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Do we like Reggie Fils-Aimé?

Our score: 7 out of 10. A clean record and some real mentoring work, held back from the top because we couldn't open full articles and found little on LGBTQ+ issues specifically.

For most gamers, Reggie is the bloke who walked on stage at E3 and said his body was ready. He ran Nintendo of America from 2006 until he retired in April 2019, handing the job to Doug Bowser, after nearly 16 years with the company.

He then took a seat on GameStop's board in March 2020. He left about a year later, and at SXSW in 2022 he said he walked because leadership wouldn't share its strategy. That's a business bust-up over direction, and nothing in the reporting we saw points to anything nasty.

On the harm check, the record is clean as far as we could find. We found no remarks from him on trans people or LGBTQ+ issues either way, so we can't say more than that. He has no run of dodgy co-stars or projects that turned up, and the coverage we saw has him on the sensible side of a culture-war fight, defending gaming against politicians linking it to gun violence.

The recent news is a yarn rather than a scandal. In May 2026 he told an NYU Game Center lecture that Amazon once pressed Nintendo for financial support he described as illegal, and that Nintendo refused. That's his account of events at a retailer, and no court or regulator has been involved that we could find.

The good stuff is real. He joined the board of the New York Videogame Critics Circle, a nonprofit that does mentoring and scholarships for underserved students. In 2020 he co-hosted a limited podcast to raise money for homeless students.

We found no lawsuits, convictions or accusations against him. A caveat: our tools couldn't open full articles this time, so this rests on search summaries and headlines. That keeps him off the top of the scale, but this is a decent bloke with a solid record.