Bonus round 2 developers and some of their more well-known games/series:

Monolith Soft (Xenoblade Chronicles series, Project X Zone series, Xnosaga series)

Ubisoft Montpellier (Rayman series, Beyond Good & Evil, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Assassin's Creed Odyssey)

Obsidian Entertainment (Pillars of Eternity series, Fallout: New Vegas, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Neverwinter Nights 2, South Park: The Stick of Truth)

Rare (Battletoads series, Donkey Kong series in the 90s, GoldenEye 007, Banjo series, Perfect Dark series, Viva Pinata series, etc.)

Retro Studios (Metroid Prime series, Donkey Kong Country series since 2010)

Ubisoft Montreal (Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series, Rainbow Six series, Prince of Persia series, Far Cry series, Assassin's Creed series, Watch Dogs series, For Honor)

Camelot Software Planning (Shining series, Golden Sun series, Mario sports series)

Valve Corporation (Half-Life series, Team Fortress series, Portal series, Counter-Strike series, Left 4 Dead series, Dota 2)

Level-5 (Yo-kai Watch series, Professor Layton series, Inazuma Eleven series, Ni no Kuni series, White Knight Chronicles series, Dark Cloud)

Remedy Entertainment (Death Rally series, Max Payne 1 & 2, Alan Wake series, Quantum Break)

The top 4 will proceed to the quarter finals, the others will be eliminated.

Results from bonus round 1:

Monolith obviously

Jeez, a lot of my favorites here. Gotta go Rare, even if its been without a great game for a decade. Too much greatness between 1994 and 2000, with some great stuff before (Jetpac, Cobra Triangle) and a few quality games after the Nintendo divorce.

Jee, I wonder who am I gonna vote for ... "I'm really feeling it !"

Gotta go with Rare here but damn this is a tough one (sorry Retro!).

I think I forgot to nominate Camelot originally, but I love Shining Force. To Camelot!

Went with Retro.

Xenoblade is amazing, but the Metroid Prime series continues to be one of the more underappreciated Nintendo series IMO.

Xenoblade 2 alone dictates that I vote Monolith this time.

I went with Retro. Metroid Prime by itself is enough alone to get my vote. Their work on Donkey Kong puts it completely over the top. Here's to a future title from them being announced very shortly!

I went Retro, but I hope both retro and Monolith make it out of this round.