- 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, … - Free Radical Design
Free Radical Design is a video game developer, based in Nottingham, England. - 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. - John Carmack
John D. Carmack II (born August 20 1970) is a widely recognized figure in the video game industry. A prolific American programmer, Carmack co-founded id Software, a computer game development company, in 1991. Carmack was the lead programmer of the highly successful id computer games "Commander Keen", "Wolfenstein 3D", "Doom", "Quake", and subsequent sequels to "Doom" and "Quake". - Bobby Kotick
Robert "Bobby" Kotick, chairman and CEO of American computer game company Activision, Inc., is credited for bringing back a near bankrupt game company (Activision) and transforming it into one of the most successful publishing houses to date. At a time when game companies were laying off droves of employees and closing their doors, with Kotick's lead, Activision grouped together key staff, signed on star developers, … - Trip Hawkins
William M. 'Trip' Hawkins III (born 1953) is a Silicon Valley American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company and Digital Chocolate. Hawkins was the Director of Strategy and Marketing at Apple Computer in 1982 when he left to found Electronic Arts (EA), a video game publisher. Electronic Arts had a successful run for many years under Hawkins' leadership. It is now the world's largest video game publisher. - John Romero
John Romero is EVP of Game Development at Slipgate Ironworks, a new Bay Area MMO company he co-founded in September 2005. He was a co-Founder of Inside Out Software, Ideas From The Deep, id Software, Ion Storm, and Monkeystone Games. From his early Apple IIe games to the legendary Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II, Heretic, Hexen, and Quake, Romero has made an indelible mark on the computer gaming industry. - 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. - Jeff Briggs
Jeff Briggs (born March 10 1957 in Alabama) is founder and former President, and CEO of Firaxis Games, a computer game developer based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States. He was previously a game designer at MicroProse but left that company in 1996 along with Sid Meier to form Firaxis Games. Briggs holds a Doctorate in Musical Composition and Theory from the University of Illinois. His career began in New York City, where he composed music for various events, … - 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. - J Allard
J Allard (his legal name; formerly James Allard) (born January 12 1969 in Glens Falls, New York) is a Corporate Vice President and the Chief XNA Architect at Microsoft. He also oversaw Microsoft's first foray into the video game industry, the Xbox. Allard oversees all design and engineering for the Xbox console, peripherals, Microsoft's multiplayer online service Xbox Live, as well as development tools for video game developers. - Small Rockets
Small Rockets is a small computer game developer founded in 2000 that creates and sells PC computer games online. - Scott Miller
Scott Miller is an entrepreneur and former game programmer. Miller is the founder and CEO of Apogee Software, Ltd. (currently known as 3D Realms Entertainment), started in 1987. He started as game programmer, but now handles primary business duties of the company, as well as producing and co-designing all third-party games associated with the company, including "Wolfenstein 3D", "Raptor", "Terminal Velocity", "Max Payne" and "Prey". - Omega Force
Omega Force is a video game developer working for Koei who is most famous for their Dynasty Warriors series. - Eric Zimmerman
Eric Zimmerman is a game designer and the co-founder and CEO of gameLab, a computer game development company, which is known for the game "Diner Dash". Each year Zimmerman hosts the Game Design Challenge at the Game Developers Conference. He is also the co-author of 4 books including "Rules of Play" with Katie Salen, which was published in November 2004. He has taught at universities including MIT, the University of Texas at Austin, Parsons School of Design, … - Free Lunch Design
Free Lunch Design is a Swedish independent computer game developer, founded in 1998 by Johan Peitz. - Wangame Studios
Wangame Studios is a Chinese video game development company that focuses on artificial intelligence. 烽火英雄傳 (pinyin feng1 huo3 ying1 xiong2 zhuan4, literal meaning: Legends of beacon heroes) is a historical RPG game based on events in the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty. Invasions, political upheaval and social turmoil were setting the stage for a Northern Wei military officer Han Yi to restore his country to peace in this era of bloodshed. - Ted Price
Ted Price is the President and CEO of Insomniac Games, an independent video game developer based in Burbank, California. He founded the company in 1994; as of 2006 it has grown to over 155 people. Price's responsibilities at Insomniac include directing the company's day-to-day business and setting its long term strategies as well as overseeing its projects and contributing to their design. - Victor Interactive Software
- Brian Reynolds
Brian Reynolds (born 1967) is a well known computer strategy game designer, formerly of MicroProse and Firaxis Games. He now runs his own game development company, Big Huge Games where he is CEO and creative director, and has been chairman of the International Game Developers Association. He has played a major part in designing a number of multi-million selling games including "Civilization II" and "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri". - Jeff Braun
Jeff Braun is an American computer game producer and co-founder of the video game developer, Maxis. Braun had successfully published font packs for the Amiga personal computer when he met Will Wright at a pizza party hosted by Chris Doner in 1987. Wright had been unsuccessful in finding a game publisher for his city simulation computer game, "SimCity". Braun already had a wire frame jet fighter simulation game he hoped to publish, … - Spike
Spike is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. Games it has developed include: "Crimson Tears", "Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi", "Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2", "Fire Pro Wrestling", "Michigan", "Elvandia Story", & "Necro-Nesia" - Alan Miller
Alan Miller is a pioneering and influential figure in the video game industry. He was an early game designer and programmer for Atari 2600 games who went on to found two large video game developers and publishers. Miller joined Atari in February 1977 and was one of the first four Atari 2600 game designers. His 2600 titles include "Surround", "Hunt & Score", "Hangman" and "Basketball". - Bill Roper
