Microsoft Studios - Software Development Studios

Software Development Studios

Microsoft Studios contains twenty six studios worldwide, 21 for games development and 5 for entertainment technology advancement and publishing:

First Party Third Party Former (First Party) Defunct (Third Party)

United States

  • 343 Industries – Halo series
  • Connected Experiences – Untitled Project – Design Large scale multiplayer title and help other first party studios
  • Good Science Studio – Kinect Adventures, Kinect Fun Labs
  • Kids and Lifestyle Entertainment – Untitled Project
  • Microsoft Studios – Los Angeles – Untitled Project
  • Microsoft Studios – Mobile Gaming – ilomilo
  • Microsoft Studios – Redmond Publishing – Overseeing and co-developing multiple projects in conjunction with third party development studios
  • Platform Next Studios – Untitled Project
  • Playful Learning – Untitled Project
  • Skybox Sports – Untitled Project
  • Turn 10 Studios – Forza Motorsport series
  • Twisted Pixel Games – The Gunstringer, LocoCycle
  • Xbox Live Productions – South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!, South Park: Tenorman's Revenge, Avatar Kinect



Europe

  • Lionhead Studios – Fable series, Black & White series; Unannounced MMO-like New IP
  • Microsoft Studios – London – Untitled Free-To-Play Project
  • Rare Ltd. – Banjo-Kazooie series, Viva Piñata, Perfect Dark series, Kinect Sports series
  • Soho Productions – Kinect Sesame Street TV
  • Press Play – Untitled Project



Canada

  • BigPark – Joy Ride series, Kinect Sports: Season Two
  • Black Tusk Studios – Untitled Project
  • Microsoft Studios Victoria – Untitled Project



− Non Game Development

  • Microsoft Studios – Sentient Team Working with internal and external teams and sharing new technologies
  • Microsoft Studios – Skype Xbox Engineering Team Bringing Skype communication software to Xbox platforms through Xbox Live
  • Microsoft Studios – Games Testing Organization Responsible for games and entertainment testing; from crash processing, telemetry and data visualization, to automating Xboxes
  • Microsoft Studios – Technology and Incubation Group Advancing new products and technologies
  • Microsoft Studios – Xbox Core Platform team API and SDK development
  • 4J Studios – Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Minecraft, Perfect Dark (Xbox Live Arcade ports)
  • Ankama Games – Islands of Wakfu
  • Asobo Studio – Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure
  • Blitz Games – Fuzion Frenzy
  • Blind Wink Games – Matter
  • Blueside – Kingdom Under Fire series
  • Bongfish GmbH – Harms Way, Avatar Motocross Madness
  • Certain Affinity – Crimson Alliance, Halo 2 (Map packs), Halo: Reach (Map packs), Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (Map packs), Halo Waypoint
  • Climax Group – Sudeki, Bloodforge
  • Compulsion Games – Contrast
  • Crytek – Ryse
  • Digital Leisure – Dragon's Lair
  • Digital Reality – Sine Mora
  • Double Fine Productions – Iron Brigade, Double Fine Happy Action Theater
  • Epic Games – Gears of War series, Shadow Complex
  • Frontier Developments – Kinectimals, Kinect Disneyland Adventures
  • Ftoni Studios – Untitled Project
  • FunTown World Limited – FunTown Mahjong
  • Gaia Industries – Street Trace NYC
  • Gastronaut Studios – Small Arms, Gel: Set & Match
  • Gas Powered Games – Age of Empires Online
  • Grasshopper Manufacture – Diabolical Pitch, Sine Mora
  • Grounding Inc. – Crimson Dragon
  • Harmonix – Dance Central series
  • Hidden Path Entertainment – Wits and Wagers
  • Hudson Soft – Fuzion Frenzy 2
  • Humble Hearts – Dust: An Elysian Tail
  • iNiS – Lips series
  • InterServ – Word Puzzle
  • Iron Galaxy Studios – Wreckateer, Ms. Splosion Man (iOS, Windows Phone 7 ports)
  • Klei Entertainment – Mark of the Ninja
  • Krome Studios – Full House Poker, Scene It? Box Office Smash, Game Room, Viva Piñata: Party Animals
  • Little Boy Games – Go! Go! Break Steady
  • Luma Arcade – The Harvest
  • Mistwalker – Lost Odyssey
  • Naked Sky Entertainment – RoboBlitz
  • NanaOn-Sha – Haunt
  • NinjaBee – Band of Bugs, A Kingdom for Keflings, A World of Keflings, Cloning Clyde, Dash of Destruction, Outpost Kaloki X
  • Playground Games – Forza Horizon
  • Q Entertainment – Ninety-Nine Nights series
  • Relentless Software – Kinect Nat Geo TV
  • Remedy Entertainment – Alan Wake series
  • Robot Entertainment – Orcs Must Die!, Age of Empires Online
  • Ruffian Games – Crackdown series
  • Runic Games – Torchlight series
  • Sarbakan – Lazy Raiders
  • Screenlife / WXP – Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action
  • Shadow Planet Productions – Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
  • Signal Studios – Toy Soldiers, Ascend: New Gods
  • Silicon Knights – Too Human
  • Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab – CarneyVale: Showtime
  • Ska Studios – The Dishwasher series
  • Slapdash Games – TiQal
  • Slick Entertainment – Scrap Metal
  • Smart Bomb Interactive – Snoopy Flying Ace
  • Smoking Gun Interactive – Home Run Stars
  • SouthEnd Interactive – Lode Runner 2009, ilomilo
  • Stairs Studio – ?????
  • Starfire Studios – Fusion: Genesis
  • Strange Flavour – TotemBall
  • Tequila Works – Deadlight
  • TikGames – Texas Hold 'em
  • Torpex Games – Schizoid
  • tri-Ace – Infinite Undiscovery
  • Undead Labs – State of Decay
  • Vector Unit – Hydro Thunder Hurricane
  • Zen Studios – Pinball FX series, CastleStorm
  • Aces Studio – Microsoft Flight Simulator series
  • Bungie – Halo series
  • Carbonated Games – Hexic series
  • Ensemble Studios – Age of Empires series
  • Flight Team – Microsoft Flight
  • Hired Gun – Halo 2 for Windows Vista
  • Artoon – Blinx series, Blue Dragon
  • Beep Industries – Voodoo Vince
  • BioWare – Mass Effect, Jade Empire
  • Bizarre Creations – Project Gotham Racing series
  • Dark Energy Digital – Hydrophobia
  • Digital Anvil – Brute Force, Freelancer
  • DreamWorks Interactive – The Neverhood Chronicles
  • FASA Studio – MechWarrior series
  • feelplus – Lost Odyssey
  • Fuel Industries – Tinker
  • Game Republic – Every Party
  • Indie Built – Amped series
  • Ninja Theory – Kung Fu Chaos
  • The Neverhood, Inc – The Neverhood Chronicles
  • Turbine – Asheron's Call
  • Wingnut Interactive

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