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card game A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). A small number of card ga ...
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board game Board games are tabletop games that typically use . These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well. Many board games feature a co ...
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miniatures game Miniatures games are a form of tabletop game which prominently features the use of miniature models or figures. War games One of the oldest and most popular miniatures game genres is that of war games, where figures are arranged into competing ...
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role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal ac ...
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s, and companies which sell accessories for use in those games. Not included in this list are companies that simply resell products of other companies, although many of the companies listed here do have online stores that sell their own products.


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* 1i Productions – board games * 3W – wargames and wargaming magazines


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Ad Astra Games ''Attack Vector: Tactical (AV:T)'' is a space combat wargame published by Ad Astra Games. The game is consciously designed to model comparatively realistic space combat and eschew common conventions of space warfare. Attack Vector: Tactical is set ...
– wargames * Agents of Gaming – wargames * Agglo – magnetic travel games *
Alea Alea or ALEA may refer to: Places * Alea (Arcadia), a town of ancient Arcadia, Greece, located near the modern town in Argolis * Alea (Thessaly), a town of ancient Thessaly, Greece * Alea, Arcadia, a village in the municipal unit Tegea, Arcadia ...
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Ravensburger Ravensburger AG is a German game and toy company, publishing house and market leader in the European jigsaw puzzle market. History The company was founded by Otto Robert Maier in Ravensburg, a town in Upper Swabia in southern Germany. He beg ...
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Alderac Entertainment Group Alderac Entertainment Group, or AEG, is a publisher of role-playing game, board game, and collectible card game products. AEG was formed by Jolly Blackburn in 1993 and is based in the city of Ontario, California. Prior to getting into their cu ...
– collector card games, role-playing games *
Alternative Armies Alternative Armies is a miniature gaming and modeling company located in Scotland. It produces a range of different games and model ranges, the most famous of which is the game of ''Flintloque''. Games Games based in the world of Valon Third Age o ...
– wargames * Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. – space war games and miniatures *
Amigo Spiele Amigo Spiele is a German board and card game publisher. Many of their games have won Spiel des Jahres awards, and many have been published in English by Rio Grande Games. Notable games * '' 6 nimmt!'' (also ''Take 6!'') * '' Bohnanza'' * '' Caf ...
– board games * APBA – sports, board, and computer games *
Apex Publications ''Apex Magazine'', also previously known as ''Apex Digest'', is an American horror and science fiction magazine. This subscription webzine, ''Apex Magazine'', contains short fiction, reviews, and interviews. It has been nominated for several a ...
– role-playing games *
Arc Dream Publishing Arc Dream Publishing is a small role-playing game publishing company founded in 2002 by Pagan Publishing veteran Dennis Detwiller and editor Shane Ivey after their first roleplaying game '' Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 193 ...
– role-playing games *
Archaia Studios Press Archaia Entertainment, LLC, commonly known as Archaia (formerly known as Archaia Studios Press), is an imprint of American comic book and graphic novel publisher Boom! Studios. Archaia Entertainment, LLC was originally an American comic book pub ...
– role-playing games *
Art Meets Matter {{No footnotes, date=November 2019 Art Meets Matter is a design collective exploring the relationship between cultural iconography and objects and materials. Created by Royal College of Art graduate Tony Davis the company has explored iconic sou ...
– board games and game design concepts * Asmodée Éditions – board games; formerly called Siroz * Atlas Games – collectible card games, card games, and role-playing games *
Australian Design Group The Australian Design Group is a game company that specializes in wargames and strategic board games. History The Australian Design Group was formed in 1982 by a group of Canberra gaming enthusiasts in order to publish the game ''Empires in Ar ...
– wargames *
Avalanche Press Avalanche Press is an American company that publishes board wargames and has published some role-playing game supplements. They have produced '' The Great War at Sea'' and '' ''Panzer Grenadier'' series'', as well as '' Red Parachutes'', one of ...
– historical boardgames and historical d20 modules *
Avalon Hill Avalon Hill Games Inc. is a game company that publishes wargames and strategic board games. It has also published miniature wargaming rules, role-playing games and sports simulations. It is a subsidiary of Hasbro, and operates under the company' ...
– board games; part of
Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast LLC (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games. It is currently a subsidia ...


