Blizzard tops list of 2008's 'most successful' game devs
by Jason Dobson 
on May 11th 2009 8:30AM
The game industry's annual popularity contest has begun making the rounds, and among game developers in 2008 there was none more in vogue than Activision stepchild
Blizzard. According to Develop 100, a list of "the world's most successful games developers," the dev
WoW-ed its peers from atop a mountain of money with more than a billion dollars in revenue each year from retail and online sales.
Other notables on the list include
2007's top company,
Nintendo, which was forced to settle for second, followed by
GTA's Rockstar North in third. LEGO
everything manufacturer
Traveller's Tales ranked 12th on the list, while
LittleBigPlanet's Media Molecule came in at a respectable 18th, the highest among indie UK studios. The complete list can be found on the
official Develop 100 website. Check it out, and let us know if your personal favorites made the cut.
