Out	Closed in 1984.
CD Projekt Red	Warsaw, Poland	1994	The Witcher series
CDS Software	Doncaster, UK	1982	European Superleague	Reformed as iDigicon Ltd in 2002.
CDV Software Entertainment AG	Bruchsal, Germany	1989		Defunct in 2010.
Centuri	Hialeah, Florida, United States	1969	Vanguard	Known as Allied Leisure until 1980. Defunct in 1985.
ChessBase	Hamburg, Germany	1986	Various chess programs
Cinemax	Prague, Czech Republic	1998	Memento Mori
CI Games	Warsaw, Poland	2002	Sniper Ghost Warrior	Also a video game developer. Also known as City Interactive.
Cinematronics	El Cajon, California, United States	1975	Dragon's Lair	Acquired by Tradewest in 1987 and renamed to Leland Corporation.
Cinemaware	Burlingame, California, United States	1985	Defender of the Crown	Defunct in 1991. Reestablished as Cinemaware Inc. in 2000.
Circus	Hasuda, Saitama, Japan	2000	Suika
Club Kidsoft	Los Gatos, California, United States	1992	Various edutainment games	Defunct.
The Coca-Cola Company	Atlanta, Georgia	1886	Pepsi Invaders	No longer publishes video games.
Codemasters	Warwickshire, UK	1985	Overlord	Also a video game developer.
Coktel Vision	Paris, France	1985	Emmanuelle	Acquired by Sierra in 1993.
Coleco	United States	1932		Also a video game console (ColecoVision and Telstar) and video game developer. Revived in 2005, after being defunct since 1988.
Color Dreams	United States	1988		Also a video game developer.
CommaVid	Aurora, Illinois, United States	1981	Video Life	Defunct in 1983.
Commercial Data Systems	Emerald Park, Saskatchewan, Canada	1982	Frantic Freddie	Exited the video game industry in 1990.
Commodore	West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States	1954	Radar Rat Race	Defunct in 1994.
Compile	Japan	1982		Defunct in 2003.
Compile Heart	Tokyo, Japan	2006	Record of Agarest War	Subsidiary of Idea Factory.
CompuServe	Columbus, Ohio, United States	1969	Island of Kesmai	Defunct in 2009.
Computer and Video Games	Bath, Somerset, England, UK	1981	The Thompson Twins Adventure	Label of Future Publishing. Also known C&VG, CVG, or C+VG. Defunct in 2004.
Conspiracy Entertainment	Santa Monica, California, United States	1997		Also a video game developer.
Core Design	Derby, England, UK	1988	Corporation	Acquired by Eidos Interactive in 1996; defunct in 2010.
Cosmi Corporation	Carson, California, United States	1982	Forbidden Forest, The President is Missing
Crave Entertainment	Newport Beach, California, United States	1997
Creative Computing	United States	1974	Various Atari 8-bit games	Defunct in 1985.
Creatures	Tokyo, Japan	1995	Chee-Chai Alien	No longer publishes video games.
Crimson Cow	Hamburg, Germany	2002	A Vampyre Story
CRL Group	London, England, UK	1982	Tau Ceti	Published last game in 1989.
Cronosoft	UK	2002	Various homebrew ZX Spectrum games
Culture Brain Excel	Tokyo, Japan	1980
Cryo Interactive	Paris, France	1989	Seven Games of the Soul	Defunct in 2002; assets acquired by Dreamcatcher Interactive.
Crystal Computing	Manchester, UK	1982	Halls of the Things	Reestablished as Design Design in 1984.
Crystal Dynamics	Redwood City, California, United States	1992	Gex	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Eidos Interactive (later Square Enix Europe) and their games are now published by Square Enix.
Crytek	Frankfurt, Germany	1999	Robinson: The Journey	Also a video game developer.
Cyberdreams	Calabasas, California, United States	1990	Dark Seed	Defunct in 1997.
Cybersoft	North Miami Beach, Florida	1994	Air Cavalry	Label of GameTek. Last game published in 1995.
D3 Publisher	Tokyo, Japan	1996
Daedalic Entertainment	Hamburg, Germany	2007	Edna & Harvey: The Breakout
DarXabre	The Netherlands	2001	Hooligans: Storm Over Europe	Defunct.
Datamost	Chatsworth, California, United States	1981	Aztec	Defunct in 1985.
Datam Polystar	Tokyo, Japan	1990	Cacoma Knight	No longer publishes video games.
Datasoft	Chatsworth, California, United States	1980	Bruce Lee	Reformed as IntelliCreations in 1987.
Data Age	California, United States	1982	Journey Escape	Defunct in 1983.
Data Becker	Düsseldorf, Germany	1980	America	Defunct in 2014.
Data East	Tokyo, Japan	1976
Davidson & Associates	Torrance, California, United States	1983	Math Blaster!	Acquired by CUC International in 1996. Defunct in 1999.
Davilex Games	Houten, The Netherlands	1997	A2 Racer	Ceased publishing video games in 2005.
Davka	Chicago, Illinois, United States	1982	Various Apple II games	No longer publishes video games.
Daybreak Game Company	California, United States	1995	DC Universe Online	Also a video game developer. Formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment.
dB-SOFT	Sapporo, Japan	1980	Flappy	Defunct in 2001.
Deep Silver	Munich, Germany	2002	Metro series Saints Row series S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series	Label of Koch Media. Purchased video game developer Volition and the Metro franchise from THQ in 2013. Acquired by THQ Nordic in 2018.
Delphine Software International	Paris, France	1988	Future Wars	Defunct in 2004.
Delta 4	UK	1984	Bored of the Rings	Defunct in 1992.
Destination Software	Moorestown, New Jersey, United States	2001	Snood	Used the label DSI Games. Acquired by GreenScreen Interactive Software in 2008.
Destineer	Minnesota, United States	2000		Also a video game developer. Publishes under the Bold Games, MacSoft, and Atomic Games labels.
Devolver Digital	Austin, Texas, United States	2008
Digicodes	Tallinn, Estonia & Delhi,India	2018		One of Europe's Largest; Asia's Largest and India's Largest Digital Gaming & Gift Cards Platform. Began operations in 2018. Based in Tallinn, Estonia and New Delhi, India.
Digital Integration	Camberley, Surrey, UK	1982	ATF	Acquired by Titus Interactive in 1998; defunct in 2005.
Digital Jesters	Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK	2003	Chaos League	Defunct in 2006.
Digital Leisure	Aurora, Ontario, Canada	1997	Various DVD games
Digital Pictures	San Mateo, California, United States	1991	Corpse Killer	Defunct in 1996.
Dinamic Multimedia	Madrid, Spain	1993	PC Fútbol	Defunct in 2001.
Dinamic Software	Spain	1983	After the War	Also a video game developer. Defunct in 1992.
Disney Interactive Studios	Glendale, California, United States	1988		Defunct in 2016.
DK'Tronics	Saffron Walden, UK	1981	3D Tanx	Defunct in 1993.
Domark	London, England, UK	1984	3D Construction Kit	Merged with Big Red Software, Simis, and Eidos Technologies to form Eidos Interactive in 1996.
Double Fine	San Francisco, California, US	2000		Acquired by Microsoft Game Studios
Dovetail Games	Chatham, Kent, England, UK	2008	Train Simulator
Dragon Data	Wales, UK	1980	Various Dragon 32/64 games	Division of Mettoy. Defunct in 1984.
DreamCatcher Games	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	1996		Acquired by JoWooD Productions. Folded into Nordic Games in 2011.
DreamWorks Interactive	Los Angeles, California, United States	1995	The Neverhood	Joint venture between DreamWorks and Microsoft. Acquired by Electronic Arts in 2000.
DROsoft	Madrid, Spain	1986	Various ZX Spectrum games	Acquired by Electronic Arts in 1994.
Dtp entertainment	Hamburg, Germany	1995
Dynamic Planning	Tokyo, Japan	1974	Shien's Revenge	Also known as Dynamic Kikaku. No longer publishes video games.
Dynamix	Eugene, Oregon, United States	1984	David Wolf: Secret Agent	Acquired by Sierra in 1990; defunct in 2001.
EasyGameStation	Japan	2001	Chantelise - A Tale of Two Sisters
Ecole Software	Nishinomiya, Japan	1989	Death Crimson OX	No longer publishes video games.
Edu-Ware	Agoura Hills, California, United States	1979	The Prisoner	Defunct in 1985.
eGames	Langhorne, Pennsylvania, United States	1992	Darwinia	Published games under the Cinemaware Marquee label. Acquired by Tamino Minerals in 2012.
Electric Dreams Software	Southampton, England, UK	1985	Firetrack	Defunct in 1989.
Electronic Arts	Redwood City, California, United States	1982	Battlefield Medal of Honor The Sims	Also a video game developer.
Electronic Arts Victor	Japan	1993	Mutant League Football	Joint venture of Electronic Arts and Victor Interactive. Defunct in 2003.
Electro Brain	Salt Lake City, Utah, United States	1990	Ghoul School	Defunct in 1998.
The Elektrik Keyboard	Chicago, Illinois, United States	1978	Depth Charge	Stopped publishing video games in 1979.
ELF Corporation	Tokyo, Japan	1989	Dōkyūsei	Defunct in 2015.
Elite Systems	Lichfield, UK	1984	Beyond the Ice Palace
Empire Interactive	London, England, UK	1987	Big Mutha Truckers	Defunct in 2009.