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* Baccus 6mm – miniatures *
Bandai is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine ...
– collector card games * Bards and Sages – role-playing games * Battleline Publications – wargames *
Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland. The company was founded by Christopher Weaver in 1986 as a division of Media Technology Limited, and in 1999 became a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media. In ...
– role-playing/freeroam games; ''Fallout'' series and ''Elder Scrolls'' series * Biohazard Games – role-playing games *
Black Industries Black Industries was the role-playing game imprint of BL Publishing, the publishing arm of Games Workshop. It was announced on January 28, 2008 that it would cease operations after its products currently scheduled for release are published. His ...
– role-playing accessories *
Blacksburg Tactical Research Center Blacksburg Tactical Research Center (BTRC) is an American game publishing company best known for the TimeLords, Macho Women with Guns, and EABA role-playing games. They have produced a variety of role-playing games, card games, and board games. ...
– role-playing games * British Isles Traveller Support – role-playing accessories * Buffalo Games – board games, jig saw puzzles


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* Cactus Game Design – Bible-themed board and card games *
Cakebread & Walton Cakebread & Walton is a British games company that creates and publishes tabletop games. Best known for its ''Clockwork & Chivalry'', ''Renaissance System'' and '' Abney Park's Airship Pirates'' games, they also offer titles covering a range of ...
– role-playing games *
Cartamundi Cartamundi Group is a company based in Turnhout, Belgium, that manufactures, produces, and sells board games, card games, collectible card games, packages, and playing cards through its manufacturing and sales subsidiaries. The name of the company ...
– board games, playing cards and cards for games * Catalyst Game Labs – wargames and role-playing games *
Chaosium Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include '' Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft'', RuneQuest Glorantha'', ''Pendragon ...
– role-playing games *
Cheapass Games Cheapass Games is a game company founded and run by game designer James Ernest, based in Seattle, Washington. Cheapass Games operates on the philosophy that most game owners have plenty of dice, counters, play money, and other common board game ...
– cheaply produced board games and card games *
Clash of Arms Clash of Arms Games is a wargaming company best known for a high level of graphics quality and moderately to highly complex games, often focusing on the Napoleonic era, but with offerings in most eras of military history. Besides boardgames, such a ...
– ''Art of War'' magazine and miniatures rules * Clementoni - educational board games *
Columbia Games Columbia Games is one of the oldest manufacturers of board wargames, and has also produced the '' Hârn'' role-playing game as well as various card games and collectible card games. Their wargames are notable for using small wooden or plastic blo ...
– historical and miniatures games, board games *
Conflict Games John Evans Hill (February 21, 1945 – January 12, 2015) was an American designer of military board wargames, as well as rules for miniature wargaming. He is best known as the designer of the Avalon Hill board game ''Squad Leader'' and the Am ...
– wargames * CoolMiniOrNot – miniatures games, board games, card games *
Cosmic Wimpout ''Cosmic Wimpout'' is a dice game produced by C3, Inc in 1976. It is similar to 1000/5000/10000, Farkle, Greed, Hot Dice, Squelch, Zilch, to name but a few. The game is played with five custom dice, and may use a combination score board and rollin ...
– dice games * Crafty Games – role-playing games * Cranium, Inc. – board games and card games * Crown and Andrews – board games, educational games, wooden puzzles, Rubiks puzzles, and jigsaw puzzles * Cubicle 7 Entertainment – role-playing and card games


