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Sega was originally founded in 1940 as "Standard Games" in Honolulu, Hawaii. The company was then moved to Tokyo, Japan by Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart as a means of distributing coin-operated games and was renamed "Service Games". In later years the company would become "Sega" (an abbreviation for "SErvice GAmes"), its current identity. Sega would soon become an immediate competitor to
Nintendo.
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Electronic Arts Inc. is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. It was founded by Trip Hawkins in 1982. It is the second-largest gaming company in the Americas and Europe by revenue and market capitalization after Activision Blizzard and ahead of
Take-Two Interactive and
Ubisoft as of March 2018.
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Nintendo is a consumer electronics company centered around the development of video games, and hardware to run them. The company was founded in 1889 by entrepreneur Fusajiro Yamauchi, originally as a seller of card games, at the time banned by the Japanese government due to its ties to gambling; Yamauchi's playing cards were one of few that were permitted for sale to the Japanese public. Around the 1960s, Nintendo started to experiment with numerous ventures, including a taxi service (their most successful venture at the time), love hotels, a TV network, and the sale of instant rice. After securing the rights to distribute the Magnavox Odyssey game console in Japan in 1974, Nintendo started to solely focus on the development of video games and gaming hardware for both arcades and home use. Today, Nintendo is best known for its participation in the video game console market, with consoles such as the DS, Game Boy, Wii, NES, and, most recently, Switch. They are also the owners of numerous iconic gaming franchises, including
Super Mario,
Donkey Kong,
Pokemon,
Metroid, and
The Legend of Zelda.
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Activision Publishing was founded in October 1, 1979 by
Atari programmers David Crane, Alan Miller, and Bob Whitehead. It was the world's first independent developer and distributor for video game consoles. Their first titles were games for Atari 2600 and was the first third-party developer for it. In 1988, their name was changed to "Mediagenic" when it began involvement on video game systems. However, in December 1992 after emerging from bankruptcy, it was officially renamed back to its current name. In December 2007, it was announced that Activision was to be merged with
Vivendi Games, the owner of
Blizzard Entertainment, and the merge was completed on July 2008. Today, the company is currently a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard and is known for publishing and distributing the
Tony Hawk,
Spider-Man,
Call of Duty,
Guitar Hero,
Skylanders and
Vilgante 8 franchises.
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THQ ("
Toy
Head-
Quarters") was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1989 as a toy manufacturer by
LJN co-founder Jack Friedman. In 1994, the company stopped making toys to focus on video games. THQ was particuarly famous for publishing games based on popular children's media. Over the years, it established and acquired several development studios including
Heavy Iron Studios,
Relic Entertainment,
Volition and many others. In 2008, THQ's troubles began when, mainly due to low sales performances, they started closing and selling several of their studios. This resulted in the company defaulting on a $50 million loan from Wells Fargo and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2012. Nordic Games later acquired the THQ trademark in 2014, and changed their name to
THQ Nordic in 2016 to associate themselves better with the THQ name.
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Sierra Entertainment (formerly known as
On-Line Systems and
Sierra On-Line) was a major PC game developer and publisher, known for their games named
King's Quest and
Leisure Suit Larry series. It was founded back in 1979 by Ken and Roberta Williams. They didn't make their game until 1980 when they released
Mystery House for the Apple II. In 1998-99, while the company suffered from financial troubles after the founders left the company, they announced an internal restructuring and major layoffs, which of their operations were divided into five separate brands, and some of the sub-studios were closed. A year later, Sierra was formally disestablished as a company and continued as a publishing brand of Vivendi; this was in result after Havas became part of that new company. In 2008, Sierra was closed after
Vivendi Games merged with
Activision Publishing to form Activision Blizzard, but in 2014, Sierra was later revived and will continue publishing some independently developed games, including the reboot of the
King's Quest series.
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Warner Bros. Games (also known as
WB Games) is the major publishing unit of
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment founded on January 14, 2004. Warner Bros. Games is not to be confused with said company.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment (
SIE for short, formerly "Sony Network Entertainment" and "Sony Computer Entertainment") was founded and established on November 16, 1993 in Tokyo, Japan as a subsidiary of
Sony to create the
PlayStation video game console.
