Best game developers?

What are the best game developers out there? Be they active, defunct, or formerly good but not anymore.

Active
-Valve (Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Ricochet, Deathmatch ****c, Portal, Day of Defeat)
-BioWare (Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Star Wars: The Old Republic)
-Retro Studios (Metroid Prime)
-Mythic Entertainment (Aliens Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online, Ultima Online)
-Relic Entertainment (Homeworld, Company of Heroes, Dawn of War)
-NetDevil (Jumpgate, Auto Assault, Lego Universe)


Defunct
-Parallax Software (Descent)
-Outrage Entertainment (Descent)
-Westwood Studios (Command & Conquer, Dune)
-Cavedog Entertainment (Total Annihilation)
-Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires)
-Dynamix (Tribes)
-FASA (MechWarrior)
-MicroProse (Civilization, MechWarrior)
-SSI (Soldiers at War, Rites of War)


Formerly Good
-Blizzard Entertainment (StarCraft, Warcraft, Diablo)
-Red Storm Entertainment (Rainbow Six, The Sum of All Fears, Politika)
-id Software (Quake, Doom, Wolfenstein, Heretic)
-Gas Powered Games (Dungeon Siege, Space Siege, Supreme Commander, Demigod)
-Volition (Descent FreeSpace)
-DICE (Battlefield, Medal of Honor 2010)

Epic, Valve, Bioward, Blizzard, Bungie, Naughty Dog, Double Fine, Guerrilla, Santa Monica Studios, Rockstar, and many others.

You forgot Codemasters, Polyphony, Rockstar, Gearbox and Bethesda.

Codemasters are the best if you ask me.

Capcom, Valve, Bungie, BioWare, Bethesda, Squareenix, Naughty Dog, Quantic Dream and Treyarch

Bioware

Bethesda

Rockstar

Capcom, Valve, Bungie, BioWare, Bethesda, Squareenix, Naughty Dog, Quantic Dream and Treyarch

defunct
- Troika Games
- Black Isle Studios
- Looking Glass Studios
- Bullfrog Productions

lol no Nintendo?

put of all the other choices here to shame

defunct
- Troika Games
- Black Isle Studios
- Looking Glass Studios
- Bullfrog Productions

JackBurton

This. With Shiny included too.

Valve and Bioware cant make bad games. Its a rule

Infinity Ward. [spoiler] :P [/spoiler]

Best -

Blackfoot Studios

Eagle Dynamics

1C Maddox

Former -

RSE

Strategic Simulations, Inc.

Microsoft ACES

Papyrus

Worst -

Ubisoft

Bioware

Bethesda

Ubisoft

Rockstar

Irrational Games

Valve

Rocksteady

Capcom

Nintendo EAD, Square Enix, Kojima Productions, Tri-Ace and Retro Studios.

the first thread is very-very bias.

Bethesda, They win by default, they made Falloutpuppydogtreat

Do you mean Fallout 3? Obsidian made Fallout 1 and 2. Just wanted to check ;)

I'd have to say Squaresoft (Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 8, Final Fantasy 9, Secret of Mana)

well I use to think square enix was untill they didnt release kingdom hearts birth by sleep for the psp go :( but i still love there games

i would have to agree with that list...gj

gonna have to add bethesda and 2k, rockstar into the active list

and formerly good, pre mw2 infinity ward

out side first party of course those take up 3 if they were included

running

1- activision -no not cod so dont ask

2 ubisoft

3 ea

4-rockstar

5 thq

6 capcom

defuct

1 free radical

2 midway

3 interplay-responsib le for rock and roll racing snes

4 -kemco -responsible for the top gear franchises

bioware and valve get my vote