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* Days of Wonder – board games *
Decipher, Inc. Decipher, Inc. is an American gaming company based in Norfolk, Virginia, US. They began with three puzzles called "Decipher" then moved on to party games and ''Pente'' sets, but since 1994 produced collectible card and role-playing games. Thei ...
– trading card games, role-playing games * Decision Games – board games *
Descartes Editeur Jeux Descartes was a French publisher of roleplaying games and board games. Their most popular lines included: Eurogames, a set of serious board games, previously published by Duccio Vitale's independent company; Blue Games, small card games for ...
– board games *
Destination Games Destination Games was an American computer game development company created in April 2000 by Richard Garriott, Robert Garriott and Starr Long, following their departure from Origin Systems. ("Destination" is a play on "Origin", the company the ...
– dice games *
Different Worlds ''Different Worlds'' was an American role-playing games magazine published from 1979 to 1987. Scope ''Different Worlds'' published support articles, scenarios, and variants for various role-playing games including ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''Rune ...
– role-playing games and accessories * ''
Dragon A dragon is a reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted a ...
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Dream Pod 9 Dream Pod 9 (DP9), formerly Ianus Games, is a Montreal-based Canadian game publisher. Its most notable products are ''Heavy Gear'', ''Jovian Chronicles'', ''Tribe 8'', and '' Gear Krieg'', as well as the Silhouette role-playing game system. Histo ...
– miniatures and role-playing games * Dream Factory – VCR games * Dwarfstar Games – wargames


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Eagle Games Eagle Games, now known as Eagle-Gryphon games, is a board game publisher. Background Eagle Games was founded in 2001 by Glenn Drover, and was bought by Ashland, Oregon-based FRED Distribution, Inc. doing business as Gryphon Games in 2007. From 2 ...
– board and card games * Eden Studios, Inc. – card, role-playing, and computer games * Eos Press – role-playing and card games *
Eurogames The EuroGames are an LGBT multi-sport event in Europe, licensed by the European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation to a local city host each year and organised (most often) by one or more of the federation's member clubs. Similar to the Gay Gam ...
– board games * Everest (game publisher and distributor) – board games, card games, toys *
Evil Hat Productions Evil Hat Productions is a company that produces role-playing games and other tabletop games. Chief among them is the free indie RPG, '' Fate'', which has won numerous awards. History Fred Hicks had been working with Lydia Leong, Rob Donog ...
– role-playing games * Exile Games Studio – role-playing games


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* Fantasy Flight Games – board games, d20 System supplements and role-playing games *
Fantasy Games Unlimited Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) is a publishing house for tabletop and role-playing games. The company has no in-house design teams and relies on submitted material from outside talent. History Founded in the summer of 1975 in Jericho, New York ...
– role-playing games and accessories *
Fantasy Productions Fantasy Productions Medienvertriebsgesellschaft GmbH (a.k.a. FanPro) is a German publishing company based in Erkrath. History The company was founded in 1983 by Ulrich Kiesow, Werner Fuchs and Hans Joachim Alpers to produce small metal minia ...
– role-playing games *
FASA Corporation Fasa ( fa, فسا, Fasā, also Romanized as Fassa) is a city and capital of Fasa County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 110,825, in 33,379 families. Fasa is the fourth most populous city of the province. The city dat ...
– role-playing games, tabletop war games (out of business; see WizKids and Fanpro) *
Fleer The Fleer Corporation, founded by Frank H. Fleer in 1885, was the first company to successfully manufacture bubble gum; it remained a family-owned enterprise until 1989. Fleer originally developed a bubble gum formulation called '' Blibber-Blu ...
– collector card games accessories *
Flying Buffalo Flying Buffalo Inc. (FBI) is a game company with a line of role playing games, card games, and other gaming materials. The company's founder, Rick Loomis, began game publishing with ''Nuclear Destruction'', a play-by-mail game which started the pr ...
– board, role playing, and play-by-mail games * Fretter's – board games * FSpace Publications – role-playing games * Forge World – resin miniature wargames


