- Kush Games
Kush Games is a video game developer based out of Camarillo, California. They focus on non-violent, sports video games such as MLB Baseball 2K and NHL 2K. They have created video games for most next-gen consoles including Playstation 2, PSP, GameCube, Xbox, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
- Inxile Entertainment
InXile Entertainment was formed in late 2002 by Brian Fargo, a founder of Interplay Productions. The company is located in Newport Beach, California. While pitching his idea for a "snarky" version of the classic fantasy role-playing game "The Bard's Tale" at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Brian commented that he felt as though he was in exile - hence the company's name.
- Akira Yamaoka
Akira Yamaoka (山岡 晃 "Yamaoka Akira", born February 6 1968 in Niigata, Japan) is a musician and video game composer, having scored dozens of titles released by Konami. Yamaoka attended Tokyo Art College, where he studied product design and interior design. He joined Konami on September 21, 1993, after previously being a freelance music composer.
- Yuji Naka
is a video game designer, programmer, the former head of Sonic Team, a group of Sega programmers/designers, the lead programmer of the original "Sonic the Hedgehog" and the head of PROPE. After graduating High school, Yuji Naka decided to skip university and stay in his hometown of Osaka. During this time, Yuji worked long hours at various menial jobs. After quiting his last job, Yuji saw that Sega was looking for programming assistants.
- Oh! Great
pen name Oh! great, is a Japanese manga artist most recognized for the manga series "Tenjho Tenge" and "Air Gear". Characteristics of Ito's style include violent plots, the use of English words amidst kanji and the constant use of beautiful female characters. Ito also created the hentai series "Silky Whip" and apart from working with manga, …
- Fumito Ueda
is a video game designer born in Tatsuno, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in 1970. Ueda is director and lead designer of the PlayStation 2 video games "Ico" and "Shadow of the Colossus". He described himself as a very inquisitive child saying "I enjoyed catching and keeping living things, such as fish or birds. Other than that, I liked both watching and making animation. Basically, I seemed to be interested in things that moved." At school, his favorite subjects included art, …
- John Smedley
John Smedley is a computer game programmer who is the President of Sony Online Entertainment as of 2007. In 2007, he announced a change in direction for Sony Online Entertainment, including a broadening of business models beyond the subscription model and pursuing female consumers to balance their audience, which was 85% male at the time.
- Toshihiro Nagoshi
Toshihiro Nagoshi is a video game producer and designer for Sega. Nagoshi is in charge of Sega's New Entertainment R&D #1 studio. Nagoshi headed Sega AM4/Amusement Vision before NE R&D #1 was formed. He is best known as the producer and director of the Super Monkey Ball series, excluding Super Monkey Ball Adventure. His credits also include "Virtua Striker", "Daytona USA", and "Spikeout".
- Scott Brown
Scott Brown is a Glasgow-based Scottish DJ and music producer. Brown produces and plays a variety of genres commonly termed as rave. Although he is most associated with bouncy techno, his music ranges from happy hardcore, through hardcore trance, to gabber. He was heavily involved in the evolution of the UK's hardcore techno scene from the early 1990s, in particular introducing the harder-edged sounds of Belgian and Dutch techno to the UK, …
- Akihiko Yoshida
Akihiko Yoshida is a Japanese video game character designer currently working for Square Enix. He also does the drawings that the 3D models or 2D sprites will be based upon. Yoshida was born in 1967 and joined Square Co., Ltd. in 1995, which the company was known by at the time before the merger with Enix.
- Dave Campbell
David Wilson Campbell (born January 14, 1942 in Manistee, Michigan) is a former American baseball player and current sportscaster. His nickname is "Soup", an apparent reference to the brand name Campbell's Soup. Campbell began his playing career with the University of Michigan, and signed with the Detroit Tigers' system as an amateur free agent in 1964. He played mostly as a utility infielder for the Tigers, San Diego Padres, St. Louis Cardinals, …
- Kazushige Nojima
is a Japanese game scenario writer and is the founder of Stellavista Ltd.. He is best known for writing parts of Square Enix's "Final Fantasy" video game series, namely "Final Fantasy VII," "Final Fantasy VIII," "Final Fantasy X", "Final Fantasy X-2" and also the entire "Kingdom Hearts series".
- Hallucinogen
Hallucinogen is the stage name of Simon Posford, an electronic musician specializing in Goa trance music from England. His early work is as an engineer on the T.I.P.(Raja Ram) and Dragonfly(Youth) labels. His first album, "Twisted", was one of the most widely influential electronic music recordings which helped to define the psychedelic trance genre. The follow-up album, "The Lone Deranger", only cemented his influence.
- Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards is an aggressive inline skater who resides in California. He was one of the early members of Team Rollerblade, and is considered to be the godfather of aggressive inline skating. Edwards appears in a video game, "Aggressive Inline", which is available for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. Chris also had some rollerblades named after him; "tarmac CE" (Chris Edwards), "Edwards Chocolate" (street), …
- Brian Allgeier
Brian Allgeier is a video game designer who is best known for his work as the lead designer on the "Ratchet & Clank" series developed by Insomniac Games for the Playstation 2. He is the creative director on the upcoming Playstation 3 title, "Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction" that is scheduled for release in the fall of 2007. He started working in videogames in 1991 as an artist and animator on the CD-i title, …
- Neill Corlett
Neill Corlett is the creator of the Portable Sound format (PSF), which he developed in 2003 and is the audio format used in files containing sound extracted from the original Sony PlayStation. He later created the PSF2 format for use with PlayStation 2 audio. He is also notable for his English language fan translations of "Seiken Densetsu 3" and "Final Fantasy III".
- Rex Hudler
Rex Allen Hudler (nicknamed the "Wonder Dog") (born on September 2, 1960, in Tempe, Arizona) is a former Major League Baseball infielder-outfielder. He played a total of thirteen seasons after being a first round draft pick of the New York Yankees in 1978. He is currently the color commentator for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim broadcasting team alongside play-by-play announcer Steve Physioc.
- Takeharu Ishimoto
is a Japanese video game music composer and synthesizer programmer currently working at Square Enix. He first worked as a synthesizer programmer before becoming a composer. His first work as a composer is the PlayStation 2 soccer game World Fantasista. More recently, he has been working as one of the composers for the Final Fantasy series.
- Hedy Burress
Hedy Burress (born Heather Elizabeth Burress, October 3, 1973 in Edwardsville, Illinois) is an American actress. She attended Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, before relocating to Los Angeles, California, in 1995. She has acted in many television programs and motion pictures since 1996. She also co-starred in the short-lived NBC sitcom "Boston Common".
- Michiru Oshima
Michiru Oshima, is a Japanese composer who has worked on several titles. Her earlier works include composition for games on Super Famicom (Super NES in America) and the action/adventure game "Ico" for PlayStation 2. She is well known for her work on the "Godzilla" movies. She also assisted in composing the score for "Fullmetal Alchemist", a popular anime.
- Tsuneo Imahori
Tsuneo Imahori is a Japanese guitarist and composer. He started to play acoustic guitar aged 12, inspired by British folk music from the likes of Bert Jansch, and later the work of Frank Zappa and Andy Partridge. In 1986 he formed the band Tipographica, with saxophonist Naruyoshi Kikuchi and jazz pianist Akira Minakami. After 4 albums, the group disbanded in 1996. After providing the soundtrack to "Gungrave" for the PlayStation 2 in 2002, …
- Josh Childress
Joshua (Josh) Malik Childress (born June 20, 1983 in Harbor City, California) is an NBA basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks. Childress attended college at Stanford University, where he was an All American and the Pac 10 player of the year as a junior in 2004. After the season, he declared for the 2004 NBA draft and was a first-round pick, number six overall. This is the highest a Stanford player has ever been drafted.
- Lori Alan
Lori Alan (July 18, 1966) sometimes credited as Lori Allen, is most recently known to do the voice work as "The Boss" in "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater" that was released for the Sony PlayStation 2, but she has done other voice work and her resume includes "Family Guy" as the voice of Diane Simmons, various voices on "Hey Arnold", and "SpongeBob SquarePants" as Pearl.
- Jun Natsukawa
Jun Natsukawa is a Japanese gravure idol from Hiroshima, Japan. She is popular for her sexy body and high level of physical fitness. In October 2005, she released a music cd titled Himetra Trance in which she covered the theme song from the anime Cat's Eye. She's made an appearance on the Japanese television show Pink no Idenshi, as a schoolgirl who falls in love with her teacher; and as herself on the reality show Geirinji.
- Morgan Rose
Morgan Rose (born December 13, 1968) is the drummer and founding member of the Atlanta-based alternative metal band Sevendust. He is also responsible for much of the backround "screaming" vocals. Morgan began his music career in the early 90s in the band "Snake Nation" alongside Vinnie Hornsby. In late 1994, Morgan and Vinnie joined forces with Lajon Witherspoon (who was at that time in a R&B band called Body & Soul) and formed "Crawlspace", …
- Kasson Crooker
Kasson Crooker is the artist behind Symbion Project, DJ HMX, Komputer Kontroller, Rance Warlock and Cosmonaut Zero. He is also part of the synthpop group Freezepop as The Duke of Pannekoeken, formerly The Duke of Candied Apples (and briefly The Duke of Belgian Waffles). His main solo project is Symbion Project, with three releases, the "Red" album, released in 1998, …
- Ayaka Hirahara
is a Japanese pop singer who belongs to the music label Dream Music. Her father Makoto Hirahara is a saxophone player, grandfather Tsutomu Hirahara was a trumpet player, and her older sister Aika Hirahara is a singer. From the age of 6, she belonged to The Matsuyama Ballet for 11 years. She started playing saxophone from the 13 years old, then learned classical saxophone at Senzoku Gakuen High School.
