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Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Blizzard, Inc. is a worldwide pure-play online and console game publisher with leading market positions across all categories of the rapidly growing interactive entertainment software industry.
spacer Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media Company, is an American developer and publisher of video games. The company was originally based in Bethesda, Maryland and eventually moved to their current location in Rockville, Maryland. With a broad panoply of games in role-playing, racing, simulation, and sports, Bethesda Softworks' major franchises are distributed worldwide.
spacer Big Fish Games is the world's largest subscription service for fun, family-friendly casual games delivered directly to your PC or Mac. With Big Fish Games, people around the world can instantly and safely enjoy free 60-minute trials from a library of 2,500+ premium downloadable games, and unlimited free play of 1,000+ Web games — all with no ads.
spacer Bungie, founded as Bungie Software Products Corporation, is an American video game developer currently located in Bellevue, Washington. The company was established in May 1991 by University of Chicago undergraduate student Alex Seropian.
spacer Capcom began in Japan in 1979 as a manufacturer and distributor of electronic game machines. In 1983 Capcom Co., Ltd was founded and soon built a reputation for introducing cutting-edge technology and software to the video game market. Now an industry leader in the video game industry for 25 years, Capcom's legacy of historic franchises in home and arcade gaming are testaments to an unparalleled commitment to excellence.
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Daglow Entertainment is a new online game development studio based in Sausalito, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.  Our first project is a major new Facebook game, designed for a top industry partner with broad online marketing power and a universally recognized name.  

Our team leaders are startup veterans with long track records of producing award-winning hits in both online and console games.  Later this year we'll be expanding our focus to major online, portable and mobile platforms.
spacer Day 1 Studios was founded in 2001. Led by FASA Interactive alumni Denny Thorley, Electronic Arts veteran, Mike McDonald, former Microsoft Game Studio pioneer, TJ Wagner, and Activision veteran, Dan Hay. Day 1 Studios has two studios located in Chicago and Hunt Valley, MD.
spacer Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG), the interactive entertainment affiliate of The Walt Disney Company, creates immersive, connected, interactive experiences across console, online, mobile and social network platforms to entertain and inform audiences around the globe. DIMG's mission is to deliver Disney content to fans, whenever and wherever they want it, through numerous interactive media platforms.
spacer Double Fine Productions is an award-winning, independent game development studio founded in 2000 by games industry veteran Tim Schafer. Located in San Francisco’s South of Market district, Double Fine is committed to making high-quality games with an emphasis on originality, story, characters, and fun.
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Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless devices and the Internet.
spacer Established in 1991, Epic Games develops cutting-edge games and cross-platform game engine technology. The company has created multiple million-selling, award-winning titles in its Unreal series, including Unreal Tournament 3 for PC, PLAYSTATION®3 and Xbox 360®. Epic’s Gears of War won over 30 Game of the Year awards, and the sales of Gears of War and Gears of War 2 have eclipsed 12 million units.
spacer Gameforge AG is the largest independent supplier of browser and client-based MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games) worldwide. More than 52 million players in 36 countries have already registered for Gameforge games, and more than nine million people actively play the company's online titles. OGame, a strategic space simulation game with thousands of players across the world, is one of the best known browser-based MMOGs from the Karlsruhe gaming specialist. In addition, Gameforge offers a catalogue of top titles such as Ikariam, WarpFire, Gladiatus and BiteFight to the rapidly growing market of browser-based games. The company also publishes client-based online titles such as the action-oriented Metin2 or the fantasy-rich NosTale.
spacer Gas Powered Games was founded in May 1998 by acclaimed game designer and industry visionary, Chris Taylor. The founding principle for GPG was to create immersive AAA games that push the boundaries of interactive entertainment. With its office in the Pacific Northwest, GPG is a short distance from Seattle, Washington and currently employs over 60 of the industry's best designers, programmers, writers and artists.
spacer Gearbox Software is an award-winning independent developer of interactive entertainment based in Plano, Texas. Founded in February 1999 by game industry veterans, Gearbox quickly distinguished itself as a respected and recognized developer with the success of the company's debut title, Half-Life: Opposing Force.

Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. 
spacer Harmonix is one of the world’s leading independent game development studios creating groundbreaking interactive experiences that get people singing, dancing, rocking out and more. The artists, designers, coders, gamers, musicians, and dancers at this Cambridge-based studio are all hard at work (and play!) inventing the future of interactive music entertainment.
spacer Insomniac Games was founded in 1994 by Ted Price, and is well known for creating a variety of well received games. Their headquarters are located in Burbank, California and currently consists of over 180 staff. The company is highly regarded within the games industry, and has been awarded ‘Best Workplace’ 8 times in a row since 2005. Although they are an independent company, they have only ever released games on Sony platforms.
spacer Jerry Bruckheimer Games is a new game production company from world renowned film producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
spacer Microsoft Game Studios is a brand owned by Microsoft and introduced in 2002 to represent the company as a video game publisher, coinciding with the launch of the Xbox.
spacer A division of MTV (Music Television), MTV Games aims to bring the company's alternative and youth-oriented approach to entertainment to the videogame field. The company is focused on producing original IP and developing various MTV franchises.
spacer Established in South Korea in 1994, Nexon Corporation is a pioneer of interactive entertainment software and the world's leader in massively multiplayer online games. Since its development of the world's first graphic MMORPG, "The Kingdom of the Winds", in 1995, Nexon's innovative titles have continued to redefine online entertainment.
spacer Nintendo started with playing cards in 1898 and since developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over $85 billion. Besides video games, Nintendo is also the majority owner of the Major League Baseball team the Seattle Mariners.
spacer NVIDIA awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. Since then, it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from tablets and portable media players to notebooks and workstations. NVIDIA’s expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. The Company holds more than 1,200 U.S. patents, including ones covering designs and insights which are fundamental to modern computing.
spacer Phosphor Games Studio is a Chicago-based game development studio comprised of developers with years of AAA game dev experience and a history of financially successful and critically acclaimed titles across the industry. Our veterans have team lead and Sr. experience on 3rd person Action adventure, FPS, MMO, Sports, Motion Control, Casual, and Mobile titles. We have recently released our first original IP “The Dark Meadow” to critical and commercial success.
spacer Playdead is an independent game studio based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded by Arnt Jensen and Dino Patti in 2006.
spacer PopCap Games is an American video game developer and publisher, based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded in 2000 by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka, and currently employs more than 200 people. Most of Popcap's games can be played free in a limited form, with the full version available for a fee. PopCap’s flagship title Bejeweled has sold more than 50 million units across all major platforms.
spacer Ready at Dawn is a video game developer located in Irvine, California and is composed of some former members of Naughty Dog and Blizzard Entertainment. Formed in 2003, they released their first title, Daxter, to critical acclaim for the Sony PlayStation Portable.
spacer Remedy Entertainment Ltd. is a privately held developer of state-of-the-art action games, game franchises and cutting edge 3D game technology. Remedy is based in Espoo, Finland.

Our highly acclaimed games include Death Rally (PC, 1996), Max Payne (PC/Xbox/PS2, 2001) and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (PC/Xbox/PS2, 2003).

Remedy latest creation, Alan Wake, a psychological action thriller for Xbox360, published by Microsoft Game Studios is now available in stores worldwide.
spacer Sega of America is the American arm of Tokyo, Japan-based Sega Corporation, responsible for the development, marketing and distribution of Sega videogame systems and videogames in the Americas. Sega Corporation is a major player in interactive digital entertainment media, offering interactive entertainment experiences both inside and outside the home.
spacer Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA) is responsible for keeping PlayStation® growing and thriving in the United States, Canada and Latin America. Based in Foster City, California, SCEA serves as headquarters for all North American operations and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America Inc.
spacer Based in San Diego, Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) has an array of cutting-edge games in development across multiple platforms and genres at studios in San Diego, CA, Austin, TX, Denver, CO, Seattle, WA, and Tucson, AZ including The Agency™, Star Wars®: Clone Wars Adventures™ and DC Universe™ Online. These new titles are being designed to push the envelope of online entertainment quality, innovation and delivery.
spacer In 1997, we started Sucker Punch Productions to make great games, and we’ve spent the last 13 years doing just that. We produced three award-winning PS2 games starring the wily raccoon thief Sly Cooper, all of which met with critical acclaim, commercial success, and file cabinets full of fan mail. Some of it written in crayon. In May 2009, we released the open-world superhero game inFAMOUS, which rapidly turned into the summer’s must-have PS3 game, with excellent reviews and solid footing at the top of the PS3 sales charts.
spacer Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a leading worldwide publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software.
Take-Two's product offerings include titles for the leading hardware platforms - PlayStation®3 and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment systems, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Wii™, Nintendo DS™ and for the PC. The Company publishes and develops products through its wholly owned labels Rockstar Games and 2K, which publishes its titles under 2K Games, 2K Sports and 2K Play.
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Tencent Boston is a premier game development studio led by industry veterans that are driving the creation of world class online games for a global audience.

Founded as a subsidiary of Tencent, Inc. - the foremost provider of Internet and wireless value-added services in China - the Boston area studio will combine this worldwide market strength, with experience and innovation, to create awesome and entertaining new MMO offerings.
spacer THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) is a leading worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. The company develops its products for all popular game systems, personal computers and wireless devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles County, California, THQ sells product through its global network of offices located in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
spacer Founded in 1986, Ubisoft is known for its innovation in the video game industry.  A leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide, Ubisoft has offices in 26 countries around the globe with its US headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Known for blockbuster brands such as Assassin’s Creed, Just Dance, Prince of Persia, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, Ubisoft is committed to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge video game titles to consumers.
spacer Valve is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996. In addition to creating several of the world’s most award-winning games, Valve is also a developer of leading-edge technologies including the Source® game engine and Steam®, the premier online gaming platform.
spacer Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Inc. (WBIE) is a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. It is a worldwide publisher, developer, licensor and distributor of video games for both internal and third party titles. Under the WBIE umbrella is Warner Bros. Games (also the division's major publishing unit), which focuses on the creation, development and production of first-party titles. Leveraging the distribution, marketing and sales infrastructure within Warner Home Video, WBIE is a major worldwide publisher for both internal and third-party game titles.
 
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