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* The Game Crafter – card games, board games, game pieces, game accessories *
Game Designers' Workshop Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) was a wargame and role-playing game publisher from 1973 to 1996. Many of their games are now carried by other publishers. History Game Designers' Workshop was originally established June 22, 1973. The founding m ...
– wargames and role-playing games (out of business; see Far Future Enterprises) *
Game Research/Design Game Research/Design (GR/D) was a board Board or Boards may refer to: Flat surface * Lumber, or other rigid material, milled or sawn flat ** Plank (wood) ** Cutting board ** Sounding board, of a musical instrument * Cardboard (paper product) * ...
– wargames * The Gamers – wargames, board games *
Games Research Inc Games Research Inc was an American board game publisher in the 1960s and 1970s based in Boston. Among the games it published are ''Convention!'' (1960), ''Diplomacy'' (1961 and again in 1971 with a revised rulebook), ''What's That on My Head?'' ...
– board wargames *
Games Workshop Games Workshop Group (often abbreviated as GW) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England. Its best-known products are '' Warhammer Age of Sigmar'' and '' Warhammer 40,000''. Founded in 1975 by John Peake, ...
– miniature games and board games *
Gibsons Games Gibsons Games (Gibsons) is an independent, family-owned British board game and jigsaw puzzle manufacturer, and one of the oldest of its kind in the United Kingdom. Gibsons is the trading name of H. P. Gibsons & Sons Ltd. The company is now run by ...
– board games * GiftTRAP – board games *
Gigamic Gigamic is a French publisher and distributor of games started up by three brothers. Gigamic started in 1991 by three of six brothers named Stéphane Gires, Ludovic Gires and Jean-Christophe Gires. Since 2001, Gigamic has operated a distribution ...
– board games * GMT Games – board, card, and role-playing games *
Goodman Games Goodman Games is an American game publisher best known for the ''Dungeon Crawl Classics'' series of adventure modules and role-playing game, the ''Dragonmech'' role-playing game, and the ''Etherscope'' role-playing games. The company produced l ...
– role-playing games * Great White Games – collector card games and card games * Green Knight Publishing – role-playing games *
Green Ronin Publishing Green Ronin Publishing is an American company based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Chris Pramas and Nicole Lindroos, they have published several role-playing game–related products. They won several awards for their games including ...
– role-playing accessories * Grenadier Miniatures – miniatures and board games * Grimoire Games – role-playing games * Guardians of Order – role-playing games * Guidon Games – board games and wargames


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* Habermaaß GmbH – board games * Hans im Glück – board games *
Harebrained Schemes Harebrained Schemes, LLC is an American video game developer based in Seattle, Washington. It was co-founded in 2011 by Jordan Weisman and Mitch Gitelman. Prior to founding Harebrained Schemes, Weisman and Gitelman worked together on the '' MechC ...
– miniatures, boardgames *
Hasbro Hasbro, Inc. (; a syllabic abbreviation of its original name, Hassenfeld Brothers) is an American multinational conglomerate holding company incorporated and headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Hasbro owns the trademarks and products of K ...
– board and card games * Hero Games – role-playing games and accessories *
Hidden City Games Hidden City Entertainment was a game publisher founded in 2004 (as Hidden City Games, Inc.) by Jesper Myrfors and Paul Peterson (game designer), Paul Peterson to develop and market the chip-throwing game, "Clout Fantasy." After Clout was developed ...
– collector card games *
Hobby Japan is a Japanese publishing company known for publishing and releasing books, magazines, light novels, games, and collectibles. Founded in 1969, the company owns and distributes such publications as the eponymous ''Hobby Japan'' magazine, as well ...
– wargames * Holistic Design – role-playing and computer games * Humanhead Studios – role-playing games and accessories * Hyperion Entertainment – board games


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Imagination Games Imagination Games is a multi-platform game company that creates, produces and distributes interactive entertainment. History Imagination Game is a subsidiary of Imagination Entertainment and part of the Imagination Group of Companies. Imaginati ...
– board games and DVD games * Iron Crown Enterprises – role-playing games * Issaries, Inc. – role-playing games * Italeri – miniatures


