W5Rocks is a company established in South Korea that specializes in providing business intelligence for lifetime value maximization for mobile game developers, publishers and ad network service providers. Its analytics tool offers not only analysis but also operation tool for mobile game clients. Based on its unique cohort analytics and combined operation, mobile game operator or developer are enabled to communicate with their game users. 5Rocks provides push notification and in-app-campaign such as announcement, in-app product promotion, rewards, and cross promotion. In Apr 2014, the company announced that it had secured more than 400 clients over the world. 5Rocks is funded by KDDI, Adways, Stonebridge Capital and recently Global Brain. Mobile monetization and ad-tech firm Tapjoy acquired 5Rocks.
W11 bit studios S.A. is a game development company based in Warsaw, Poland. The company was officially formed on 11 September 2010, founded by CD Projekt and Metropolis Software developers and staff members. Currently, they employ approximately one hundred people. The company's goal is to create games suitable for both hardcore gamers as well as casual gamers, and to make games easily available through digital distribution. 11 bit studios implement and deliver games to all main gaming platforms, including consoles, computers, and handhelds. They are best known for their morally challenging games, that often force its players to think of the choices they have made in an ethical manner, a rare element in modern video games. They are also well known for their award-winning game, Anomaly: Warzone Earth, a real-time strategy reversed tower defense. Their other game, This War of Mine, was well received by players and critics due to its depiction of civilians in a city under a siege similar to the Siege of Sarajevo.
WAlternative Games is a Finnish video game developer specializing in porting games primarily for the Linux platform as well as to Mac OS X. In November 2010 it was announced that Trine, a game made by Frozenbyte, was coming to Linux by a new developer called Alternative Games. The finished Linux port of Trine was released as part of the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle.
WArzest Corporation is a Japanese video game development company that develops games for video game consoles. It was formed on June 25, 2010 by key members of Artoon, which was also founded by Executive Vice President Naoto Ohshima, best known as the character designer of Sonic the Hedgehog, as well as his nemesis Dr. Eggman. Arzest was also founded by key Artoon and Sega members who worked on the Panzer Dragoon series.
WBossa Studios Limited is a British video game developer based in London. It is known for its comedic, physics-based games Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread.
WThe Coalition is a Canadian video game developer and a studio of Xbox Game Studios based in Vancouver. The Coalition is best known for developing games in the Gears of War series after the franchise's acquisition by Xbox Game Studios from Epic Games.
WCoffee Stain Studios AB is a Swedish video game developer based in Skövde. Founded in 2010 by nine University of Skövde students, the company is best known for Goat Simulator, which was released in April 2014, and Satisfactory, released as an early access game in 2019. Their parent holding company also operates Coffee Stain Publishing, a publisher, and majority-owns developers Coffee Stain North and Lavapotion. In November 2018, the Coffee Stain group was acquired by THQ Nordic AB.
WDefiant Development Pty Ltd was an Australian independent video game developer based in Brisbane. It was formed in May 2010, in the aftermath of the closures of several larger video game studios in the country, and began developing mobile games and augmented reality games. The studio became well-known with the crowdfunded game Hand of Fate (2015) and its sequel, Hand of Fate 2 (2017). In July 2019, the studio announced that it was winding down and ceasing game development, while continuing to support its existing games. The World In My Attic, a game the studio had intended to release in 2021, was cancelled.
WFailbetter Games is a British video game developer and interactive fiction studio based in London.
WFlazm Interactive Entertainment is a Lithuanian video game developer and publisher founded in 2010. It is best known for creating the simulation video games Train Valley and its sequel, Train Valley 2.
WFox Digital Entertainment was an American digital content, mobile applications, and video games publisher and developer owned by 20th Century Fox.
WFun Bits Interactive, LLC is an American video game developer based in Seattle. It was founded in 2010 by the core team formerly of Titan Studios. In 2010, three of the team members from Fat Princess of Titan Studios started Atomic Operations, which was then renamed as Fun Bits Interactive. After Titan completed Fat Princess, Fun Bits continued work on the project releasing the Fat Roles DLC, which supported additional classes, private servers and clan support.
WThe Game Bakers is an independent game studio based in Montpellier, France. The company are known for creating games for mobile devices including Squids and Combo Crew, but have recently shifted their focus to console and PC games, with Furi.
WJam City is an American video game developer. The company was founded in 2010 by MySpace co-founders Chris DeWolfe, Colin Digiaro and Aber Whitcomb, and former 20th Century Fox executive Josh Yguado. The company has 50 million monthly users and 7 titles to date that have ranked in the 100 highest-grossing charts in the Apple App Store. Jam City has studios located in both California and South America. Since 2013, Jam City has been owned by South Korean company Netmarble.
WKeen Software House is an independent video game developing company based in Prague, Czech Republic. The company was founded by Marek Rosa in 2010.
WLeyou Technologies Holdings Limited is a Chinese video game holding company based in Hong Kong. Founded in 2010, the company originally dealt with poultry through its subsidiary Fujian Sumpo, which had been founded in 1998. After floating on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in January 2011, poultry-based income started to fall in 2013. It agreed to buy a majority stake in the video game developer Digital Extremes in October 2014, renamed itself Leyou in January 2015, and completed the acquisition later that year. It then acquired Splash Damage in July 2016 before divesting its poultry business in August. Leyou majority-acquired Radiance Games and invested in Certain Affinity in 2017, and established Athlon Games in 2018. In December 2020, Leyou was acquired by Tencent.
WLoot Drop was a social video game studio that was started in San Mateo, California. It was created by John Romero and Brenda Romero with veteran Game Designer Tom Hall heading up his own game. Its tagline was "Believe in fun".
