I guess it’s that time again…
UPDATED LIST OF POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS
Note: These are primarily private firms barring the Major International Firms section. Also, firms like EA, Tencent, Take Two, Netease and Activision sure as hell are not selling. But an arrangement for a studio or two from them? Not 100% impossible.
Major International Firms
Activision
Annapurna Interactive
Bandai Namco
Blizzard
Capcom
CD Projekt Red
Digital Bros. (505)
Electronic Arts
Embracer Group (THQ Nordic, Deep Silver, a shitton of other studios)
Focus Home Interactive
Koei Tecmo
Konami
Krafton Game Union
Level-5
Nacon
NetEase
Nippon Ichi Software (NIS)
Nordisk Film Games
Paradox Interactive
SEGA
SEGA Europe (Creative Assembly, Relic, Two-Point, etc.)
SEGA-Sammy Group (SEGA + Sammy + ATLUS)
Smilegate
Square Enix Europe (Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, etc.)
Square Enix (Super Unlikely)
Sumo Group
Take-Two
Team17
Tencent
Thunderful
Ubisoft
Valve
Virtuous (Good team of support studios and asset/animation creators)
Wargaming
WB Games
United States of America:
1047 Games
3D Realms
Absurd Ventures (Dan Houser’s Studio)
Acid Nerve
Armature Studio
Athena Worlds (New studio just founded by Nolan FUCKING BUSHNELL!!! Founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese! Damn this rabbit hole is fun!)
Bungie
Bluepoint
Deck Nine
Deviation Games
Dreamhaven
Farsight Studios (pinball)
Forgotten Empires (I think. I have no idea what is going on between it and World’s Edge whether they are the same)
Harmonix
Hi-Rez
Hidden Leaf (Remote technically)
Hidden Path Entertainment
Hopoo Games
Innersloth
Iron Galaxy
Jackbox Games
Jumpship
Lightforge Games
Monomi Park
Mountaintop Games
Niantic
Oddworld Inhabitants
Panic Button
Probably Monsters
Singularity 6
Stoic Studio
Sun Machine Games
Supergiant Games
ThatGameCompany
The Tetris Company
Theorycraft Games
Tripwire Interactive
Turtle Rock
Twin Suns
Velan Studios
WayForward
Yacht Club Games
Canada:
Behaviour Interactive
Bunnyhug
Drinkbox Studios
Extremely OK Games (Formerly Matt Makes Games, developers of Celeste)
Haven
HB Studios
Humanoid Studios
Next Level Games
Other Ocean Group
Phoenix Labs
Ratloop Games
Skybox Labs
Studio MDHR
Torn Banner
Tribute Games
Yellow Brick Games
Japan:
Arc System Works
Arika
Artdink
Artepiazza
Arzest
Aquria
Bokeh Game Studio
Camelot Software Planning
Cattle Call
Cave Interactive
Clap Hanz
CyberConnect2
Dimps
Felistella
Game Freak (Not Happening)
Grasshopper Manufacture/Gungho
h.a.n.d.
Idea Factory
Ikumi Nakamura Studio
Intelligent Systems (Not Happening)
Inti Creates
JP Games
Kemco (Lots of games at a minimum, they have their fans)
Kojima Productions
HAL Labs (Not Happening)
Matrix Software
Media.Vision
Mistwalker
Nihom-Falcom
Natsume
Tamsoft
Platinum Games
Q-Games
Rabbit and Bear
RED Entertainment
Sandlot
Success
Valhalla Game Studios
Vanillaware
White Owls
Yuke’s
United Kingdom:
4J Studios
Bossa Studios
Build a Rocket Boy Games
Chucklefish
Climax Studios
FacePunch Studios
Hello Games
Interior/Night
Playtonic
Rebellion Developments
A Sam Barlow studio
Sad Cat Games
Three Fields Entertainment
Poland:
The Astronauts
The Farm 51
One More Level
Techland
Teyon
Thing Trunk
Vavel Games
Rest of Europe
1C Entertainment
Asobo
The Bearded Ladies
Colossal Order
Crytek
DotEmu
Frictional Games
Frogwares
Frozenbyte
Gaijin Entertainment
GSC Gameworld
IO Interactive
Iron Gate Studio
Larian
Mimimi Games (They did Desperados 3)
Moon Studios (if willing)
Motion Twin
Mundfish
Naps Team
Pendulo Studios
Quantic Dream
Red Thread Games
Slipgate Ironworks
Starbreeze Studios
Two Tribes
WolfEye
China
24 Entertainment
Animoca Games (owns Nway, developers of the Power Rangers fighter y’all seem to love)
FYQD
Game Science
Mihoyo
Perfect World Games
Recreate Games
South Korea
Blueside Inc.
ESA
Pearl Abyss
Phantagram
Miscellaneous
ACE TEAM (Chile)
Big Ant Studios (Australia)
Krome Studios (Australia)
Tantalus Media (Australia)
Wicked Witch Software (Australia)
Video Game Adjacent
Discord
Firelight Technologies (Makers of FMOD)
Games Workshop (Pretty cheap all things considered. Maker of tabletop games, owner of Warhammer(40k) and more)
Guilded (Discord Competitor)
IDV (Makers of Speedtree)
Sonantic (Adaptive AI voices to fill in for voice actors and allow greater testing of dialogue. Obsidian uses them)
Tripleclix (This is the partner agency MS has used for a lot of their co-promotional efforts like Gears/Chips Ahoy and Series X/Taco Bell)