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* J. W. Spear & Sons – board games * Jaques of London – board games * Jedko Games – wargames *
Jeux Descartes Jeux Descartes was a French publisher of roleplaying games and board games. Their most popular lines included: Eurogames, a set of serious board games, previously published by Duccio Vitale's independent company; Blue Games, small card games for ...
– role-playing games *
John Wallis John Wallis (; la, Wallisius; ) was an English clergyman and mathematician who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus. Between 1643 and 1689 he served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal ...
– board games *
Judges Guild Judges Guild is a game publisher that has been active since 1976. The company created and sold many role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related materials, but became best known during the late 1970s and early 1980s as one of the leadin ...
– role-playing accessories


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Kenzer & Company Kenzer & Company (KenzerCo) is a Waukegan, Illinois based publisher of comic books, role-playing games, board games, card games, and miniature games. They are known for the '' Kingdoms of Kalamar'' campaign setting and for their own '' HackMast ...
– miniatures and role-playing games * Kosmos – board games


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* Last Unicorn Games – role-playing games and miniatures *
Lego Lego ( , ; stylized as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of variously colored interlocki ...
– building blocks * Looney Labs – card and board games * Late for the Sky Production Company – property trading board games


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* Majora – board, card and other games (several educational), books, puzzles and toys (several educational) * Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd – role-playing games * Matrix Games – wargames *
Mattel Mattel, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment company founded in January 1945 and headquartered in El Segundo, California. The company has presence in 35 countries and territories and sells products in mor ...
– board and card games *
Mayfair Games Mayfair Games was an American publisher of board, card, and roleplaying games that also licensed Euro-style board games to publish them in English. The company licensed worldwide English-language publishing rights to '' The Settlers of Catan'' s ...
– board and role-playing games *
McFarlane Toys McFarlane Toys is an American company founded by comic book creator Todd McFarlane which makes highly detailed model action figures of characters from films, comics, popular music, video games and various sporting genres. The company, a subsid ...
– miniatures *
McLoughlin Brothers McLoughlin Bros., Inc. was a New York publishing firm active between 1858 and 1920. The company was a pioneer in color printing technologies in children's books. The company specialized in retellings or bowdlerizations of classic stories for c ...
– board games * Mego Corporation – board and card games, action-figure type toys; now defunct * Melbourne House – wargames * Merillian – board games *
Metagaming Concepts Metagaming Concepts, later known simply as Metagaming, was a company that published board games from 1974 to 1983. It was founded and owned by Howard Thompson, who designed the company's first game, '' Stellar Conquest''. The company also inven ...
– board and role-playing games *
Milton Bradley Company Milton Bradley Company or simply Milton Bradley (MB) was an American board game manufacturer established by Milton Bradley in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860. In 1920, it absorbed the game production of McLoughlin Brothers, formerly the ...
(Hasbro Company) – board games * Mind Storm Labs – role-playing games *
Misfit Studios Misfit Studios Publishing is a Canadian small press business located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 2003 by Steven Trustrum, the company publishes a number of role-playing game products under limited and open license terms. History ...
– role-playing games * MJM Australia – board games * Modiphius Entertainment – role-playing games, boardgames, miniature wargames and card games. *
Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing is a British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, publishing material since 2001. Its licenses include products based on the science fiction properties ''Traveller'', '' Judge Dredd'', and ''Parano ...
– role-playing games and accessories, miniatures games * Monte Cook – role-playing accessories *
Morning Morning is the period from sunrise to noon. There are no exact times for when morning begins (also true of evening and night) because it can vary according to one's lifestyle and the hours of daylight at each time of year. However, morning s ...
– board and card games *
Multi-Man Publishing Multi-Man Publishing, LLC ("MMP"), founded in 1994, is a Maryland based game company that publishes many wargame titles, including ''Advanced Squad Leader'' and Operational Combat Series. History Multi-Man Publishing (MMP) was founded in 1994 b ...
– wargames