WMight and Delight is a Swedish video game development studio and publisher based in Stockholm. The studio was established in 2010 and is best known for the Shelter series.
WMighty Rabbit Studios, Inc. is an American independent video game developer located in Cary, North Carolina. Mighty Rabbit Studios was founded on August 25, 2010 as part of the inaugural session of Joystick Labs, a now defunct game development accelerator program. Mighty Rabbit Studios is best known as the origination point for Limited Run Games, a distributor of physical games for consoles and handhelds.
WMoon Studios GmbH is an Austrian video game developer founded in 2010. They are best known for their 2015 title Ori and the Blind Forest, for which the studio was awarded the Best Debut award at the 2016 Game Developers Choice Awards. The studio then released a sequel, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, in 2020.
WNetherRealm Studios is an American video game developer based in Chicago and owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Led by video game industry veteran and Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon, the studio is in charge of developing the Mortal Kombat and Injustice series of fighting games.
WNew World Interactive LLC is an American video game developer founded by Jeremy Blum in 2010. The company is primarily known for Insurgency (2014), Day of Infamy (2017), and Insurgency: Sandstorm (2018).
WNiantic, Inc. is an American software development company based in San Francisco. Niantic is best known for developing the augmented reality mobile games Ingress, Pokémon Go, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. The company was formed as Niantic Labs in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. The company became an independent entity in October 2015. It has offices in San Francisco, Bellevue, Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, Hong Kong, Tokyo and London.
WNoumena Studios was a video game developer based in Berlin, Germany, founded in 2010. In 2010, Silver Style Entertainment was closed following the bankruptcy of their parent company TGC. Kalypso Media formed its third development studio Noumena to settle the team and their unfinished project Demonicon. They also retrieved most of TGC assets.
WPitbull Studio Limited was a British video game developer based in Houghton-le-Spring, England, with additional offices in Guildford and Leamington Spa.
WPV Hugbúnaður hf., doing business as Plain Vanilla Games, was an Icelandic video game developer based in Reykjavík. Founded in October 2010 by Thor Fridriksson, the company is best known for developing the trivia-based mobile game QuizUp, at its peak the fastest-growing iOS game ever.
WPlayground Games Limited is a British video game developer based in Leamington Spa, England. It is known for developing the Forza Horizon series, which is part of the larger Forza franchise. In 2018, Playground Games became part of Microsoft Studios. They are also currently in development of the next game in the Fable series.
WPlaytika is an Israel-based digital entertainment company that specializes in the development and publication of free to play mobile games. In 2021, Playtika had over 35 million monthly active users.
WSilicon Sisters is a video game developer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The studio creates games aimed at a female audience and is the first Canadian video game studio owned and run solely by women.
WSimogo is a Swedish video game developer based in Malmö. The company was founded in 2010 and is best known for creating games for mobile devices, including Year Walk and Device 6. Its name comes from the name of its founders Simon (SIM), and Gordon (GO); the 'O' from the Swedish word "och" meaning "and".
WSpry Fox is a video game producing company headquartered in Seattle, United States, that was founded in 2010 by David Edery and Daniel Cook. The company produced the games Triple Town, a freemium strategy puzzle game with city-building game elements for social networks and mobile devices; Steambirds, a strategy flying game for mobile devices; Road Not Taken, a roguelike puzzle game; and co-created Realm of the Mad God with Wild Shadow Studios. When Wild Shadow Studios was acquired by Kabam in June 2012, Spry Fox sold its stake in the game to Kabam as part of the deal.
WSupercell Oy is a Finnish mobile game development company based in Helsinki, Finland. Founded on May 16, 2010, the company's debut game was the browser game Gunshine.net, and after its release in 2011, Supercell started developing games for mobile devices. Since then, the company has fully released five mobile games: Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, which are freemium fast-paced games and have been very successful for the company, the first two generating revenue of $2.4 million a day in 2013.
WTango Gameworks is a Japanese video game developer based in Tokyo. Founded in March 2010 by Shinji Mikami, previously of Capcom, the company was acquired by ZeniMax Media in October that year. Tango developed The Evil Within, a survival horror game released in 2014, and its sequel, The Evil Within 2, released in 2017. Its newest game will be Ghostwire: Tokyo.
WToca Boca is a Swedish app development studio focused on child-friendly applications for tablets and smartphones. According to the company's website, "We make digital toys and games that help stimulate the imagination." The company is owned by Spin Master and based in Stockholm, Sweden.
WTomorrow Corporation is an independent video game developer consisting of Kyle Gabler, Allan Blomquist, Kyle Gray, and a division of the Experimental Gameplay Group.
WTorn Banner Studios Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Toronto, Ontario, founded in 2010 by Steve Piggott of Team Chivalry, the team behind Age of Chivalry, a 2007-released Half-Life 2 mod.
WUbisoft Toronto Inc. is a Canadian video game developer and a studio of Ubisoft based in Toronto. The studio was established under Jade Raymond in September 2010. Games developed by Ubisoft Toronto include Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Far Cry 5, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and Watch Dogs Legion.
WVlambeer was a Dutch independent video game developer based in Utrecht. Founded in 2010, the studio was composed of Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman, and closed down on its tenth anniversary after the two recognized they were moving in different directions in the industry. The studio was known for its games Super Crate Box (2010), Serious Sam: The Random Encounter (2011), Ridiculous Fishing (2013), Luftrausers (2014), and Nuclear Throne (2015), as well as for its stand on video game cloning.
WWB Games Montréal Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and is best known for developing Batman: Arkham Origins.
WYousician is a Finnish interactive music service to learn and play a musical instrument. It currently supports guitar, piano, ukulele, bass, and voice.