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In April 1991, the former
CSG Imagesoft was renamed to
Sony Imagesoft when Sony had set up
Sony Electronic Publishing as its North American label. The first releases were
Altered Space and
Hudson Hawk. The division published games for 16-bit consoles, and rarely 8-bit consoles, even localizing titles from
Sony Music Japan. In 1994, it started using the name of its parent company,
Sony Electronic Publishing, when they expanded to PC products. Soon after, it was merged with the development branch of
Sony Computer Entertainment into
Sony Interactive Studios America, due to Sony's shifting attention on the arrival of the
PlayStation.
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Sony Electronic Publishing was formed in 1991 after Sony's North American division bought CSG Imagesoft from the
CBS/Sony Group and renamed the company
Sony Imagesoft. Sony Electronic Publishing became the parent company of Sony Imagesoft. Starting in 1994, Sony Imagesoft started to use the Sony Electronic Publishing name when they expanded to PC products. In 1995, Sony Electronic Publishing was closed due to Sony Imagesoft merging with the development branch of
Sony Computer Entertainment into
Sony Interactive Studios America.
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MGM Interactive was the software division of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, formed in 1994. Its first video game was
Wirehead for
Sega CD and their last release was the
Rocky game
Rocky Balboa. The name would be phased out after 2005 and future games based on MGM licenses would use the standard MGM logos.
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Blizzard Entertainment was founded on February 8, 1991 by Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham, and Frank Pearce as "
Silicon & Synapse". It had to be renamed to its current name in 1994 shortly after being sued by
Interplay Entertainment. In July 2008, it merged with
Activision to become Activision Blizzard, but it still remains a subsidiary of it.
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In 1994, Time Warner purchased
Atari Games (
Atari Corporation's former arcade gaming unit, which spun off from the parent company in 1984), renaming it to
Time Warner Interactive. Its
Tengen subsidiary was also folded into the unit, as well as the assets of an earlier company with the same name,
Time Warner Interactive Group. The company also held operations in Europe and Japan. In 1996, the company was dissolved by Time Warner, with the company selling the US division's assets to
Midway Games; as a result, the arcade unit went back to the
Atari Games name. The European division was merged with
Warner Interactive and gained the latter's name before being sold to
GT Interactive Software the following year, while the Japanese unit ceased operations after the publication of
Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru.
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Prior to the formation of 20th Century Games,
20th Century Fox partnered with publishers to create games based on their properties, something which continues to this day. In 2021,
20th Century Studios under
The Walt Disney Company formed
20th Century Games.
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Skydance Interactive is the game studio division of
Skydance Media, focusing on developing ambitious titles, managing projects licenses to other developers, and software innovative game mechanics and for VR and emerging platforms, launched in 2016. The following year, the company partnered with
Skybound Entertainment to develop a number of original virtual reality video games based on the expansive world of
The Walking Dead universe.
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On September 14, 2005,
Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), the video game arm of
Sony, announced the formation of SCE Worldwide Studios, combining all studios SCE owned at the time. Phil Harrison was appointed as the division's president. Shuhei Yoshida succeeded him in May 2008. Following the 2016 reorganization of SCE into Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), Yoshida reported to Shawn Layden. When Yoshida moved to lead the indie game development of SIE, Hermen Hulst, previously of SIE's
Guerrilla Games studio, became the president of SIE Worldwide Studios in November 2019. SIE announced the formation of
PlayStation Studios in May 2020 as a brand to be formally introduced alongside the PlayStation 5 that released later that year. PlayStation Studios is to serve as the brand for its first-party game development studios, as well as used for branding on games developed by studios brought in by Sony in work-for-hire situations.
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In 2019,
Microsoft Studios was renamed
Xbox Game Studios.
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WarnerActive was a short-lived CD-ROM subsidiary of Time Warner Entertainment founded in 1995. It was merged with then-recently purchased British publisher
Renegade Software into
Warner Interactive that same year.
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Kensith Town-based
Rocksteady Studios, founded in December 2004 by Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker, premiered their first game,
Urban Chaos: Riot Response to average reception in June 2006. Following the release of the critically acclaimed
Batman: Arkham Asylum in August 2009,
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment acquired a majority stake in the studio, and the team went on to develop sequels in their own
Batman: Arkham series, with their most recent title being
Batman: Arkham VR.
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Legacy Interactive (now
Legacy Games) is a provider of Internet media delivery software and game services based in Hollywood, California. The company was founded in 1998 by Ariella Lehrer. Legacy Interactive has several lines of business including distribution of downloadable casual games, a game development studio, a social networking application for casual game players to share opinions and information about games, and a retail publishing network.
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