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Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry

Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry

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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 decade's most renowned studios fell apart -- and the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next.

 Jason Schreier's 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 games -- Bioshock Infinite, Epic Mickey, Dead Space, and more -- on 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.

Schreier's insider interviews cover hostile takeovers, abusive bosses, corporate drama, bounced checks, and that one time the Boston Red Sox's 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, it's become so hard to make a stable living making video games -- and whether the business of making games can change before it's too late.

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    Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry Reviews

  • Erik

    Honestly, this book just made me mad.It made me mad because it’s a Video-Game-centric slice of the post-capitalist, materialistic, inverse-Robin Hood world we live in. A world that is by no means te...

  • Michelle Curie

    The video game industry is notoriously difficult – only a fracture of the passionate people working in this field actually stay in the industry for more than a decade or two. The question of why is ...

  • Jason Bergman

    Disclaimer: I worked with several people quoted in this book, and am friendly with the author. That said, my honest opinion is that this book is excellent. Consolidation or shutdowns happen with distu...

  • Amit

    I preordered the book and binged it in a week full of traveling and waiting in a hospital. If I had to pick a word to describe the subject, It would be “bleak”.Schrier’s previous work, “Blood,...

  • Rach

    First off - jason if you're out there and for some reason reading your goodreads reviews, know I will always be grateful I got to leave a screaming voicenote for @lydia because you managed to find TON...

  • Madison

    This book follows essentially the same structure as Schreier's fascinating Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, in that every chapter follows different developers and ill-fated studios through their inception to...

  • Alex Givant

    One of my works was in digital ad agency, we had dogs in office (pet all you can, and I'm a dog person), boss brings you a beer (which you can share with dogs too), "flu-shots" every day (someone mix ...

  • Alastair Heffernan

    It is immediately clear from the beginning of Press Reset's first chapter that this will be a journalistic treat: we are hurled straight into a conference room with a mid-career Warren Spector (legend...

  • Junye Huang

    Before starting my current job, I wanted to become a game developer. This book reminds me how lucky I am for not choosing game development as a career. Not only because I was not very good at it and i...

  • Ekaterina Dolgova

    Very insightful: working in the gaming industry myself, I never saw this side of the coin - American version of it is much more cruel.Was nice to see familiar names of people you know personally, they...