CD Projekt Red - Setting standards for the industry to follow not just with their games, but also with their business practices that any developer/publisher can learn from.
Valve - They might never give us HL3, but they still managed to produce a new classic, which is also my game of last generation i.e. Portal 2.
TellTale Games - The Walking Dead, Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones. Tales from the Borderlands. Pioneers of modern adventure games.
Eidos Montreal - For successfully reviving Deus Ex.
4A Games - There is still hope for single player story driven FPS as they've proven with Metro Last Light.
Rocksteady - Arkham Trilogy. Benchmark for super hero games.