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* Naipes Heraclio Fournier – card games * National Entertainment Collectibles Association – action figures * Necromancer Games – role-playing accessories *
Neogames Neogames is a Swedish role-playing game publisher situated in Gothenburg. They were, after the re-creation of Target Games, the largest RPG publisher in the country. Neogames are known for developing the three first editions of the fantasy RPG ...
– role-playing games *
Nightfall Games Nightfall Games is a United Kingdom based role-playing game publishing company notable for publishing ''SLA Industries'' and The Terminator RPG. History Nightfall Games was founded by Dave Allsop, Anne Boylan and Jared Earle in April 1993 in G ...
– role-playing games * Nikoli – board games *
Nintendo is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles. Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produced handmade playing cards ...
– began as a card game manufacturer


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Operational Studies Group Operational Studies Group, also known as OSG, is a publisher of board wargames. History Kevin Zucker, the Managing Editor at the wargame publisher Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI), left the company in January 1976. He and other ex-SPI employe ...
– wargames *
Osprey Publishing Osprey Publishing is a British, Oxford-based, publishing company specializing in military history. Predominantly an illustrated publisher, many of their books contain full-colour artwork plates, maps and photographs, and the company produces ov ...
– role-playing accessories * Out of the Box Publishing – board and card games * Outset Media – board and card games


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* Pacesetter Ltd – role-playing games and board games (defunct) *
Pagan Publishing Pagan Publishing is a role-playing game publishing company founded by John Scott Tynes in 1990. It began by publishing a ''Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game fanzine, ''The Unspeakable Oath''. In 1994, the co ...
– role-playing accessories * Paizo Publishing – role-playing games and accessories *
Palladium Books Palladium Books is a publisher of role-playing games (RPGs) perhaps best known for its popular, expansive '' Rifts'' series (1990–present). Palladium was founded April 1981 in Detroit, Michigan by current president and lead game designer Kev ...
– role-playing games *
Paradigm Concepts Paradigm Concepts, Inc. is a small-press game publishing company located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They published the award-winning Arcanis campaign setting and managed the Living Arcanis campaign independent of the RPGA. Previously Arca ...
– role-playing accessories * Pariah Press – role-playing games *
Parker Brothers Parker Brothers (known by Parker outside of North America) was an American toy and game manufacturer which in 1991 became a brand of Hasbro. More than 1,800 games were published under the Parker Brothers name since 1883. Among its products we ...
– board games *
Partizan Press Partizan Press is a publisher of military history, especially about the English Civil War. They are the publishing division of Caliver Books — which is based in Leigh-on-Sea and Newthorpe. They also published Valkyrie Quarterly magazin ...
– role-playing games * Patch Products – board and card games *
Pelgrane Press Pelgrane Press Ltd is a British role-playing game publishing company based in London and founded in 1999. It is co-owned by Simon J Rogers and Cat Tobin. It currently produces GUMSHOE System RPGs, ''13th Age'', the Diana Jones award-winning ...
– role-playing games *
Phage Press The ''Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game'' is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his ''Chronicles of Amber''. The game is unusual in that no dice are used in ...
– role-playing games *
Piatnik & Söhne Wiener Spielkartenfabrik Ferd. Piatnik & Söhne, commonly referred to as Piatnik, is an Austrian playing card and board game manufacturing company based in Vienna. History The company was founded in 1824 by the card manufacturer Anton Moser (17 ...
– card games *
Pinnacle Entertainment Group Pinnacle Entertainment Group is a publisher of role-playing games and wargames. History When Shane Lacy Hensley decided to create a 19th-century miniatures game he contacted Charles Ryan's company Chameleon Eclectic about publishing it. The resu ...
– role-playing and collector card games *
Piquet Piquet (; ) is an early 16th-century plain-trick card game for two players that became France's national game. David Parlett calls it a "classic game of relatively great antiquity... still one of the most skill-rewarding card games for two" but ...
– wargames * Point Zero Games – card games * Precedence Entertainment – collector card games * Precis Intermedia – role-playing and miniatures games * Pressman Toy Corp. -board games * Price Stern Sloan – card games *
Privateer Press Privateer Press is a role-playing game, miniature wargame, acrylic paint, board game and card game production and publishing studio. Privateer Press is based in Bellevue, Washington, United States, where they have their headquarters and American ...
– miniatures and role-playing games


