Bellevue, Washington — Steam, Half-Life, Portal, Dota 2 and Counter-Strike.
Top titles
Portal 2
Half-Life: Alyx
Left 4 Dead 2
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Visual Concepts
United States
Novato, CA
Est. 1988
15 games
★ 3.0
Novato, California — NBA 2K and WWE 2K, the gold standard of sports sims.
Top titles
WWE 2K25
NBA 2K26
WWE 2K23
Texas legends that invented the first-person shooter — DOOM, Quake, and DOOM Eternal.
Top titles
DOOM Eternal
DOOM: The Dark Ages
DOOM
The Maryland RPG house behind The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Starfield — three of the most modded worlds in gaming.
Top titles
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Fallout 4
Starfield
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Obsidian Entertainment
United States
Irvine, CA
Est. 2003
obsidian.net
12 games
★ 4.0
Orange County RPG house — Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity, The Outer Worlds and Avowed.
Top titles
The Outer Worlds 2
Avowed
South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
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Firaxis Games
United States
Sparks, MD
Est. 1996
firaxis.com
11 games
★ 3.0
Sparks, Maryland — Civilization, XCOM and thirty years of "one more turn".
Top titles
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
The studio behind Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption — open-world benchmark setters.
Top titles
Grand Theft Auto V
Red Dead Redemption 2
Grand Theft Auto III
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Saber Interactive
United States
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Est. 2001
saber3d.com
5 games
★ 4.0
Miami-headquartered action studio — Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and World War Z.
Top titles
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
World War Z
SnowRunner
San Francisco auteur house — Bastion, Transistor and the Hades saga.
Top titles
Hades
Hades II
Pyre
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Respawn Entertainment
United States
Los Angeles, CA
Est. 2010
respawn.com
4 games
★ 4.0
Los Angeles studio behind Titanfall, Apex Legends and the Star Wars Jedi saga.
Top titles
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Apex Legends
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
The Subnautica studio — underwater survival with genuine leviathan dread.
Top titles
Subnautica
Subnautica: Below Zero
Natural Selection 2
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Blizzard Entertainment
United States
Irvine, CA
Est. 1991
blizzard.com
3 games
★ 3.0
Irvine institution behind Diablo, Warcraft, Overwatch and StarCraft — the studio that defined entire genres.
Top titles
Diablo IV
World of Warcraft
Overwatch 2
Seattle-based studio behind the ARK survival series.
Top titles
ARK: Survival Evolved
ARK: Survival Ascended
ARK: The Survival Of The Fittest
Los Angeles — League of Legends, Valorant and the biggest esport ecosystems on earth.
Top titles
Valorant
League of Legends
Salt Lake City veterans revived to build Hogwarts Legacy, one of the biggest launches in Warner Bros. history.
Top titles
Hogwarts Legacy
The one-developer studio of Billy Basso — Animal Well, a 64KB metroidvania with bottomless secrets.
Top titles
Animal Well
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Bungie
United States
Bellevue, WA
Est. 1991
bungie.net
1 games
★ 4.0
Bellevue studio behind Destiny and, before that, Halo — live-service shooters with a devotee culture.
Top titles
Destiny 2
Eric Barone's one-person project — Stardew Valley, the most beloved farming sim ever made.
Top titles
Stardew Valley
Cary, NC — Fortnite, Unreal Engine and the store that challenged the platform fee status quo.
Top titles
Fortnite
Redmond indies behind Among Us — the social deduction phenomenon.
Top titles
Among Us
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Ludeon Studios
United States
Seattle, WA
Est. 2012
ludeon.com
1 games
★ 4.0
Montréal-based colony-sim storytellers behind RimWorld.
Top titles
RimWorld
The deckbuilding house behind Slay the Spire — the game that spawned a genre.
Top titles
Slay the Spire
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Psyonix
United States
San Diego, CA
Est. 2000
psyonix.com
1 games
★ 4.0
San Diego studio behind Rocket League — soccer, but the players are rocket cars.
Top titles
Rocket League
The North Carolina studio behind Terraria — a 2D universe with a hundred bosses.
Top titles
Terraria
Austin, Texas — the Metroid Prime trilogy and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.
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Treyarch · Raven Software
United States
Santa Monica, CA
Est. 1996
treyarch.com
1 games
★ 4.0
The Call of Duty: Black Ops leads — Treyarch with Raven Software on the annual flagship.