English Software	Manchester, UK	1982	Jet-Boot Jack	Defunct in 1987.
Enix	Tokyo, Japan	1975	Dragon Warrior	Merged with Square as Square Enix.
Enlight Software	United States	1993	Restaurant Empire
Enterbrain	Tokyo, Japan	1987	Tear Ring Saga	Division of Kadokawa Corporation; its game business was merged into Kadokawa Games in 2009.
Durell Software	Taunton, UK	1983	Saboteur	Exited the video game industry in 1987.
Edge Games	Pasadena, California, United States	1990
Eighting	Tokyo, Japan	1993	Battle Garegga	Acquired by COLOPL in 2016. No longer self-publishes video games.
Electric Transit	Thousand Oaks, California, United States	1985	Wilderness: A Survival Adventure	Defunct in 1987.
Emerald Software	Waterford, Ireland	1988	Various licensed games for the Commodore 64 and Amiga	Defunct in 1991.
Encore, Inc.	Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States	1994	Torchlight	Acquired by Speed Commerce in 2002, WYNIT Distribution LLC in 2014. Encore acquired Viva Media.
Entertainment Software Publishing	Japan	1997	Bangai-O	Also known as ESP. Acquired by D3 Publisher, which continued to use it as a label until 2010.
En Masse Entertainment	Seattle, Washington, United States	2010	TERA
Eolith	Seoul, South Korea	1996	Various arcade games	Defunct in 2005.
Eon Digital Entertainment	London, England, UK	2000	Airfix Dogfighter	Defunct in 2002.
Epic Games	Potomac, Maryland, United States	1991	Epic Pinball ZZT Jill of the Jungle Fortnite	Also a video game developer. Known as Potomac Computer Systems until 1992, and Epic MegaGames until 1999.
Epoch Co.	Tokyo, Japan	1958	Barcode Battler	No longer publishes video games.
Epyx	Chappaqua, New York, United States	1978	Dunjonquest series Crush, Crumble and Chomp! Various Olympics-themed games	Also a video game developer.
ERE Informatique	France	1981	Macadam Bumper	Acquired by Infogrames in 1987.
ESA (formerly Softmax)	South Korea	1994	Magna Carta: The Phantom of Avalanche	left from game business
Europress	Bath, England, UK	1965	Titanic: Adventure Out of Time	Acquired by Hasbro Interactive in 1999.
Eushully	Sapporo, Japan	1998	Various eroge	Team within Arkham Products until 2005; label of Eukleia since then.
Examu	Tokyo, Japan	1999	Arcana Heart	Known as Yuki Enterprise until 2007.
Exidy	Sunnyvale, California, United States	1974	Mouse Trap, Venture	Defunct in 1989.
F&C	Japan	1987	Saori	Known as Ides until 1997; published games under the FairyTale and Cocktail Soft labels until then.
FASA	United States	1980		Ended video game development and publishing 2012
Fabtek	Redmond, Washington, United States	1987	Cabal	Defunct in 1999.
Fandom		2004
Fairchild Semiconductor	Sunnyvale, California, United States	1957	Various Fairchild Channel F games	Initially a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument. Acquired by Schlumberger in 1979, then by National Semiconductor in 1987; regained independence in 1997; acquired by ON Semiconductor in 2016.
Family Soft	Tokyo, Japan	1987	Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force
Fantasy Software	Cheltenham, UK	1983	Various ZX Spectrum games	Defunct in 1985.
Faster Than Light	UK	1986	Hydrofool	Label of Gargoyle Games. Defunct in 1989.
Fathammer	Finland	2002		Acquired by Telcogames in 2006.
Firebird Software	London, England, UK	1983	Elite	Defunct in 1989 upon MicroProse's acquisition of Telecomsoft.
First Star Software	Chappaqua, New York, United States	1982	Boulder Dash	Acquired by BBG Entertainment in 2018 and their games are now published by BBG Entertainment.
Feral Interactive	London, England, UK	1999		Publishes Macintosh and Linux games
Fill-in-Cafe	Japan	1987		Known as Team Cross Wonder until 1989. Defunct in 1998.
Fisher Price	East Aurora, New York, United States	1930	Various Atari 8-bit and Colecovision games	Acquired by Mattel in 1993. No longer publishes video games.
Fishtank Interactive	Ravensburg, Germany	2000	AquaNox	Publishing Label of Ravensburger Interactive. Acquired alongside parent by JoWooD Productions in 2002.
Flair Software	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK	1990	Elvira: The Arcade Game	Last game published in 1999.
Flight-Plan	Gifu, Japan	1989	Sacred Blaze	Defunct in 2010.
Flying Edge	Glen Cove, New York, United States	1992	The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants	Label of Acclaim Entertainment. Defunct in 1994.
Focus Home Interactive	Paris, France	1996	Pro Cycling Manager
Focus Multimedia	Rugeley, UK	1995	Various budget CD-ROM games
FormGen	Scottsdale, Arizona, United States	1987	Space Dude	Acquired by GT Interactive in 1996.
The Fourth Dimension	UK	1989	Apocalypse	Also known as The 4th Dimension or 4D. Defunct in 2004.
Fox Interactive	Los Angeles, California, United States	1982	Croc Die Hard Trilogy	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Activision Blizzard.
Freeverse Software	New York City, United States	1994	Project Nomads	Acquired by Ngmoco in 2010.
French Bread	Tokyo, Japan	1998	Glove on Fight	Formerly known as Watanabe Seisakusho.
Froggo	Sunnyvale, California	1987	Various Atari 2600 and 7800 games	Defunct in 1989.
FromSoftware	Tokyo, Japan	1986	Dark Souls	Subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation
Front Wing	Japan	2000	Tea Society of a Witch
FTL Games	San Diego, California, United States	1982	Dungeon Master	Defunct in 1996.
Fujisankei Communications International	New York, New York, United States	1986		No longer publishes video games
Fujitsu	Tokyo, Japan	1935	Various FM Towns games	No longer publishes video games.
Full On Games	Tokyo, Japan	1996	Various Dreamcast games	Also known as FOG.
Funcom	Oslo, Norway	1993	Age of Conan	Also a video game developer; acquired by Tencent in 2020
Future Games	Beroun, Czech Republic	1996	The Black Mirror	Defunct in 2011.
Fuuki	Kyoto, Japan	1977	Asura Blade: Sword of Dynasty	No longer publishes video games.
G-Collections	Las Vegas, Nevada	2001	Kana Little Sister	Acquired by JAST USA in 2005; defunct in 2015.
G.rev	Japan	2000	Border Down
Gaelco	Barcelona, Spain	1981	Big Karnak	Dissolved in 2007
Gaijinworks	Redding, California, United States	2006	Miami Law
Gainax	Tokyo, Japan	1984	Princess Maker	No longer publishes video games.
Gakken	Tokyo, Japan	1947	Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum	No longer publishes video games.
Gamecock	Austin, Texas, United States	2007		Acquired by SouthPeak Games.
Gameloft	Paris, France	2000	Asphalt Urban GT
Games by Apollo	Richardson, Texas, United States	1981	Lost Luggage	Defunct in 1983.
Games Workshop	Nottingham, UK	1975	Chaos	Ceased publishing video games in 1985.
GameTek	North Miami Beach, Florida, United States	1987	Wheel of Fortune	Publishing label of IJE. Defunct in 1998.
Game Arts	Tokyo, Japan	1985	Thexder	Acquired by GungHo Online Entertainment in 2005 and their games are now published by GungHo Online Entertainment.
The Game Factory	Aarhus, Denmark	2004	Various licensed Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS games	Defunct.
Game Park	South Korea	1996	Various GP32 games	Defunct in 2007.
Game Studio	Tokyo, Japan	1985		Defunct in 2015.
Gargoyle Games	Dudley, England, UK	1983	Tir Na Nog	Defunct in 1987.
Gathering of Developers	Austin, Texas, United States	1998	Jazz Jackrabbit 2	Acquired by Take Two Interactive in 2000; renamed to Gathering. Defunct in 2004.
Gearbox Software	Frisco, Texas, United States	1999	Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
General Entertainment	Tokyo, Japan	1994		Defunct in 2011.
Genki	Tokyo, Japan	1990	Tokyo Xtreme Racer
Ghostlight	Braintree, Essex, UK	2004
Global Star Software	Ontario, Canada	1992		Publishing label of Take-Two Interactive, name retired.
Gathering of Developers	Texas, United States	1988	Tropico Stronghold	Acquired by Take-Two Interactive, name retired.
Gebelli Software	United States	1982	Various Apple II games	Defunct in 1984.
Giga	Japan	1993	Variable Geo
Gizmondo	Sweden	2000	Sticky Balls	Known as Tiger Telematics until 2004. Defunct in 2006.
Global A Entertainment	Tokyo, Japan	1997	My World, My Way	Renamed to GAE, Inc. in 2009.
Global VR	San Jose, California, United States	1998	EA Sports NASCAR Racing
GN Software	Japan	2003	Ren'ai CHU!	Label of Good Navigate.
GOG Ltd	Warsaw, Poland	2008		Also a digital distribution service.
Gogii Games	Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada	2006		Also a video game developer.
Gotham Games	New York City, United States	2002	Conflict: Desert Storm	Label of Take-Two Interactive. Defunct in 2003.
Gottlieb	Chicago, Illinois, United States	1927	Q*bert	Defunct in 1996.
