Ctrl Alt Del Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 The Magazine Game Developer, published a list of the 20 greatest gaming companies around the globe. Some things have changed, while others havent (Like EA on the top). Just take a look at LucasArts. 01. ELECTRONIC ARTS Founded in: 1982 Main Office: Redwood City, Calif. studios: Criterion (Guildford, UK); Digital Illusions CE (London, Ont., Stockholm) EA Black Box (Vancouver); EA Canadá (Burnaby, British Columbia); EA China (Shanghai); EA Los Angeles (Playa Vista, Calif.); EA Mobile; EA Montreal; EA Mythic (Fairfax, Va.); EA Japan (Roppongi, Japão); EA Redwood Shores (Redwood City, Calif.); EA Singapore; EA Reino Unido (Chertsey, UK); Maxis (Emeryville, Calif.); EA Phenomic (Leipzig, Germany); EA Tiburon (Orlando) 02. NINTENDO Founded in: 1933 Main Office: Kyoto, Japan studios: Intelligent Systems (Kyoto); Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development (Kyoto, Tóquio); Nintendo Software Technology Corp. (Redmond, Wash.); Retro Studios (Austin); Systems Research & Development (Kyoto, Osaka) 03. ACTIVISION Founded in: 1979 Main Office: Santa Monica, Calif. studios: Beenox (Quebec City); Infinity Ward (Encino, Calif.); Luxoflux (Santa Monica, Calif.); Neversoft (Encino, Woodland Hills, Calif.); Raven Studios (Madison, Wis.); RedOctane (Sunnyvale, Calif.); Shaba Games (San Francisco); Toys For Bob (Novato, Calif.); Treyarch (Santa Monica, Calif.); Vicarious Visions (Mountain View, Calif., Troy, N.Y.); Z-Axis (Foster City, Calif.) 04. SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT Founded in:: 1993 Main Office: Tokyo studios: Bend, Ore.; Cambridge, UK; Contrail (Tokyo); Foster City, Calif.; Guerrilla Games (Amsterdan); Incognito Entertainment (Salt Lake City); Insomniac (Burbank, Calif); Liverpool, UK; Londres; Polyphony Digital (Tokyo); San Diego; Naughty Dog (Santa Monica, Calif.); Seoul; SN Systems (Bristol, UK); Tóquio; Zener Works (Tokyo) 05. TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE Founded in: 1993 Main Office: New York Studios: Cat Daddy Games (Bellevue, Wash.); Firaxis Games (Hunt Valley, Md.) Irrational Games (Quincy, Mass.; Canberra, Australia); Kush Games (Camarillo, Calif.); Rockstar Leeds (Leeds, UK); Rockstar North (Edinburgh); Rockstar San Diego; Rockstar Toronto; Rockstar Vancouver; Rockstar Vienna; Venom Games (Newcastle, UK); Visual Concepts (San Rafael, Calif.) 06. MICROSOFT GAME STUDIOS Founded in: 1975 Main Office: Redmond, Wash. studios: Bungie Studios (Redmond, Wash.); Ensemble Studios (Dallas); FASA (Redmond, Wash.); Lionhead Studios (Guildford, UK); Microsoft Game Studios Japan (Tokyo); Rare (Twycross, UK) 07. THQ Founded in: 1989 Main Office: Calabasas Hills, Calif. studios: Blue Tongue Entertainment (Melbourne); Concrete Games (Carlsbad, Calif.); Cranky Pants Games (Kirklad, Wash.); Heavy Iron Studios (Los Angeles); Helixe (Burlington, Mass.); Incinerator (Carlsbad, Calif.); Juice Games (Warrington, UK), Kaos Studios (NY); Locomotive Games (Santa Carla, Calif.); Paradigm (Dallas); Rainbow Studios (Phoenix); Relic Entertainment (Vancouver); THQ Australia Studios (Spring Hill, Australia); THQ Wireless (Calabasas Hills, Calif.); Vigil Games (Austin); Volition (Champaign, Ill.) 08. UBISOFT Founded in: 1986 Main Officel: Paris studios: Annecy, França; Barcelona; Blue Byte (Düsseldorf, Germany); Bucharest; Casablanca; Milan; Montpellier, France; Montreal, Canada; Montreuil, France; Quebec City, Canadá; Red Storm (Morrisville, N.C.); Reflections (Newcastle, UK); Shanghai; Wolfpack (Austin) 09. KONAMI Founded in: 1973 Main Office: Tokyo studios: Blue Label Interactive (Los Angeles); Hudson Soft (Tokyo, Sapporo, San Fransisco); Konami Computer Entertainment (Tokyo); Konami Software Shanghai 10. SEGA-SAMMY HOLDINGS Founded in: 1952 (Sega); 1975 (Sammy) Main Office: Tóquio studios: Creative Assembly (West Sussex, UK, Fortitude Valley, Australia); Racing Studio (Birmingham,UK); Secret Level (São Francisco); Sega Shanghai Studios (Shanghai); Sega Studios (Tokyo); Sega Studios USA (San