WThe Adventure Company was a Canadian video game developer and a former publishing division of DreamCatcher Interactive. It was sold to THQ Nordic GmbH in 2011 following DreamCatcher's parent assets being sold after entering administration.
WArtix Entertainment, LLC is an independent video game developer and publisher founded by Adam Bohn in October 2002. It is best known for creating browser-based role-playing video games—including AdventureQuest, DragonFable, MechQuest, and AdventureQuest Worlds—using Adobe Flash. The company released its first title for iOS and Android devices in March 2011 and is currently developing its first 3D game, AdventureQuest 3D, using the Unity game engine.
WAsobo Studio SARL is a French video game developer based in Bordeaux and founded in 2002. The studio is most known for developing video game adaptations of several Pixar movies, A Plague Tale: Innocence, and the 2020 version of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
WAutumn Moon Entertainment is an independent computer game developer founded in 2002 by Bill Tiller. The company specializes in traditional graphic adventure games in the style of the LucasArts classics, particularly The Curse of Monkey Island, on which Tiller served as the lead background artist. The studio released A Vampyre Story in 2008 and Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island in 2009.
WBehaviour Interactive Chile Ltda. was a Chilean video game developer based in Santiago. The company was founded as Wanako Games in 2002, by Esteban Sosnik, Tiburcio de la Cárcova, Santiago Bilinkis, Wenceslao Casares. The studio was first acquired by Vivendi Games in February 2007 and ended up under Artificial Mind and Movement in December 2008. When Artificial Mind and Movement was renamed Behaviour Interactive in 2010, Wanako Games was renamed Behaviour Santiago. Behaviour Santiago was shut down in November 2017.
WBig Fish Games is a casual gaming company based in Seattle, with a regional office in Oakland, California, owned by Aristocrat Leisure. It is a developer and distributor of casual games for computers and mobile devices. It has been accused of knowingly deceiving customers into signing up for monthly purchases without informed consent. It was also the subject of a class action lawsuit over its app Big Fish Casino, resulting in a settlement of $155 million after a federal appeals court ruled that it constituted illegal online gambling.
WBigpoint GmbH is a German video game developer. The company develops stand-alone browser-based games as well as social network games. Bigpoint has over 200 million registered users. Bigpoint.com states that 337,104,419 players are registered in the top right corner, as of 10/10/13. NBCU has featured some of Bigpoint's games on the websites of some of its cable channels.
WCI Games S.A. is a Polish video game developer and publisher based in Warsaw. Founded in 2002, originally as a budget-range game company, CI Games is best known for the Sniper: Ghost Warrior and Lords of the Fallen series.
WDeep Silver is a German-Austrian video game publisher and a division of Koch Media. Eugenio Vitale serves as the director of games development for Deep Silver.
WFreshGames was a Columbus, Ohio based publisher and developer of casual, hand-held, and mobile games. It was formed in early 2002 by a group of gaming industry gamers. This new type of video game genre soon after became known as Casual Games.
WFriendster was a social networking service based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2003. Later the company became a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands and hobbies. Users could share videos, photos, messages, and comments with other members via profiles and networks. It is considered one of the original social networks.
WGaijin Entertainment is a Russian-based video game developer and publisher established in 2002 with offices in Cyprus, Russia, Germany, Hungary and Latvia. The company is mostly known for War Thunder, Crossout, Star Conflict, Cuisine Royale and Enlisted.
WGotham Games, Inc. was an American video game publisher based in New York City. Founded in July 2002 and headed by Jamie Leece, the company was shut down in December 2003.
WIce-Pick Lodge is a Russian video game developer based in Moscow, founded in 2002 by Nikolay Dybowski. The studio became well-known in Russia after releasing its first project Pathologic, which quickly gained critical acclaim and won several major Russian awards.
WInfinite Dreams Inc. or Infinite Dreams is a game development studio located in Gliwice, Poland. The company was founded in 2002 and develops games for a range of digital platforms such as iOS, Android, macOS, Windows Phone and Symbian. The studio is best known for its Sky Force series. Games developed by Infinite Dreams have been downloaded over 25,000,000 times worldwide.
WinXile Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and a studio of Xbox Game Studios based in Tustin, California. Specializing in role-playing video games, inXile was founded in 2002 by Interplay co-founder Brian Fargo. The studio produced the fantasy games The Bard's Tale and Hunted: The Demon's Forge, along with various games for Flash and iOS such as Fantastic Contraption in its first decade of development. In 2012, inXile released the post-apocalyptic game Wasteland 2, following a successful Kickstarter campaign. The sequel to Interplay's Wasteland, inXile acquired the rights to the franchise after previous owners Konami allowed its ownership to lapse. Following the game's critical success, the studio went on to raise a then-record US$4 million on Kickstarter to develop Torment: Tides of Numenera, a spiritual successor to Interplay's Planescape: Torment. inXile has since finished developing Wasteland 3.
