- Shigeru Miyamoto
is a Japanese video game designer. He is the creator of the "Mario", "Donkey Kong", "The Legend of Zelda", "Star Fox", "Nintendogs", "Wave Race", and "Pikmin" video game series for Nintendo game systems. He is one of the world's most celebrated game designers, and is often called the father of modern video gaming. - Shaun White
Shaun Roger White (born September 3, 1986 in San Diego, California) is an American professional snowboarder and skateboarder based in Carlsbad, California. White has accumulated an accomplished competition record in both sports and has appeared in a number of media programs and video games. He has been a notable competitor in the extreme-sports community since he was about twelve years old. White stands 5' 8.5" (1.73 m) tall. - Uwe Boll
Uwe Boll (pronounced ), born June 22, 1965 in Wermelskirchen, Germany) is a German director, producer and screenwriter of films often adapted from video games. Unlike most directors in the United States, who receive funding from Hollywood studios, he finances his own films through his Boll KG production company. Boll studied at the University of Cologne and the University of Siegen, and holds a doctorate in literature. - Nolan Bushnell
Nolan K. Bushnell is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain. Bushnell has received a great deal of recognition, including being inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, receiving the Nations Restaurant News “Innovator of the Year” award, and being named one of Newsweek's "50 Men That Changed America". - 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. - Dean Takahashi
Check out my cool video. It's not really me. It's a synthetic me. A company called Mova captured my face and cast it in digital form. With their animation technology, they could get me to say things I never did. :) Look for this technology to appear in video games in a year or two. I am Dean Takahashi. - David Jaffe
David Jaffe is a video game designer and currently resides in San Diego, California. He is married and has two children. Jaffe attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He applied to their prestigious film school, but was never admitted. After a few years pursuing his dream of directing movies, he turned to game design. He is best known for directing the critically-acclaimed "Twisted Metal" series and, more recently, "God of War". - Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul William Scott Anderson (born March 4, 1965 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England) is a film director who regularly works in sci-fi movies and video game adaptations. - Morgan Webb
Morgan Ailis Webb (born October 5, 1978, near Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is co-host and senior segment producer of the G4 (formerly G4techTV and before that TechTV) television program "X-Play" and "The Gaming Goddess" of "FHM", where she used to contribute a monthly video game column. - Mark Hamill
Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor. Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original "Star Wars" films, Colonel Christopher "Maverick" Blair in the Wing Commander franchise, and as the voice of The Joker in "Batman: The Animated Series". After the "Star Wars" films, Hamill worked on Broadway, as a voice actor in animation and computer and video games, … - Tommy Tallarico
Tommy Tallarico (born on February 18, 1968) is an American video game music composer. A native of Springfield, MA, he founded Tommy Tallarico Studios in 1994 and the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) in 2002. He co-hosts, produces, and writes for "The Electric Playground", a TV show about video games. He also co-hosts "Reviews on the Run", (formerly "Judgment Day" on the G4 network) a television show in which he and Victor Lucas review video games. - Ed Boon
Edward J. Boon (born March 30 1964 in Chicago, Illinois) is a video game programmer. Boon, along with John Tobias is a co-creator of the "Mortal Kombat" fighting game series. He continues to work on the ongoing series of games, movies and TV shows. Boon is generally credited as the lead programmer while Tobias is lead designer. He has also provided voice acting and motion capture for the games. - Tetsuya Mizuguchi
Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Japanese: 水口哲也, "Mizuguchi Tetsuya", born May 22, 1965 in Otaru, Hokkaidō, Japan) is a video game designer and founder of the video game developer firm Q Entertainment. - Brad Wardell
Bradley R. Wardell (born 24 June, 1971 in Texas), commonly known as Brad Wardell, is an American residing in Michigan. He is the founder and current President and CEO of Stardock, a software development and computer games company. Brad graduated in 1994 from Western Michigan University with a degree in Electronic Engineering. His first notable achievement was the design and implementation of "Galactic Civilizations" for OS/2, … - Matt Casamassina
Matt Casamassina (born December 1975) is a video game journalist working for IGN. He is the author of many reviews and previews of Nintendo games, and the editor-in-chief of the "IGN Nintendo Team". "Next Generation Magazine" lists him as one of the top 50 game journalists. He resides in Los Angeles, California, is married and has a daughter. Casamassina started in 1997 as editor of the N64.com website, which soon became the Nintendo 64 section of IGN. - Dawn
Dawn, known in Japan as, is a human character from the multi-billion-dollar "Pokémon" media franchise - a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media, created by Satoshi Tajiri. - Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino (pronounced juh-kee-no) (born 1967, Riverside, New Jersey) is an American soundtrack composer who has composed several multi-award winning scores for many popular movies, television series and video games. His scores are notable for their usage of brass. He attended the Evening Division at the Juilliard School; as well as the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he acquired a degree in film production and a minor degree in History. - Carrie-Anne Moss
Carrie-Anne Moss (born August 21, 1967) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Trinity in "The Matrix" trilogy. - Steve Jackson
Steve Jackson (born ~1953) is an American game designer. After working for many years at Metagaming designing such games as "Ogre" and "The Fantasy Trip", he left to found Steve Jackson Games (SJ Games) in the early 1980s. He designed many of the games published by SJ Games, such as "Car Wars", "GURPS", "Munchkin" and many others. - Jeff Minter
Jeff 'Yak' Minter (born in Reading, April 22 1962) is a British computer/video game designer and programmer. He is the founder of software house Llamasoft and his most recent work is the light synthesizer (called Neon) built into the Xbox 360 console. Many of his games include certain distinctive elements-they are often arcade style shoot-em-ups. His fondness of llamas, sheep, camels etc. - Jesper Kyd
