Archive: september 21, 2008

Armature Founders on the 'Unsustainable' Business Model [Armature Studio]

As we mentioned earlier this week, three former members of Retro Studios (Metroid Prime) have struck out on their own and created Armature Studio. Mark Pacini, Todd Keller and Jack Mathews, three key development figures behind the Metroid franchise, chatted with Gamasutra about their reasons for creating a new studio, as well as the problems they see with the current game industry development model:
Pacini worries that the current model of game development is becoming far too unwieldy, and believes that a more distributed, less centralized system — similar in some ways to that of the film...

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Tags: Armature studio, Development, Economics, Electronic Arts, Industry, Metroid Prime

Sep 16 Metroid Prime Devs Eye 360, PS3 for Future Games [Armature Studio]

Dec 25 Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of December 26

Sep 16 Ex-Metroid Staff Form Studio, Sign With EA

Nov 19 EA Kills Blueprint, Plans More Boom Blox [Electronic Arts]

Nov 11 Viacom gives Rock Band guys more money than you'll ever see in one place

Apr 10 Sega Racing Studio closes its doors

Sep 8 WildTangent CEO: PC business model is 'f*cked'

Mar 19 One Year In SL - Why the Wild West is Failing

Sep 17 Scraps: Energy reserves are low, Captain (9/16/2008)

Sep 26 The End of Ensemble

Oct 6 Three Developers Explain LittleBigPlanet Level Design to a 7-Year-Old [Littlebigplanet]

Oct 1 New research paints a surprisingly complicated and positive picture of video games

Sep 18 Microsoft <3's Rare, defends studio against Moore's criticism

Feb 27 Nine Paths To Indie Game Greatness

Apr 18 IGN Insiders Offered Chance At MGO Keys [Metal Gear Online]

Nov 13 Fail sense is tingling: Take-Two talks about subscriptions for 'triple A titles'

Dec 6 CD Projekt Co-Founders Named Entrepeneurs of the Year

Feb 29 SCi Kills 14 Projects, Cutting 25 Percent of Staff [Industry]

May 11 Talking Club Penguin, Disney, and 'Emergent Play' [Oh So Cute]

Aug 10 Flagship Seattle Alums Form Runic Games [New Ventures]

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