Game Developer Magazine has published it’s Top 20 publishers report for 2009. The report shows that Nintendo has kept a hold on it’s top position for the third year in a row. The survey itself uses revenue data, reputation from industry professionals, release counts, average review scores and dev partners feedback.

Electronic Arts also kept it’s position from last year landing the second place overall while Activision Blizzard held the third spot and Ubisoft holding fourth. The movement starts with Take Two who wrote a place to 5th.

Companies making the top 20 for the first time are Bethesda Softworks, Viacom’s MTV and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. MTV enters at 14 mostly due to Harmonix’s Rock Band and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment enters at 16.

The full report is available in the October 2009 issue of Game Developer Magazine which you can find here.