Paul’s Friends

Nate Bihldorff is a senior localization manager and producer at Nintendo of America. He began his career for Big N as a video game tester for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and has since been one of the company’s best contributors. E3 2003: Nate Bihldorff and Paul Gale I first met Nate back [...]

Satoru Iwata was born in Sapporo, Japan on December 6, 1959 and is the current president and CEO of Nintendo Co., Ltd. E3 2003: Satoru Iwata, George Harrirson, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Paul Gale Being president of a company as large as Nintendo isn’t just a task for anybody to handle…in fact, Iwata is only the [...]

Charles Martinet was born on September 17, 1955 in San Jose, California and is by far one of the most friendly, charismatic, and best people that I’ve met and become friends with in the video game industry. He is known most well for being the voice of Nintendo’s Mario. It doesn’t stop there, however, as [...]

Denis Dyack was born on July 24th, 1966 and is the founder and president of Silicon Knights. E3 2002: Denis Dyack and Paul Gale I first met Denis back at E3 2002 when we began discussing the changes that Eternal Darkness had made since its crossover from Nintendo 64 to GameCube. What would stem from [...]

Yoshinori Ono is best known for his role in resurrecting Capcom’s most famous fighting game series in Street Fighter IV. It wasn’t easy getting the green light for the project either, but because of persistency on Ono’s part, telling Capcom that it’s something fans really want, we fighting fans got our wish. For me personally, [...]

During the mid 2000′s, Shu Tanaka served as one of Capcom’s main licensing managers and was responsible for the launch of “Street Fighter Month” in October, 2005. E3 2005: Shu Tanaka and Paul Gale Shu was devoted to keeping the Street Fighter series strong when there was an absence in the series’ actual game releases, [...]

Michael Vines worked for Microsoft and Rare during the lead up to the Xbox 360 launch, including putting in good effort to make Perfect Dark Zero the system’s most appealing debut game. E3 2005: Michael Vines and Paul Gale I met Michael at E3 2005 in Microsoft’s booth, as we talked all about the Xbox [...]

Walter Day was born on May 14th, 1949 in Fairfield, Iowa and is best known for being a professional video game referee/scorekeeper. His foray into the industry was in 1981 when he opened up an arcade called Twin Galaxies. It would become something much greater as for nearly the next three decades, the man would [...]