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HuCard

Video game developers published new titles on HuCard/TurboChip until 1993.


Absolute Entertainment

After leaving his position as a video game developer and designer at Activision, Garry Kitchen founded the company in 1986 with his brother Dan Kitchen, along with David Crane, Alex Demeo, John Van Ryzin.

Agate Studio

Agate Studio is an Indonesian video game development company based in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.

Autumn Moon Entertainment

Autumn Moon Entertainment is an independent computer game developer founded in 2002 by Mike Kirchoff and Bill Tiller.

Blitz Games Studios

Blitz Games Studios Limited was a video game developer located in Leamington Spa, United Kingdom best known for producing games based on franchises such as iCarly, Spongebob Squarepants and Bratz.

BreakAway Games

BreakAway Games is a video game developer based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States, established in 1998.

Capcom Fighting All-Stars

Capcom Fighting All-Stars: Code Holder was a 3D fighting game planned for the arcade and PlayStation 2 that was to be developed by Capcom.

Casey Hudson

After obtaining a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Hudson began his career at the Canadian video game developer BioWare with credits as a technical artist on several games, including MDK 2.

Castle Thorn Software

Castle Thorn Software was a small, independent computer game developer located in Hamilton, Montana, USA.

Daemonica

In December 2008 Cinemax announced that Legends of Daemonca: Fareypoint Purgatory is in development.

Digger T. Rock: Legend of the Lost City

Digger T. Rock: Legend of the Lost City is an NES game developed by Rare and released by Milton Bradley in December 1990.

Gamevil

Gamevil Inc. (trademarked in capitals as GAMEVIL) ((주)게임빌) is a public company based in Seoul, Republic of Korea, and Torrance, California, which develops and publishes video games for mobile devices.

Greg Siegele

Greg Siegele was the co-founder of Ratbag Games Pty Ltd, an Australian video game developer of such games as Powerslide, The Dukes of Hazzard: Return of the General Lee and World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars 2002.

Joyboard

In homage to this, Ian Bogost, founder of video game developer Persuasive Games, has developed the video game Guru Meditation in an attempt "to create a legitimate zen meditation game".

Max Design

Max Design was an Austrian game developer located in Schladming who originated various games which attained cult status – like the Anno-series – especially in German-speaking regions.

Pyro Studios

Pyro Mobile is a video game developer based in Madrid, Spain, established in 2012 as a merger between Play Wireless and Pyro Studios, most known for its real-time tactics games series, Commandos.

Rag Doll Kung Fu

Rag Doll Kung Fu is a fighting computer game, created predominantly by artist Mark Healey, while working for Lionhead Studios, along with other Lionhead employees, such as David Smith and Alex Evans.

Rebecca Heineman

She has also been affiliated at various times with Barking Lizards Technologies, Electronic Arts, Bloomberg, Microsoft, MacPlay and Ubisoft, among other game companies.

Retro City Rampage

The game also pays tribute to "cheesy" one-liners, television shows and pop culture, as well as cameos including Phil Fish (creator of Fez), Billy Campbell, and Phil Guerrero (of YTV fame) with permission.

Studio Gigante

Studio Gigante was a Chicago-based video game developer established in 2000 by John Tobias, Dave Michicich, and Joshua Tsui, several developers of Midway's popular Mortal Kombat fighting game series.

The Cycles: International Grand Prix Racing

The Cycles: International Grand Prix Racing is a 1989 computer game developed by Distinctive Software and published by Accolade.

The Simpsons Arcade Game

The Simpsons Arcade Game is an arcade beat 'em up developed by Konami released in 1991, and the first video game based on The Simpsons franchise.

The Software Refinery

The Software Refinery was a United Kingdom-based computer game development company formed by Ciaran Gultnieks, Ian Martin and Mark Griffiths.

Thing on a Spring

The game was written by Jason Perkins, Anthony Clarke and the graphics were by Mark Rogers, with musical score composed by Rob Hubbard, his first composition for a game.

Tigon Studios

Tigon Studios is a video game developer owned by One Race Films focused primarily on games featuring or starring actor Vin Diesel, who also founded the company.

Touch the Dead

Touch the Dead (titled Dead 'n' Furious in Europe) is a rail shooter/survival horror game for the Nintendo DS developed by Dream On Studio and published by Eidos Interactive under its brand Secret Stash Games. The game's box art was created by artist Arthur Suydam, famous for his work on the Marvel Zombies line of comics.

Trip Hawkins

In 1996 3DO stopped developing the system and transitioned into a video game developer, making games for the PlayStation, PC and other consoles.


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Acclaim

Acclaim Entertainment, a defunct American video game developer and publisher

Allen Adham

Allen Adham is an Egyptian American businessman, who along with Michael Morhaime and Frank Pearce, was one of three co-founders of the video game developer Silicon & Synapse in 1991.

Babel II

Video game developer Yu Suzuki of Sega says Babel II was his main inspiration in the creation of the arcade game Psy-Phi.

Blue Castle

Capcom Vancouver (formerly known as Blue Castle Games), a video game developer

Choo-Choo Soul

Choo Choo Soul began as a collaboration between video game developer Greg Johnson, recording engineer and sound designer Burke Trieschmann, and vocalist Genevieve Goings during dialogue recordings for ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth, the first Xbox installment of the ToeJam & Earl video game franchise.

Daniel Kucan

Daniel Kucan is the brother of video game developer and actor Joseph D. Kucan.

Elena Siegman

In work for the video game developer Treyarch, she provided vocals for the soundtrack to the Nazi Zombies game mode in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Ensemble Studios

Ensemble Studios was a video game developer initially established in 1995 as an independent company by Tony Goodman, Rick Goodman and John Boog-Scott, but was acquired by Microsoft in 2001 and operated as an internal studio until 2009, when it was officially disbanded.

Garriott

Richard Garriott (born 1961), British-American video game developer and entrepreneur

Robert Garriott (born 1956), American video game developer and entrepreneur

Gregory T. Baldwin

Gregory T. Baldwin, born March 23, 1976 in Hollywood, California, is a United States Air Force Officer and former video game developer, best known for his work with Electronic Arts' Westwood Studios and Interplay Entertainment.

HuneX

HuneX is a video game developer formed as a partnership between NEC Home Electronics, Ltd. and Human in 1992.

Jenova

Jenova Chen (born Xinghan Chen), video game developer and the founder of thatgamecompany

Level five

Level-5, independent video game developer and publisher, one of ten largest in Japan; founded in 1998 by Akihiro Hino; high-profile titles True Fantasy Live Online, Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King and Rogue Galaxy

Miguel Coimbra

Coimbra moved to Lyon in 2005 and worked as a graphic designer for the resident video game developer Eden Games, on among other things, the titles Test Drive Unlimited and Alone in the Dark.

Mindstorm

Mindstorm Studios, a computer video game developer and software developer company

S.W.I.N.E.

S.W.I.N.E. (Strategic Warfare In a Nifty Environment) is a real-time tactics game designed by Hungarian video game developer StormRegion.

Skyworks

Skyworks Interactive, video game developer based in Hackensack, New Jersey

Technos

Technōs Japan, a defunct Japanese video game developer, 1981–1996

Vir2L Studios

Vir2L Studios, was a video game developer headquartered in Washington, D.C..

Virtual Villagers

Virtual Villagers is a series of village simulator video games created and developed by Last Day of Work, an independent video game developer and publisher.

Wadjet eye

Wadjet Eye Games, an indie video game developer which specialises in point and click adventure games.

Westwood Online

Westwood Studios, a computer and video game developer based in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States