Game Developer Magazine reveals Top 50 Developers of 2007

Game Developers Magazine is starting a new trend, and it’s to list out the Top 50 videogame developers of the year – just to give back to the groups that made our lives a bit more exciting through their realized (and digitized) works of art. Want to know if your favorite game developer made the list? Hit the full article to find out!

 

Have a favorite game developing firm? Then heads up as Think Services’ Game Developer magazine has just unveiled its first ever annual Top 50 Game Development Studios worldwide list, showcasing the very best of this industry’s movers and shakers.

This is the first time that Game Developer Magazine has held such an event, so it’s definitely a special moment not only for the magazine itself, but for those who got into the list.

But before we get into the specifics, just how does the Game Developer Magazine figure out the best of the best? They combine empirical market data with a detailed survey taken by the gaming website Gamasutra. This ensures that the game studios’ reputation data is taken into consideration, aside from game sales.

So, with that in mind, just who made the list? We’ll let you figure out for yourselves with the list below:

1. Nintendo Kyoto
2. Infinity Ward
3. Blizzard Entertainment
4. Electronic Arts Canada
5. Valve
6. Konami Japan Studio
7. Insomniac Games
8. Capcom Osaka Studio
9. Electronic Arts Tiburon
10. BioWare Edmonton
11. Bungie Studios
12. Ubisoft Montreal
13. 2K Boston [& Australia]
14. Harmonix
15. Bandai Namco Tokyo
16. Square Enix Tokyo
17. Game Freak
18. Epic Games
19. Hudson Soft
20. Neversoft

Well, that was definitely a surprise. Coming out on top of the heap is Nintendo’s main Kyoto department, with Infinity Ward and Blizzard Entertainment close behind. While we can certainly understand Nintendo netting first place and that Blizzard is making a huge killing with World of Warcraft, we have to give it to Infinity Ward and its huge success with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360, PS3, PC).

And considering that it overtook other titles such as Insomniac, 2K Boston and even Bungie, it’s definitely clear that Infinity Ward struck gold with Captain Price’s handlebar mustache.

If there’s anything else we have to say about the list, it’s definitely the fact that it’s been high time western and eastern developers were pitted with each other. Sure, we can probably glean just what this side or that side of the world thinks about this game via the weekly NPD or Media Create stats.

But there’s nothing like a list like Game Developers Magazine to show us (and the developers) how they’re doing in the world stage. In any case, updates as we get them!