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is a leading Japan international developer and publisher of video game headquartered in Osaka, Japan. It was founded in 1979 as Japan Capsule Computers, a company devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines. According to Capcom,"The name...

Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) (IPA: ) was an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D;) with Dave Arneson in 1974, and co-founding the company Tactical Studies Rules ...

Mattel Inc. is the world's largest toy company based on revenue. Its imports include Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, American Girl dolls, board game, and, in the early 1980s, video game console. It was founded in 1945 by Harold "Matt" Matson and Elliot...

Nintendo Company Ltd. (任天堂株式会社 Nintendō Kabushiki-kaisha; , , ) is a Japan multinational corporation founded on September 23 1889 in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. In the mid-twentieth century, the company tried several small...

is a media franchise owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri around 1995. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video game, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video game-based...

Richard Channing Garfield, Jr. (born 26 June 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a mathematics professor and game designer who created the card game Magic: The Gathering, Netrunner, BattleTech, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (originally known as Jyhad), The Great...

Hasbro is an American toy company. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world, second only to the toy giant Mattel. Hasbro is also the publisher of the world's most popular board game, Monopoly. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island,...

Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargame and strategic board games. It also published the occasional miniature wargaming rules, role-playing game, and had a popular line of sports simulations. It is now a division of the game company Wizards of the...

\t John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13 1928), is an American mathematician who works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations, serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University. He shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize...

Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of game, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes. Originally a basement-run role-playing game publisher, they popularized the collectible card game genre with...

Games Workshop Group PLC (often abbreviated to GW) is a British game production and retailing company. Games Workshop is one of the largest wargames companies in the world. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange with the symbol GAW. Founded in 1975 by Ian...

Sid Sackson (February 4, 1920, Chicago–November 6, 2002) was a significant American board game designer and collector. His most popular creation is probably the business game Acquire. Other games he designed include Can't Stop and Focus (Domination), which won the...

The Milton Bradley Company is an American game company established by Milton Bradley in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860. In 1920, it absorbed the game production of McLoughlin Brothers, formerly the largest game manufacturer in the United States and in 1987 it...

Andrew J. Looney (born November 5, 1963), better known as Andy Looney, is an award-winning game designer and computer programmer. Looney, his wife Kristin Looney, and Alison Frane together run the games company Looney Labs, which has published most of his game...

Dr. James Cooke Brown (July 21, 1921 – February 13, 2000) was a sociologist and science fiction author. He is notable for creating the artificial language Loglan and for designing the Parker Brothers board game Careers. Brown's novel The Troika Incident (Doubleday,...

Christian Wolf is a designer of board games. He has won the As d'Or for ''Tutankhamen'' and the Kinderspiel des Jahres for ''Klondike''; both were collaborations with Stefanie Rohner. Wolf, Christian

Louis Zocchi, Sergeant, USAF (Retired), is a gaming hobbyist, former game distributor and game publisher, and maker and seller of polyhedral game dice. Zocchi and his company Gamescience have published a number of games over the years (many designed by Zocchi), but...

David L. Arneson (born October 1, 1947 in Minnesota, United States) is an American game designer. In the early 1970s, he co-created the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D;) role-playing game with Gary Gygax. He is a University of Minnesota alumnus, and began working on role...

James F. Dunnigan (born 8 August 1943) is an author and wargame designer currently living in New York City, notable for his matter-of-fact approach to military analysis. Born in Rockland County, New York, after high school, he volunteered for the military instead of...

Klaus Teuber (born 1952) is a well-known German designer of board game. He has won the Spiel des Jahres award four times, for Settlers of Catan, Barbarossa, Drunter und Drüber and Adel Verpflichtet. He retired from his profession as a dental technician to become a full...

Rio Grande Games is a board game publisher based in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The company primarily imports and localizes foreign language German-style board game. In 1995, Jay Tummelson began working for Mayfair Games under Darwin Bromley. At that time, Mayfair had...

Reiner Knizia is a prolific German-style board game designer. Born in Germany in 1957, he developed his first game at the age of six. He has a PhD in mathematics, and has been a full-time game designer since 1997, when he quit his former job as a quantitative analyst ...

Parker Brothers is a toy and game manufacturer and brand. For almost 115 years the company published more than 1800 games; among their best known products are Monopoly, Cluedo (known as Clue in North America), Risk, Trivial Pursuit, Ouija and Probe. Parker Brothers is...

David Parlett is a games scholar who has studied both card game and board game. His published works include many popular books on games and the authoritative volumes "Oxford Guide to Card Games" and "Oxford History of Board Games", both now out of print. Parlett has...

Jonathan Tweet is a game designer who has been involved in the development of the role-playing game Ars Magica, Everway, Over the Edge, Talislanta and the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons, as well as the Collectible Miniatures Game Dreamblade. He currently works...

is a Japan toy making company, as well as the producer of a large number of plastic model kits. It is the world's third largest producer of toys. Some ex-Bandai group companies produce anime and tokusatsu programs. After the merger with game developer and amusement...

Peter Suber (born November 8, 1951) is the creator of the game Nomic and a leading voice in the open access movement. He is the senior research professor of philosophy at Earlham College, the open access project director at Public Knowledge, and a senior researcher at...

Edward de Bono (born May 19, 1933, in Malta) is a British physician, author, inventor, and consultant. He writes prolifically about lateral thinking - a concept he pioneered, and he has also designed a strategy boardgame. Born in Malta, Edward de Bono studied at St...

Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher originally based in Alameda, California. The company was founded in 1983 and was most famous for its simulation games, notably the Falcon line, and Vette!, a driving simulator from 1989. Spectrum...

Charles Brace Darrow (August 10, 1889–August 29, 1967), has been credited, erroneously, as having invented the Monopoly board game. Darrow was a domestic heater salesman from Germantown, a neighborhood in Philadelphia (the part of Germantown he lived in is now called ...