I went to school for software engineering, and know of only one person who is working in the video game industry:
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,177433/
I know a lot of people who tried to get into the business, however it is a very hard business to get into - the above person worked as a tester for a few years (making like $10/hr and parttime at that - maybe 20 hours a week)
I know another guy who did Computer Science then took one of those 20k for 8 month specialized gaming school places and he isn't doing anything related to video games now...
If you want to get into it, you MUST love your job, as you will be salary most likely, but you will be putting CRAZY hours in and not getting paid OT for those hours, so if you work it our per hour you will be making less than if you went into software on the business side, doing programming for banks, life insurance companies, etc
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