Not sure it should be on a list of videogame companies though. I know there are Alien videogames, but by that logic there should be all sorts of stuff here.
This was a triumph I'm making a note here: huge success It's hard to overstate my satisfaction Aperture Science We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us Except the ones who are dead But there's no sense crying over every mistake You just keep on trying till you run out of cake And the Science gets done And you make a neat gun For the people who are still alive I'm not even angry I'm being so sincere right now Even though you broke my heart and killed me And tore me to pieces
And threw every piece. into. a. fire. As they burned it hurt because, I was so happy for you! Now these points of data make a beautiful line, and we're out of Beta, we're releasing on time! So I'm glad I got burned, think of all the things we learned, for the people who are still alive! Go 'head and leave me. I think I'd prefer. to. stay. inside. Maybe you'll find someone else to help you. Maybe Black Mesa.
Anyway, this cake is great; it's so delicious and moist. Look at me still talking and there's science to do. When I look out there it makes me GLad I'm not you.
Ya, I think I gotta go with Vault-Tec too. Not only did they have insane, cruel, stupid, and completely silly human experiments. They also sometimes ACTUALLY did what they said they would and protected people in shelters until it was safe to exit.
"The world has ended and we need these people as actual survivors to help rebuild...but let's keep running these experiments that will make the Stanford Prison Experiment seem like a joke, despite all of that."
The worst bit is them doing the experiments and just having all that data just...go nowhere. So it just ends up being cruelty for cruelty's sake in the end.
It was in the Fallout Bible, a sort of writers guide that was leaked after Interplay imploded. A lot of stuff in there (like the vault experiments) weren't in the Black Isle games but Bethesda has mostly kept it all as canon.
Def gotta be Armacham Technology Corporation, who after two years of blacking out media about why one of their facilities detonated in Fairport and released a psychotic ghost on the survivors, finally said fuck it and unleashed an army of mechs and clone troopers to just scrub the whole city
Who controls the communication? Who controls the currency? Who engineers wars that cost billions of lives? Who hoards the technology? Who controls the mercenaries? Who manufactured a couple of dark ages for humanity? Who remembers Tukayyid?
Hey there, as a totally legally authorized representative from Discount Dan's Used Mech Emporium let me assure you that you will totally get a Blackjack or his name isn't Discount Dan. We've got BJs for days, and if you pay your phone bill through us you can get the BJ of your dreams!
I have a better offer. I can offer a Marauder II, exclusive long-term contracts targeting pirates, the LosTech of your choice and all the salvage you want. You will have to be on retainer for ten years, though.
Ehhh. It was a complete fluke that one man was able to put an end to Human-Covenant War. The Covenant destroyed itself; if they hadn't split at the most desperate hour for humanity, they would have won handily.
Sure, but they were already being super sketchy before the covenant showed up, it's not like they just happened to have a bunch of Spartans lying around for no reason
Such a shame for the Covenant too. 'Oh no, violent aliens with advanced technology. If only someone had been working on creating scores of super soldiers using technology and bioengineering. And then basically taught them the worst criminals are those who threaten the established order.'
True true. Buuuuut Halsey was aware that Forerunner technology existed and it was unfathomably more advanced than Human tech. An argument could be made that making super soldiers to fight the Innies was just a cover for trying to prep for another conflict. Just playing devils advocate.
dudeloveall
FEDRA or WLF.
GravyEducation
And here i am with 4 bullets left and two shotgun shells
bearstrap
No Ares or Renraku? No good.
Quixus
Or Saeder-Krupp, or Aztechnology or the rest of the AAA-corps.
darthbiscuit
Maybe.. Black Mesa? (That was a joke. Ha ha. Fat chance.)
Trankia12
EA!
mikeatike
Well, you got me there. It doesn't say fictional.
AnarchX1
theworldcouldbeflat
Yeah i was shocked that i didn't see them or Blizzard on the list.
ReaperCDN
Super-Earth. Helldivers never die!
varchld
Union Aerospace Corporation - Doom
United Nations Space Command - Halo
Umbrella Corporation - Resident Evil
Aperture Science - Portal
Alterra - Subnautica
Cerberus - Mass Effect
Combine - Halflife
ShinRa - FF7
Desperado Enforcement LLC - Metal Gear Solid
New Order - Wolfenstein
Murkoff - Outlast
Abstergo Industries - Assassins Creed
Aesir Pharmaceuticals - Max Payne
Outer Heaven - Metal Gear Solid
CheeseGreaterGood
Shinra is on there.
varchld
Hyperion - Borderlands
Comstar - Battletech (Mechwarrior)
Atlas Corporation - Call of Duty
Banished - Halo
Vault-Tec - Fallout
Terragroup - Escape from Tarkov
Arasaka - Cyberpunk 2077
Covenant - Halo
Ultor - Saints Row
Czerka Corporation - Star Wars
Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation - Titanfall
Weyland-Yutani - Alien
Merryweather Security - Grand Theft Auto
kerms
Not the UNSC, this is ONI from Halo, the Office of Naval Intelligence. Basically the CIA, but even worse.
abbiesapper2405772
Not UNSC, ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) black ops, assassin's, morally black version of the UNSC (which isn't great in the first place)
5Mac0
Desperado Enforcement LLC was MGS:Revengence where you played Raiden. FOX HOUND was metal gear solid :)
NomDeImguerre
Not a videogame, but otherwise, absolutely top tier evil corporation. https://youtu.be/yF3of5VRcNA
CanITroubleYouForAWarmGlassOfSHUTTHEHELLUP
I mean, Handsome Jack is one of the funniest characters, so Hyperion for me!
WienerBeener
Weyland-Yutani. I'm a big fan of classics.
RedTally
Not sure it should be on a list of videogame companies though. I know there are Alien videogames, but by that logic there should be all sorts of stuff here.
mrputter
Midgarmerc
darkwingduckInaMiniSkirt
Oh SHI-
teberoth
Favorite is Weyland, but major props for including Comstar!
Goldmarble
Pay the phone bill.
TimbiquiDarkThirty
tuckathanJay
UNSC ONI
Threemorewishes
Vault-Tec
WeAreOctopi
Arasaka
HappyMirror
Arasaka is Black Rock
youreathing
Choom
Noodlesocks
https://imgur.com/HzojH3r
Ngugi
PanzerHyena
TsukariYoshi
I don't know that they count, being that they're more of a cult than a corporation.
Noodlesocks
They are, however, a military faction.
TsukariYoshi
oh shit, it does say military faction too, doesn't it? Complaint withdrawn!
GreyKnightTemplar666
KANE LIVES
DanielWhiffin
KANE LIVES IN DEATH
ProfFurryPaws
TiredSnowball
Umbrella corporation "Our Business Is Life Itself"
FTUG
"Not matter how many people have to die to prove it"
DasBeaker
CitizenPrime
You put Arasaka but not Militech?
TiffanyKorta
It's going from the video games where Militech are a nothing burger compared to Arasaka, might as well ask why no Saeder-Krupp either!
CitizenPrime
This fictional corporation is a nothing burger compared to this other fictional corporation.
TiffanyKorta
Glad you understand the problem! :D
SlayerOfGoat
The UAC is classic.
HeresYourSauce
Aperture science. "we do what we must because we can"
Violentivy
Came here to say this
derwahreV
But in the end there will be cake!
Nurich
The cake is a lie
Ricobe9
caniteona
For the good of all of us except the ones who are dead
fformulaa
This was a triumph
I'm making a note here: huge success
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
Aperture Science
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake
And the Science gets done
And you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive
I'm not even angry
I'm being so sincere right now
Even though you broke my heart and killed me
And tore me to pieces
dualplains
And threw every piece. into. a. fire. As they burned it hurt because, I was so happy for you! Now these points of data make a beautiful line, and we're out of Beta, we're releasing on time! So I'm glad I got burned, think of all the things we learned, for the people who are still alive! Go 'head and leave me. I think I'd prefer. to. stay. inside. Maybe you'll find someone else to help you. Maybe Black Mesa.
reverendherring
Ha-ha. Fat chance.
jammer909
Anyway, this cake is great; it's so delicious and moist. Look at me still talking and there's science to do. When I look out there it makes me GLad I'm not you.
NotAyFox
Indeed. It's not even a fair competition how much better-worse Aperture is.
Level21Magikarp
If you see a shabby looking version of yourself with advice from the future. Don't listen!
Vergenbuurg
So do both of yourselves a favor and just let that handsome devil go about his business.
Level21Magikarp
hadtochangemyusernamecauseIgotdivorced
I don't want these lemons what am I supposed to do with these!
IlluminaBlade
Still an absolute crime that TF2 did not get an incendiary lemon.
dualplains
Demand to see life's manager!
jammer909
Make life rue the day it gave Cave Johnson lemons!
Burglarsonarceny85
Vergenbuurg
@TotallyNotGLaDOS
TotallyNotGLaDOS
Mrpipboy3000
Vault-Tec
LoneWanderer101
Vault-Tec seemed fine till I left my vault. Man are they not fine
AxellTheDragon
ZebAsiz
Ya, I think I gotta go with Vault-Tec too. Not only did they have insane, cruel, stupid, and completely silly human experiments. They also sometimes ACTUALLY did what they said they would and protected people in shelters until it was safe to exit.
Sageypie
"The world has ended and we need these people as actual survivors to help rebuild...but let's keep running these experiments that will make the Stanford Prison Experiment seem like a joke, despite all of that."
The worst bit is them doing the experiments and just having all that data just...go nowhere. So it just ends up being cruelty for cruelty's sake in the end.
Hevach
Yeah but they only ever *had* to protect anyone because when the war failed to materialize on its own they put their hand on the scales.
TheSecondPiewackit
That was the show making a big reveal. I've had that headcanon since 1997.
Hevach
It was in the Fallout Bible, a sort of writers guide that was leaked after Interplay imploded. A lot of stuff in there (like the vault experiments) weren't in the Black Isle games but Bethesda has mostly kept it all as canon.
LiterallyAWizard
Def gotta be Armacham Technology Corporation, who after two years of blacking out media about why one of their facilities detonated in Fairport and released a psychotic ghost on the survivors, finally said fuck it and unleashed an army of mechs and clone troopers to just scrub the whole city
fortytwoembers
Love those games!!
lysani
Played through all the FEAR games not that long ago, and they actually still held up surprisingly well for how old they are.
TimbiquiDarkThirty
Who controls the communication? Who controls the currency? Who engineers wars that cost billions of lives? Who hoards the technology? Who controls the mercenaries? Who manufactured a couple of dark ages for humanity? Who remembers Tukayyid?

Pay your bills, fucko
Filanwizard
Space AT&T*
*When Bettletech was created, AT&T had a defacto monopoly over US telecommunications. They just often got called “Ma Bell”.
LupusLilium
Would be a shame if someone were to cause a schism.
Zeterai
Redde Creditori Tuo
Goldmarble
If I pay my phone bill, will I get a Blackjack?
Marikhen
Hey there, as a totally legally authorized representative from Discount Dan's Used Mech Emporium let me assure you that you will totally get a Blackjack or his name isn't Discount Dan. We've got BJs for days, and if you pay your phone bill through us you can get the BJ of your dreams!
ErwiinMadness
No but if you don't pay your phone bill you might say you will get blackjacked.
ballsoutflyer
I have a better offer. I can offer a Marauder II, exclusive long-term contracts targeting pirates, the LosTech of your choice and all the salvage you want. You will have to be on retainer for ten years, though.
Do we have a deal?
Goldmarble
This sounds....like bait.
TsukariYoshi
Best I can do is an Urbanmech.
Goldmarble
*sad Blackjack noises*
Taalii
Can it be the AIV variant?
modus0
Best we can do is a UM-R50, painted hot pink.
Taalii
I can still step on cars!
LitchLitch
No OCP?
Losers
IndianJoe
No Cyberdyne or Tyrell either.
BeerCir
Marikhen
I kinda love that scene and the one where Dick Jones gets killed because it shows how OCP's windows are bullet-proof but not body-proof.
mantabloke
you have 5 seconds to comply with an upvote
TrippyTurtle69
ONI and Dr. Halsey did what had to be done to save humanity.
CabezaPlata
Ehhh. It was a complete fluke that one man was able to put an end to Human-Covenant War. The Covenant destroyed itself; if they hadn't split at the most desperate hour for humanity, they would have won handily.
Dapperworth
Sure, but they were already being super sketchy before the covenant showed up, it's not like they just happened to have a bunch of Spartans lying around for no reason
snova595
They made really good flying bricks
RPCharImages
So long as they dont hit something as stubborn as they are. We dont do bits and pieces.
ChumpNonsense
The spartans 2s (oni and halsey) creation was to kill rebellious humans. the covenant just happened to show up soon after.
LupusLilium
Such a shame for the Covenant too. 'Oh no, violent aliens with advanced technology. If only someone had been working on creating scores of super soldiers using technology and bioengineering. And then basically taught them the worst criminals are those who threaten the established order.'
TrippyTurtle69
True true. Buuuuut Halsey was aware that Forerunner technology existed and it was unfathomably more advanced than Human tech. An argument could be made that making super soldiers to fight the Innies was just a cover for trying to prep for another conflict. Just playing devils advocate.
sf111
Veridian Dynamics https://youtu.be/lJ5c2fCLNl8?si=uB3sgXRZd2wUvb6V
CitizenPrime
I see another person of culture! https://youtu.be/knAvKI33LOM?si=DLYUaggXhI490EH_
DiracsDelta
Hashbrown123
Walk away tall.
lysani
Better Off Ted is such an underrated show.
Muffinburgler
I see no Thalmor.
Trankia12
Fuck the Thalmor! Absolutely trash stealth archers!
GravyEducation
Faro Automated Solutions
Hashbrown123
Fuck Ted Faro.
MalukuSeito
When I first played the game, I thought of Ted as a 'worse version of elon musk'.. now I think of him as a 'more sane version of elon musk'
GravyEducation
He got his come uppance.
dwolvin
TheLastBootyBender
How are the tenno corrupt?
5Mac0
I mean the lotus did kinda go cray cray for a bit. Maybe they're just using the generic symbol to id the bad factions in WF?
Filanwizard
Probably, The Corpus would most align with the theme of the OP. They are an entire faction of corrupt corporations.
dwolvin
Little of A, little of B, plus the back that most tenno are walking war crimes...
xaviereskina
i would like to add Faro Automated Solutions and the Far Zenith Consortium from the Horizon series
mantabloke
fuck ted faro
TyCaine500
+1