Would you rather be the company behind Call of Duty or Sniper Elite? On first blush, most would choose the household name hands down. But for Rebellion Co-Founder Jason Kingsley, OBE, when you fully understand the balance sheet behind these two franchises, Sniper is the clear winner. As a franchise with north of 70m units sold in its lifetime, the success of Sniper, as well as Nazi Zombie Army, have brought Rebellion to the place where they fully fund projects of their choosing and completely control their destiny…
Cliff Blezinski on Being a Control Freak
You know Clifford “CliffyB” Blezinski as the Lead Designer and face of Gears of War and Unreal Tournament. But in his life after Epic Games he has been a CEO, an angel investor, a restauranteur, a Tony-winning Broadway investor and producer, a memoirist and now, a comic book author. He is so much more than just the dude wielding the life-sized chainsaw gun…
Can AI Replace Your Art Team?
AI-generated art has exploded all over Twitter, LinkedIn and wherever you get your games industry news. With its ability to quickly and cheaply create polished content, social media is filled with bold statements and striking imagery that make the case for AI generative art replacing your art team. Yet, as amazing as these individual pieces of content from Chat GPT, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and others are, the present reality is not as clear as a viral social media post may lead you to believe…