WiQue, Ltd. is a translation/localization and support development company located in Suzhou. It was founded as a joint venture between Wei Yen and Nintendo in 2002 as a Chinese video game console manufacturing company. The following year, the company released the iQue Player. The company had manufactured and distributed official Nintendo products for the mainland Chinese market under the iQue brand until 2018.
WKung Fu Factory is an American independent video game developer located in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The company was formerly known as Just Games Interactive, which developed Mortal Kombat: Unchained and Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, and worked on UFC Undisputed 2009. Kung Fu Factory is the first third party developer to have worked on a Mortal Kombat game. Recently the company has released several #1 Mobile games including the Adventure Time: Card Wars Sries, SpongeBob Moves In, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rooftop Run. The company's latest Top Grossing mobile F2P game is WWE Champions, which was developed in partnership with Scopely and WWE.
WKylotonn is a French video game developer, located in Paris, France. It was founded in 2002 by Roman Vincent and Yann Tambellini. The company is most notable for developing Bet on Soldier: Blood Sport and its expansions, as well as for their racing video games including their World Rally Championship games and their entries in the V-Rally and FlatOut series.
WLast Day of Work (LDW) is an independent game studio specializing in casual games. The company has developed several successful real-time "Virtual Life" simulation games including Fish Tycoon, Plant Tycoon, Virtual Families and the Virtual Villagers series for platforms including PC, Mac, iPhone/iPod touch, Palm OS and Windows Mobile Pocket PC. Last Day of Work was founded by CEO Arthur Humphrey and is based in San Francisco, California.
WLondon Studio is a British video game developer based in London. Founded in 2002, it is first-party studio for Sony Interactive Entertainment. The studio was most known for developing the SingStar series, as well as games for PlayStation's external peripherals including the EyeToy camera and virtual reality headset PlayStation VR. The studio has created more than 60 titles since the studio was established.
WMastiff is an American publisher of video games, with offices located in both Tokyo and San Francisco. The executive staff includes Bill Swartz, Mika Hayashi, and Brian Bezdek.
WNext Level Games Inc. is a Canadian video game developer owned by Nintendo based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Founded in August 2002, Next Level Games specializes in creating console video games. Their first project was NHL Hitz Pro, which was published by Midway Games in 2003. The company is best known for its work with Nintendo, the Mario Strikers games and Punch-Out!! for the Wii, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and Metroid Prime: Federation Force for the Nintendo 3DS, and Luigi's Mansion 3 for the Nintendo Switch.
WPalette is a Japanese visual novel studio founded in 2002. It is an adult game brand under Clearrave , a software company located in Mitaka, Tokyo. Palette is known for developing Mashiroiro Symphony, their ninth title released in 2009. It was ported to the PlayStation Portable and was adapted into an anime television series in 2011.
WPeople Can Fly is a Polish video game developer based in Warsaw. The studio was founded in February 2002 by Adrian Chmielarz, previously the co-founder of Metropolis Software, together with acquaintances Michał Kosieradzki and Andrzej Poznański. The studio's first game was Painkiller (2004), the success of which led to a deal with THQ for the game Come Midnight, which allowed the studio to expand. After the game was cancelled, People Can Fly was in financial trouble. Epic Games acquired a majority share in People Can Fly in August 2007 and collaborated with the studio on projects such as Bulletstorm (2011) and Gears of War: Judgment (2013).
WPi Studios was a computer game software developer founded in 2002 by Robert Erwin, John Faulkenbury, Rob Heironimus, Dan Kramer and Peter Mack whose first commercial work can be found in Activision's Call of Duty: United Offensive. The company originated in Plano, Texas and relocated to Houston, Texas in January, 2005.
WPuppy Games is an independent games studio based in the UK. They describe their game style as "neo-retro arcade games".
WRealtime Worlds Ltd. was a British video game developer based in Dundee, Scotland. The company was founded by David Jones in 2002. After developing Crackdown (2007) and APB: All Points Bulletin (2009), Realtime Worlds filed for administration in August 2010.
WSand Grain Studios is a Romanian video game developer based in Bucharest. It was founded in 2002. They often work together on titles for Activision, most notably hunting games based on the Cabela license.
