Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, conductor, and orchestrator known for his film scores. He has created music for more than 80 films. His most famous works include the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies.
Inon Zur is an American composer born in Israel. He creates music for films, television shows, and video games. He has written soundtracks for more than 80 video games, including Dragon Age, EverQuest, Fallout, Prince of Persia, Star Trek, the Syberia series, and Starfield.
Tommy Tallarico was born on February 18, 1968. He is an American person who creates music for video games, designs sounds, and makes television shows. Since the 1990s, his company, Tommy Tallarico Studios, has made audio for many video games.
Hitoshi Sakimoto (崎元 仁, Sakimoto Hitoshi; born February 26, 1969) is a Japanese music composer and sound designer. He is most famous for creating the music for the video games Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy XII, although he has also composed music for many other games. Sakimoto began playing music and playing video games when he was young and started working as a professional music composer in 1988.
Team Ninja (Japanese: チームニンジャ) is a Japanese video game company that works as part of Koei Tecmo. It was started in 1995 as Tecmo Creative #3, a part of Tecmo led by Tomonobu Itagaki. The company is well known for creating action games and for its popular game series, such as Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive, and Nioh.
Michael Morhaime was born on November 3, 1967. He is an American video game developer and business leader. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) and founder of Dreamhaven, a company based in Irvine, California.
William Ralph Wright was born on January 20, 1960. He is an American video game designer and helped start the game development company Maxis, which later became part of Electronic Arts. In 2009, he left Electronic Arts to lead Stupid Fun Club Camp, an entertainment group where Wright and Electronic Arts are the main owners.
Chris Roberts was born on May 27, 1968. He is a British-American video game designer, programmer, film producer, and film director. While working at Origin Systems, he created the Wing Commander series.
Irrational Games, also called 2K Boston from 2007 to 2009, was an American video game company that began in 1997. It was created by three former employees of Looking Glass Studios: Ken Levine, Jonathan Chey, and Robert Fermier. In 2006, Take-Two Interactive purchased the company.
Reginald Fils-Aimé ( / ˈ f iː s ə m eɪ / FEE -sə-may ; born March 25, 1961) is an American businessman who served as the president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, the North American branch of the Japanese video game company Nintendo, from 2006 to 2019. Before becoming president and COO, Fils-Aimé worked as the executive vice president of sales and marketing. Fils-Aimé became well-known among gamers after speaking at Nintendo’s E3 2004 press conference in May 2004.