In Memoriam 2005

Noboru Sugimura was a Japanese writer, famous for his work on television such as Jiban, Jiraya, Black Kamen Rider, Winspector, Solbrain, among others.

He ended up entering the world of games after being introduced to Yoshiki Okamoto during the production of Resident Evil 2. Being a big fan of the first game, he ended up working on the project, writing the entire story of the game.

After the success of this partnership, he ended up writing for several Capcom games such as Dino Crisis, Onimusha, Dino Stalker and Clock Tower 3.

He passed away at the age of 56 on February 25, 2005.

Bruce Carver was a mechanical engineer, programmer, producer, and director, and co-founder of Access Software.

He published games such as Beach-Head, Raid Over Moscow, Under a Killing Moon, Crime Wave, and the Link Golf series of games.

He died of cancer at the age of 57 on December 28, 2005.

Rabin Ezra was an engineer and programmer specializing in graphics hardware. In May 1993, he joined Canon Research Europe, which would later become Criterion. There, he was responsible for helping develop Renderware, a tool used for real-time 3D graphics programming.

After a while, he began working on a new version of Renderware to run on new consoles like the PS2. At the time, many people had difficulty programming for Sony's new machine due to its complexity. Rabin was given the task of understanding the console and developing this new version to work on it.

His work paid off and, over the years, Renderware became one of the most widely used graphics tools of this generation, with games like Pro Evolution Soccer, Brunout, and Grand Theft Auto using it.

He left Criterion in 2004 to join Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to continue his work on advanced consoles.

Unfortunately, he passed away on June 27, 2005, due to pneumonia.