WSandlot Games was a developer and publisher of casual and family-friendly games based in Bothell, Washington, United States. It was founded in 2002 by Daniel Bernstein.
WSchell Games is a game design and development company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 2002 by game developer Jesse Schell. Schell Games creates video games and interactive experiences for education and entertainment.
WSeven Lights was a privately held, American developer/publisher of multiplayer online games headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
WSFB Games Limited is a British video game developer based in London. The studio was founded in September 2002 by brothers Tom and Adam Vian, under the name The Super Flash Bros., to develop Adobe Flash movies and games. In May 2012, the studio incorporated as SFB Games. At SFB Games, Tom acts as technical director, while Adam occupies the role of creative director.
WSickhead Games, LLC is an American independent game development studio founded in 2002. It is best known for its multiplatform turn-based strategy game ARMED!, its involvement with the MonoGame framework and Torque series of game engines, and the development of several PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch ports of indie games including TowerFall Ascension, Stardew Valley, Darkest Dungeon, Octodad: Dadliest Catch, and Axiom Verge.
WSmilegate is a South Korean video game developer and publisher, which develops, publishes and services mobile and PC online games. It has five core business sectors - game development, publishing, platform, investment and social contribution. Established in Korea in 2002, the company is the creator of CrossFire, an FPS game with over six million concurrent players across the globe, and many more distinguished titles.
WSpark Unlimited, based in Sherman Oaks, California was a video game developer founded by former developers from the Medal of Honor PC and console franchise. They were most known for the Call of Duty: Finest Hour console game.
WThe Studio Trophis Production Company, or Studio Trophis for short, was an independent video game developer, based in Sheffield, UK. Their first game, The White Chamber, a point-and-click sci-fi horror adventure, was released for the PC for free download via their website in 2005. They were working on their second game, entitled For The Game. On 26 December 2009, Studio Trophis had closed its doors, as all the other members were busy with their own projects and lives.
WTargem Games is a Russian video game developer, based in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Established in 2002, the company has created nine PC games of various genres. The company received several awards at the Russian Game Developer's Conference, including "Best Debut", "Best Game Design" and "Most innovative project".
WTigon Studios is a video game developer owned by One Race Films focused primarily on games featuring actor Vin Diesel, who also founded the company. Following a suspension of development work, Diesel reactivated the company in September 2013.
WTurtle Rock Studios, formerly Valve South, is an American video game developer founded in March 2002 by Michael Booth. It was acquired by Valve in 2008, but was re-founded in 2011 as an independent company by Phil Robb and Chris Ashton. Turtle Rock Studios is involved in the creation of original titles as well as the provision of consulting services to the digital entertainment industry.
WUbisoft Leamington is a British video game developer and a studio of Ubisoft based in Leamington Spa, England. Founded in November 2002 by six industry veterans formerly of Codemasters and Rare, the studios was bought by Activision in September 2008. In January 2017, Ubisoft acquired the studio from Activision and renamed it Ubisoft Leamington. Ubisoft Leamington is working on AAA games, primarily the Tom Clancy's The Division franchise, in close cooperation with sister studio Ubisoft Reflections.
WUniversomo Ltd. was a Finnish video game developer based in Tampere, Finland. It was founded in 2002, and acquired by THQ on May 9, 2007. Universomo also has offices in Helsinki, Finland and San Diego, United States. Universomo was focused on games for mobile phones, the iPhone and the N-Gage. On January 12, 2010 THQ announced a Nintendo DS game Beat City developed by Universomo, marking the developer's first entry to the handheld gaming market.
WVenan Entertainment, Inc. is a mobile and handheld game development studio based in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 2002, Venan began primarily as a Java/Brew-based mobile phone game developer, but has since branched off to develop games for Nintendo DS, iPod, and iPhone OS. Venan's most recent titles include their fifth fully independent, self-published title Book of Heroes, and the TouchArcade and EGM Game of the Year Space Miner: Space Ore Bust,. Both are available for the iOS devices. Other recent Venan-developed titles include Ninjatown for the Nintendo DS, Monopoly Worldwide and Monopoly Classic for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and NBA Live for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
WVirgin PLAY S.A. was a Spanish video game distributor, and later a video game publisher.
WWildfire Games is an independent free software video game developer, originally founded as a modding team in 2001. The logo is the Chinese character "火" (fire). Wildfire Games is developing two games of the real-time strategy genre. In addition to game development, Wildfire Games has developed the Pyrogenesis game engine used in 0 A.D. and separate mods.
WZootFly was a Slovenian video game developer specializing in the development of action adventure games for the Xbox, Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. ZootFly was a member studio of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA).