Ladies and gentlemen, the ninth annual Montreal International Game Summit (MIGS) is well underway, featuring a plethora of industry professionals coming together to share their skills and views about what’s going on in the video gaming scene. Fully loaded with an Exhibition Zone, a Career Fair, an Art Gallery and several other social activities, MIGS is easily considered to be the biggest event in Canada. On Tuesday November 13th, IMGMR.com's Jon Batzios was fortunate enough to interview a handful of industry professionals, in hopes of gaining a better sense of the differing areas of expertise needed to keep the industry running smoothly.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
While on stage with Dina Bass at The Bloomberg Technology Summit the President of Xbox, Sarah Bond, was asked about the Xbox studio closures of Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios
Of course she did. She's part of the problem and will just tow the company line.
I always wondered why xbox had multiple leaders with similar titles like Phil Spencer, Matt Booty, and Sarah Bond, like, how many heads do you actually need?
Seems to me it would be more cost efficient to cut 2 of them instead of all those studios.
While many gaming layoffs are cruel, Tango Gameworks being culled after Hi-Fi Rush doesn't even make sense.
Good read. I think the point is important. Cuz the message it sends is, make a bad game? Well shut you down. Make a good game? We still might shut you down. How the fuck are you supposed to feel any sense of job security under those conditions. The level of core incompetence at play in the upper levels of this industry is staggering. This is common sense shit. You can’t chase trends on a 2 year cycle when games take fucking 6-8 years to make. Just let artists fucking art for gods sake. They don’t understand the basic principle that they’re all haggling for the same slice of fucking pie and the market will not bear it. Find a different fucking pie.
And here I though no one was going to cover that. Awesome interviews!
The "Psychology" one with Jason Vandersomething was actually pretty funny. It's a long video but essentially its a TED talk. Also, killer voice.
Bootycandy...OUT!
This is interesting definitely going to take the time to listen to the vids. *page bookmarked*
I was at MIGS, actually! It was pretty much this! In other words, informative and awesome!
I missed my chance to go to MIGS this year :(