Studios beginning with S

Sony's internal studio behind God of War and an incubator for outside indie projects.

5 titles in the dataset

Utah licensed-games house, later Acclaim Studios Salt Lake City; three staff left in 1994 to found Neversoft.

Arcade and console hardware maker that abandoned hardware in 2001 and became a third-party publisher.

4 titles in the dataset

Yu Suzuki's arcade group: Space Harrier, Virtua Fighter, Shenmue.

6 titles in the dataset

Sega's arcade group behind Virtua Racing follow-ups and Crazy Taxi, later Hitmaker.

1 title in the dataset

Two-person London studio behind the desert exploration game Sable.

1 title in the dataset

Luke Hodorowicz built the city-builder Banished alone over three years.

1 title in the dataset

Ken and Roberta Williams's adventure house; passed through CUC and Vivendi into Activision Blizzard.

1 title in the dataset

Sierra's late-1990s label for action games including Half-Life and Homeworld.

Master of Orion and Master of Magic's developer, published by MicroProse.

1 title in the dataset

Published Wizardry, the dungeon crawler that shaped Japanese RPG design.

1 title in the dataset

Asher Vollmer's team behind Threes, the sliding-number puzzle 2048 cloned.

1 title in the dataset

Greg Styczen built Manor Lords, a medieval city-builder, almost entirely alone.

1 title in the dataset

Started by Visceral veterans Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey as a second Call of Duty studio.

Formed from Team Andromeda and AM6; made Jet Set Radio and Panzer Dragoon Orta.

1 title in the dataset

Neo Geo hardware maker and fighting-game house behind King of Fighters and Metal Slug.

2 titles in the dataset

Louisiana disk-magazine publisher whose staff moonlighted on Commander Keen and then left to found id.

Sega's flagship internal studio, formed around Sonic the Hedgehog.

4 titles in the dataset

Sony's games arm, created for the PlayStation; renamed Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2016.

The PlayStation business after its 2016 reorganisation under a US-headquartered entity.

EverQuest's operator; Sony sold it in 2015 and it became Daybreak.

1 title in the dataset

Masahiro Sakurai's company, formed after leaving HAL, to keep directing Smash Bros.

1 title in the dataset

Mexican advertising firm's side project became Kerbal Space Program; Take-Two later bought it.

1 title in the dataset

Final Fantasy's creator, whose CD-ROM ambitions pushed it from Nintendo to Sony hardware.

14 titles in the dataset

Product of the 2003 Square-Enix merger; bought Taito and Eidos, then sold its Western studios.

6 titles in the dataset

Swedish studio behind The Chronicles of Riddick and Payday; lost its founding team to MachineGames.

MIT hackers wrote Spacewar! on a PDP-1 in 1962, the first widely copied digital game.

1 title in the dataset

Wargame publisher that held the Dungeons & Dragons licence for the Gold Box RPGs.

1 title in the dataset

Montreal strategy publisher, best known for Disciples and Space Empires.

The Moldenhauer brothers remortgaged a house to hand-animate Cuphead in 1930s cartoon style.

1 title in the dataset

Bruce Artwick's company, whose Flight Simulator Microsoft licensed and eventually bought.

1 title in the dataset

Two ex-2K China developers made FTL on Kickstarter, then Into the Breach.

2 titles in the dataset

Sly Cooper and inFAMOUS studio, acquired by Sony in 2011; later made Ghost of Tsushima.

2 titles in the dataset

Small-cell mobile studio behind Clash of Clans; Tencent bought a majority stake in 2016.

2 titles in the dataset

Founded by EA Los Angeles veterans; Bastion, Transistor and Hades.

4 titles in the dataset

Turned a game-jam prototype about time moving only when you move into Superhot.

1 title in the dataset