Evil empires and invading aliens are so passe. The big villainous prize these days is the malevolent megacorporation. Take your everyday Pfizer, Blackwater, or ADM, give them billions more dollars for throwing at ridiculous projects, make their heads evil or incompetent, and stir in some grandiose plans for world domination. You’ve just made a video game megacorp. These are the 7 most evil companies in gaming. Some do it for the money, some do it for the power, but either way you can be certain that you don’t want to work there.

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Umbrella Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. (Resident Evil series)

While the evil of the Umbrella Corporation of the Resident Evil games doesn’t quite reach the levels of cartoonish, gratuitous villainy of the movies, Capcom’s favorite business-o-evil is still one of the worst monsters on the market. That’s to be expected when your business plan includes “make zombies,” “sell zombies,” and “sell things that make zombies.” In fact, while the public knows Umbrella because of its medicines and small arms munitions, a good 90% of its projects are zombie-related. They’re like George Romero’s DuPont.

Page Industries (Deus Ex)

Here’s a good rule of thumb: if a corporation makes a cure for something, it’s probably only doing it to try to take over the world. That’s the case with Bob Page and Page Industries, makers of Ambrosia, the only cure for the Grey Death. It’s only one arm of Bob Page’s designs on world domination, though; Majestic 12, UNATCO, and nanotech subsidiary VersaLife are all in Page Industries’ portfolio.

Artemis Global Security (H.A.W.X.)

Any dictator can wage war on the United States, but it takes some big brass ones for a corporation to do it. The Adrian DeWinter, CEO of the world’s largest private military contractor decided, “Screw it,” and started to kick America’s ass for little more reason than it felt like it. When Revolver Ocelot turns out to be more subtle than you in using a private military to take over the world, you know you’re one bold, evil businessman. DeWinter loses points for getting blown up without a proper face-off with the game’s protagonist, but he gains those points back for not chewing the scenery and making “bang” noises while pointing finger guns at people.

Ultor Corporation (Red Faction/Saint’s Row)

It’s a clothing label! It’s a mining conglomerate! It’s a clothing label and a mining conglomerate! The Ultor Corporation stretches across two centuries and two game series, and it manages to be ridiculously evil in both. In Saint’s Row 2, Ultor pulls the strings of Stilwater, manipulating the city’s gangs to get more land for development. In Red Faction, Ultor oppresses its miners, sparking open revolt. Even decades after Ultor is gone, you can still find its giant bombs scattered across the Martian landscape.

Mishima Zaibatsu (Tekken series)

Welcome to the Tekken Corporation, where our product is ass-kicking. Seriously, besides a small private army, a regular martial arts tournament, and labs working to clone the freaking devil, what does the Mishima Zaibatsu actually do? Its business plan is even more vague than Umbrella’s, and it’s just as likely to bring you back from the dead as a cybernetically augmented zombie.

Abstergo Industries (Assassin’s Creed series)

Ah, now this is how you take over the world. Turn your millennium-old pseudo-religious organization into the world’s largest corporation, and set about training an an army of fanatics working to enslave humanity by taking away all free will. Apparently, Abstergo and its predecessor fronts are responsible for all major technological advancements of the last thousand years, and it employed Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. It’s safe to assume that Nikola Tesla was an Assassin.

RuptureFarms (Oddworld series)

Of all the evil megacorps in video games, only RuptureFarms is so evil that it has freaking cannibalism on its public business plan. Employing Mudokon slaves isn’t quite evil enough for RuptureFarms. No, what really puts them over the top and straight down the other side is using those slaves for meat, when the meat the slaves are packing doesn’t sell very well. And thus the McRib was born.