Game Studios - Which is the Best?

[MetalMilitia]

Which game developer would you rate above all others, in terms of the quality of their games, their business practises or their contribution to gaming as a whole?

For me it has got to be Valve. Not only have they put out some of the greatest games ever seen on the PC, but they have been extremely supportive of their community and have developed one of the best innovations in game distribution since the CD-ROM - Steam.

I also like how much they give you for free when you buy one of their games. Take the Orange Box, for example. For the price of a regular game you get all of HL2, Portal and Team Fortress 2. Each of which are worth £30 of my money alone. Not to mention all of the additional maps and features currently in development.

Props also need to go to Epic for developing the game engines that just about everyone uses these days. Without them I dare say gaming as a whole would be a much uglier affair.