"Video game makers like what they see in Boston" by Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | May 8, 2009
Despite the lousy economy, local entrepreneurs say it's a pretty good time to be in the video game business....
It never stops with these f***ers! Pickin' corn out of turds again!
Earlier this year, Governor Deval Patrick met with executives at Microsoft Corp. and Electronic Arts Inc., both giants in the gaming industry, during a tour of the West Coast. Patrick was seeking to bring more of their development dollars to Massachusetts.
In another sign of the industry's growing clout, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT Sloan School of Management will today hold its first conference devoted to the video game business. Guests at the conference will include former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, founder of 38 Studios LLC, a Maynard company that's developing an online adventure game.
A handful of Boston-area firms have created popular, high-profile games. Turbine Inc. of Westwood makes Lord of the Rings Online, a massive multiplayer role-playing game based on the popular novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. 2K Boston, owned by Take Two Interactive Software Inc. in New York, built the acclaimed action game BioShock. And Harmonix Music Systems Inc. of Cambridge created two music games, Guitar Hero and Rock Band, that are among the world's best-selling titles....
And they wonder why no one reads newspapers anymore (apart form the lying, agenda-pushing)?
The peace-loving paper paper isn't troubled by the war-worshipping militarism of the video games either, huh?
Independent developers are beginning to benefit as more games are purchased over the Internet, rather than at retail stores. This means that developers can publish their own work online and capture most of the profits, instead of having to do costly deals with publishers to get games in stores....
Sort of like the relationship between the blogs and newspapers, huh?
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They even give a second day to the coverage, with a self-serving twist (Globe's parent, NY Times, owns 17% of Red Sox):
Video games get Schilling's attention
Not mine.
