Research game development companies
and studios before you commit.
Outsourcing: Vet Service Providers
Before hiring a game art studio, QA vendor, or porting company — check their actual game credits. See which publishers they've worked with, on which titles, and how many years of collaboration history they have.
M&A: Identify Acquisition Targets
Discover companies with strategic alliance networks that complement your portfolio. Analyze a target's collaboration density and partner quality before making acquisition decisions.
Competitive Intelligence: Benchmark Networks
Compare your outsourcing network against competitors. See which service providers they use, identify shared vendors, and spot gaps in your partnership coverage.
Due Diligence: Verify Partnership Claims
Cross-reference claimed partnerships against actual game credits data. Validate a company's collaboration history, service track record, and platform experience with verified data from MobyGames.
Business Development: Find New Partners
Identify companies that work with similar publishers or in overlapping genres. Use the graph to discover warm introduction paths through mutual partners and shared game projects.
Market Entry: Understand Ecosystems
Entering a new platform or genre? Filter the graph to see which service providers and co-development studios operate in that space, and analyze established partnership patterns before making commitments.
How thousands of verified gaming partnerships
become outsourcing and collaboration intelligence.
Weeks of an analyst's digging through video game credits are already done for you — a game collaboration database where you can vet an outsourcing or co-development partner in minutes.
Trust what you are looking at.
Nobody can talk their way onto the map
Every gaming partnership shown here is earned on a shipped game, not claimed in a pitch deck — so a vendor shortlist is defensible the moment you export it.
Credit goes to who actually did the work
Porting, localization, QA and art stay attributed to the studio that delivered them — so you shortlist the outsourcing company that really did the job, not the name on the box.
Never a stale or noisy picture
Incidental one-off co-appearances are kept out and new releases keep flowing in — the map stays both current and readable, with no maintenance on your side.
One map of game developers, publishers and service studios — already cleaned up for you.
One studio, one track record
No hunting through renamed, regional or duplicate entities — each studio appears once, with its full collaboration history in one place, the way a working list of game developers should read.
See the studio or the group behind it
Switch between the working studio and the publisher or holding that owns it — useful whether you are sourcing a co-development studio or sizing up a corporate footprint.
Every vendor speaks the same language
Art production, audio, QA testing, porting, localization and 17 more services are expressed in one comparable vocabulary, so two candidates are genuinely comparable.
Get to an answer in minutes.
Proof is already attached
Open any collaboration and the evidence is right there — shared titles, years, platforms and each side's role — so due diligence takes one click, not an email thread.
Enough context to make the call
Country and region, service specialisation, main platform, portfolio size and years active — enough to tell a fitting game development partner from a costly mismatch before you reach out.
Ask your question, get a shortlist
Search any company or game title and narrow by role, platform, period and collaboration strength — a shortlist of game outsourcing companies or co-development studios comes back instantly, at full industry scale.
Four capabilities that transform
how you find and verify game development partners.
Search any company or game title
Type any company name — the autocomplete searches across all nodes in the graph. Or search by game title to find every company that worked on a specific game. Selected companies and games highlight their connections instantly.
Explore the interactive partnership graph
An interactive map of game developers, publishers, and service providers, where the industry arranges itself in front of you: companies pull together into natural clusters, bigger players stand out at a glance, and the strongest working relationships are visibly the thickest lines. Pan, zoom and click through it in real time — the whole industry stays fluid and responsive, not a static chart.
Drill into company details and game-level credits
Click any company node to open the Details Panel — a structured breakdown of every partner, organized by shared game count. Expand any partner to see year-by-year collaboration history, specific roles performed, and individual game titles with platform indicators.
Shortlist outsourcing partners and benchmark competitors
Use role-based filtering to find game art outsourcing studios, QA testing partners, porting companies, or localization vendors — then verify their track record through actual game credits. Compare your competitors' outsourcing networks to find untapped service providers.
Everything about game development outsourcing and partnership research.
How do I outsource game development to a studio I can verify?
Search Alliance Networks by company name or game title, then filter by the service you need — art production, QA testing, porting, localization, audio, marketing and more. Every studio you shortlist is backed by credited work on shipped games, so you outsource game development based on verified production records instead of a sales deck.
How do I find game development outsourcing companies for a specific service?
Filter the graph by collaboration role to get a shortlist of game outsourcing companies per service: game art outsourcing studios, QA testing vendors, porting companies, localization providers, audio and engineering partners. Narrow further by platform, region, time period and collaboration strength — useful for mobile game development outsourcing as well as full-cycle partners.
How do I find a co-development studio for my game?
Filter the graph by the Development and Production collaboration roles to surface studios that have shipped work as co-development partners rather than as primary developers. Open any studio to see which publishers it co-developed with, on which titles, and across how many years — so you can judge a co-development studio by its credited output instead of its sales deck.
How can I check an outsourcing studio's track record before signing?
Open any company to see its full partner list ranked by shared games, with year-by-year collaboration history, the exact role it performed on each title, and platform indicators (PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo). That lets you verify claimed partnerships, portfolio size and years active before you send a brief or sign a contract.
What data does Alliance Networks use to map gaming partnerships?
Alliance Networks is a game collaboration database built on MobyGames data — the most comprehensive database of game credits and releases. We process platform-level release data to extract company relationships: who published, developed, ported, tested, or provided services for each game. The result is thousands of verified partnership records covering publishers, developers, outsourcing studios, service providers, and technology companies across PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo platforms.
What types of game development services can I filter by?
Alliance Networks tracks 22 collaboration roles in three categories: Core Business (Publishing, Development, Production, Distribution, Funding, Licensing), Service Providers (Art production, Audio design, Game engineering, Localization, Marketing, Motion capture, Porting, QA testing, Storytelling, Trailers/cinematics, Casting), and Technology (Game Engine, Graphic Engine, Sound Engine, Middleware, Hardware). Each role can be shown or hidden for precise graph control.
Is Alliance Networks free to use?
Alliance Networks requires a free registration to access. Once signed in, you get full access to the interactive graph, all filters (company class/type, 22 collaboration roles, platforms, time period, connection strength thresholds), the company details panel, and smart search. The graph uses GPU-accelerated rendering for smooth exploration of large datasets.