Gaming personality of the year

[polezo]

http://www.edge-online.com/features/the-top-25-game-industry-heroes-2008?page=0%2C0

Edge recently published their top 25 "Game Industry heroes," and two of their top 5 are in my top 5 too: Mark Healy and Shiggy Myamoto.

My No. 1, Cliffy B, is their no. 8. Neither Gabe Newell nor Jobs is on their list, but they do credit one of L4D's lead designiners (Michael Booth, No. 11), and an Iphone developer (Simon Oliver, No. 24) for similar reasons as I did for Gabe and Steve, respectively.

Their list is good and all (and undoubtably more in professionally in tune with the industry then mine), but I say my list still has something theirs doesn't: Balls.

I mean come on, Yves Guillemot as No. 1? Dude didn't do anything besides keep Ubi's head above water. In my opinion they just gave it to an old industry stallwort instead of anybody who actually made a great contribution.

I didn't even put him on my list, but I wouldve had much more respect for Edge if they put Jonathon Blow, (their No. 7) as no. 1. I personally don't think he'll cause any sort of influential dent in the industry, but at least he did something that made people pay attention and THINK about game design for a minute. Yves, on the other hand, is just maintaining his ship.

So I say to you Edge, if you really want to stick to your mantra and make Video Games' place in this world of more Art than Product, do us a favor and put Braid's creator at the top of the list, instead of some BS CEO.

In short, Blow clearly belongs on the top of the list more than Guillemot. So I say to you Edge: Please Blow me.