Got Game Entertainment	Weston, Connecticut, United States	2002	ARMA 2
Grandslam Entertainment	Croydon, Surrey, UK	1987	Reunion	Defunct in 1995.
Graphsim Entertainment	Addison, Texas	1992	Hellcats Over the Pacific	Also known as Graphic Simulations.
Gravity	Seoul, Republic of Korea	2013	Ragnarok Online Ragnarok Online 2: Legend of the Second	Also a video game developer. Subsidy of GungHo Online Entertainment.
Great Wave Software	Scotts Valley, California, United States	1984	Various edutainment games	Defunct.
Gremlin Industries	San Diego, California, United States	1973	Blockade	Acquired by Bally in 1984.
Gremlin Interactive	Sheffield, England, UK	1984		Acquired by Atari, SA née Infogrames, name retired.
Grolier Interactive Inc	New York City, United States	1982	Golden Gate Killer	Known as Grolier Electronic Publishing Inc until 1996. Acquired by Scholasttic in 1999.
Groove Games	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	2001	Pariah	Defunct in 2009.
GSC World Publishing	Kiev, Ukraine	2004
GTE Interactive Media	Carlsbad, California, United States	1990	Titanic: Adventure Out of Time	Software publishing arm of GTE. Defunct in 1997.
GT Interactive	New York City, United States	1993	Blood	Acquired by Atari, SA née Infogrames.
GungHo Online Entertainment	Tokyo, Japan	1998	Ragnarok DS
Gust Co. Ltd.	Nagano, Japan	1993		Acquired by Koei Tecmo in 2011 and their games are now published by Koei Tecmo.
Hacker International	Japan	1990	Menace Beach	Defunct in 2001.
Haikuo Soft	Japan	2001	Yotsunoha
HAL Laboratory	Tokyo, Japan	1980	Eggerland	No longer publishes video games.
Hamster Corporation	Tokyo, Japan	1999	Shienryu
HanbitSoft	South Korea	1999	StarCraft (KR)	Acquired by T3 Entertainment.
Hasbro Interactive	California, United States	1995	Monopoly RISK RollerCoaster Tycoon	Assets acquired by Atari, SA née Infogrames in 2000, no staff retained
Hect	Japan	1988	Firestriker	Defunct in 2002.
HeR Interactive	Bellevue, Washington, United States	1995	Nancy Drew	Also a video game developer.
Heureka-Klett	Germany	1996	Opera Fatal	Defunct.
Hi Tech Expressions	United States	1988
Hewson Consultants	UK	1981	Pinball Dreams	Defunct in 1991.
Hirameki	Diamond Bar, California, United States	2000	Ever17	Ceased publishing video games in 2008.
Hodder & Stoughton	London, England, UK	1868	The Rats	No longer publishes video games.
Home Entertainment Suppliers	Sydney, Australia	1984	Raid 2020	Also known as HES.
Hooksoft	Tokyo, Japan	2000	Orange Pocket
HopeLab	Redwood City, California, United States	2001	Re-Mission
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1832	Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Treasures of Knowledge	Publishes games through its software division, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology, which was known as Riverdeep PLC until its acquisition of Houghton Mifflin in 2006, and then as Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group until 2007.
Hudson Soft	Minato, Tokyo, Japan	1973	Bomberman Bonk Adventure Island	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Konami.
Human Engineered Software	Brisbane, California, United States	1980	Project Space Station	Acquired by Avant Garde Publishing Corp. in 1984.
Human Entertainment	Tokyo, Japan	1983	Fire Pro Wrestling	Defunct in 2000.
Humble Bundle	San Francisco, California, US	2010	A Hat in Time	Acquired by IGN Entertainment
HummingBirdSoft	Japan	1982	Laplace no Ma	Defunct.
Humongous Entertainment	City of Industry, California, United States	1992	Putt-Putt	Defunct in 2004. Since reestablished, but no longer self-publishes.
IBM	Armonk, New York, United States	1911	Alley Cat
Iceberg Interactive	Haarlem, The Netherlands	2009	Killing Floor APB: Reloaded Endless Space StarDrive
ICOM Simulations	Wheeling, Illinois, United States	1981	Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective	Acquired by Viacom New Media in 1993, reformed as Rabid Entertainment in 1997, and closed in 1998.
Idea Factory	Tokyo, Japan	1994	Black Stone: Magic & Steel
id Software	Richardson, Texas, United States	1991	Heretic	Acquired by ZeniMax Media in 2009.
Ignition Entertainment	Essex, England, UK	2002		Acquired by The Walt Disney Company
Illusion Soft	Yokohama, Japan	2001	RapeLay
Imageepoch	Tokyo, Japan	2005	Black Rock Shooter: The Game	Defunct in 2015.
Image Works	UK	1988	Bloodwych	Label of Mirrorsoft. Last game published in 1991.
Imagic	California, United States	1981	Various Atari 2600 games Various early consoles games	Also a video game developer.
Imagine Software	Liverpool, England, UK	1982	Arcadia, Alchemist	Defunct in 1984; rights bought by Ocean Software, which continued to use the Imagine name as a label on some games.
Impressions Games	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	1989	Global Domination	Acquired by Sierra in 1995; defunct in 2004.
Incentive Software	Reading, Berkshire, UK	1983	Driller	Reformed as Superscape in 1992.
Incredible Technologies	Vernon Hills, United States	1985	Golden Tee Golf
index+	France	1992	Various adventure games	Merged with France Telecom Multimedia in 2000 to become Wanadoo Edition.
indiePub Entertainment	Cincinnati, Ohio, United States	2008
Infocom	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	1979	Zork series	Acquired by Activision, name retired.
Infogrames	Lyon, France, France	1983		(Renamed Atari, SA)
Innerprise Software	Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States	1989	Battle Squadron	Defunct in 1992.
Inscape	Los Angeles, United States	1994	Bad Day on the Midway Drowned God	Acquired by Graphix Zone in early 1997, which ceased operations in November 1997.
Intellivision Productions	United States	1997	Intellivision Lives!
Interactive Magic	Cary, North Carolina, United States	1994	Capitalism	Changed name to iEntertainment Network in 1999.
Interceptor Micros	Tadley, UK	1982	The Heroes Of Karn	Also a video game developer. Defunct in 1992.
Interchannel	Tokyo, Japan	1931	Marvel: Ultimate Alliance	Subsidiary of NEC until 2004. No longer publishes video games.
International Games System	New Taipei City, Taiwan	1989	Knights of Valour
Interplay Entertainment	Beverly Hills, California, United States	1983	Fallout Descent	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Titus Interactive, closed and reopened as an independent publisher.
Introversion Software	Walton-on-Thames, UK	2001	Uplink
INTV Corporation	United States	1984	Various Intellivision games	Defunct in 1990.
inXile Entertainment	Newport Beach, California, United States	2002		Also a video game developer; acquired by Microsoft in 2018.
iQue	Suzhou, China	2002	Various iQue games	Joint venture between Wei Yen and Nintendo.
Irem	Tokyo, Japan	1997		Also a video game developer. Dissolved video game subsidiary in 2011.
ITE Media	Copenhagen, Denmark	1998	Hugo	Software publishing arm of Interactive Television Entertainment. Acquired by NDS Group in 2006; defunct in 2010.
J.K. Greye Software	Bath, England, UK	1981	3D Monster Maze	Reformed as J.K. Greye Enterprises Ltd in 1983.
Jaleco	Japan	1974		Also a video game developer.
JAST USA	San Diego, California, United States	1996	Season of the Sakura
Jester Interactive	Wales, UK	1997	Suzuki TT Superbikes
Johnson & Johnson	New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States	1886	Tooth Protectors	No longer publishes video games.
JoWooD Productions	Liezen, Austria	1995		Folded into Nordic Games in 2011.
JumpStart Games (formerly Knowledge Adventure)	Los Angeles, California, United States	1989	Undersea Adventure	Acquired by NetDragon Websoft.
K2 Network (Gamersfirst)	Irvine, California, United States	2001	War Rock Sword 2 APB: Reloaded Knight Online Fallen Earth	Merged with Reloaded Games. Reloaded Games no longer publishes games, and their publishing title is now published by GamersFirst.
Kalisto Entertainment	Bordeaux, France	1990	S.C.OUT	Label of Atreid Concept until 1996, when it became the name of the company as a whole. Defunct in 2002.
Kalypso Media	Worms, Germany	2006	Imperium Romanum
Kaneko	Tokyo, Japan	1980
Kaypro	San Diego, California, United States	1981	Ladder	Defunct in 1992; reestablished in 1999; defunct again in 2001.
Kemco	Japan	1984	Top Gear	Also a video game developer.
King Games	Miami, Florida	2006	Sneak King	Label of Burger King used for a 2006 advergame promotion.
KID	Tokyo, Japan	1988	Infinity Cure	Defunct in 2006.
Kingsoft	Aachen, Germany	1983		Acquired by Electronic Arts in 1983; defunct in 2000.
King Records	Tokyo, Japan	1931	Jesus: Kyōfu no Bio Monster	No longer publishes video games.
Koch Media	Germany	1994	Dead Island	Bought by THQ Nordic February 2018
Kodansha	Tokyo, Japan	1938	Blue Almanac	No longer publishes video games.
Koei	Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan	1976	Dynasty Warriors	Also a video game developer. Merged into Tecmo Koei.
Koei Tecmo	Japan	2009		Changed name from Tecmo Koei in 2014.
