The 8 Most Powerful Video Game Studios

The editors at GamePro have put together a list of the eight most powerful video game studios in the world, though it's unclear how they actually determined who should be included on the list. Regardless, I'd have to agree that Blizzard Entertainment definitely fits the bill:
There must be something in the water in Irvine. Either that or some hidden crack-cocaine between lines of Blizzard game code, because the hard-to-put-down studio is notorious for making some of the most addicting games of all time, namely Diablo, Starcraft, and the grandaddy of them all, World of Warcraft. How else would you convince 10 million subscribing fiends to pay $15 per month? This is one developer everyone wants to be.