Studios beginning with B

The merged Namco and Bandai games business, renamed Bandai Namco Entertainment in 2015.

Escape from Tarkov's developer, pushing extraction shooters toward simulation.

1 title in the dataset

The Adams brothers' Dwarf Fortress simulates history, geology and dwarven madness in ASCII.

1 title in the dataset

Soft-body vehicle physics specialists whose crash simulation became a research tool.

1 title in the dataset

Beat Saber's two-person developer, acquired by Facebook's Oculus division in 2019.

1 title in the dataset

Montreal's largest independent studio; Dead by Daylight made asymmetric horror a live service.

1 title in the dataset

Eidetic became Sony Bend: Syphon Filter, Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Days Gone.

Split out as Bethesda's in-house development arm; makers of Morrowind through Starfield.

6 titles in the dataset

Publisher of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout; reorganised under holding company ZeniMax in 1999.

1 title in the dataset

Publisher founded by YouTube critic videogamedunkey to fund small distinctive games.

Spent seven years alone building Animal Well's dense interlocking secret world.

1 title in the dataset

Founded by three medical doctors; Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect and Dragon Age followed before EA bought it.

8 titles in the dataset

Project Gotham Racing and Geometry Wars studio, closed by Activision in 2011.

Interplay's in-house RPG division: Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment and the Infinity Engine line.

2 titles in the dataset

Silicon & Synapse became Chaos Studios then Blizzard; Warcraft, StarCraft and World of Warcraft followed.

9 titles in the dataset

Condor, renamed after Blizzard's parent bought it; created Diablo before its founders quit.

1 title in the dataset

Polish horror specialist behind Layers of Fear and the Silent Hill 2 remake.

1 title in the dataset

The Settlers and Anno developer, bought by Ubisoft in 2001 and now Ubisoft's German arm.

Paul Neurath's studio; Ultima Underworld's first-person dungeon simulation started the immersive sim.

1 title in the dataset

Remake and remaster specialists (Shadow of the Colossus, Demon's Souls), acquired by Sony in 2021.

Bertelsmann's short-lived games label; its GTA rights were sold to Take-Two.

Arma's military-simulation developer, whose engine hosted the DayZ mod.

1 title in the dataset

Crypt of the NecroDancer's developer, binding dungeon movement to the music's beat.

1 title in the dataset

Publisher of Prince of Persia, Carmen Sandiego and Myst; sold to The Learning Company in 1998.

1 title in the dataset

Molyneux's god-game studio (Populous, Dungeon Keeper), bought by EA and wound down by 2001.

1 title in the dataset

Halo's creators: independent, bought by Microsoft in 2000, independent again in 2007, then Sony in 2022.

7 titles in the dataset