Kogado Studio	Tokyo, Japan	1916	Cosmic Soldier
Konami	Tokyo, Japan	1969	Castlevania Metal Gear Contra Silent Hill
Krisalis Software	Rotherham, England, UK	1987	Soccer Kid	Defunct in 2001.
KSS	Japan	1990	Majyūō	Exited the video game industry in 2001.
Kure Software Koubou	Japan	1985		Also known as KSK.
La'cryma	Japan	2006	True Tears
Lankhor	Paris, France	1987	Mortville Manor	Defunct in 2001.
Le Lombard	Belgium	1946	Thorgal: Curse of Atlantis	No longer publishes video games.
Legacy Interactive	Hollywood, California, United States	1998		Also a video game developer.
Legendo Entertainment	Gothenburg, Sweden	1998	Pure Pinball	Known as Iridon Interactive until 2005.
Legend Entertainment	Chantilly, Virginia, United States	1989	Spellcasting	Acquired by GT Interactive in 1998; defunct in 2004.
Lego Interactive	London, England, UK	1996	Lego Loco	Publishing arm of Lego Group. Known as Lego Media until 2000, and Lego Software from then until 2002. Defunct in 2005.
Leland Corporation	El Cajon, California, United States	1987	Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp	Renamed to Leland Interactive Media in 1993. Acquired by WMS Industries in 1994.
Level-5	Fukuoka, Japan	1998	Yo-kai Watch
Level 9 Computing	UK	1981	Jewels of Darkness	Defunct in 1991.
Linux Game Publishing	Nottingham, England, UK	2001		inactive
Lighthouse Interactive	Haarlem, The Netherlands	2005	LocoMania	Acquired by SilverBirch Inc. in 2008; defunct in 2009.
LJN	New York City, United States	1970		Acquired by Acclaim Entertainment.
LK Avalon	Świlcza, Poland	1989	Hans Kloss
Llamasoft	Wales, UK	1981	Attack of the Mutant Camels
Lock 'n Load Publishing	Pueblo, Colorado, US	2006
Logotron Ltd	Cambridge, England, UK	1987	XOR	Published last game in 1990.
Loki Software	Tustin, California, United States	1998
Loriciel	France	1983	Jim Power in Mutant Planet	Defunct in 1995.
LucasArts	San Francisco, California, United States	1982	Monkey Island Maniac Mansion Indiana Jones Star Wars	Acquired by The Walt Disney Company (originally Lucasfilm Games LLC) and they changed from publisher to licensor.
Lump of Sugar	Japan	2005	Nursery Rhyme
MacPlay	Dallas, Texas, United States	1993	Various Macintosh games	Label of Interplay until 1997. Revived in 2000 as a label of United Developers.
MacSoft	Plymouth, Minnesota, United States	1993	Various Macintosh games	Acquired by Destineer in 2003.
Mad Catz	San Diego, California, United States	1989	MC Groovz Dance Craze	Defunct in 2017.
Magical Company	Kobe, Japan	1985	Kōshien	No longer publishes video games.
Magnavox	Napa, California, United States	1911	Magnavox Odyssey	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Philips in 1974. Exited the video game industry in 1984.
Mr Chip Software	Chester, UK	1982	Various Commodore 64 games	Ceased publishing video games in 1984; changed name to Magnetic Fields in 1988.
magnussoft	Kesselsdorf, Germany	1984
Mandarin Software	Adlington, UK	1988	Lancelot	Publishing label of Europress Software. Last game published in 1990.
MangaGamer	Japan	2009	Various visual novels
Martech	Pevensey Bay, UK	1982	Rex	Ceased publishing video games in 1989.
Majesco Entertainment	Edison, New Jersey, United States	1986	Cooking Mama	Exited the video game industry in 2016.
Marvelous	Tokyo, Japan	2011		Also a video game developer.
Marvelous Entertainment	Tokyo, Japan	1997	Harvest Moon DS	Merged with AQ Interactive in 2011 to become Marvelous AQL (later Marvelous).
Masaya	Japan	1985	Target Earth	Label of NCS until 2014, and of Extreme since then.
Mastertronic	UK	1983	One Man and His Droid, Master of Magic	Merged with Virgin Interactive in 1988, and subsequently absorbed into Sega in 1991.
Mastiff	San Francisco, California	2002		Also a video game developer.
Matrix Games	Staten Island, New York, United States	2000	Distant Worlds	Merged into Slitherine Software in 2010 and their games are published by Slitherine.
Mattel	El Segundo, California, United States	1945	Astrosmash	Exited the video game business in 1984.
Maximum Games	Walnut Creek, California, United States	2009	Deer Drive Legends JASF: Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters Worms Collection	Formerly Maximum Family Games
Maxis	Emeryville, California, United States	1987	SimCity series The Sims series Spore	Acquired by Electronic Arts and is now its development division. Their games are now published by Electronic Arts or EA Mobile.
Max Design	Schladming, Austria	1991	1869	Defunct in 2004.
MC2 France	Paris, France	2003	Sniper Elite	Currently publishes under the Microids label.
MC Lothlorien	UK	1982	Micro Mouse Goes Debugging	Defunct in 1990.
MECC	Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, United States	1973	The Oregon Trail	Defunct in 1999.
MediaWorks	Tokyo, Japan	1992	Emerald Dragon	Merged with ASCII Corporation in 2008 to become ASCII MediaWorks. In 2009, its game business was merged into Kadokawa Games.
Media Factory	Tokyo, Japan	1986	Derby Stallion 64	Label of Recruit until 2011, and of Kadokawa Corporation since then. No longer publishes video games.
Media Rings	Tokyo, Japan	1989	Zero4 Champ	Defunct in 2007.
Mega Enterprise	Seoul, South Korea	1998	Call of Duty	Defunct in 2007.
Melbourne House	Melbourne, Australia	1977	Way of the Exploding Fist	Acquired by Krome Studios in 2006; closed in 2010.
Meldac	Japan	1990	Zombie Nation	No longer publishes video games.
Metro3D, Inc.	San Jose, California, United States	1998	Dual Blades	Defunct in 2004.
Metropolis Software	Warsaw, Poland	1992	Teenagent	Acquired by CD Projekt in 2008; defunct in 2009.
MGM Interactive	United States	1995	Machine Hunter	Software publishing arm of Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer. Defunct in 2005.
Microdeal	St Austell, Cornwall, England, UK	1981	Goldrunner	Rights sold to HiSoft Systems in 1989.
Microids	France	1984	Blacksad: Under the Skin	Also a video game developer. Subsidiary of Média-Participations.
MicroIllusions	Granada Hills, California, United States	1987	The Faery Tale Adventure	Last game published in 1989.
Micronet co., Ltd.	Sapporo, Japan	1982	Curse	No longer publishes video games.
MicroProse	Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States	1982	X-Com	Acquired by Hasbro Interactive, name retired.
Microsoft	Redmond, Washington, United States	1975	Halo Age of Empires Gears of War Black & White	Publishes games under the Microsoft Game Studios banner since 2002.
Microsphere	London, England, UK	1982	Skool Daze	Defunct in 1987.
Microcabin	Japan	1982	Xak: The Art of Visual Stage	Acquired by AQ Interactive in 2008, and by Fields Corporation in 2011.
Micrografx	Richardson, Texas, United States	1982		Acquired by Corel in 2001.
MicroGraphic Image	United States	1983	Spelunker	Defunct in 1984.
Micro Genius	Taipei, Taiwan	1989		Defunct in 1994.
Micro Power	Leeds, England, UK	1980	Castle Quest	Defunct in 1987.
Midas Interactive Entertainment	Braintree, Essex, England, UK	1999	Sanvein	Still sells old games but no longer publishes new games under the name.
Midway Games	Chicago, Illinois, United States	1988	Mortal Kombat	Also a video game developer. Assets acquired by Warner Bros. Interactive and THQ.
Midway Manufacturing	Chicago, Illinois, United States	1958	Spy Hunter	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Bally in 1969; Bally/Midway was in turn acquired by Williams Electronics in 1987. Reformed as Midway Games in 1988.
Mikro-Gen	Bracknell, UK	1981	Pyjamarama	Acquired by Creative Sparks Distribution in 1987.
MileStone Inc.	Tokyo, Japan	2003	Chaos Field	Closed in 2013.
Millennium Interactive	Cambridge, England, UK	1988	Cloud Kingdoms	Acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment in 1997.
Milton Bradley Company	East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, United States	1860	Time Lord	Acquired by Hasbro in 1984. Defunct in 2009.
Minato Soft	Japan	2006	Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de	Also publishes under the Whale label.
Mindcraft	Torrance, California, United States	1989	The Magic Candle	Last game published in 1993.
Mindscape	Novato, California, United States	1980		No longer publishes video games.
Minori	Japan	2001	Bittersweet Fools	Software division of CoMixWave until 2007.
Mirrorsoft	London, England, UK	1982	Tetris (Home computers)	Acquired by Acclaim Entertainment in 1992.
Mitchell Corporation	Tokyo, Japan	1960	Pang	Defunct in 2012.
Mode 7 Games	East Sussex, England	2005	Frozen Synapse series Tokyo 42
Mojang	Stockholm, Sweden	2009	Minecraft	Acquired by Microsoft in 2014.
Monolith Productions	Kirkland, Washington, United States	1994	Get Medieval	Acquired by Warner Bros. in 2004.
Monte Cristo	Paris, France	1995	Cities XL	Defunct in 2010.
Moonstone	Japan	2003	Gift	Also publishes under the Moonstone Cherry label.
