Studios beginning with M

Founded by Starbreeze veterans; rebooted Wolfenstein for ZeniMax.

Will Wright's studio: SimCity, The Sims and Spore; absorbed by EA in 1997.

3 titles in the dataset

Minnesota's state education computing consortium, which made The Oregon Trail.

1 title in the dataset

Founded by Lionhead veterans; LittleBigPlanet and Dreams made players into creators.

1 title in the dataset

Fall Guys' developer, bought by Epic in 2021.

1 title in the dataset

Slay the Spire's developer, which fused deckbuilding with roguelike runs.

1 title in the dataset

Madrid studio entrusted with Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and Metroid Dread.

1 title in the dataset

Indie publisher backing eastern European projects including Pathologic and Loop Hero.

Berkeley students whose Rogue gave its name to procedurally generated permadeath dungeons.

1 title in the dataset

Sid Meier and Bill Stealey's simulation and strategy house: Civilization, Pirates!, X-COM.

3 titles in the dataset

Software giant whose Xbox division became the industry's largest acquirer of studios.

Brought Space Invaders to America and absorbed Williams and Atari Games before its 2009 bankruptcy.

2 titles in the dataset

Made Thomas Was Alone in his spare time, proving rectangles could carry characterisation.

1 title in the dataset

Counter-Strike's mod authors, hired by Valve when it bought the mod in 2000.

1 title in the dataset

Nexon's experimental studio, which made Dave the Diver.

1 title in the dataset

Outer Wilds' developer, built around a 22-minute solar-system time loop.

1 title in the dataset

Markus Persson's studio around Minecraft; sold to Microsoft for $2.5 billion in 2014.

1 title in the dataset

No One Lives Forever, F.E.A.R. and Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system; closed by Warner in 2025.

1 title in the dataset

Founded by Square's Xenogears team; Xenoblade's developer, majority-owned by Nintendo since 2007.

2 titles in the dataset

Distributed studio behind Ori and the Blind Forest and No Rest for the Wicked.

1 title in the dataset

Derek Yu's label; Spelunky brought procedural generation to the platformer.

1 title in the dataset

French worker cooperative behind Dead Cells, with equal pay and no hierarchy.

1 title in the dataset

Viacom's music-games label, formed around its purchase of Harmonix.

Baltimore publisher of Castle Wolfenstein, the stealth game id Software later revived.

1 title in the dataset

Dark Age of Camelot's developer; EA bought it in 2006 and closed it in 2014.

1 title in the dataset

Julian Gollop's studio; X-COM's design came from his earlier Laser Squad work.

1 title in the dataset