Jesper Kyd (born in Horsholm, Denmark) is a video game and film music composer. He combines sounds of ambient, electronic and symphonic music and has won many awards. He is also notable for his work in the demo scene where he composed a large amount of music in his teenage years. - Soren Johnson
Soren Johnson, employed by Firaxis Games in 2000, co-designed, with Jeff Briggs, and helped in programming the popular video game "Civilization III", also writing the entire Artificial Intelligence code for the game. He was also the lead designer of "Civilization IV", once again writing all of the A.I. Prior to his work at Firaxis, he acquired a BA in history and a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University. - Kieron Gillen
Kieron Gillen is a British computer games and music journalist, as well as a comic book author, who has worked for a lengthy list of publications, including "PC Gamer UK", "The Escapist", "Amiga Power", "Wired", "The Guardian" newspaper (where he wrote the first long-form videogame review in a mainstream newspaper), "Edge", "Games Developer", "Develop", "MCV", "Gamesmaster" and "PC Format", … - 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. - 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. - Hal Laboratory
is a Japanese video game developer that was founded on February 21, 1980. Its name comes from the HAL 9000 computer in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey". The company is most famous for its character "Kirby", the protagonist of the eponymous game series, as well as the "Super Smash Bros." series. It is a second-party development studio of Nintendo. HAL Laboratory started off making games for the MSX system during the early '80s, … - Matt Harding
Matthew "Matt (Mathias)" Harding (born September 27, 1976) is an American video game developer and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of landmarks and street scenes in various international locations. Harding has since achieved notoriety through widespread coverage of his travel exploits in major print and broadcast media outlets. - Motoi Sakuraba
Motoi Sakuraba has composed music for various Japanese video games, anime series, and TV dramas as well as independent progressive rock albums. - Louis Castle
Louis Castle co-founded Westwood Studios (the creator of the popular "Command & Conquer" real-time strategy video game series) with Brett Sperry in 1985. Castle remained with Westwood when it was bought by Electronic Arts in 1998 and now is a vice president of EA Los Angeles. He was given the second annual Lifetime Achievement Award by the Computer Game Developers Association at the Spotlight Awards in 1999. - Yoko Shimomura
is a Japanese composer and musician best known for her soundtracks for various video games. See video game music. - Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment was born in Los Angeles, California and currently studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the film The Sixth Sense and starred in AI: Artificial Intelligence and Pay It Forward . He is the voice of Sora in the Kingdom Hearts series of games. - Gunpei Yokoi
Gunpei Yokoi, also seen as (September 10, 1941–October 4, 1997) was one of the most important figures in the history of the video game company Nintendo. - Gonzalo Frasca
Gonzalo Frasca is a commercial designer and academic researcher (in The Center for Computer Game Research of the university of Technology of the information (IT) of Copenhagen, Denmark) and of video games. His weblog, Ludology.org, is an important publication for academic researchers studying video games (see ludology for more information). In addition, his Macromedia Shockwave-based game "September 12th" was one of the first notable political online games. - Hiroshi Yamauchi
(born November 7, 1927) is a Japanese businessman. He was the third president of Nintendo Co., Ltd. beginning in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002. Yamauchi is credited with transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card making company in Japan to the multi-billion dollar video game company that it is today. Yamauchi was succeeded at Nintendo by Satoru Iwata. Yamauchi also became the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team in 1992, … - Naked Cowboy
Robert John Burck (born December 23, 1970 in Cincinnati, Ohio), better known as the Naked Cowboy, is a New York City busker and prominent fixture of Times Square. His routine consists of playing guitar wearing only cowboy boots, a hat, and a pair of briefs. In 2000, he was on the short-lived "Moral Court" starring conservative/libertarian talk show host, Larry Elder. - Derek Smart
Derek K. Smart is the president and lead developer of 3000AD, Inc., a video game developer based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is an independent video game designer and software developer, and the creator of the "Battlecruiser 3000AD" and "Universal Combat" video game series. A self-described "eccentric and vocal personality", Smart is renowned for lengthy and aggressive online responses to perceived criticism. - Paul Eibeler
Paul Eibeler (born ca. 1956) was the Chief Executive Officer, President, and a director of Take-Two Interactive, a publisher, developer, and distributor of video and computer games, well-known for the Grand Theft Auto series. Under Eibeler's leadership, Take-Two Interactive missed earnings estimates on multiple occasions. The Hot Coffee minigame controversy, which involved secretly adding sexually explicit content to the popular Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas game, … - Harvey Smith
Harvey Smith is a video game designer interested in deeply simulated, immersive environments. His work merges elements from RPGs and first-person shooters in the creation of games with strong fictional integrity that lends themselves to self-paced exploration and player self-expression. Throughout his career, he has had various roles on projects such as Wing Commander 3DO, Ultima VIII: Pagan, CyberMage, Technosaur (cancelled), System Shock, FireTeam, Deus Ex, … - Brian Wood
Brian Wood (born January 29, 1972) is a writer, illustrator, and graphic designer living in Brooklyn, New York. He is known primarily as a comic book creator; Wood both writes and illustrates graphic novels and serialized monthly comic books for a variety of publishers. During his comics career, Wood held a day job for several years as a staff designer for Rockstar Games, designing for video game franchises such as "Grand Theft Auto", "Midnight Club", … - Charlie Murphy
Charles Quinton "Charlie" Murphy' (born July 12, 1959) is an American writer, actor, and stand-up comedian known for his role on the American television program "Chappelle's Show". Born in New York City, Charlie is the older brother of comedian Eddie Murphy. Charlie served in the United States Navy until 1984. He later achieved fame as a recurring performer on "Chappelle's Show", particularly in the "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories" sketches.
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