Award attributes
Other attributes
2022 Ed Boon, Chief Creative Officer, NetherRealm Studios
2020 Connie Booth, Vice President of Product Development at Sony Interactive Entertainment
2019 Bonnie Ross, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft and Head of 343 Industries
2017 Todd Howard, Game Director, Bethesda Game Studios
2016 Hideo Kojima, Game Designer, Kojima Productions
2014 Leslie Benzies, President, Rockstar North
2014 Dan Houser, Co-founder and Vice President of Creative, Rockstar Games
2014 Sam Houser, Co-founder and President, Rockstar Games
2013 Gabe Newell, President and Co-Founder, Valve Corporation
2012 Tim Sweeney, CEO and Technical Director, Epic Games, Inc.
2011 Dr. Greg Zeschuk, Co-Founder, Bioware
2011 Dr. Ray Muzyka, Co-Founder, Bioware
2010 Mark Cerny, President, Cerny Games
2009 Bruce Shelley, Game Designer, Ensemble Studios
2008 Michael Morhaime, President & Co-Founder, Blizzard Entertainment
2007 Dani (Danielle) Bunten, Game Designer and Programmer
2006 Richard Garriott, NCsoft North America
2005 Trip Hawkins, Electronic Arts
2004 Peter Molyneux, Lionhead Studios
2003 Yu Suzuki, SEGA Coporation
2002 Will Wright, Maxis
2001 John Carmack, id Software
2000 Hironobu Sakaguchi, Square USA, Inc.
1999 Sid Meier, Firaxis Games
1998 Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo Co., Ltd.
