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industry directly employs some thirty-two thousand people and indirectly
more than 120,000 (Siwek 2010).
Driven by increasingly powerful platforms (PCs and consoles), a spe-
cialized development sector emerged in the early 1990s (Miles and Green
2008), although many developers have been acquired by international, ver-
tically integrating publishers. Further expansion of the industry provided
opportunities for increasing division of labour, e.g. with specialized game
engines and 3-D objects development activities taking place in companies
other than game developers, sometimes outsourced across national board-
ers. This makes it also more dii cult to map out which games are produced
Table 11.1
Top 50 Game Developers 2009
1. Nintendo (J)
18. Koei (J)
35. Firaxis Games (US)
2. Blizzard Entertainment
(US)
19. Kojima Productions (J) 36. Volition (U.S.)
3. Ubisoft Montreal (C)
20. Harmonix Music
Systems (US)
37. Sega (J)
4. Rockstar North (UK)
21. Media Molecule (UK)
38. SCE Japan Studio (J)
5. EA Canada (C)
22. Lionhead Studios (UK) 39. Ironclad Games (C)
6. Konami (J)
23. Vicarious Visions (US)
40. Marvelous Interactive
(J)
7. Valve Software (US)
24. Maxis (U.S.)
41. Yuke's Future Media
(J)
8. Epic Games (U.S.)
26. Neversoft Entertain-
ment (US)
42. SCE London Studio
(UK)
9. EA Tiburon (U.S.)
26. Game Freak (J)
43. Visual Concepts (US)
10. Treyarch (U.S.)
27. Square Enix (J)
44. Intelligent Systems (J)
11. Hal Laboratory (J)
28. Digital Illusions CE
(SE)
45. Omega Force (J)
12. Capcom (J)
29. Success (J)
46. Monolith Productions
(US)
13. Traveller's Tales (UK)
30. Ready At Dawn (U.S.) 47. Funcom (NO)
14. Bethesda Game Stu-
dios (US)
31. Atlus (U.S.)
48. SCE Studios San Diego
(US)
15. Insomniac Games (US) 32. Criterion Games (UK)
49. Rare (UK)
16. Namco Bandai Games
(J)
33. TOSE (J)
50. Treasure (J)
17. EA Redwood Shores
(US)
34. Mythic Entertainment
(US)
Source: Adapted from http://gamedeveloperresearch.com/top-50-developers-2009.htm (a ccessed
May 11, 2011).
 
 
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