Mosaic Publishing	London, England, UK	1983	Erik the Viking	Defunct in 1988.
MOSS	Tokyo, Japan	1993	Caladrius
Motown Games	United States	1994	Rap Jam: Volume One	Software publishing arm of Motown. Defunct in 1996.
Mountain King Studios	Chicago, Illinois, United States	1992	DemonStar	No longer publishes video games.
MTO	Yokohama, Japan	1996	GT Pro Series
MTV Games	New York City, United States	2006	Rock Band
Mud Duck Productions	Rockville, Maryland, United States	2002	Malice	Label of ZeniMax Media. Defunct in 2007.
Muse Software	Monrovia, Maryland, United States	1978		Also a video game developer.
MumboJumbo	Dallas, Texas, United States	2001	7 Wonders of the Ancient World
Mystique	United States	1982	Custer's Revenge	Offshoot of Caballero Control Corporation and American Multiple Industries. Defunct in 1983.
Nacon (formerly Bigben Interactive SA)	Lesquin, France	1981
Namco	Tokyo, Japan	1955	Tekken Pac-Man Ace Combat Time Crisis	No longer publishes video games. Video game division merged with Bandai's video game operations as Namco Bandai Games.
Natsume Co Ltd	Tokyo, Japan	1987	Abadox	Renamed to Natsume-Atari in 2013 following merger with subsidiary Atari.
Natsume Inc	Burlingame, California	1988	Harvest Moon	Division of Natsume Co Ltd until 1995.
Navel	Japan	2003	Shuffle!	Label of Omega Vision, Inc.
Naxat Soft	Tokyo, Japan	1988	Recca	Defunct in 2015.
NBCUniversal	Midtown Manhattan, New York City	2004		The game publishing division will be closed in 2019.
NCsoft	Seoul, South Korea	1997	Lineage Guild Wars
NEC Corporation	Tokyo, Japan	1899	Keith Courage in Alpha Zones	Exited the video game industry in 1998.
Neko Entertainment	Montreuil, France	1999	Super Army War	Defunct in 2017.
Netdragon	Fuzhou, China	1997		Also a video game developer.
Netease	Guangzhou, China	1997	Fantasy Westward Journey	Also a video game developer and online services company.
New Generation Software	UK	1982	Trashman	Defunct in 1986.
NewKidCo	Manhattan, New York, United States	1998	E.T.: Interplanetary Mission	Defunct in 2005.
New World Computing	Agoura Hills, California, United States	1984	Might and Magic Heroes of Might and Magic	Also a video game developer. Purchased by 3DO.
Nexon	Seoul, South Korea	1994	Maplestory	Also a video game developer.
Nihon Falcom	Japan	1981	Dragon Slayer
Nintendo	Kyoto, Japan	1889	Mario Legend of Zelda Metroid Pokémon Pikmin Kirby Animal Crossing	Also a video game developer.
Nippon Ichi Software	Japan	1994	Disgaea series	Also a video game developer.
Nihon Bussan	Japan	1970	Crazy Climber Terra Cresta	A.K.A. Nichibutsu
Nitroplus	Tokyo, Japan	2000	Phantom of Inferno
Novagen Software	Birmingham, England, UK	1983	Mercenary	Defunct in 1992.
Nokia	Espoo, Finland	1865
Nordcurrent	Vilnius, Lithuania	2002	Minon: Everyday Hero
NovaLogic	Calabasas, California, United States	1985	Comanche	Acquired by THQ Nordic in 2016.
NTDEC	Taipei, Taiwan	1983	Various unlicensed Famicom games	Defunct in 1993.
Nutting Associates	Mountain View, California, United States	1965	Computer Space	Defunct in 1976.
O3 Entertainment	Santa Clara, California, United States	2001
Ocean Software	Manchester, UK	1984	Various licensed Commodore 64 and Amiga games	Acquired by Infogrames
Ocean State Publishing	Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States	1990		Label of Rhode Island Soft Systems. Acquired by Freeze.com in 2003.
Oculus Studios	Irvine, California, United States	2014	Asgard's Wrath	Game publishing arm of Oculus VR.
Odin Computer Graphics	Liverpool, England, UK	1985	Nodes of Yesod	Defunct in 1988, re-established in 2005.
Opera Soft	Spain	1986	The Last Mission	Defunct in 1992.
Orbital Media	Calgary, Alberta, Canada	2003	Racing Gears Advance	No longer publishes video games.
Origin Systems	Austin, Texas, United States	1983	Ultima Wing Commander	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Electronic Arts.
Orion Interactive	United States	1996		Defunct following acquisition by Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer in 1997.
Out of the Park Developments	Hollern-Twielenfleth, Germany	1999	Out of the Park Baseball
0verflow	Tokyo, Japan	1997	School Days
Oxygen Games	Northamptonshire, England, UK	2004		Also a video game developer.
OziSoft	Sydney, Australia	1982	A Journey to the Centre of the Earth	Acquired by Infogrames in 1998, and Namco Bandai Games in 2009.
Pacific Novelty	United States	1980	The Amazing Adventures of Mr. F. Lea	Last game published in 1983.
Pack-In-Video	Japan	1970	Harvest Moon (Japanese release)	Acquired by Victor Entertainment in 1996; became Victor Interactive Software.
Palace Software	London, England, UK	1983	Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior, Cauldron	Acquired by Titus Software in 1991.
Palette	Tokyo, Japan	2002	Moshimo Ashita ga Hare Naraba
Panasonic	Osaka, Japan	1918	D	No longer publishes video games.
Panda Entertainment	Taiwan	1993	Sango Fighter	Last game published in 1997.
Panesian Taiwan	Taiwan	1990	AV-Pachi Slot, Bubble Bath Babes, Peek-A-Boo Poker	Publisher of eroge for the Family Computer and NES
Panther Games	Canberra, Australia	1985	Fire-Brigade: The Battle for Kiev - 1943	No longer publishes video games. Their games are now published by Lock 'n Load Publishing.
Panther Software	Japan	1987		Last game published in 2004.
Paradox Interactive	Stockholm, Sweden	1998		Also a video game developer.
Paragon Software	Greensburg, Pennsylvania, United States	1985	The Amazing Spider-Man	Defunct in 1992.
Parker Brothers	Beverly, Massachusetts, United States	1883	Montezuma's Revenge	Acquired by Hasbro in 1991, which continued to use it as a label on some video games until 1994.
Parsoft Interactive	United States	1991	A-10 Attack!	Defunct in 2002.
Penguin Software	Geneva, Illinois, United States	1978
Pentavision	South Korea	2003	DJMax Portable	Division of Neowiz Games. Merged with GameOn Studios in 2012.
Perfect World	Beijing, China	2004	Perfect World Jade Dynasty	Also a video game developer. Subsidiaries include Runic Games and Cryptic Studios.
Personal Software Services	Coventry, UK	1981	The Battle For Midway	Acquired by Mirrorsoft in 1987.
Petit Ferret	Japan	2002	Popotan	Defunct.
Petroglyph Games	Las Vegas, Nevada, US	2003	Guardians of Graxia Mytheon Panzer General: Russian Assault	Also a video game developer.
PF Magic	San Francisco, California, United States	1991	Petz	Acquired by Ubisoft in 1998.
Phantagram	South Korea	1994	Phantom Crash
Philips	Amsterdam, Netherlands	1891	Various CD-i games	No longer publishes video games.
Pionesoft	Japan	2003	After...	Defunct in 2008.
Piranha Games	London, England, UK	1986	The Trap Door	Software publishing arm of Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Defunct in 1988.
Piranha Interactive Publishing	Tempe, Arizona, United States	1995	Morpheus	Defunct in 1999.
PlayFirst	San Francisco, California, United States	2004	Diner Dash	Acquired by Glu mobile in 2014
Playlogic Entertainment, Inc.	The Netherlands, Amsterdam	2002
Playmates Toys	Costa Mesa, California, United States	1966	Earthworm Jim (SNES)
The Pokémon Company	Tokyo, Japan	1998	Pokémon Diamond and Pearl	Joint venture between Game Freak, Nintendo, and Creatures
Pony Canyon	Tokyo, Japan	1966	Dr. Chaos	No longer publishes video games.
PopCap Games	Seattle, Washington, United States	2000	Bejeweled Plants vs. Zombies Peggle Zuma	Also a video game developer. Now owned by EA Games.
Positech Games	UK	1997
Presto Studios	Encinitas, California, United States	1991	The Journeyman Project	Defunct in 2002.
PrincessSoft	Japan	2001		Publishing label of Oaks Co., Ltd.
Prism Leisure Corporation	Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK	1984	Various ZX Spectrum games	Also published under the Addictive Games, Endurance Games, and Paxman Promotions labels. Defunct.
Private Division	New York City, New York, US	2017	Kerbal Space Program	Label of Take-Two Interactive
Probe Software	Croydon, England, UK	1984	Mantronix	Acquired by Acclaim Entertainment in 1999; defunct in 2004.
Programma International	Los Angeles, California, United States	1978	3-D Docking Mission	Defunct in 1983.
Prototype	Tokyo, Japan	2006	Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet
Psygnosis	Liverpool, England, UK	1984	Discworld Lemmings	Also a video game developer.
Psikyo	Kyoto, Japan	1992	Sengoku Blade	Defunct in 2003; continued to be used a label until 2005.
Psytronik Software	UK	1993	Knight 'n' Grail
Pulltop	Japan	2002
Purple Moon	Mountain View, California, United States	1997	Various girls' video games	Acquired by Mattel in 1999.
