Xbox & Microsoft Dominate The List Of ‘Most Covered’ Gaming Companies In 2025

The good people at GamesIndustry.biz just lately revealed their annual “Year in Numbers” roundup of the video games business for 2025, and probably the most fascinating bit from an Xbox perspective pertains to the “most covered companies” part.

Over the previous two years, Xbox has led this class with 308,834 articles and 238,365 articles in 2023 and 2024 respectively, however Nintendo truly takes prime spot this 12 months with 236,351 — barely higher than Xbox’s whole of 218,225.

If you mix Xbox and Microsoft collectively although, as so many individuals typically do (there’s clearly plenty of crossover), that whole rises to 346,897, which is larger than PlayStation and Sony’s mixed whole of 271,108.

Here’s the highest 15 listing in full:

1. Nintendo (236,351 articles)
2. Xbox (218,225 articles)
3. PlayStation (184,976 articles)
4. Microsoft (128,672 articles)
5. Sony (86,132 articles)
6. Nvidia (85,400 articles)
7. EA (57,192 articles)
8. Ubisoft (30,930 articles)
9. Epic Games (29,804 articles)
10. Activision Blizzard (23,441 articles)
11. Rockstar (20,716 articles)
12. SEGA (17,748 articles)
13. Twitch (16,677 articles)
14. Valve (16,598 articles)
15. Square Enix (14,230 articles)

What’s significantly fascinating right here is how issues have modified over the previous twelve months. For Xbox, Microsoft, PlayStation, Sony, Epic Games, Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, Twitch, Valve and Square Enix, all of them acquired much less articles than in 2024, with the worst hit being a 34.59% drop for Activision Blizzard.

Meanwhile, Nintendo acquired a 30.10% year-on-year enhance because of the Switch 2, and there have been additionally enhancements for Nvidia, SEGA, Rockstar Games and EA — the latter two rising by over 50% YoY.

For what it is value, GamesIndustry.biz says this info is taken from “ICO via Footprints”, and we do not have a full breakdown of what constitutes an “Xbox” article and a “Microsoft” article, for instance. We assume it refers to headlines, equivalent to once we cowl “Microsoft Rewards” however do not point out Xbox, or cowl an Xbox-related story however do not point out Microsoft. They typically relate to each!