Third Party Developer

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A third-party developer is a developer not directly tied to the primary product that a consumer is using. The primary product may be hardware or software.

In the video game industry, many third parties publish the games they develop, such as Electronic Arts and Ubisoft, while others only develop games to be published under other companies, such as BioWare (2nd party Xbox and 3rd party PC) and Raven Software. Furthermore, third party developers can be owned by larger third parties, such as the relationship between Neversoft (creators of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series) and Activision. Because of this, much larger third parties that also publish their own games are typically referred to as publishing houses and not third party developers even though they do develop many of their own games internally.

Another example is a developer that is a separate legal entity from the software being used, usually providing an external software tool that helps organize or use information for the primary software product. Such tools could be a database, VoIP, or add-in interface software, among others.

Examples of third-party developers

Publishers (and subsidiaries)

Activision

Atari — formerly a first-party developer
Atlus
Buena Vista Games
Capcom
Electronic Arts — the largest third party developer
SCi/Eidos Interactive
Konami
LucasArts
Midway Games
Namco Bandai
NCSoft
O~3 Entertainment
Sega — formerly a first-party developer
Square Enix
Take-Two Interactive
THQ

*Paradigm Entertainment

*Blizzard Entertainment

*High Moon Studios

*Radical Entertainment

Foundation 9 Entertainment

*Shiny Entertainment

*Amaze Entertainment

Independent developers

In the video game industry, a first-party developer is a developer who is part of a company that actually manufactures a video game console. First-party developers may either use the name of the company itself (like Nintendo), or have a specific division name (like Sony's Polyphony
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In the video game industry, a second-party developer is a developer who, while being a separate entity from any console manufacturer, is tied to a specific one usually through contract or partial ownership and makes games specifically for that console manufacturer.
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The video game industry (formally referred to as interactive entertainment) is the economic sector involved with the development, marketing and sale of video and computer games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and employs thousands of people worldwide.
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Electronic Arts, Inc

Public (NASDAQ: ERTS )
Founded 1982
Headquarters Redwood City, California, United States

Key people Trip Hawkins, Founder and CEO to 1991
Larry Probst, current chairman of the board and CEO from 1991-2007
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Ubisoft Entertainment

S.A.
Founded 1986
Headquarters Montreuil-sous-Bois , France

Key people Yves Guillemot, CEO
Yannis Mallat, CEO of Montreal Studio
Michel Ancel, Game Designer,

Industry Interactive entertainment
Products Rainbow Six
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BioWare Corp.

Private (Subsidiary of Electronic Arts)
Founded Edmonton, Alberta (1995)
Headquarters Edmonton, Alberta & Austin, Texas

Key people Ray Muzyka, CEO
Greg Zeschuk, President
Industry Software & Programming
Products Infinity Engine
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Raven Software

Subsidiary of Activision
Founded 1990
Headquarters Middleton, Wisconsin, United States

Key people Brian and Steve Raffel (founders)
Industry Interactive entertainment
Website www.ravensoft.
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Neversoft or Neversoft Entertainment is a video game developer, founded in 1994 by Joel Jewett, Mick West and Chris Ward. Neversoft is best recognized for their line of Tony Hawk skateboarding games, known as the Tony Hawk's series.
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Activision, Inc.

Public (NASDAQ: ATVI )
Founded 1979
Headquarters Santa Monica, CA^[1]

Industry Computer and video games
Products Call of Duty series
Spider-Man series
Quake series
Tony Hawk's series
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database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system so that a computer program or person using a query language can consult it to answer queries. The records retrieved in answer to queries are information that can be used to make decisions.
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Voice over Internet Protocol, also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, Broadband telephony, Broadband Phone and Voice over Broadband is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network.
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Infinity Ward, located in Encino, California, is a computer game developer founded by the former employees of 2015, developers of . The studio was acquired by Activision in October 2003.
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Shaba Games is a video game developer founded in September 1997, located in San Francisco, California, and acquired by Activision in 2002, where it continues to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary.
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Treyarch Corporation is a video game developer that was founded in 1996 by Peter Akemann and Doğan Köslü (né Don Likeness), and acquired by Activision in 2001. It is located in Santa Monica, California.

In 2005, Gray Matter Interactive was merged into Treyarch.
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Vicarious Visions is a video game developer.
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Atari, Inc.

Public (NASDAQ: ATAR )
Founded 1972 as Atari Inc.
1984 as Atari Corporation and Atari Games
1998 as Atari Interactive
2003 as Atari Inc. (formerly Infogrames Inc./GT Interactive)
Headquarters New York, N.Y., U.S.
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Atlus

Public (JASDAQ: 7866 )
Founded 1986
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan

Industry Video games
Website www.atlus.com
Atlus (
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Disney Interactive Studios, Inc.

Private
Founded 1988 as Walt Disney Computer Software
1996 as Disney Interactive
Headquarters Glendale, California, USA

Industry Interactive entertainment
Products
Turok (2008 video game)
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The acronym CAPCOM might refer to:

Capcom — Japanese developer and publisher of computer and video games
Capsule communicator

Capcom Co., Ltd.
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SCI may stand for:

Abbreviation for Metcalf Science Center for Science and Engineering, a building at Boston University
Safari Club International
Sales Curve Interactive, a video game developer
Sanmina-SCI, an EMS company
Scalable Coherent Interconnect

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Eidos Interactive

Public
Founded 1990
Headquarters Wimbledon, London, England

Key people Stephen Bernard Streater (Founder [Eidos]),
Jane Cavanagh Founder [SCi] and Chief Executive,
Bill Gardner (Eidos Inc.
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Konami Corporation
コナミ株式会社

Public
Founded March 19, 1969
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan

Key people Kagemasa Kozuki CEO
Hideo Kojima Koji Igarashi
Industry Video game industry
Entertainment industry
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LucasArts

Privately held
Founded May 1982
Headquarters San Francisco, CA, USA

Key people Jim Ward, President
Industry Software & Programming
Products Star Wars franchise, adventure games
Employees Over 350 [1]
Website [2]
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Midway Games

Public (NYSE: MWY )
Founded 1988 ^[1]
Headquarters Chicago, Illinois, USA

Key people David F. Zucker, CEO
Sumner Redstone (through National Amusements, owns a controlling amount of voting shares & is the majority owner)
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Namco Bandai Holdings, Incorporated
株式会社バンダイナムコホールディングス

Public (TYO: 7832 )
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