Today's Most Popular People
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Yoshiaki Koizumi
Yoshiaki Koizumi was born in 1968 and graduated from the Osaka University of Arts in Visual Concept Planning. He started at Nintendo doing artwork and manual design for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Super Mario Kart before moving on to larger roles on Yoshi's Island and Super Mario 64. Koizumi started co-directing titles with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask before he returned to the Mario team to co-direct Super Mario Sunshine. After Super Mario Sunshine, Koizumi became involved with the creation of the EAD Tokyo Studio and directed both Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat and Super Mario Galaxy. Recently, he produced the free DSiWare application Flipnote Studio and served as a producer on Super Mario Galaxy 2. -
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Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto is a famed Japanese video game designer and producer. He is one of the most well-regarded developers in the industry, responsible for creating some of the most critically and comercially well-received franchises in the history of the medium, such as The Legend of Zelda, Mario, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and Pikmin. -
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Patrick Klug
Patrick has been in the software industry for over ten years. Prior to founding Greenheart Games to start his own adventure he created the Windows Mind Mapping application NovaMind 5 as the WPF/C# engineer and Development Manager at NovaMind Software. -
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Ken Levine
Ken Levine is an American video game developer best known for award-winning titles BioShock Infinite, System Shock 2, and Thief. -
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Danny Wallace
Born in 1976, Danny got his start in video games working in 1992, working in Bath, UK for magazine publisher Future on Sega Power magazine. Danny worked across Future's various games titles (including including GamesMaster, Superplay and TOTAL!) - before moving on in 1995 to become a comedy writer and producer. -
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Yoshio Sakamoto
Early LifeBorn in 1959 in Nara Prefecture, Japan, Sakamoto attended the Osaka University of the Arts. As a child he played with Nintendo toys, products he thought were both inventive and "strange". -
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Brian J. Wiklem
Brian Wiklem's career has been a winding road but is primarily known for his work with Sony. He currently works with Heavy Iron Studios. -
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Hiroshi Yamauchi
Hiroshi Yamauchi was a Japanese businessman, born in Kyoto, Japan, and is credited for making Nintendo the video game company it is today, having transformed it from a hanafuda card-making company. In 1949, he became the third president of Nintendo, which he stayed as for more than fifty years, eventually being succeeded by Satoru Iwata in 2002. It was on September 19, 2013, that Yamauchi passed away due to complications from pneumonia. -
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Tristan D. Lalla
Tristan D. Lalla is a Canadian television actor born in Montreal, Quebec. An honours graduate of the Professional "Dome" Theatre Department of Dawson College, he received the Brian Cloutte Memorial Award for excellence. -
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Matt Ryan
Matt Ryan is a stage and television actor. Born in Swansea, Wales, as a child he appeared in the West End production of Les Misérables as Gavroche. He later attended Gorseinon College, where he completed a BTEC Performing Arts course, and then graduated from the Bristol Old Vic in 2003 and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2004. -
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Nolan North
Nolan North is an American actor and voice actor. He is one of the most prolific video game voice actors in the industry, and has over 125 video game credits to his name. -
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Paul Rustchynsky
Paul Rustchynsky is a Design Director at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, where he has worked on numerous racing game projects, including the MotorStorm franchise as part of Evolution Studios. -
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George Lewis Jr.
George Lewis Jr., better known by his stage name Twin Shadow, is an American musician. -
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Steven Ellison
Steven Ellison, better known by his stage name Flying Lotus, is an experimental musician, producer and rapper from the United States. -
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Gilles Peterson
Gilles Peterson is a British-based, French/Swiss DJ and record label owner most well known for hosting various BBC radio shows.