Purple software	Japan	1985	Haruiro Ouse	Label of JAST. Known as Purple until 1998.
Quality Software	Chatsworth, California, United States	1978	The Return of Heracles	Defunct in 1984.
Quantum Axcess	Columbus, Ohio, United States	1994	Malice	Last game published c. 2003.
Quantum Quality Productions	Flemington, New Jersey, United States	1991	The Perfect General	Acquired by American Laser Games in 1994; defunct in 1995.
Quest Corporation	Tokyo, Japan	1988	Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen	Defunct in 2002 following acquisition by Square.
Quicksilva	UK	1983	Ant Attack, Bugaboo (The Flea)	Acquired by Argus Press Software in 1984, which used the Quicksilva name as a label until 1989.
QuinRose	Japan	2005	Arabians Lost: The Engagement on Desert
Quintet	Tokyo, Japan	1987		Defunct in 2002.
Qute	Sagamihara, Japan	1999	Dicing Knight Period
Q Entertainment	Tokyo, Japan	2003	Lumines II
R2Games	Hong Kong, China	2010
Rabbit Software	London, England, UK	1982	Potty Painter	Acquired by Virgin Games in 1985.
Radica Games	United States	1983	Play TV	Acquired by Mattel in 2006.
Rage Software	Liverpool, England, UK	1992	Striker	Defunct in 2003.
Rainbird Software	London, England, UK	1986	Starglider	Label of Telecomsoft until 1989, and of MicroProse from then until its discontinuation in 1991.
Rainbow Arts	Gütersloh, Germany	1984	Turrican, The Great Giana Sisters	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Funsoft and subsequently absorbed into THQ in 1999.
Rare	Twycross, England, UK	1985	Jet Force Gemini	Acquired by Microsoft in 2002.
Ravensburger Interactive	Ravensburg, Germany	1883		Video game subsidiary of Ravensburger AG. Acquired by JoWooD Productions in 2002.
Raw Fury	Stockholm, Sweden	2015	Kingdom, Gonner
Raw Thrills	Skokie, Illinois, United States	2001	Target: Terror
Red Ant Enterprises	Australia	2001		Local distributor for other publishers' games. Defunct in 2011.
Red Entertainment	Tokyo, Japan	1976	Gungrave	Known as Red Company until 2000.
RedOctane	Mountain View, California, United States	1999	Guitar Hero	Acquired by Activision in 2006; defunct in 2010.
Red Orb Entertainment	Novato, California, United States	1997	Riven	Label of Broderbund, and of Mindscape from 1998 onward. Defunct in 2001 following acquisition by Ubisoft.
Red Shift	London, England	1983	Rebelstar Raiders	Defunct in 1985.
Red Storm Entertainment	Cary, North Carolina, United States	1996	Rainbow Six	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Ubisoft and their games are now published by Ubisoft.
Regista	Japan	2004	I/O
reLINE Software	Hanover, Germany	1987	Amegas	Defunct in 2004.
Renegade Software	Wapping, London, England, UK	1991	Gods, Fire & Ice	Publishing arm of The Bitmap Brothers. Acquired by GT Interactive in 1997.
Renovation Products	United States	1990		Acquired by Sega
Richard Shepherd Software	Slough, Berkshire, England, UK	1982	Shaken but not Stirred	Defunct in 1984.
Right Stuff	Tokyo, Japan	1990	Flash Hiders	Defunct in 1999.
Riot Games	Santa Monica, United States	2006	League of Legends	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Tencent.
Ripcord Games	Santa Clara, California, United States	1996	Postal	Label of Panasonic Interactive Media until 1999. Stopped publishing video games in 2001. Defunct in 2009.
Rising Star Games	Hitchin, England, UK	2004
Riverhillsoft	Japan	1982	J.B. Harold Murder Club	Defunct in 2004.
Rock-Ola	Chicago, Illinois, United States	1927	Nibbler	No longer publishes video games.
Rockstar Games	New York, New York, United States	1998	Max Payne Grand Theft Auto Manhunt Midnight Club Bully	Also a video game developer. Currently a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive.
Romstar	Torrance, California, United States	1984	Twin Cobra	Defunct in 1992.
Romtech	Langhorne, Pennsylvania, United States	1999		Defunct.
Rovio Entertainment	Espoo, Finland	2003	Angry Birds	Publishers its own developed games as well as 3rd parties under Rovio Stars
RTL Group	Kirchberg, Luxembourg	1920	Crash Time: Autobahn Pursuit	Published under the RTL Playtainment label. Currently its subsidiary, BroadbandTV, publishes some mobile games.
RuneSoft	Tübingen, Germany	2000	Various Linux and Mac OS games
Saga Planets	Osaka, Japan	1998	Ren'ai CHU!
Sammy Studios	Minato, Japan	2004		Merged with Sega as Sega Sammy Holdings,
Samsung	Seoul, South Korea	1938	Various Sega Mega Drive games in Korea	No longer publishes video games.
Sanctuary Woods	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	1988	Ripley's Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu	Defunct in 2001.
Scavenger, Inc.	Los Angeles, California, United States	1996	Scorcher	Defunct in 1998.
Scopely	Culver City, California, United States	2011	Star Trek Fleet Command The Walking Dead: Road to Survival
SCi Games	London, England, UK	1988		Bought and merged with Eidos Interactive in 2005. Name retired.
SCS Software	Prague, Czech Republic	1997	Euro Truck Simulator 2
Safari Software	Houston, Texas, United States	1989	Traffic Department 2192	Acquired by Epic MegaGames in 1997.
Scholastic	Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, United States	1920		Ceased publishing video games in 2007.
Sears	Chicago, Illinois, United States	1886	Various Atari 2600 games	Published under the Tele-Games label. Exited the video game industry in 1983.
Sega	Tokyo, Japan	1960	Sonic the Hedgehog Phantasy Star Virtua Fighter	Also a video game developer. Merged with Sammy Studios as Sega Sammy Holdings.
Seibu Kaihatsu	Tokyo, Japan	1982	Raiden	Ceased publishing video games in 1998.
SETA Corporation	Tokyo, Japan	1985		Defunct in 2009.
Seven45 Studios	Seattle, Washington, United States	2007	Power Gig: Rise of the SixString	Game publishing arm of First Act. First Act was acquired by Jazwares in 2016.
Shadow Tor Studios	UK	2005	Barrow Hill
Shanda	Shanghai, China	1999		Gaming unit spun off as Shanda Games (later Shengqu Games) in 2009.
Sharp Corporation	Sakai, Japan	1912	Nekketsu High School Dodgeball Club: Soccer	No longer publishes video games.
Shengqu Games	Shanghai, China	1999
Sherston Software	Sherston, Wiltshire, UK	1983	Various BBC Micro games	Defunct in 2011; now a label of Sherston Publishing Group.
Shoeisha	Tokyo, Japan	1986	BreakThru!	No longer publishes video games.
Shogakukan	Tokyo, Japan	1922	Professor Kageyama's Maths Training: The Hundred Cell Calculation Method
Sierra Entertainment	California, United States	1979	Gabriel Knight King's Quest Leisure Suit Larry Half-Life Police Quest Quest for Glory Space Quest	Also a video game developer. Defunct in 2008. Its name was revived as Activision's brand in 2014.
Silicon Beach Software	San Diego, California, United States	1984	Enchanted Scepters	Acquired by Aldus in 1990.
Silmarils	Lognes, Paris, France	1987	Metal Mutant	Defunct in 2003.
Simon & Schuster Interactive	New York City, United States	1995	Deer Avenger	Defunct in 2003.
SIMS Co., Ltd.	Tokyo, Japan	1991	Vay
Simulations Canada	Canada	1977	Various computer wargames	No longer publishes video games.
Sinclair Research Ltd.	London, England, UK	1973	1K ZX Chess	Brand name sold to Amstrad in 1985, which continued to use it as a label until 1992.
Sirius Software	Sacramento, California, United States	1980	Wayout	Defunct in 1984.
Sir-Tech	New York City, United States	1979	Wizardry	Defunct in 2003.
Slitherine	Epsom, Surrey, UK	2000	Panzer Corps Distant Worlds	Publisher of strategy and wargames on PC, Mac, mobile and home consoles.
SNK	Osaka, Japan	2001	Ikari Warriors Fatal Fury World Heroes Samurai Showdown Art of Fighting	Acquired by 37Games in 2015
Soedesco	Rotterdam, The Netherlands	2001	Various indie games
SOFEL	Tokyo, Japan	1979	Wall Street Kid	No longer publishes video games.
Soft-World	Taipei, Taiwan	1983	Heroes of Jin Yong
Softape	United States	1978	Various Apple II games	Defunct in 1983.
Softdisk	Shreveport, Louisiana, United States	1981	Catacomb 3-D	Defunct in 2016.
SoftKey	United States	1978	Oregon Trail II	Known as Micro International Corp. until 1989, and as WordStar International Inc. until 1994. Changed name to The Learning Company in 1996; continued to use the SoftKey label on some software until 1999, when the company was acquired by Mattel.
Softek International Ltd	London, England, UK	1980	Quo Vadis	Defunct in 1989. Published some games under the label The Edge.
SoftSide	United States	1978	Arena of Octos	Defunct in 1984.
Softstar	Taipei, Taiwan	1988	The Legend of Sword and Fairy
Software 2000	Eutin, Germany	1987	Fast Food Tycoon	Defunct in 2002.
