NHK TV show The Net Star goes all the way to the IGN offices in San Francisco to interview Peer Schneider (the guy on the right) and recreate the E3 pictures.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0RS_we5oy0
From Canned Dogs:
The famous 4 gaijin guys that everybody loves has appeared on todays episode of NHKs TV show The Net Star. The Net Star apparently went all the way to IGN to get to meet these guys. Thats Peer Schneider in the picture above, Senior Vice President of Content Publishing at IGN. He speaks nice Japanese.
Explanation from Peer Schneider:
http://blogs.ign.com/Peer-IGN/2008/01/23/78041/
They've also been looking for Crazy German Kid, but haven't been able to find him.