ENTERTAINMENT

20 companies

100 Thieves

Esports

This esports organization behaves like peacocks displaying elaborate plumage—investing heavily in branded apparel and content to signal status beyond...

Esports, Entertainment +1

343 Industries

Gaming

Stewarding Halo is like inheriting a Sequoia grove—you don't create the majesty, you prevent fires and disease. Each new game must honor decades of fa...

Gaming, Entertainment

4A Games

Gaming

Survives in gaming's harsh environment like antarctic icefish—small team, extreme conditions (Moscow-based through instability), yet produces Metro se...

Gaming, Entertainment

Amazon Games

Gaming

Amazon Games launches titles like salmon spawn - massive investment per game, most die quickly, hoping one breaks through. New World and Lost Ark repr...

Gaming, Technology +1

Arc System Works

Gaming

Arc System Works makes fighting games like Guilty Gear and Dragon Ball FighterZ - niche genre for competitive players. Their 2D fighters are specialis...

Gaming, Entertainment

Atlus

Gaming

Atlus crafts narrative ecosystems—Persona and SMT worlds where player choices cascade through relationship networks like predator removal triggering t...

Gaming, Entertainment

Bethesda Game Studios

Gaming

Bethesda releases games like cicada broods - years of underground development, then synchronized emergence creates cultural saturation before next hib...

Gaming, Entertainment

BioWare

Gaming

Game studio BioWare invests years crafting story-driven RPGs - K-selected strategy producing few offspring (games) with massive parental investment pe...

Gaming, Entertainment

Bungie

Gaming

Game studio building immersive worlds like bowerbirds decorating elaborate nests—Halo and Destiny universes attracting players through environmental s...

Gaming, Entertainment

CD Projekt Red

Gaming

Polish game studio building elaborate digital bowers—Witcher and Cyberpunk worlds requiring years of obsessive detail. Cyberpunk 2077 launch mimicked...

Gaming, Entertainment

Cloud9

Esports

Cloud9 fields coordinated wolf packs across League, Valorant, and CS:GO - each game demands different pack tactics, but the organizational DNA stays c...

Esports, Entertainment

Coffee Stain Studios

Gaming

Coffee Stain builds games that celebrate absurdity - Goat Simulator weaponizes physics glitches, Satisfactory turns factory optimization into zen medi...

Gaming, Entertainment

DICE

Gaming

DICE hosts gaming events like bower birds constructing elaborate mating grounds. Its conventions become seasonal gathering points where the tribe disp...

Gaming, Entertainment

Double Fine Productions

Gaming

Double Fine creates narrative games under Tim Schafer. Its studio prioritizes artistic vision over commercial formula, quirky adventures like Psychona...

Gaming, Entertainment

Evil Geniuses

Esports

Coordinates competitive gaming teams through rapid communication and strategic adaptation, resembling pack hunting dynamics where coordinated attacks...

Esports, Entertainment

Fatshark

Gaming

Swedish game studio known for Warhammer titles and cooperative combat, building player communities through repeated coordinated attacks like wolf pack...

Gaming, Entertainment

FaZe Clan

Esports

Esports collective where viral content creators swarm together, amplifying reach through synchronized social media bursts and cross-platform migration...

Esports, Entertainment +1

Kick

Media

Competes for attention through elaborate displays, like bowerbirds building decorated arenas. Streamers perform for audiences, each developing distinc...

Media, Entertainment +1

Koei Tecmo

Gaming

Simulates historical warfare and strategic competition through game mechanics that mirror evolutionary game theory. Their Dynasty Warriors and strateg...

Gaming, Entertainment

Kojima Productions

Gaming

Crafts narrative games as complex ecosystems where player choices ripple through storylines like predator-prey relationships shape food webs. Each gam...

Gaming, Entertainment