Pierre Estève discovered music at the age of four and entered the Avignon Conservatoire two years later to take up the piano. As a young teenager,...

Born on 23 January 1967 in Argenteuil, France, Hervé Lange was immersed in computers from an early age, via his father, but was initially fascinated by...

Born on 24 August 1961, Jean-Martial Lefranc holds a law degree and graduated from Sciences Po in 1984. He worked briefly for Publicis Constellation and then for...

Born on 4 September 1965, Kazuko Shibuya decided to work in graphics at secondary school after discovering the Uchū Senkan Yamato cartoon....

Born on 29 December 1949 in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, Ian Livingstone founded Games Workshop in early 1975 with his flatmates Steve Jackson and...

Born on 13 February 1969 in Charleroi, Belgium, Yves Grolet began his professional career in video games at the age of sixteen, when...

Born in Paris on 11 February 1972, Raphaël Gesqua got his start in electronic music via the 16-bit demoscene under the pseudonym Audiomonster, before...

Born on 10 September 1967, Laurent Cluzel was already illustrating fanzines at his lycée before taking a science baccalaureate and then a diploma in Fine Arts. In 1989,...

Born on 6 March 1971 in Tokyo, Mikito Ichikawa aka Micky G. Albert began to take an interest in computers at a very early age, initially to carry out aerodynamic calculations! It was when he discovered...

Born on 15 June 1955 in Grenoble, Alain Le Diberder entered ENS Cachan in 1975, and two years later obtained a DEA (post-graduate diploma) in economic...

Born on 2 April 1968, François-Xavier Talgorn discovered computing at the age of 14 during an evening out with friends, which he spent programming on a calculator...

Born on 2 August 1967, Yannick Cadin discovered programming on machines such as the ZX81, Canon X-07 and Amstrad CPC 664, then went on to study...

Born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, Emmanuel Viau passed his scientific baccalaureate in 1978 and then studied medicine for two years before failing the competitive examination....

Tetsuya Mizuguchi began his career in video games in 1990 at SEGA. His studies in the field of arts and media were a response to the...

Born on 30 December 1953 in Nappanee, Indiana, David Crane developed a passion for games and electronics at a very early age, and his mother gave him...

Born on 23 January 1969, Gavin Rummery graduated from a programming school when many others were still learning on the job. He tried his hand at...

Born on 23 February 1973, Richard Morton had a passion for video games but didn't know where to turn to learn how to create them...

Born on 31 March 1944, Tomohiro Nishikado joined Pacific Kōgyō, a subsidiary of Taito, in 1968, but it was in 1970 that he moved on to developing electromechanical games with Sky Fighter, followed...

Born on 30 January 1953, Bertrand Brocard founded ARG Informatique in Chalon-sur-Saône in 1982, one of the first video game publishers in France, which became Cobrasoft when he joined forces with...

Philippe Dessoly signing books on the MO5.COM stand at Paris Games Week 2018. Born in 1969 in Saint-Vallier, Philippe Dessoly began drawing at the age of...

Born on 10 January 1947, Satoru Okada joined Nintendo in 1975 as an engineer in the Nintendo Research & Development 1 division headed by Gunpei Yokoi. He brought to...

Born on 7 February 1971 in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Nicolas Gaume left his studies in 1990 to set up his own video game development studio in Bordeaux with a group of friends. The team...

Dino Dini taught himself programming, starting out on an Acorn System 1 in 1979, and went on to create video games for microcomputers. Since then, he has...

Born in 1960 in Montpellier, Christophe Héral learnt to play the guitar as a teenager and then studied composition from the age of seventeen. It was in 1986 that he signed...

Laurant Weill discovered computers at the age of thirteen when his father took him to a computer exhibition. This led him to study computer science in addition to...

Saori Kobayashi was born in Yokohama, Japan, on 31 July 1963. She graduated from the Musashino Academia Musicae and became a pianist, starting her career as a...

Manami Matsumae was born on Christmas Day 1964 in Kyoto, Japan. She graduated from the Osaka Academy of Music in 1987 and went on to become...

Masaaki Kukino was born on 2 February 1964 in Kurashiki, Japan. After graduating in art at university, he went to school to study the crafts...

Born in India but raised in the UK, Julian Gollop has been fascinated by board games since he was a teenager, and sees computers as the...

Kenji Kanno joined SEGA in 1993. It was in the AM3 division that he began his career as assistant director on Jurassic Park, then as director of the...

When he was a teenager, Christophe Balestra discovered computing with an Atari 520 ST, but he soon got bored of games and took up programming, in particular with a...

Jordan Mechner was born in New York in 1964. A programmer since the age of fifteen, he was still a student at Yale when he developed his first games for the Apple...

Alain Huyghues-Lacour's first passion was music, and he had already been in a rock band for six years when he took his A-levels in...

Born on 8 March 1922 in Pirmasens, Germany, Ralph Baer was excluded from school at the age of eleven because of his Jewish origins. He left...

Born on 28 October 1966, Marc Lacombe began his career as a journalist in 1989, freelancing for Micro News, Tilt and Consoles+. In the 90s, he joined the...

Born on 10 March 1960 in Lyon, Éric Viennot trained as a visual artist, which led him to work in painting, sculpture and...

Yoji Shinkawa joined Konami in 1994 and joined Hideo Kojima's team. He first worked on the Policenauts game, as a debugger on the NEC version...

Born on 22 January 1970, Cyril Drevet has been immersed in the world of television ever since he was a child, thanks to his father, the presenter and weatherman...

Born in 1961 in Tokyo, Yoshihisa Kishimoto was a rebellious teenager who spent more time playing video games than studying. An avid cinema fan,...

Born in Madagascar, Dany Boolauck grew up in Mauritius before moving to France to study at ESCE. It was here that he...

Trained as a doctor, Jacques Harbonn was involved in the Tilt adventure, France's leading video games magazine, from 1982 to 1994. From 1992 onwards, he expanded the...

Paul Cuisset signing books on the MO5.COM stand at Paris Games Week 2018, accompanied by Patricia, his wife and collaborator. A talented programmer,...

Born on 25 November 1962 in Hitachi, Japan, Hironobu Sakaguchi studied electro-technology at Yokohama National University, but he and Hiromichi Tanaka dropped out...

Born in 1966 in Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, Frédérick Raynal made his first ZX81 game as an amateur while still a minor. He made a name for himself...

Born in 1951, Philippe Ulrich was marked by a five-year round-the-world trip in the 1970s, and his passion for...

During our discussions, Aleksei Pajitnov expressed his concern about the increasing disappearance of information on the history of video games and computing...

As a teenager, Éric Chahi created his first games in 1983 on Oric Atmos and Amstrad for Loriciels. He continued his career on the Atari ST...

Although he has worked in the IT industry since 1970, it was in the mid-1980s that Daniel Macré fell under the spell of the Pole Position arcade machine. He...

Hideo Kojima (小島 秀夫, Kojima Hideo) is a Japanese video game designer born on August 24, 1963 in Setagaya. He is best known...