BioWare, for practically never releasing a bad game. Even their mediocre ones (Jade Empire) are only mediocre by their own standards.
Atlus, for taking a terrible genre (JRPGs) and making it actually challenging, original, and fun.
Insomniac, for turning everything they touch into pure awesome. (Okay, except maybe Resistance.)
Team Suda51, for creating artistic and original games which, while usually not perfect, are so different from anything else out there that I can't not enjoy them.
Silicon Knights, for... well, ditto.
And a shoutout to my favorite defunct studios (R.I.P.): Black Isle, Oddworld Inhabitants, Clover Studios.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
