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List of Xbox studios

This is a list of Xbox video game studios, including development studios, support studios, and satellite studios. Xbox is an American video game company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, US, founded on January 18, 2022. After several acquisitions, Xbox has become one of the largest video game companies, and it has one of the largest in-house development team, with thousands employees working in over 30 studios in 17 countries as of February 2024. As of July 2026, Xbox consists of the following subsidiaries: Xbox Game Studios, ZeniMax Media, Activision Blizzard. It owns five video game publishing labels, including Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks, Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, and King.

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Blizzard Irvine and Mojang Stockholm are examples of Xbox studios.

This is a list of Xbox video game studios, including development studios, support studios, and satellite studios. Xbox is an American video game company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, US, founded on January 18, 2022. After several acquisitions, Xbox has become one of the largest video game companies, and it has one of the largest in-house development team, with thousands employees working in over 30 studios in 17 countries as of February 2024.12 As of July 2026, Xbox consists of the following subsidiaries: Xbox Game Studios, ZeniMax Media, Activision Blizzard. It owns five video game publishing labels, including Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks, Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, and King.

Xbox opened and acquired studios in 17 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, France, Spain, Mexico, China, Japan, Ireland, Malta, Australia, Hungary, Taiwan, South Korea and Poland.

Studios

Name Location(s) Founded Notable release(s) Ref.
Xbox Game Studios
The Coalition Vancouver, British Columbia 2010 Gears of War series (2014–present) 3
Halo Studios Redmond, Washington 2007 Halo series (2010–present) 4
inXile Entertainment Tustin, California 2002 Wasteland series, Clockwork Revolution 56
New Orleans, Louisiana
Mojang Studios Stockholm, Sweden 2009 Minecraft series 78
Redmond, Washington
Obsidian Entertainment Irvine, California 2003 Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity series, The Outer Worlds series, Grounded series 5
Playground Games Leamington Spa, England 2010 Forza Horizon series, Fable 91011
Rare Twycross, England 1985 Battletoads series, Killer Instinct series, Banjo-Kazooie series, Conker series, Perfect Dark series, Viva Piñata series, Sea of Thieves 12
Turn 10 Studios Redmond, Washington 2001 Forza Motorsport series 13
World's Edge Redmond, Washington 2019 Age of Empires series (2019–present), Age of Mythology: Retold 14
ZeniMax Media
Bethesda Game Studios Rockville, Maryland 2001 Fallout series, The Elder Scrolls series, Starfield 15161718
Austin, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Montreal, Quebec
id Software Richardson, Texas 1991 Wolfenstein series (1992–2008), Doom series, Quake series, Rage series 1819
Frankfurt, Germany
MachineGames Uppsala, Sweden 2009 Wolfenstein series (2014–present), Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 1820
Sundsvall, Sweden
ZeniMax Online Studios Hunt Valley, Maryland 2007 The Elder Scrolls Online 1821
Budapest, Hungary
Activision Blizzard
Activision Shanghai Studio Shanghai, China 2009 Call of Duty series support studio 22
Beenox Quebec City, Quebec 2000 Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, Call of Duty series support studio 2324
Montreal, Quebec
Blizzard Entertainment Irvine, California 1991 Warcraft series, Diablo series, StarCraft series, Overwatch series 2526
Albany, New York
Austin, Texas
Boston, Massachusetts
Shanghai, China
Seoul, South Korea
Sydney, New South Wales
Taipei, Taiwan
Demonware Dublin, Ireland 2003 Call of Duty series support studio 2728
Vancouver, British Columbia
Los Angeles, California
Shanghai, China
Digital Legends Entertainment Barcelona, Spain 2001 Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, Call of Duty series support studio 29
Elsewhere Entertainment Warsaw, Poland 2024 — 3031
Malmö, Sweden
High Moon Studios Carlsbad, California 2001 Darkwatch, Transformers: War for Cybertron, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Deadpool, Call of Duty series support studio 32
Infinity Ward Los Angeles, California 2002 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sub-series 333435
Austin, Texas
Kraków, Poland
Mexico City, Mexico
King Stockholm, Sweden 2003 Candy Crush Saga series 36
Malmö, Sweden
London, England
New York City, New York
San Francisco, California
Los Angeles, California
Dublin, Ireland
St. Paul's Bay, Malta
Barcelona, Spain
Berlin, Germany
Raven Software Middleton, Wisconsin 1990 Heretic/Hexen series, Soldier of Fortune series, Singularity, Call of Duty: Warzone, Call of Duty series support studio 37
Sledgehammer Games Foster City, California 2009 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty: WWII, Call of Duty: Vanguard 1383940
Toronto, Ontario
Guildford, England
Melbourne, Victoria
Solid State Studios Santa Monica, California 2021 Support for Call of Duty: Mobile 41
Treyarch Los Angeles, California 1996 Call of Duty: Black Ops sub-series 138
Vancouver, British Columbia

Former studios

Xbox Game Studios

ZeniMax Media

Activision

See also

See also

References

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