- Emma Ferguson
Emma Ferguson is a British actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role in the series "Mile High", but Ferguson has also had major roles in the TV movie "The Brides in the Bath" and in the miniseries "North and South".
- Jon Glover
Jon Glover is a British actor. He has appeared in various television programmes including "Play School", "Survivors", the Management consultant in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "Casualty", "Bodger and Badger" and "Peak Practice". He is also known for voice acting including for "Noah's Island", …
- Charlie Kosei
Charlie Kosei is a jazz musician and performer from Japan, most known for his contributions to the soundtracks of the Lupin the Third anime series. He also contributed his voice to the English-language song "Que Sera Sera" in the PlayStation 2 videogame Katamari Damacy and performed the Japanese translation of Secret Agent Man.
- Kamui Fujiwara
is a character designer and mangaka born on September 23, 1959 in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. Fujiwara's father was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He excelled in mathematics and computer science when in grade school. He graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School, which is attached to Tokyo Zokei University. Fujiwara won an honorable mention in 1979 for his debut manga titled "Itsu mo no Asa ni" in the 18th Tezuka Award, …
- Ricky Grover
Ricky Grover is a British stand-up actor. He has appeared in various television programmes including "Red Dwarf", "'Orrible" and "Black Books". He also provided the voice acting for the character of Yangus in the English language version of the Playstation 2 game "Dragon Quest VIII". Ricky also writes a highly popular article for Loaded (magazine) under the title Raging Bulla, he's been writing for them since July 2003.
- Onoken
Onoken is a musician who makes his music electronically and frequently uses the electric organ to produce solidable tunes. A resident of Tokyo, Japan, Onoken speaks both Japanese and English, but apparently prefers Japanese. Recently, he took up Korean as his third language, hoping to enter the Korean market. Onoken's works are quite diverse, ranging from goa trance to Digital hardcore. Most Onoken songs have a BPM divisible by 10, but this is not always the case.
- Tonya Hurley
Tonya Hurley is a writer and director in film, television, live performance and interactive media. Her work includes "Kiss My Brain" (1997); "The Biblical Real World"(1998); "Solo-Me-O" (1999), first broadcast on PBS in their documentary series "Reel New York", Tribeca Film Festival selection; "Baptism Of Solitude: A Tribute To Paul Bowles" (2000), which aired on the Independent Film Channel; and "Best Friend" (2001), …
- Kotaro Umeji
Kotaro Umeji is a Japanese graphic designer. He has shaped the image of U-1 and other characters from the video game Gitaroo Man for the Playstation 2 video game console and Gitaroo Man Lives! for the PlayStation Portable video game console, and the characters and art found in Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan and Elite Beat Agents both for the Nintendo DS video game console. He is also known under the alias "326".
- Ken Kutaragi
(born August 8, 1950) is the former Chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI), the video game division of Sony Corporation until his retirement. He is known as "The Father of the PlayStation", as well as its other PlayStation products, the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and the PlayStation 3. Kutaragi was closely watched by financial analysts who trace profiles of the losses and profits of the Sony Corporation.
- Tim Schafer
Tim Schafer (born July 26, 1967) is an American computer game designer of Norwegian descent. He founded Double Fine Productions in January 2000, having spent over a decade at LucasArts. Most recently, Schafer designed a game for the Xbox, PS2, and PC called "Psychonauts". Schafer is best known in the video game industry for his story-telling and comedy writing abilities.
- Pippa Funnell
Pippa Funnell MBE (born 7 October 1968) is a world class equestrian sportswoman. She competes in three-day eventing. Funnell was born in Crowborough, East Sussex in 1968. She became "European Young Rider Champion" in 1987 after successfully competing on "Sir Barnaby" at Bialy Bor, Poland. In 1999 she became European Champion at Luhmühlen riding "Supreme Rock" and again on the same horse in 2001 at Pau.
- Clancy Brown
Clarence J. Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor. He is known for his role as The Kurgan (also known as Victor Kruger) in the original "Highlander" movie, as Mr. Krabs in "SpongeBob SquarePants", and Dr. Neo Cortex for six years in the "Crash Bandicoot" series of games.
- Matt Vasgersian
Matt Vasgersian (born 1967) is an American sportscaster and television host, known for his versatility and humor.