THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the bestselling creator of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the following definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the online game business: how a number of the previous decade’s most famed studios fell aside—and the tales, each triumphant and tragic, of what occurred subsequent.
Jason Schreier’s groundbreaking reporting has earned him a spot among the many preeminent investigative journalists masking the world of video video games. In his eagerly anticipated, deeply researched new guide, Schreier trains his investigative eye on the volatility of the online game business and the resilience of the individuals who work in it.
The enterprise of videogames is each a status business and an opaque one. Primarily based on dozens of first-hand interviews that cowl the event of landmark video games—Bioshock Infinite, Epic Mickey, Useless House, and extra—on to the surprising closures of the studios that made them, Press Reset tells the tales of how actual persons are affected by sport studio shutdowns, and the way they get better, transfer on, or escape the business solely.
Schreier’s insider interviews cowl hostile takeovers, abusive bosses, company drama, bounced checks, and that one time the Boston Purple Sox’s Curt Schilling determined he was going to steer a sport studio that will take out World of Warcraft. Alongside the best way, he asks urgent questions on why, when the online game business is extra profitable than ever, it is grow to be so laborious to make a steady residing making video video games—and whether or not the enterprise of constructing video games can change earlier than it is too late.
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