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Study the companies that built the games, worlds, engines, online systems, and competitive ecosystems behind the archive.

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Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard Entertainment occupies a strange and unusually important place in gaming history because the studio helped define what many players mean when they call a game

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Coverage: 70
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Bungie

Important by making shooters feel personal, physical, and communal at the same time Bungie matters because it helped change what people expected a shooter to feel

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Coverage: 75
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Electronic Arts

Powerful by learning how to operate at the scale where genres, licenses, and entire player habits can be shaped Electronic Arts matters because it has spent

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Coverage: 75
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Epic Games

Epic Games is one of the few companies in modern gaming that can be discussed honestly from several different angles without any of them feeling secondary.

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Coverage: 70
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Nintendo

Taught competition how to live in the home Nintendo holds a different kind of authority in gaming history from the authority held by companies that are

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UX: 95MP: 94Legacy: 98
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Riot Games

Helped change what players expect a modern competitive game to be.

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Legacy: 97
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Ubisoft

Ubisoft is one of the most important companies in modern gaming because it has repeatedly shaped the way players imagine stealth, tactical pressure, and open-ended action.

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Coverage: 75
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Valve

Valve is one of the most influential companies in gaming history not because it released the largest number of titles, but because so many of its

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Coverage: 70

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