Your favourite current publisher.

[digital_critic]

It's a toss up between Mojang AB, Bethesda, Valve, and People Can Fly. Mojang AB for Minecraft(Had it since beta 1.4), Bethesda for The Elder Scrolls series and the recent Fallout games, Valve for Team Fortress 2 and CSS/CS:GO, and People Can Fly for Painkiller, and, to a lesser extent, Bulletstorm.

 

[Another]

2K, CD Project Red, Atlas, and Square Enix. As far as I'm concerned these companies have been making pretty good examples of themselves. Welllllll, maybe not Square's internal development branch, but you can't win them all

 

[KarlMonster]

Valve, because Valve.
Also because they technically publish everything on Steam. So yeah.

Steam is a platform for delivering digital content, and doesn't so much displace/replace other publishers as give developers a direct line to a market/existing consumer base. And Valve has grown more and more developer friendly of late. So definitely yes, thank Gabe for Valve.

Also on my A list are 2K Australia, Ubisoft Montreal for FC2 and FC3,

Paradox not just for a host of good strategy games, but for allowing/encouraging modders in the Paradox forums. You really can't take that for granted these days. Bonus points for the Europa Universalis III "Raaaaage!!!" thread. It's made of internet memes but it smells like win.

Bethesda gets points for feeding iD Games and the Fallout/Elder Scrolls franchises; but points off for Quake 4, Rage, and Brink. Yeah, yeah, these each had a reason for being, but could have been better with relatively little effort, and in Brink's case someone needed to say that it doesn't matter what exclusive clothes the Emperor is wearing, he's still walking behind a manure spreader. Runner up.

Kalypso would rate higher if they had slapped Haemimont around until they made Omerta a better game. I'd gripe about DLC, but many of the Tropico add-ons are reasonably good. Honorable mention.

 

[CityofTreez]

2K/Take Two.

Bioshock, Civ, Red Dead, Max Payne....not bad at all.

 

[Killclaw Kilrathi]

Um, does GOG.com count? Or would they be a distributor?

Really, I'm not that fond of any of the major publishers. But I suppose 2K has some of the more interesting titles for me.

 

[Fluffythepoo]

Blizzard.. they simply refuse to not make good games.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Bethy for the win.
I think they've been good to stay out of the news, and their games tend to be fun.

 

[ronald1840]

Atlus USA

Persona 4 Golden, SMT4, and Soul Hackers all coming out this year. I also just completed Catherine and they published a lot of my favorite games, like Radiant Historia, and the Devil Survivor series.

 

[Kikyoo]

Capcom is my favorite publisher. They are one of the few companies that acually make games that I want to buy. It's just a shame that Capcom hates everyone. So while they are my favorite, I have to curse them every time they come out with something new, because they hate you, me, everybody.

It's sad to say but I overlook a lot of the crap they try to pull, because I love Monster Hunter. I loved dragon's Dogma. I loved the DMC series before it got taken over by someone else. I loved Megaman. I can't say i'm ever as excited to hear about new releases from any other company as i am for Capcom, it just sucks that they treat me like garbage for it, and keep retiring series that i love, or killing them off. I will never forgive them for killing Breath of Fire.

 

[BearShark]

Valve, as they came out with Portal, Half Life, Team Fortress 2, created Steam, gave us the tools to make things, and genuinely seem to care about their customers.