Your Top 5 Game Developers (LAST CHANCE TO VOTE)

1. Nintendo

2. Bioware

3. Valve

4. Blizzard

5. Rockstar

You can feel the love of all these developer's games. It's just oozing outta them. Oh and a special runner up shout out to Retro Studios. I love that damn company.

EDIT: Oh and I love Bungie too but they haven't made really anything besides Halo, which is damn good enough by itself.

Rockstar, Valve, Bungie,

Westwood and FASA(no longer exist, but they were both awesome before getting shut down.)

1a. Nintendo 1b. Retro studios

2. Platinum Games

3. Grasshopper Manufacturer

4. Team Ico

5. Level 5

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EDIT: oh i saw some people adding dead developers aswell.

Clover Studios is clearly among the best.

i got to go with these five...

1. blizzard

2. the old (snes) Rare not the new kinect stuff

3. unreal

4.the developer of super smash bros i forget the name...

5. and then valve

i got to go with these five...

1. blizzard

2. the old (snes) Rare not the new kinect stuff

3. unreal

4.the developer of super smash bros i forget the name...

5. and then valve

MisterBucky

In no paticular order

1. Valve

2. Bethesda

3. Bioware

4. Insomniac (They haven't been that good this gen though)

5. Naughty Dog

1. Naughty Dog (never released a game I didn't LOVE)

2. Valve

3. Insomniac (as someone above me said, not as good this gen, especially R2 and A Crack in Time)

4. Nintendo

5. Criterion Games (So much DLC for so little of my money!)

In no particular order:

1. Media Vision
2. Nintendo
3. Sega
4. Level 5
5. Atlus

Honorable Mentions:

1. Capcom
2. Konami
3. Enix
4. SquareSoft
5. XSEED

I can't put them in any particular order, but here they are

• Bioware(Mass Effect, Dragon Age, KotOR,"The Doctors")
• Gearbox(Half-Life: Opposing Force, Brothers in Arms, Borderlands, Randy Pitchford)
• Irrational Games(Bioshock, Freedom Force, System Shock 2, SWAT 4, Ken Levine)
• GSC Game World(STALKER)
• Blizzard(StarCraft, WarCraft, Diablo)

1. Blizzard
2. Bethesda
3. Bioware
4. EA (sports)
5. Epic games/DICE/Rockstar

This Generation:

1) Rockstar (Grand Theft Auto IV, Red Dead Redemption

2) Rare (Kameo: Elements of Power, Viva Pinata, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts)

3) DICE (Battlefield: Bad Company, Mirror's Edge, Battlefield: Bad Company 2)

4) Naughty Dog (Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Uncharted 2: Amongst Thieves)

5) Mistwalker (Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey)

Naughty Dog

Insomniac

Konami

Square Enix

Bethesda

LEVEL-5

Platinum games

SCEJ/SCEA (Including Naughty dog, Team ICO, PD..etc)

Nintendo (And most of its first party studios)

Kojima productions

And also I enjoyed most Banpresto games though they don't get localized.

1. Tokyo EAD
2. Retro
3. Alpha Dream
4. Hal
5. Creative Assembly (out of the blue I know)

Kojima Productions

Naughty Dog

Ubisoft Montreal (Assassin's Creed)

Rockstar North

Guerrilla Games

Nintendo (Retro studios included)

Bioware

Rockstar

Bethesda

Atlus

1) Nintendo (this includes Retro because I said so :P)

2) Blizzard

3) Konami (Kojima)

4) DICE

5) Naughty Dog

Obviously there are more, such as Namco, Square Soft, old Rare, some of EA's branches (SSX and NFS) and others.

1. Sony

2. Nintendo

3. Square Enix

4. Insomniac

5. Capcom

• Squaresoft
• Nintendo
• Capcom
• Insomniac
• Platinum Games
• Sony

Blizzard

Valve

Relic

Paradox

GSC game world

5. SCE Santa Monica

4. Naughty Dog

3. Valve

2. Blizzard

1. Rockstar

In no particular order:
1. Blizzard

2. GSC Gameworld

3. Crytek

4. D.I.C.E. (If they can make a proper Battlefield game when BF3 comes around...)

5. ??? (Maybe Valve; mostly for Steam, rather than the actual games they develop)

Bungie, BioWare, Ubisoft, Gearbox, Relic entertanment (Close but just miss Valve, Epic games, Remedy, Bethesda)

1. Rareware

2. Valve

3. Nintendo

and just to make it 5

Ubisoft when they aren't being silly, and MGS when they were making/publishing PC games on a regular basis....

In no particular order...

*old* Capcom (seriously, they're dead to me now)

Blizzard

Konami

Platinum Games

Insomniac

1. Nintendo (special kudos to Retro Studios)

2. Microprose (makes me cry just to think back on those glory Civ 1, UFO days)

3. Bioware

4. Gas Powered Games (for the awesomeness that is Supreme Commander Forged Alliance)

5. Capcom ( especially for RE 1-4)

In no particular order

1. Valve (Half-Life)

2. Blizzard (Starcraft, Warcraft, Diablo)

3. Bioware (Baldur's Gate, Kotor, Dragon Age)

4. EA (mostly due to C&C and I like their logos that are unique in every game)

5. CD Projekt (The Witcher)

Valve

Bioware

Nintendo

Blizzard

Obsidian

1: Sierra online (Before they were sold to corperate greedys in the mid 90s)

2: Nintendo

3: Blizzard(Wish they would make games like Lost Vikings again)

4: Interplay

5: Nobody else is good enough to make my list.

• Valve
• BioWare
• Relic
• Blizzard

1. Westwood

2. Valve

3. id

4. Konami from 8-32 bit eras

5. Tie between Relic (for CoH), GSC (for Stalker) and Guerilla (for Killzone)

1. Rockstar

2. Valve

3. BioWare

4. Platinum Games

5. Irrational Games

1. Nintendo (HAL Lab. , Intelligent Systems, Game Freak, Retro included)

2. Capcom

3. Rare (old one)

4. Blizzard

5. Ensemble Studios

Publisher/Developer hybrids shouldnt count...(e.g. Nintendo)