Gaming Industry Figures

In the credits of some of Strategic Simulations, Inc.’s most important games, Richard “Rick” Wilson rarely appears beside the programmers […]

Long before computer role-playing games could reproduce sprawling fantasy worlds with voiced characters, cinematic dialogue, and thousands of lines of […]

The name Laurence H. Miller appears quietly across several corners of British gaming history. It can be found in science-fiction […]

Ryuichi Nishizawa entered the video game industry before there was much of an industry to enter. He was still a […]

When Shinichi Sakamoto entered the Japanese video game industry in 1982, the job of a game composer was not yet […]

For millions of players, Yoko Shimomura’s music arrived long before they knew her name. It might have been the character […]

Some of the most recognizable games of the 1980s have names attached to them that almost disappeared from popular memory. […]

Video game history is often told through machines, companies, famous designers, and bestselling games. Historians trace the rise of Atari, […]

Long before Yoshinori Takenaka became a producer on Mega Man X4, helped shape the Breath of Fire series, or established […]

Across some of the best-known British computer games of the 1980s and early 1990s, one name appeared again and again […]

Ivan Horn’s name may not be as immediately recognizable as the characters that appeared in the games he helped create, […]

During the second half of the 1980s, the name Ocean Software became almost unavoidable for British computer owners. Its blue […]

When the credits rolled on some of Westwood Studios’ biggest games of the 1990s, the most recognizable names belonged to […]

In 1985, Joseph B. Hewitt IV began making computer games at a time when the job of “game designer” was […]

When people remember Westwood Studios, certain names and images come quickly to mind. Brett Sperry and Louis Castle built the […]

Long before Frank Klepacki became associated with marching boots, distorted guitars, military radio chatter, and the sound of armies colliding […]

For players who grew up with Westwood Studios, the memories often come back as sounds. The warning voice of EVA […]

Some people in video game history are remembered because their names appeared on the box. Others are reconstructed from the […]

Brett W. Sperry spent much of his career trying to make complicated games feel immediate. As a programmer, designer, producer, […]

Marc Cram is one of those figures in early video game history whose influence becomes easier to see the deeper […]

Long before Louis Castle became one of the figures most closely associated with Command & Conquer, he was trying to […]

Before Westwood Studios became famous for Dune II, Command & Conquer, Lands of Lore, and some of the most influential […]

Long before Joel Billings became one of the pioneers of computer strategy gaming, he was a child looking for someone […]

Some of the people who helped build the defining computer games of the 1990s became public faces of the industry. […]

In March 2011, Jimmy Maher opened a new blog with a joke about the internet needing yet another blog. He […]