• January 29 –
Walker Boone, 76, actor who played
Mario in
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and
Super Mario World. • February 3 –
Robert A. Altman, 73, co-founder and CEO of
ZeniMax Media. • March 11 – Gordon Hall, 51, co-founder of
Rockstar Leeds. • April 4 –
Ralph Schuckett, 73, co-composer on the video game
Pokémon Puzzle League. • April 9 –
DMX, 50, rapper who appeared in
Street Hoops and
Def Jam Vendetta. • May 28 –
Benoît Sokal, 66, creator of the
Syberia series. • June 4 – Ebbe Altberg, ca. 57, CEO of
Linden Lab, creators of
Second Life. • ca. June 27 – "Near" aka "Byuu", ca. 38, developer of the
higan emulator for the
Super Nintendo Entertainment System. • ca. August – David Lawson, 62, co-founder of
Imagine Software and
Psygnosis • August 29 –
Ed Asner, 91, actor known for voicing Carl Fredrickson in
Up. • September 12 – Brandon Ashur, 36,
Minecraft YouTuber and
livestreamer also known as Bashurverse. • September 16 –
Clive Sinclair, 81, founder of
Sinclair Research, the company behind several early personal computers like the
ZX Spectrum • September 18 –
Mick McGinty, 69, traditional artist for television, film, and video games, including artwork for
Street Fighter II and other games in the 1980s and 1990s. • September 30 –
Koichi Sugiyama, 90, composer of the
Dragon Quest series among others. • October 16 –
Hiroshi Ono, 64, graphic artist for
Namco who did most of their pixel art for their early arcade games, and was otherwise known as "Mr Dotman". • December 6 –
Masayuki Uemura, 78, lead architect of the
Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. • December 14 –
Ian Hetherington, 69, co-founder of Imagine Software and Psygnosis, chairman of
Evolution Studios and
Realtime Worlds. • December 28 –
John Madden, 85, American football coach and commentator, and namesake of
Electronic Arts'
Madden NFL series. ==Hardware releases==