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eGameFame: Mario — The World’s Most Renowned Plumber

eGameFame has taken a left-turn down character lane. And with this, we will take you down and deep into the rabbit hole. eGameFame will embrace the world of videogame characters, [...]

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eGameFame: David Jaffe — Creator Of God Of War And Twisted Metal

The man who unleashed one of the craziest characters, and also one of the most badass heroes in gaming history. Meet David Jaffe, the creative director at Sony Computer Entertainment [...]

eGameFame: Ed Boon — Mortal Kombat Dev

If there is one game that stuck in our heads from childhood, it has to be Mortal Kombat. The legendary MK brought all the guts, gore and action we needed [...]

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eGameFame: Don Daglow — The Man Behind Neverwinter Nights

Creator Neverwinter Nights, a game that pioneered the way we play with other people online. One of three people to receive the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award. Programmer, game designer [...]

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eGameFame: Chris Metzen

An artist in many fields, a man with many talents: From voice acting to scripting he has done it all. This is Chris Metzen and he works for Blizzard Entertainment. [...]

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eGameFame: John Romero — The Father Of Deathmatch

This is the man who coined the term “deathmatch”. And created Doom, Quake, Heretic and Wolfenstein 3D. All of these games are legendary in their own right where each spawned [...]

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eGameFame: Mike Morhaime — The Blizzard Co-Founder And CEO

Meet Mike Morhaime. A man well known and fondly remembered for his announcement of StarCraft 2 back in 2007. For those of you unfamiliar with Mike Morhaime, he’s the co-founder [...]

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eGameFame: Another Break, It Seems

Unfortunately Husain, the eGameFame guy, had to run off for the remainder of the month. To this day we’re not too sure where he went, but we do know that [...]

eGameFame — Will Wright: The Creator Of The Sims

The Sims, a game that with its sequel and expansions has sold around a 100 million copies, was created to offer simulation and evolution in gaming. With this in mind [...]

eGameFame: Sid Meier

Hailed as the creator of one the greatest franchises in RTS history, his name is Sid Meier and he started the Civilization franchise — a game that pitted the player [...]

eGameFame — Blizzard’s Infamous StarCraft

To celebrate the launch of StarCraft 2, we are doing this weeks eGameFame on the popular title. Where did it come from and what made it a masterpiece? StarCraft is [...]

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eGameFame: Round-Up [2 Week Break]

eGameFame will take a short two week break. This means, no eGameFame for today and next week Tuesday. This break falls inline with the break on the Clan Review. Use [...]

eGameFame: Peter Molyneux — Creator Of ‘God Games’

Creating games such as Dungeon Siege, Populous, Black and White and the famed Fable franchise, this man is no small figure in the gaming industry. So, without further ado we [...]

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eGameFame: John D Carmack, King Of FPS

Many consider this man, who to this day still continues to influence the gaming industry, to be the father of the FPS genre. “Who is he?” you might ask? His [...]

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eGameFame: Warren Spector

His name is Warren Spector and to that say he is the founder of FPS RPG is not going overboard. Yes, I know I said that Shigeru Miyamoto is the [...]

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eGameFame: Shigeru Miyamoto — The Father Of Mario & Zelda

This week we bring to you the creator of the Zelda franchise and the father of modern platformers–to a degree. His name is Shigeru Miyamoto and he is a legendary [...]

eGameFame: Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen — Emperor of the Orcs

His name is Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen and he is one of the best Warcraft 3 players in the world. Hailing from Netherlands  rival to Moon, he is probably the best [...]

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eGameFame — SK-Gaming: Been There Done That

SK-Gaming, one of the top MGO’s in the world, is the topic of today’s discussion. Before your brain goes into overtime trying to figure out what SK stands for, I [...]

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eGameFame: Time to Meet Your Makers

If Meet Your Makers are known for a game, it has to be Warcraft 3. More specifically, their original Warcraft 3 squad, which was rated as one the best Warcraft [...]

[UPDATE]eGameFame: Fnatic’s Of Gaming

This week we will take a look at one of the top ranked gaming organizations in the world. Who are they and what do they do, you might ask? Well, [...]

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eGameFame: The Ubisoft Frag Dolls

In a world where “bitch, get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich” is a common sentence to girls; the main question is, what did they do to [...]

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eGameFame: Ettienne “DaeJaVoo” Venter — It Ain’t Cool Enough For Him

Ettienne believes that if it’s stock, it ain’t good enough. His desire and passion has made him one of the best modders in South Africa. His full name is Ettienne [...]

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eGameFame: Jang “Moon” Jae Ho — The Legend Of Micro

In WarCraft if you wish to succeed you need to be able to micro manage your units and their abilities. Jang Jae Ho took micro management, and the Warcraft 3 [...]

eGameFame — Jacob “Maelk” Toft-Anderson, The DotA Pro

His name is Jacob Toft-Andersen and he rolls under the nickname of Maelk. If that name doesn’t strike any chords then you are really out of touch (to a degree). [...]

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eGameFame — George Broussard, The Duke Of Days To Come

After hitting many stone walls on who to choose for this week’s pick I decided it would be a person who did something drastic. And well one person sprung to [...]

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eGameFame — Martin Cooper, the man who created the Cellphone

I thought in this week’s eGameFame we could pay tribute to someone whose hard work has made millions and millions of people’s lives easier. Who is this person and what [...]

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eGameFame: Ben “The Yahtzee” Croshaw, the journalist with a vision

Gamers love him, publishers hate him and games tremble in fear of him. First off before we move onto the target, or rather, this enigmatic personality I just would like [...]

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eGameFame- Danny “Dislekcia” Day, Video Game Designer

This is my first video attempt — be kind please. Anyways, moving on. This is the first video done for eGameFame and hopefully there will be more. Alas I used [...]

eGameFame — The wobbly South African pillar, Travis “Shase” Weedon

In this weeks eGameFame we are going to be touching on the life of a local Warcraft 3 legend. He was the best Warcraft 3 player in South Africa at [...]

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eGameFame — South African Pillars: Gottfried “Vivi” Roodt

“I got a need for speed.” Continuing this week with our South African pillars, we will be looking at a person most people may be familiar with–but not for the [...]