BioShock Infinite Dev On Cutting Multiplayer: You Never Really Get Over That You spend a lot of time and put your heart and soul into something just to have it disappear in the span of a meeting.
Irrational Games was working on a multiplayer component for BioShock Infinite, but due to various issues, the studio elected to cut multiplayer and focus exclusively on the campaign. Multiplayer developer Bill Gardner says in reporter Jason Schreier s new book, Press Rest, that it was very difficult to let go of what he worked so hard to create. You spend a lot of time and put your heart and soul into something just to have it disappear in the span of a meeting, Gardner said in an excerpt from the book posted recently on Polygon. You never really get over that.
BioShock Infinite Messy Development Process Highlighted In New Book
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If you’ve been following the video game industry closely then you might know of Jason Schreier. He’s a big name in the industry as a journalist that’s been able to connect with several developers to bring out notable scoops of what’s going on behind closed doors. Jason has a new book that just came out with
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry which goes over the behind-the-scenes in the video game industry. From studios that were shut down to individuals that worked at some of these companies leading towards the end.
Press Reset review | Exploring the extreme volatility, paranoia, and hope in the games industry
Jason Schreier has another winner of a book, though it s a bit more depressing this time.
Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon to hear a video game developer has closed its doors, and the reasons for closures are multifaceted. It’s never the case that a bunch of lazy people phoned in bad games and ran out of money. The reality is much more frustrating and unfair, and in his new book,
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry, Jason Schreier examines the shutdowns of game developers big and small and what happened to the individual people affected by them. It is a sobering read to be sure, painting a portrait of extreme volatility and (rightful) paranoia in the video game industry. Yet
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Ransomware shuts oil pipeline
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A company responsible for transporting 45% of fuel consumed on the US East Coast has been forced to halt operations since Friday due to a ransomware attack
(Reuters).
In brief:
The Colonial Pipeline is the largest fuel pipeline in the US, running from Texas through the Gulf Coast to New York Harbor. It carries 2.5 million barrels a day, and the supply of diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel.
It went down on Friday, and as of Sunday, the Colonial Pipeline Company said it was still working to develop a restart plan for its pipeline system.