Francisco); Sports Interactive (London) 11. NAMCO-BANDAI Founded in: 1950 (Bandai); 1955 (Namco) Main Office: Tokyo stúdios: Banpresoft (Tóquio); Namco Networks America; Japan Bec Co., Ltd. (Tokyo); San Jose, Calif.; Yokohama; Tóquio 12. VIVENDI GAMES Founded in: 2000 Main Office: NY Estudios: Blizzard Console (Aliso Viejo, Calif.); Blizzard Entertainment (Irvine, Calif.); Blizzard North (San Mateo, Calif.); High Moon Studios (Carlsbad, Calif.) Massive Entertainment (Malmö, Sweden); Radical Entertainment (Vancouver); Sierra Entertainment (Bellevue, Wash.); Swordfish Studios (Birmingham, UK); VUG Mobile (Meudon, France) 13. SQUARE-ENIX Founded in: 2003 Main Office: Tokyo studios: Beijing; Osaka; Tokyo; UIEvolution (Bellevue, Wash.) 14. CAPCOM Founded in: 1979 Main Office: Osaka studios: Capcom Interactive (Los Angeles); Clover Studio (Osaka); Cosmic Infinity (Burlington, Ont.); Flagship (Tokyo); Team 1 (Osaka); Team 2 (Osaka) 15. NCSOFT Founded in: 1997 Main Office: Seoul studios: ArenaNet (Bellevue, Wash.); Austin; Seoul 16. SCI/EIDOS Founded in: 1990 Main Office: London studios: Beautiful Game Studios (London); Crystal Dynamics (Palo Alto, Calif.); IO Interactive (Copenhagen); Pivotal Games (Bath,UK) 17. LUCASARTS Founded in: 1982 Main Office: San Fransisco Studio: San Fransisco 18. BUENA VISTA GAMES Founded in: 1994 (as Disney Interactive) Main Office: Burbank, Calif. studios: Avalanche Software (Salt Lake City); Propaganda Games (Vancouver) 19. ATARI Founded in: 1983 Main Office: Lyon, France studios: Atari Melbourne House (Melbourne); Eden Studios (Lyon, France); Humongous Inc. (New York); Shiny Entertainment (Newport Beach, Calif.) 20. MIDWAY Founded in: 1988 Main Office: Chicago studios: Austin; Chicago; Los Angeles; Pitbull Syndicate (Newcastle, UK); San Diego; Surreal Software (Seattle)
Lynk Former Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Nintendo should be #1, not because they're Nintendo, but cause EA is in first place XD
Taos Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 This list really isn't giving me any perspective on how these rate - how many gaming companies are there worldwide? If I knew that, it would help me say "ooooh, aaahhhh" a little more.
Carlo El Sanchez Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 BioWare, Bungie and Capcom are my favourite.
VaderChick Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Activision, Ubisoft, and Vivendi Games would be my favorites
Sabretooth Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 That's werd. Those are all publishers, not developers. My favourites would be good ol' LA, Activision, Ubisoft and Atari.
Ctrl Alt Del Posted January 14, 2007 Author Posted January 14, 2007 Yeah, but if you havent noticed, I've posted developers, after the "studio". Okay, my bad
Mercid Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 Epic games, Ubi-soft, Bethesda softworks, ActiVision, and whoever the hell's developing Tenchu senran.
Rabish Bini Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 Ubi-soft pwnz all. Simply because they made Warlords Battlecry II. Every review i've read said that it is on of the best strategy games ever!!! I also like Capcom, EA and Nintendo.
Ctrl Alt Del Posted January 14, 2007 Author Posted January 14, 2007 Actually, Ubisoft have a lot of good and original games...
Rabish Bini Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 That's right, and Warlords Battlecry II pwnz them all. That's not to say I don't like the rest of there games, I reckon most of them are good, just the one I stated is their best in my opinion.
DarthAve Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 Vevindi is up in there, eh? Only the best for Doublefine's new game.
Lynk Former Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 Actually, I'm worried about Ubisoft... it seems that they're latest games have been the kind of thing you expect from EA... but then there's EA which is surprising me heavily with their work on Wii... the whole world is turning upside down!
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