10 Gaming Companies in Ireland to Know

These top Irish game studios produce titles for players around the world.

Written by Margo Steines
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UPDATED BY
Abel Rodriguez | Jan 15, 2025

The video game industry in Europe produces billions in revenue each year, employing thousands of professionals across studios in various countries, including Ireland. These developers churn out titles for mobile and PC gaming, as well as for console systems from brands like PlayStation. The following gaming companies operating out of Ireland work to reach players worldwide.

Top Gaming Companies in Ireland

  • 2K
  • EA
  • Activision Blizzard
  • Riot Games
  • Playrix
  • eRepublik Labs
  • DIGIT Game Studios

 

Top Gaming Companies in Ireland

With operations across North America, Europe and Asia, Activision Blizzard is one of the largest video game publishers in the world. Its portfolio includes popular franchises like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush.

 

Electronic Arts, or EA, designs and publishes games for most platforms and consoles. Its titles include popular sports games like Madden and F1, as well as those in other genres like the Sims and Apex Legends. EA’s Ireland location houses customer experiences and quality engineering and assurance teams. 

 

Independent game development studio Vela Games makes multiplayer online cooperative games, which are played in remote teams that position groups in competition with other player teams. The studio’s first game, Evercore Heroes, is a skills-based game that pits teams of four against one another. Founded by an alum of Riot Games who worked on the popular League of Legends game, Vela Games positions itself as being “player first.”

 

Playrix is a mobile video game developer originally founded in Russia and now operating out of Dublin. It works in partnership with five independently operated gaming studios and interacts with millions of players each month. Playrix games are free to download and include the Township, Fishdom and Gardenscapes titles. 

 

eRepublik Labs is a game developer that makes massively multiplayer strategy games, like eRepublik The New World, its signature apocalyptic warfare game that has been played by more than 5 million players since its publication in 2007. Other titles include the historical war games War and Peace: Civil War and World At War: WW2 Strategy MMO.

 

WarDucks is a Dublin-based gaming studio known for producing titles that can be played on Android and Apple devices, as well as virtual reality games for PlayStation consoles. Rio de Janeiro, Rollercoaster Legends, Sneaky Bears, Wizard Might and Spell Stride are some of its popular titles, which use immersive graphics to fully engage players in their worlds.

 

DIGIT Game Studios, part of Scopely, makes free-to-play strategy games for mobile players. Its first title, Kings of the Realm, has enjoyed consistent global popularity. Subsequent titles include Star Trek Fleet Command, which positions players inside the world of the Star Trek movie franchise. DIGIT says it approaches game development as a collaborative process and aims to create a company culture that prizes community and work-life balance. 

 

Riot Games was founded in 2006 and has been influential in the online battle arena genre. Among its most popular titles is League of Legends, a free-to-play game in which players face off to defend their territory. Riot Games’ other works include Valorant and Teamfight Tactics

 

Keywords Studios works with various clients to develop custom gaming experiences. By working with its partners, the company can provide co-engineering support, console porting and LiveOps development. LiveOps is an emerging trend in the industry that enables companies to continuously deliver new features, updates and in-game promotions.

 

2K owns a variety of popular video game franchises, which include Lego 2K Drive, XCOM, Borderlands and NBA 2K. It hires a range of video game developers and professionals, including artists and engineers. The company has its Irish office near Iveagh Gardens in Dublin 

 

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Rose Velazquez and Ana Gore contributed reporting to this story.

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