Posted Mar 21, 2006 at 11:16PM by Rica M. Listed in: Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation 3, PSP, Xbox 360, News, MMORPG
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Hot 100 Game DevelopersNext-Gen.Biz has put together a list of the hottest game developers of 2005 which will most likely shape the gaming industry this 2006. The criteria for deciding whose names get in the list are the game developers with potential huge successes for 2006 and the people who are industry luminaries.

Here's a few notable names:

1. Michel Ancel - Creative Director, UbiSoft Montpellier
2. Eiji Aonuma - Designer, Nintendo EAD
3. Cliff Bleszinski - Lead Designer, Epic Games
4. Ed Boon - Creative Director, Midway
5. Christopher Busse - Creative Director, Treyarch
6. Karthik Bala - CEO, Chief Creative Office, Vicarious Visions
7. Steven Chiang - VP and General Manager, EA Tiburon
8. Toby Gard - Senior Designer, Crystal Dynamics
9. Richard Garriott - Executive Producer, NCSoft Austin
10. Keiji Inafune - Producer, Capcom

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   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-03-22
 » No Dave Jaffe, no List..

No David Jaffe of God of War? This list fails...

   by insa8ne2k4 - 2006-03-22
 » Fanjita????? - Our Hero

Wheres Fanjita's Name???!!! he's the top dude!!

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-03-22
 » ALPABETTICAL!!

the list is in alphabettical order, not in order of importance!!!!!!

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   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-03-22
 » yep.

he's right. this isnt at top 10 at all.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-03-22
 » No Japanese developers?


No Japanese developers?

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-03-22
 » There's Japanese Developers

Two of them appear in the first ten alone. This isn't "top ten" anything, it's just a list of the most influential/important/potential developers in the industry in alphabetical order. Click on the link for God's sake and read all of the pages.

   by Produkt - 2006-03-22
 » Alphabetical!?

Thats some anoying stuff right there... you forgot the king all togeather, the legendary John Carmack!

He's what made FPS games what they are now!

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-03-23
 » Ha you guys don't know games

You guys forgot Hideo Kojima and Miyamoto plus a whole load more shut this site down you don't know what your doing.



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