Today's Most Popular People
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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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David Wise
David Wise is a video game composer that was born in England and is most notable for his work on the Donkey Kong Country series. He worked for Rare as a house composer from 1985 to 2009, where he was actually their sole musician until 1994. -
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Dempsey Pappion
Dempsey Pappion is an American actor. He has appeared in numerous television shows, movie roles, and advertisements. -
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Akira Yamaoka
Akira Yamaoka is a videogame composer, audio designer and producer with a graphics designer background who gained widespread critical acclaim for his musical scores and sound design work on the Silent Hill franchise for Konami. His use of non-traditional instruments, atonal minimalism and sudden changes in volume and tempo were highly influential in the development of the original game and lead to him becoming the main producer on the series with Silent Hill 3. Despite his enhanced role in Silent Hill 3, as well as Silent Hill 4: The Room, he continued to compose the musical score and design the audio for the series. After Silent Hill 4: The Room, all the key members of Team Silent disbanded but Yamaoka was the only one left to continue developing the remaining Origins, Homecoming and Shattered Memories games. -
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Sam A. Mowry
Sam A. Mowry is a voice actor. He has appeared in dozens of video games, including Dota 2, Amneisa: The Dark Descent, Torchlight, and Infamous. -
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Hideki Kamiya
Hideki Kamiya is a video game designer who began his career at Capcom in 1994. He was one of the few employees to work on Resident Evil with series creator Shinji Mikami. In 1998, he made his first directorial debut on Resident Evil 2. He later directed Devil May Cry and the original Viewtiful Joe. He joined Clover Studio in 2004 and designed Okami, but after the studio went defunct two years later, him and the other Clover Studio members formed PlatinumGames. -
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Linda K. Morris
Linda K. Morris is an American actress. She is most well known for providing voicework for the games Dota 2 and Metroid: Other M. -
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David Sobolov
David Sobolov is a Canadian voice actor. He has provided voices for dozens of popular video games and animated shows, including Halo 4, Diablo III, Dota 2, Mass Effect 3 and Uncharted 3.
