Who is your favourite game development company and why?
Some Honorable mentions:
•Kojima productions: for constantly making quality Metal Gear Solid games
•Capcom in the 90's and early 2000-2005: for Resident Evil 4, Street fighter, Breath of Fire.
•Atlus: for Persona 4, Persona 3
•Rockstar North: GTA
•Rare in the 90's: for Godleneye 007, Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong, Jet Force Gemini
•Sega: for Valkyria Chronicles, Shining Series, Phantasy Star
Here is who I think are the 3 best developers of all time:
3. Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development. Its likely most people got into video games thanks to Nintendo EAD (Super Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda). Super Mario World was the first game I ever played and finished. Its not just their NES & SNES era work that made me choose Nintendo EAD; am amazed by the way they constantly reinvent games and bring new ideas, see latest Mario game for example.
2.Naughty Dog is arguably Sony's best studio. Almost all their games have gotten over 90 on Metacritic. This generation if you ask a PS3 owner on N4G for their top 10 games. 99% chance it will contain a naughty dog game. Although I found Uncharted 2 to be their best game, some will say their best is Last of US, or Crash Bandicoot or maybe even Jak. They have quality everywhere, no wonder there is varying opinions.
1. Final Fantasy 6, 7, 9, 10, Kingdom Hearts 1, Parasite Eve, Tactics Ogre, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenogears, Vagrant Story, all except 2 of those games are 90+ on metacritic....Squaresoft were just pure gold. Anything they touched turned to Gold. They got me into JRPG's. Not to mention the Great Music that was made by Nobuo Uematsu back in the day and the EPIC stories by Sakaguchi. Love it or hate it, Final Fantasy made a last-ditch effort to survive in the video gaming industry, they grew into an international phenomenon I credit Final Fantasy with bringing the JRPG genre to such prominence in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Nintendo
RockStar
Bethesda
RARE (during nintendo years)
EA (love my sports games)
CD Projekt
4A
Remedy
Nintendo
Rockstar
I don't see the point of this. It's basically "Name the developers from your list of favorite games."
Rockstar. Why? GTA1 for the PS1 is basically the reason why i love videogames so much. The first time i played GTA for PS1 i was gobsmacked, the open word concept was amazing to me.
And since then they have created some of my all time favourite games like GTA San Andreas, Red Dead Redemption, GTA5.
Runner up, Bethesda. Skyrim and Fallout 3 were my entire life when i played them. Never, ever have i been as immersed in a videogame as i was in Skyrim.
SEGA
Atlus
NIS
Xseed
Sony
Sega brought Yakuza
Atlus brought SMT
NIS has Mugen Souls and Disgea
Xseed did many things
Sony did GT and ICO