Before Tecmo and Koei, before Square met Enix, before Namco found Bandai ā this chart seeks to catalog the history of game studios ā spinoffs, mergers, acquisitions, defections. Itās also suitable for posterizing on your laundry room wall.
The chartās creator, Eric Wall for Games Are Evil, advises that āthis is by no means the be all, end all, definitive history of video game development studios. There is still room for additional studios and for clarification of individual studio history, as well as more connections between the shift of studio talent from one company to another.ā Heās missed a few studios and publishers ā notably Bethesda Softworks.
But as a family tree, or perhaps family amoeba, of how things got to this point, itās as good a start as any Iāve seen. If youāre having trouble seeing it in full size above, hereās the direct link.
Developers! Developers! Developers! ā The Flow Chart [Games Are Evil]
