EDGE magazine has picked its list of top 50 developers for 2012, and it’s sure to be something that will generate a lot of discussion.
For starters, they have kept Mojang–the creators of Minecraft at second–followed by Nintendo and Platinum Games. Naughty Dog is at no. 5, which is a huge compliment for them since it’s coming from Edge and they have been placed above plenty of other developers.
There are a lot of omissions in this list like Square Enix and Capcom and I honestly wonder whether they deserved such a treatment, because they have been churning out a lot of good games even though their major franchises managed to disappoint.
Rockstar North and Bungie take the no. 6 and no. 7 spot respectively. Valve has been rated the number 1 studio followed by Mojang. This is the most surprising pick of them all.
Check out the full list below.
1. Valve
2. Mojang
3. Nintendo EAD
4. Platinum Games
5. Naughty Dog
6. Rockstar North
7. Bungie
8. FromSoftware
9. Arkane Studios
10. Riot Games
11. Epic Games
12. Media molecule
13. Dice
14. Kojima Productions
15. Irrational
16. ArenaNet
17. Blizzard
18. Rocksteady
19. Ubi Montreal
20. Bethesda
21. Double Fine
22. Terry Cavanagh
23. Thatgamecompany
24. Gearbox
25. 343
26. Firaxis
27. EA Canada
28. Bioware
29. Eidos Montreal
30. Playdead
31. Sony online entertainment
32. Crytek
33. Redlynx
34. Vlambeer
35. CCP
36. Telltale
37. Id
38. Ninja theory
39. Quantic Dream
40. Codemasters
41. Criterion
42. Mossmouth
43. Harmonix
44. Sony Santa Monica
45. Capybara
46. Creative assembly
47. Halfbrick
48. Wayforward
49. Jagex
50. Relic