Todd Howard, Neil Druckmann, and Swen Vincke named among the most influential people in the video game industry

The list was compiled by Variety and also includes Shuntaro Furukawa, Sam Lake, Andrew Wilson, and other prominent figures

Variety compiled a list of the most influential people in the video game industry by simply listing the heads of major studios and publishers, which also included Swen Vincke and Sam Lake. 

• David Baszucki, founder of Roblox Corp.
• Sarah Bond, president of Xbox
• Doug Bowser, president of Nintendo of America
• William Ding, founder of NetEase
• Neil Druckmann, co-head of Naughty Dog
• Johanna Faries, general manager of Call of Duty
• Hidemaro Fujibayashi, game director of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Shuntaro Furukawa, president of Nintendo
• Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft
• David Haddad, president of Warner Bros. Games
• Todd Howard, producer at Bethesda Game Studios
• Hermen Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios
• Sam Lake, creative director of Remedy
• Gabe Newell, founder of Valve
• Mark Ren, president of Tencent
• Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming
• Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games
• Haruhiro Tsujimoto, president of Capcom
• Nao Udagawa, CEO of Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Swen Vincke, founder of Larian Studios
• Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts
• Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive
• Alexandre de Rochefort, CEO of Gameloft 

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