Software Dynamics	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	1987	Operation: Inner Space
Software Projects	Liverpool, England, UK	1983	Jet Set Willy	Defunct in 1985.
Sony Imagesoft	Los Angeles, California, United States	1989	Super Dodge Ball	Initially known as CSG Imagesoft. Defunct in 1995.
Sony Interactive Entertainment	San Mateo, California, United States	1993	Ratchet & Clank Jak and Daxter God of War Killzone Uncharted Resistance
Sony Pictures Digital	California, United States	1997		Publisher of mobile phone games.
SouthPeak Games	Virginia, United States	1996	Two Worlds
Spectral Associates	Tacoma, Washington, United States	1980	Various TRS-80 Color Computer games	Published last game in 1988.
Spectravideo	United States	1981	Mangia	Published Atari 2600 games under the label Spectravision. Defunct in 1988.
Spectrum HoloByte	Alameda, California, United States	1983		Also a video game developer. Acquired by Hasbro Interactive.
Spike	Tokyo, Japan	1991	Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc	Merged with Chunsoft in 2012.
Spike Chunsoft	Tokyo, Japan	1984	Danganronpa series Science Adventure series Zero Escape series	Also a video game developer and localizer. Formerly known as Chunsoft before it merged with Spike in 2012. Subsidiary of Dwango.
Spil Games	Hilversum, The Netherlands	2001		Also a video game developer. Acquired by Azerion in 2020.
Spinnaker Software	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	1982	In Search of the Most Amazing Thing	Acquired by The Learning Company in 1994.
Square	Tokyo, Japan	1986	Final Fantasy	Also a video game developer. Merged with Enix to create Square Enix.
Square Electronic Arts	Costa Mesa, California, United States	1998	Parasite Eve	Owned by Square and Electronic Arts. Folded back into Square and changed to Square Enix.
Square Enix	Tokyo, Japan	1975	Dragon Quest
Square Enix Europe	London, England, UK	1990	Tomb Raider Hitman Thief	Also a video game developer. Acquired by SCi Games in 2005, then by Square Enix in 2009. Formerly known as Eidos Interactive until 2009.
Stardock	Livonia, Michigan, United States	1991	Sins of a Solar Empire Galactic Civilizations	Also a video game developer.
Starpath	Livermore, California, United States	1981	Escape from the Mindmaster	Defunct in 1984.
Stern Electronics	Chicago, Illinois, United States	1977	Berzerk	Ceased video game production in 1985.
Sting Entertainment	Tokyo, Japan	1989	Last Battalion
Storm Impact	Glenview, Illinois, United States	1989	TaskMaker	Defunct in 1997.
Strategic Simulations (SSI)	Sunnyvale, California, United States	1979		Also a video game developer Acquired by Ubisoft, name retired.
Strategic Studies Group	Australia	1983	Reach for the Stars	No longer publishes video games. Their games are now published by Matrix Games.
Stormfront Studios	San Rafael, California, United States	1988	Old Time Baseball	Defunct in 2008.
Strategy First	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	1988	Europa Universalis
Studio e.go!	Osaka, Japan	1998	Castle Fantasia: Seima Taisen	Defunct in 2009.
Sublogic	Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States	1975	Flight Simulator	Acquired by Sierra in 1995.
Success	Tokyo, Japan	1978		Also a video game developer.
Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software	Heusenstamm, Germany	1993	Anno 1602	Acquired by Ubisoft in 2007.
Sunrise Interactive	Japan	1998	Mai-HiME: Unmei no Keitōju	Defunct in 2008.
Sunsoft	Aichi, Japan	1981	Aero the Acro-Bat	Closed U.S. offices, operates out of Japan.
Superior Software	Leeds, England, UK	1982	Citadel
Supersoft	Harrow, London, UK	1978	Air Attack	Ceased publishing video games in 1985.
Sydney Development Corporation	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	1978		Defunct in 1989.
Super Fighter Team	San Diego, California, United States	2004	Legend of Wukong
Suzy Soft	Zagreb, Croatia	1985	Various ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 games	Software division of Suzy Records. Defunct in 1988.
Synapse Software	Richmond, California	1981	Blue Max	Purchased by Broderbund in 1984. Defunct in 1986.
Synergistic Software	Seattle, Washington, United States	1978	Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure	Acquired by Sierra in 1996; defunct in 1999.
SystemSoft	Japan	1985	Daisenryaku	No longer publishes video games.
System 3	London, England, UK	1982	The Last Ninja, International Karate, Myth: History in the Making	Also a video game developer.
System Sacom	Tokyo, Japan	1981		No longer publishes video games.
Tactics	Japan	1997	One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e	Acquired by Nexton in 1999, which has continued to use the Tactics brand on some games.
Taito	Tokyo, Japan	1953	Bubble Bobble	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Square Enix.
Takara	Japan	1955	The Transformers: Mystery of Convoy	Merged with Tomy in 2006.
Take-Two Interactive	New York, New York, United States	1993		Also owns publishers Rockstar Games, 2K Games (2K Sports), and Private Division. Also a video game developer.
TalonSoft	Baltimore, Maryland, United States	1995	Battleground	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Take-Two Interactive, name retired.
Tamsoft	Tokyo, Japan	1992	Guardian's Crusade
Tandy Corporation	Fort Worth, Texas, United States	1919	Microchess	Ceased publishing games in 1989.
Taxan	Japan	1981		No longer publishes video games.
TDK Mediactive	Westlake Village, California, United States	1990	Lady Sia	American software publishing arm of TDK. Defunct in 2003.
Team17	Wakefield, England, UK	1990	Worms, Alien Breed, Superfrog, Yooka-Laylee	Also a video game developer.
Team Shanghai Alice	Japan	1996	Touhou Project
Techland	Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland	1991
Technical Group Laboratory	Osaka, Japan	1984		Also known as TGL.
Technology and Entertainment Software	Japan	1982	Hydlide	Also known as T&E Soft. Ceased publishing video games in 2002.
Technosoft	Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan	1980	Thunder Force	Acquired by Twenty-one Company in 2001.
Technos Japan	Tokyo, Japan	1981		Also a video game developer. Assets acquired by Atlus.
TecMagik	California, United States	1991		Also a video game developer.
Tecmo	Japan	1967	Ninja Gaiden Tecmo Bowl Dead or Alive	Merged into Tecmo Koei.
Tectoy	Sao Paulo, Brazil	1987	Many games for Sega consoles in Brazil.
Telarium	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	1984	Fahrenheit 451	Defunct in 1987.
Telesys	Fremont, California, United States	1982	Fast Food	Defunct in 1984.
Telenet Japan	Japan	1983	Valis: The Fantasm Soldier	Defunct in 2007.
Telltale Games	San Rafael, California, United States	2004		Defunct in 2018.
Tencent	Shenzhen, China	1998		Also a video game developer and online services company. Has a minority stake in Epic Games and owns Riot Games as a subsidiary.
Tengen	Milpitas, California, United States	1987	Tetris	Publishing arm of Atari Games. Defunct in 1994 following acquisition by Time Warner.
Texas Instruments	Dallas, Texas, United States	1930	Parsec	Exited the video game industry in 1984.
Thalamus Ltd	London, England, UK	1986	Armalyte	Defunct in 1993.
Thalion Software	Gütersloh, Germany	1988	Amberstar	Defunct in 1994.
The9	Shanghai, China	1999		Former regional publisher for World of Warcraft in China
The Learning Company	San Francisco, California, United States	1980		Merged with Mattel Interactive, no longer publishes video games
Thin Chen Enterprise	Taipei, Taiwan	1988	Colorful Dragon	Also used the labels Sachen, Commin, and Joy Van. Defunct.
Thinking Rabbit	Takarazuka, Japan	1982	Sokoban	Defunct.
THQ	Agoura Hills, California, United States	1989	Red Faction S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Saint's Row Tak and the Power of Juju Destroy All Humans!	Also a video game developer. Nordic Games (now THQ Nordic) revived the THQ brand in 2016, and all THQ franchises folded to THQ Nordic.
THQ Nordic	Austria	2011		Purchased Darksiders, Red Faction, and MX vs. ATV franchises from THQ, Previously called Nordic Games from 2011–2016.
Thorn EMI Computer Software	London, England, UK	1981	River Rescue	Software publishing arm of Thorn EMI. Spun off and reestablished as Creative Sparks in 1984.
Three-Sixty Pacific	United States	1987	Dark Castle	Defunct in 1994.
Tiertex Design Studios	Manchester, UK	1987	Ace of Aces	Last game published in 2003.
Tiger Electronics	Vernon Hills, Illinois, United States	1978	Various LCD games and Game.com games	Also a video game developer. Acquired by Hasbro in 1998.
Time Warner Interactive	Milpitas, California, United States	1993	Primal Rage	Merged into Midway Games West in 1996.
Titus Interactive	France	1985
Toaplan	Japan	1984	Fire Shark	Defunct in 1994.
Toei Animation	Tokyo, Japan	1956	Baltron
Toho	Tokyo, Japan	1932	Godzilla: Monster of Monsters	No longer publishes video games.
Tokuma Shoten	Tokyo, Japan	1954	Incredible Crisis	No longer publishes video games.
Tokyo Shoseki	Tokyo, Japan	1909	Cycle Race: Road Man	No longer publishes video games.
Tomy (Takara Tomy)	Tokyo, Japan	1924	Pretty Rhythm	Merged with Takara in 2006.
