The top 25 public companies by game revenues in 2011 and 2014.
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The DeanBeat: The top 25 public game companies have changed drastically in five years

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Five years ago, not many people outside of China had heard of Tencent. But today, the company heads the list of the top 25 public companies with game revenues.

We’ve seen so much change that I thought it would be instructive to look at the biggest companies in the world when it comes to games and compare them to the past. We’ve got lists for 2011, 2014, and the first half of 2015. It is a very interesting way to visualize the gaming industry and the economic value it is creating, and it’s also a good scoreboard on who is failing or succeeding in creating long-term value in the game business.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.