In the mid eighties, Tetris was being quietly passed around the video game industry. When it made it’s way to Nintendo, Then Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi asked game industry legend Shigeru Miyamoto to try it out. When Yamauchi asked Miyamoto a few days later if Tetris was any good, Miyamoto Read more…
“We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.”
Rami Ismail, co-head of Vlambeer Games (Serious Sam: The Random Encounter) tells prospective game developers the secret to making it in the super competitive gaming industry: “A great way to not make money is to make something you don’t believe in. Make your game. Be confident.”
“Because now it’s the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!”
Dan Edelman, who ran Business Development for companies such as Nintendo and Microsoft before moving on to his own business venture, describes what the industry called an indie “overnight success.” “A lot of indie developers who became an overnight success were working at it for ten years.”
Bobby Kotick, famous for his work as the CEO of Activision Blizzard, discusses the rise of eSports and how it has evolved. His following input is valued by eSports fans and provides an upbeat perspective into the bright future of eSports. “Looking ahead, we see the popularity of esports Read more…
Andy Serkis, famous for his role portraying Smeagol in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, provided the following perspective about gaming, which touches the hearts of many game enthusiasts worldwide. “Every age has its storytelling Read more…
Dr. Don McPherson is the co-founder of EnChroma, a company responsible for possibly the most groundbreaking technology in the field of color deficient vision. What was once considered to be moderately treatable with lenses that only work outdoors has now been refined with the invention of technology that provides color Read more…
In 2006, The late Nintendo President Satoru Iwata stood on stage at the Game Developer’s Conference San Francisco and talked exclusively about what makes games fun. During his closing remarks, he told a captive audience the most spot-on summary of his company’s vision. “At Nintendo, we do not run from Read more…
Following a not so mutual breakup between Nintendo and Sony, Ken Kutaragi visited Sony Chairman Norio Ohga and explained that the proposed Super Nintendo/Sony CD console was now abandoned by Nintendo. Kutaragi explained that rather than create just a CD drive, Sony had the capabilities to create the entire console. Read more…