Gaming Gods

Gaming Gods: Dan and Sam Houser

For Gaming Gods this week, I’ve gone a little unorthodox. For today’s Gaming Gods are 2 brothers, who could not justifiably be split up. Not much is known...

Gaming Gods: Richard Garriott

For this week’s Gaming Gods, we go to England, to the unique mindset and genius of Richard Garriott. Garriott was born on July 4th, 1961, in Cambridge,...

Gaming Gods: Gunpei Yokoi

This week, I go back to Japan for Gaming Gods, to the legendary mind that is Nintendo’s Gunpei Yokoi. Yokoi was born on September 10th 1941. He grew up in Kyoto,...

Gaming Gods: John Carmack

In this slightly belated Gaming Gods, I bring you the God that is John D. Carmack, Co-founder of id Software. Born on August 20th 1970 in Roeland Park, Kansas,...

Gaming Gods: Ralph Baer

This series is now in full swing, and the world of Video Game development has been truly blessed with some amazing creative minds. But this week we’re doing...

Gaming Gods: Sid Meier

For this instalment of Gaming Gods we’re talking about someone particularly special: Sid Meier. He is famous for his very popular Civilization series,...

Gaming Gods: Will Wright

For Gaming Gods this week, I’m going to go across the pond from the UK to the states for American Born Game designer William Ralph Wright, creator of the marvelled...

Gaming God’s: Peter Molyneux

For this weeks Gaming Gods we come slightly closer to home (and slightly further into the honours), with the English born designer Peter Molyneux. Peter...

Gaming Gods: Shinji Mikami

Legendary game producer, Shinji Mikami, has been under the spotlight of our judgemental selves for many, many years. The man is most notable and well known...

Gaming Gods: Tim Schafer

The eagle eyed among you may have noticed that the previous entrants into our Gaming Gods series have been pioneers from the East, however there as just as...

Gaming Gods: Hideo Kojima

This series is dedicated to the Gods of the Gaming world, men who deserve to be worshipped for the heavenly gift of gaming. Today’s instalment is the one...

Gaming Gods: Hironobu Sakaguchi

Carrying on from Ryan’s praise towards Shigeru Miyamoto, this week I bring to the table a recent discovery of mine, but someone who avid RPG players unlike...

Gaming Gods: Shigeru Miyamoto

In this new series, which I am entitling ‘Gaming Gods’, I am going to give you thorough and unrelenting snippets of information about the Gods we pray...