It's a grim time in the games industry, as layoffs and closures continue to decimate studio after studio. It's an enraging thing, so enraging that none other than Larian CEO Swen Vincke took to The Game Awards stage last December to call out, well, everyone: "I've been fighting with publishers my entire life, and I keep on seeing the same mistakes, over and over and over. It's always the quarterly profits. The only thing that matters is the numbers."
It's not just Vincke that's been having that fight. When I sat down for a chat with Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley last week, he said the story was "very much" familiar to him too. "It cuts across every industry," said Kingsley. "But I am aware a lot of my colleagues get frustrated from time to time by people who are potentially very good managers but aren't specialists in the computer games area.
