Sega tops Metacritic list of the best game publishers for third year

Sega was Metacritic's highest-rated publisher of 2024 thanks to the critically acclaimed Metaphor: ReFantazio and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Sega was the highest-rated publisher of 2024, according to Metacritic's annual rankings.

Sega tops Metacritic list of the best game publishers for third year

Metaphor has kept Sega in the race (Sega) Metacritic has released its annual rankings of the best game publishers of the year and there’s not a big name American company in the whole top eight. Last year may have been dismal for the games industry in terms of sales and layoffs, but there were still plenty of great games to sink yourself into. The positives from last year have been collated into Metacritic’s annual ranking of the most successful …

2025 Game Publisher Rankings

We reveal the past year's best and worst video game publishers (based on their 2024 releases) in the 15th edition of our annual Game Publisher Rankings.

Sonic helps power Sega to the top as the most highly rated games studio

The studio jumped eight places from last year.

Sega tops Metacritic's annual Publisher Rankings list

It's that time of the year again when Metacritic collates all of its review data from the last calendar year to determine which publisher had the best 12 months. Last year, that award went to Capcom, after a mega 2023, but did the Japanese publisher manage to retain the throne for another year running? The answer is no, but it did get very, very close. Capcom came in second with a grand total of 323.1 points and an average Metascore for all of …

SEGA Dethrones Capcom, Crowned Metacritic's Highest-Rated Publisher of 2024

Based SEG-od? - Despite perhaps not making as much money as it might have hoped, one-time console manufacturer SEGA has been officially crowned the highest-r...