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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decades most renowned studios fell apartand the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next.
Jason Schreiers groundbreaking reporting has earned him a place among the preeminent investigative journalists covering the world of video games. In his eagerly anticipated, deeply researched new book, Schreier trains his investigative eye on the volatility of the video game industry and the resilience of the people who work in it.
The business of videogames is both a prestige industry and an opaque one. Based on dozens of first-hand interviews that cover the development of landmark gamesBioshock Infinite, Epic Mickey, Dead Space, and moreon to the shocking closures of the studios that made them, Press Reset tells the stories of how real people are affected by game studio shutdowns, and how they recover, move on, or escape the industry entirely.
Schreiers insider interviews cover hostile takeovers, abusive bosses, corporate drama, bounced checks, and that one time the Boston Red Soxs Curt Schilling decided he was going to lead a game studio that would take out World of Warcraft. Along the way, he asks pressing questions about why, when the video game industry is more successful than ever, its become so hard to make a stable living making video gamesand whether the business of making games can change before its too late.
Author: Jason Schreier
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 05/11/2021
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781538735497
Language: English
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