Tommo	City of Industry, California	1990	Monster Rancher DS
Tonkin House	Tokyo, Japan	1986	Gun-Nac	Defunct in 2008.
Topologika	Stilton, UK	1983	Countdown to Doom	Defunct in 2013.
Topo Soft	Spain	1987	Survivor	Defunct in 1994.
TopWare Interactive	Karlsruhe, Germany	1995		Also a video game developer. After filing for bankruptcy in 2001, it was acquired by Zuxxez Entertainment, and later resurrected in 2005. Filed for bankruptcy again in 2016, but continues to publish future video games.
Toshiba EMI	Tokyo, Japan	1960	Syvalion	Defunct in 2013.
Towa Chiki	Tokyo, Japan	1986	A Week of Garfield	Defunct in 2001.
Tradewest	Corsicana, Texas, United States	1986		Acquired by Midway Games, name retired.
Treco	Torrance, California	1990	Atomic Robo-Kid	Defunct in 1993.
Triangle Service	Tokyo, Japan	2002	Trizeal
Triffix Entertainment	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	1991	Castelian Dream TV Space Football: One on One	Last game published in 1992.
Trilobyte Software	Medford, Oregon, United States	1990	Uncle Henry's Playhouse	Defunct in 1999, re-established in 2010.
Tripwire Interactive	Roswell, Georgia, United States	2005	Killing Floor
Tri Synergy	Dallas, Texas, United States	1996
Tru Blu Entertainment	Sydney, Australia	1999	Rugby League
Tsunami Games	Oakhurst, California, United States	1991	Blue Force	Sold to Tsunami Media Corporation in 1999.
TT Games	Maidenhead, England, UK	2005		Also a video game developer. Merger of Giant Interactive Entertainment and Traveller's Tales. Acquired by Warner Bros. Interactive.
Twilight Frontier	Japan	2002	Higurashi Daybreak
Tynesoft	Blaydon, UK	1983	Superman: The Man of Steel	Exited the video game industry in 1991.
Type-Moon	Japan	2000	Tsukihime
Ubisoft	Montreuil-sous-Bois, France	1986	Rayman Assassin's Creed Far Cry Ghost Recon Splinter Cell	Also a video game developer.
UEP Systems	Tokyo, Japan	1985	Cool Boarders	Defunct in 2001.
UFO Interactive Games	City of Industry, California	1999	Monster Rancher DS	Label of Tommo.
Ultimate Play the Game	Ashby-de-la-Zouch, UK	1982	Jetpac, Knight Lore	Acquired by U.S. Gold in 1985, which continued to use the Ultimate name as a label on some games. Defunct in 1988.
Ultrasoft	Bratislava, Slovakia	1989	Towdie	Defunct in 1998.
Ultra Games	Buffalo Grove, Illinois, United States	1988		Shell company and publishing label for Konami. Name retired in 1992.
United States Army	Arlington, Virginia, United States	1775	America's Army
Universal Entertainment Corporation	Japan	1969	Mr. Do!
U.S. Gold	Birmingham, England, UK	1984		Also a video game developer. Acquired by Eidos Interactive.
UserJoy Technology	Taiwan	1995	The Legend of Three Kingdoms
US Games	Santa Clara, California, United States	1978	Entombed	Acquired by Quaker Oats in 1982. Defunct in 1983.
Valcon Games	Bellevue, Washington, United States	2005	Darkest of Days	No longer active.
Valve	Bellevue, Washington, United States	1996	Half-Life series Counter-Strike series Portal series Left 4 Dead series Dota 2	Also a video game developer.
VAP	Tokyo, Japan	1981	Isolated Warrior	No longer publishes video games.
Varie	Japan	1986	Parallel World	Defunct in 1997.
VEB Polytechnik	Chemnitz, Germany	1870	Poly Play	Defunct in 2006.
Vectorbeam	California, United States	1978	Speed Freak	Acquired by Cinematronics in 1980.
Viacom	New York City, United States	1952	Phantom 2040	Published video games under the Viacom New Media label. Company split in 2005.
Victor Interactive	Japan	1970	Shadow of the Beast	Subsidiary of JVC. Merged with Pack-In-Video in 1996. Acquired by Marvelous Entertainment in 2003; defunct in 2007.
Vic Tokai	Shizuoka, Japan	1977		No longer publishes video games.
Virgin Interactive	London, England, UK	1983	Global Gladiators	Also a video game developer. Known as Virgin Games until 1993. American branch acquired and closed by Electronic Arts in 1998, European branch acquired by Titus Software in 1999, and re-branded to Avalon Interactive in 2003. Stopped publishing games after 2002.
Virgin Play	Spain	1995	Touch the Dead	Known as Virgin Interactive Espana SA until 2002. Filed for liquidation in 2009.
Virtual Programming	Bournemouth, UK	2000	Various Mac OS games
Visco Corporation	Japan	1982	Wardner	No longer publishes video games.
The Vision Factory	Den Bosch, The Netherlands	1993	Various CD-i games	Defunct in 2002.
VisualArt's	Osaka, Japan	1991	Kanon
Vivarium Inc.	Tokyo, Japan	1993	SimTower	Previously known as OPeNBooK Co., Ltd.
Vivendi Games	Los Angeles, California United States	1993		Merged with Activision to form Activision Blizzard in 2008.
Vortex Software	Manchester, UK	1981	Highway Encounter	Defunct in 1990.
VoxelStorm	Manchester, UK	2012	AdvertCity	Also a video game developer and music publisher.
Vulcan Software	Cotswolds, UK	1994	Valhalla: Before the War
Wales Interactive	Bridgend, Wales, UK	2012	The Bunker Soul Axiom	Also a video game developer.
Walnut Creek CDROM	Walnut Creek, California, United States	1991	Various shareware CD-ROMs	Merged with Berkeley Software Design in 2000.
Wanadoo Edition	Paris, France	2000	Iron Storm	Software publishing arm of Wanadoo. Defunct in 2003.
Warashi	Tokyo, Japan	1995	Triggerheart Exelica
Wargaming	Nicosia, Cyprus	1998	World of Tanks World of Warplanes World of Warships	Also a video game developer.
Warner Bros. Interactive	Burbank, California, United States	1993	F.E.A.R. 2 Overlord
WARP	Japan	1994	Enemy Zero	Exited the video game industry in 1999, defunct in 2005.
Webfoot Technologies	Lemont, Illinois, United States	1993	Deadly Rooms of Death
Webzen	Seoul, South Korea	2000		Also a video game developer.
WildTangent	Redmond, Washington, United States	1998	Fate: The Traitor Soul	Acquired by Gamigo AG in 2019.
Williams Electronics	Chicago, Illinois, United States	1943	Robotron 2084, Defender	Exited the video game industry in 1998.
Windham Classics	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	1984	Below the Root	Published last game in 1985.
Windmill	Japan	2002	Happiness!	Publishes under the Windmill Oasis label.
Windmill Software	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	1982	Digger	Defunct in 1984.
Winkysoft	Osaka, Japan	1983		Defunct in 2015.
Wisdom Tree	Tucson, Arizona, United States	1989		Known for Christian-themed games.
WizardWorks	Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States	1990	Deer Hunter	Acquired by GT Interactive in 1996. Defunct in 2004.
Wolf Team	Tokyo, Japan	1986	Annet Futatabi	Acquired by Namco in 2003.
Working Designs	Redding, California, United States	1986	Lunar	Specialized in the localization of Japan-native RPGs.
Xicat Interactive	Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States	1997		Defunct in 2005.
Xonox	Minnesota, United States	1983	Artillery Duel	Defunct in 1984.
XSEED Games	Torrance, California, United States	2005	Ys Seven
XS Games	New York, New York, United States	2002
Yeti	Japan	2005	Root Double: Before Crime * After Days
Yojigen	Japan	1994	WildSnake	Defunct.
Yonezawa PR21	Japan	1988	Battle Storm	Also known as Party Room 21. Acquired by Sega in 1994; defunct in 1998.
Yuke's	Osaka, Japan	1993	Evil Zone
Yutaka	Japan	1990	Last Armageddon	Defunct in 2003 following merger with Popy.
Zaccaria	Bologna, Italy	1974	Various arcade games	Defunct in 1988.
ZAPiT Games	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	2003	Game Wave Family Entertainment System	Defunct.
ZeniMax Media	United States	1999	Elder Scrolls	Also owns publisher Bethesda Softworks.
Zenobi	Rochdale, UK	1982	Various text adventure games
Zeppelin Games	Gateshead, UK	1987	Draconus	Acquired by Merit Studios Inc. in 1994 and renamed to Merit Studios Europe. Subsequently, regained independence in 1996 and reestablished itself as Eutechnyx. No longer publishes its own games.
Zigurat	Spain	1986	Various ZX Spectrum games	Published last game in 1992.
Zimag	United States	1982	Dishaster	Publishing label of Magnetic Tape International. Defunct in 1983.
Zoom	Sapporo, Japan	1988	Overtake
Zuxxez Entertainment	Karlsruhe, Germany	2001		Acquired TopWare Interactive in 2001. Renamed itself to TopWare Interactive in 2005. Name retired.
Zushi Games	Sheffield, England, UK	1999
Zynga	San Francisco, California	2007	FarmVille Mafia Wars
ZyX	Japan	1994

See also

• List of video game developers
• List of indie game developers
• Video game developer
• Video game publisher
• Game development
• Video game industry
• History of video games