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* Q-workshop – game accessories *
Queen Games Queen Games is a German publisher of tabletop games, based in Troisdorf and founded in 1992 by head Rajive Gupta, which specialises primarily in German-style, family-level games but has also published smaller numbers of both simpler, children's ga ...
– board games


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R. Talsorian Games R. Talsorian Games (RTG) is a publisher of role-playing game books and accessories. Originally based in Berkeley, California, but moved to Renton, Washington in 1997. Their titles include the ''Cyberpunk 2020'' series and anime-related titles su ...
– role-playing games *
Ral Partha Formed in 1975, Ral Partha Enterprises, Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, is now known as ''Ral Partha Legacy Ltd.'' and produces miniature figures in 25 mm, 30 mm, 15 mm, and 54 mm scale. The company's products are m ...
– miniatures, accessories, paints, miniature rules, and board games. *
Ravensburger Ravensburger AG is a German game and toy company, publishing house and market leader in the European jigsaw puzzle market. History The company was founded by Otto Robert Maier in Ravensburg, a town in Upper Swabia in southern Germany. He beg ...
* Reaper Miniatures *
Reindeer Games ''Reindeer Games'' (alternatively titled ''Deception'') is a 2000 American action crime thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer in his final feature directorial outing before his 2002 death. It stars Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize T ...
– role-playing games * Replay Publishing – sports board games * Rio Grande Games – board games *
Ronin Arts Ronin Arts is a role-playing game company founded as a join venture by Philip J. Reed and Christopher Shy in 2003, to some degree a successor to Shy's Studio Ronin and Reed's selling of role playing games PDFs from his blog. Ronin Arts publ ...
– role-playing games * RoseArt – board games * Roxley – board games


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Sabertooth Games BL Publishing was a division of Games Workshop, and was split into three sections: * The Black Library publishes novels, art books, background books and graphic novels set in the Warhammer Fantasy world and the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Black Li ...
– collector card games *
Score Score or scorer may refer to: *Test score, the result of an exam or test Business * Score Digital, now part of Bauer Radio * Score Entertainment, a former American trading card design and manufacturing company * Score Media, a former Canadian ...
– collector card games * Selchow & Righter – family board games * Set Enterprises – card games *
Simulations Publications, Inc. Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) was an American publisher of board wargames and related magazines, particularly its flagship ''Strategy & Tactics'', in the 1970s and early 1980s. It produced an enormous number of games and introduced innova ...
(SPI) – wargames and role-playing games * Skirmisher Publishing – miniatures and role-playing accessories *
Sovereign Press, Inc Sovereign Press, Incorporated is a publisher and distributor of role-playing games based in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. It was founded in 1998 by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin and is one of two companies that Weis owns. Games produced Sovereign P ...
– role-playing accessories * Spica Publishing – role-playing game supplements * Stein & Day – wargames *
Steve Jackson Games Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine ''Pyramid''. History Founded in 1980, six years after the c ...
– board, card, and role-playing games * Strat-O-Matic – board games * Strategic Studies Group – collectible card games * Sword & Sorcery Studios – role-playing games and accessories