Bill Roper is a video game developer and has been a well-known figure in the worldwide gaming industry for thirteen years. He served as a Vice President of Blizzard North and was a Director of Blizzard Entertainment from 1994 - 2003. Roper oversaw and managed all external projects, coordinated internal development teams, and headed Blizzard's project oversight teams where he was instrumental in shaping the direction of the company's games. - Brian Fargo
Brian Fargo is a computer game developer and notable game industry figure. In 1984 Fargo founded Interplay Entertainment, where he worked on most of Interplay's early games (e.g. "Bard's Tale" and "Wasteland"). He was the company's CEO until 2002, when majority control of Interplay was acquired by Titus Interactive, and he left the company. He had also worked with Brainstorm (Publisher), developing Chess Mates. - Will Harvey
Will Harvey (born c. 1967) is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and game programmer who first made his mark in the video game industry when he was just fifteen and still in high school. Harvey is the Founder of IMVU, an instant messaging company, and of There, Inc., an MMOG company. In high school, Harvey was taking a computer programming class. His teacher asked the class if anyone knew anything about assembly language. Though he did not, Harvey raised his hand. - Jordan Mechner
Jordan Mechner is a game programmer, game designer, and movie director. Mechner was born in New York City and graduated from Yale University in 1985. Mechner's first hit game was "Karateka" (1984), written while he was still an undergraduate. "Prince of Persia," released in 1989, was noted for its fluid animation of human figures. Both titles were published by Brøderbund. For the animations used in "Prince of Persia", … - Chris Sawyer
"Chris Sawyer" is a Scottish computer game developer who is best-known for designing and programming "RollerCoaster Tycoon", "RollerCoaster Tycoon 2", and "Transport Tycoon". He entered the games industry in 1983, writing games in Z80 machine code on the Memotech MTX home computer, and then the Amstrad CPC series home computer. Some of these were published by Ariolasoft, "Sepulcri Scelerati" and "Ziggurat". - Jeff Spangenberg
Jeff Spangenberg is a video game producer and entrepreneur, having founded and presided over video game developers Team Design, Punk Development, Iguana Entertainment, Retro Studios and Top Heavy Studios. - Toby Gard
Toby Gard is a former computer game character designer (the original designer of Lara Croft) at Core Design, the company that developed the popular "Tomb Raider" video game series until "Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness". Gard left Core Design after the first "Tomb Raider" was released, because he was vehemently opposed to the marketing of Lara's sex appeal for "Tomb Raider II". - Lorne Lanning
Lorne Lanning is an American game designer, writer, voice actor and animated film director. He is also co-founder and president of the video game developer, Oddworld Inhabitants. He is best known for creating the Oddworld series including the games "Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee", "Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee", "Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus" and "Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath". - Saru Brunei
Saru Brunei is a video game development company who works as a second-party developer for Nintendo. Saru Brunei is a part of Marigul Management, Inc. Saru Brunei is headed up by former Nintendo game designer Gento Matsumoto. Matsumoto was Shigeru Miyamoto's right-hand man for 15 years. Saru Brunei may be defunct as Marigul was liquidated in May, 2003., and Saru Brunei hasn't been heard of since then. - Paul Reiche III
Paul Reiche III (born February 17 1961) is a computer game designer. Reiche is best known for being the co-creator, together with Fred Ford, of the "Star Control" universe. While Reiche did the game design and fiction, Ford was responsible for the programming. Reiche is listed in the credits for Toe Jam and Earl under "Invaluable Help". A childhood friend of early "Dungeons & Dragons" (D&D) artist Erol Otus, Reiche became interested in gaming as a teen. - Eric Brosius
Eric Brosius is a musician and video game developer, and a former employee of Looking Glass Studios. He is a former member of the band Tribe, and is married to Terri Brosius, also a former Looking Glass employee and Tribe member. Brosius is best known within the video game industry for his sound design and music work in several Looking Glass Studios, Irrational Games and Ion Storm games, particularly the "Thief" series. - 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, … - David Braben
David Braben is a British computer programmer, best known for co-writing "Elite", a hugely popular and influential space trading computer game, in the early 1980s. "Elite" was written in conjunction with Ian Bell while both were undergraduate students at Cambridge University. Another seminal game written by Braben was "Zarch" for the Acorn Archimedes (later released on some other platforms as Virus), … - David Cage
David De Gruttola (born June 9, 1969), better known by his pseudonym David Cage, is a French musician and video game designer. He is the head of game developer studio Quantic Dream. Cage has most of the leading roles in the company and the development of the games, being founder, chief executive officer, chief financial officer, director, game designer, screenwriter, project leader, and more. - Scott Lynch
Scott Lynch is a chief operating officer at the video game developer Valve Corporation. Prior to joining Valve, Scott was Senior Vice President at Havas Interactive where he created and managed the Sierra Studios business unit publishing a number of products, including "Half-Life". During his five-year tenure at Sierra Entertainment, Scott held a number of different positions in business development, acquisitions, finance, investor relations, and product development. - Michael Morhaime
Mike Morhaime is the president and a co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, a video game developer located in Irvine, California and currently owned by the Vivendi Games group of Vivendi. He is also an alumnus of Triangle Fraternity. Morhaime appears in animated form in the South Park episode Make Love, Not Warcraft, which deals with the "World of Warcraft" MMORPG. - Yoji Shinkawa
is a Japanese illustrator and conceptual artist. He is most famous for his character, environment and mechanical designs for the "Metal Gear Solid" and "Zone of the Enders" video game series. Born in Hiroshima, Shinkawa began working for game developer Konami in 1994; he was the first artist in the company to receive an "S"-grade evaluation for his portfolio. He first worked as a debugger for the PC-98 version of "Policenauts".
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