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Santa Monica Studio. Santa Monica Studio is an American video game developer based in Los Angeles. A first-party studio for Sony Interactive Entertainment, it is best known for developing the God of War series. The studio was founded in 1999 by Allan Becker and was located in Santa Monica, California, until relocating to Playa Vista in 2014.
Activision Blizzard, Inc. [a] is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California. [3] Activision Blizzard currently includes five business units: [4] Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King, [5] Major League Gaming, [6] and Activision Blizzard Studios.
Treyarch Corporation. Treyarch Corporation ( / ˈtreɪɑːrk / TRAY-ark; [3] formerly Treyarch Invention LLC) is an American video game developer based in Santa Monica, California. Founded in 1996 by Peter Akemann and Doğan Köslü, it was acquired by Activision in 2001. The studio is known for its work for the Call of Duty series, which it ...
Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one of the largest third-party video game publishers in the world and was the top United States publisher ...
[3] [4] They also drew inspiration from Asian video game designers who released their games for no up-front cost, and instead charged for additional perks. [5] Beck and Merrill sought funding from family and angel investors, raising US$1.5 million to launch their company. [5] Riot Games was established in September 2006 in Santa Monica, California.
Naughty Dog, LLC (formerly JAM Software, Inc. [2] [3]) is an American first-party video game developer based in Santa Monica, California. [4] Founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984, [2] the studio was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001. Gavin and Rubin produced a sequence of progressively more successful games, including ...
Number of employees. 56 [1] (2022) Parent. Xbox Game Studios. The Initiative is an American video game development studio under Xbox Game Studios based in Santa Monica, California, formed in 2018. The studio is currently working on a new installment in the Perfect Dark series.
Giant Squid is an American independent video game development company located in Santa Monica, California. Founded by several ex-thatgamecompany staff in March 2013, the studio is most known for developing Abzû (2016) and The Pathless (2020).