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Target Games Target Games was a Swedish publisher of role-playing games active from 1980 until the year 1999 when they went into bankruptcy proceedings. Until the mid-1990s they published their Swedish roleplaying games under the brand name Äventyrsspel (me ...
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Task Force Games Task Force Games was a game company started in 1979 by Allen Eldridge and Stephen V. Cole. TFG published many games, most notably including both ''Star Fleet Battles'' (currently published by the original designers, Amarillo Design Bureau) a ...
– board games and wargames * TDC Games – board games and jigsaw puzzles * TerrorBull Games – satirical and educational board and card games * Testor Corporation – miniatures accessories *
ThinkFun ThinkFun, formerly known as Binary Arts, is a toy and board game company founded in 1985 by Bill Ritchie and Andrea Barthello. The two started the company from the basement of their home in Virginia, with a product base that initially consisted of ...
– educational games, brainteasers and card games (formerly; Binary Arts Corp.) * THQ – role-playing games * Tilsit Editions – board games * Tomy – board and card games * Toy Vault, Inc. – licensed board and card games * Tri Tac Games – role-playing games miniatures micro games * Troll Lord Games – role-playing accessories * TSR, Inc. – role-playing and board games; part of
Hasbro Hasbro, Inc. (; a syllabic abbreviation of its original name, Hassenfeld Brothers) is an American multinational conglomerate holding company incorporated and headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Hasbro owns the trademarks and products of K ...
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Tuff Stuff ''Tuff Stuff'' is an online magazine that publishes prices for trading cards and other collectibles from a variety of sports, including baseball, basketball, American football, ice hockey, golf, auto racing and mixed martial arts. The print editi ...
– collector card games * Tuonela Productions Ltd – board games


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Überplay Überplay Entertainment was a board game publishing company located in St. George, Utah, and was founded by Jeremy Young and Matt Molen in 2003. As of April 2008, it had ceased operations. The company held three separate brands: Überplay prov ...
– board and card games * Ungame – board and card games *
Upper Deck Entertainment The Upper Deck Company, LLC (colloquially as Upper Deck and Upper Deck Authenticated, Ltd. in the UK), founded in 1988, is a private company primarily known for producing trading cards. Its headquarters are in Carlsbad, California, United State ...
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United States Playing Card Company The United States Playing Card Company (USPC, though also commonly known as USPCC) is a large American producer and distributor of playing cards. It was established in 1867 as Russell, Morgan & Co. and founded in its current incarnation in 1885 ...
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* Vajra Enterprises – role-playing games *
Victory Games Victory Games may refer to: *Victory Games (Avalon Hill) Avalon Hill Games Inc. is a game company that publishes Wargaming, wargames and Strategy game, strategic board games. It has also published miniature wargaming rules, role-playing games an ...
– role-playing games


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* Warlord Games – wargames, miniatures * Waddingtons – board and card games * Wargames Factory – hard plastic miniatures *
Wargames Foundry Bryan Ansell is a British role-playing and war game designer. In 1985, he became managing director of Games Workshop, and bought Games Workshop from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
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Wargames Research Group The Wargames Research Group (WRG) is a British publisher of rules and reference material for miniature wargaming. Founded in 1969 they were the premier publisher of tabletop rules during the seventies and eighties, publishing rules for periods ra ...
– miniatures games * West End Games – role-playing accessories *
White Wolf Publishing White Wolf Publishing was an American roleplaying game and book publisher. The company was founded in 1991 as a merger between Lion Rampant
– role-playing games * Wicked Dead Brewing Company – role-playing games *
Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast LLC (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games. It is currently a subsidia ...
– collectible card games and role-playing games; now part of
Hasbro Hasbro, Inc. (; a syllabic abbreviation of its original name, Hassenfeld Brothers) is an American multinational conglomerate holding company incorporated and headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Hasbro owns the trademarks and products of K ...
* WizKids – miniatures games and board games * Woodland Scenics – miniatures accessories * Wyrd Miniatures – miniatures and board games


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Yaquinto Publications Yaquinto Publications was the wargame publishing arm of the Robert Yaquinto Printing Company of Dallas, Texas. History Yaquinto Publications was started by Robert Yaquinto Printing early in the year 1979. In March 1979 Robert Yaquinto hired S ...
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* Z-Man Games – board, card, and role-playing games


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Lists of video game companies The following lists of video game companies are available: * List of video game developers * List of video game publishers * List of indie game developers {{list of lists, video game , listcat=Video game companies Video game companies Companies ...
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Outline of games The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to games and gaming: Games – structured or semi-structured activities, usually undertaken for enjoyment. They are usually fun activities that can be educational or pure ...


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List of actual manufacturers (factories) that produce physical games
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Game A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (suc ...