The International Game Developers Association
Association of Shareware Professionals
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America
The Game Manufacturers Assocation
Vivendi Universal, a huge French media conglomerate that is one of the world's top three publishers of
PC games (owning Sierra and Blizzard) has an office here. No actual development work is done here, however.Atari, formerly Infogrames, is a major PC and console games publisher, also French; its North American headquarters is here, but it consists primarily of financial and marketing people. Take2 Interactive, publishers of GTAIII, is headquartered in New York. No actual game development here. The managment of three of their labels, Rockstar Games, 2K Games, and Gathering (formerly Gathering of Developers/GOD Games) are also in New York.Majesco is a publisher primarily of games for handheld consoles. Located in Edison, NJ.Code Masters, a British publisher, has a business office here.Matrix Games, in northern Jersey. A strategy game publisher; no actual development locally.
Khaos Studios, a division of THQ, is working on a next-gen title.
Saber 3D, developer of Will Rock and a forthcoming Xbox 360 title; in Cranford, NJ (but actual development done in Russia)..
Kuma Reality Games. They offer a FPS game (Kuma War) with downloadable levels based on "real world events" (e.g., the killing of Saddam's boys). Game engine is a free download, but you need to subscribe to get new levels, which are produced frequently.
Powerhead Games, a GameBoy developer (but one with console ambitions).
Inferno Games, a GBA developer that also does promotional web games. Suspect they may be inactive, though, as the website hasn't been updated in quite some time.
Game Lab, Eric Zimmerman's company. Formerly mainly an advergame producer, they've become a major developer of casual downloadable games.
Large Animal Games does web-downloadable, wireless, and Pocket PC games. I quite like Rocket Bowl.
Templar Studios, has done quite a lot of web-game work for commercial clients. Peter Mack, who runs the operation, is quite smart, and would probably have a decent game industry career if he weren't stuck in this lovely backwater we call "New York City".
Tiny Mantis is a small studio working on downloadable "indie" games and games for corporate clients. One of the principals, Nik Mitros, developed Supremacy while at Blackhammer (see below).
Imagery Media is a game and animation studio that creates advergames for corporate clients.
Brooklyn Games, currently working on a GBA title.
Electric Funstuff, including a number of ex-Sony Online people, currently doing edutainment work mostly. They also have a band, and the site has some MP3s of songs about games, which are rather amusing.
Superego Games, split between NYC and San Francisco, is working an an as-yet unannounced PC title.
Wanako Games, actually based in Santiago, Chile, has its sales and management team here; they do advergames.
Double Trump is a developer of casual games for the downloadable market.
Freeverse, a company doing indie games, mainly for Mac.
Imhotep Interactive, working on an online game called Star Commerce that tries to be somewhere in between a handful-of-players game and an MMG... Site hasn't been updated in a while, though, not sure how active they are.
Gameloft, one of the largest developers and publishers of mobile games, has a development office here, mostly working on sports titles.Kayak Interactive is headquartered in California, but retains a technical team in Princeton. Multiplayer mobile games.Thumbplay is "the market-leading direct-to-consumer mobile entertainment company," meaning you buy a subscription for $10 a month and they ship ringtones and mobile games and suchlike to your phone.Longtail Studios is a mobile game developer founded by one of the Guillemot brothers (founders of Ubisoft) devoted to mobile games that have some connection to story.Hip n Tasty a web shop that also does wireless game development.Cutlass, a location-based wireless game and event producer.Segue Development is a small mobile game developer.First Star Software, located in Chappaqua, developed Boulder Dash back in the day.... These days they mostly do mobile ports of their older titlesUproar is one of the largest ad-supported online game sites, part of the Flipside family of sites, and thus part of the Vivendi Universal empire.Game Trust sells middleware to support tournament play of simple Web games, as well as a suite of pre-developed classic and original Web titles on a "white-label" basis.Arkadium offers "pay to play with cash prizes", i.e., "it's not gambling because these are games of skill" games. Also do promotional game development on a contract basis.Pop is a new media design shop, but does quite a lot of Flash/Shockwave games, including many for the Cartoon Network.Funny Garbage is mainly a Web design shop, but does a lot of Shockwave game work.Mod Star is mainly a new media design shop, but does promotional web games as well.Supernova Inc is a new media design shop that occasionally does educational or promotional Flash games for corporate clients.
My company, Manifesto Games, aspires to be the place to find independelty-created, downloadable games aimed at core (not causal) gamers. Corporate HQ here, but most people working remotely. We love IM and VoIP.Massive Incorporated is the largest and best-funded advertising-in-games company.The Themis Group, in Stamford, CT, provides community management and marketing services for massively-multiplayer online games.Boonty offers a game downloading back-end solution; out of France, but the New York office appears to be their global HQ.Bitwreck Consulting provides product development, project management, technical and strategic consulting services for clients in the wireless and online games industries.The ESRB, the industry's game rating organization, is headquartered here.Amusement Consultants, in Westchester, is a operator of arcades in New York, New Jersey, and at the New York New York casino in Las Vegas.GameOn NY is a consumer-oriented show, held at MSG, about games; it's a division of the company that also produces TechExpo.Noks makes a bizarre digital-collectibles game that was a surprise hit in Israel, where they're based--but their CEO and US HQ is here.Thornhill Partners is a boutique management consultancy specializing in the games and interactive entertainment industries.Quad Infinity is some kind of location-based entertainment company in Long Island.New Play Media has some sort of "platform" for "broadband and DVD games," whatever they may be.Gaia Industries seems to do somethingorother that's game related, but their website is chockablock with impenetrable market-speak, and I'm damned if I can figure out what, exactly.Ill Clan does machinima using the Quake engine.Shared State also seems to be some kind of machinima operation.American Museum of the Moving Image is mostly devoted to film and TV, but does occasional exhibits or events that involve games.Blackhammer Games, a division of interactive design firm Blackhammer Productions developed a turn-based space strategy game called Supremacy, published by Matrix, but I believe they are no longer interested in further game development.If you know of anyone else doing game development in the New York metro area, please let me know at greg +at+ costik +dot+ com.