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Video-Game Publishers Outsource Development

Posted by simoniker on from the global-world-globality dept.

randomErr writes "According to a San Jose Mercury News article reprinted at the Miami Herald: 'Mark Vange is in the vanguard of globalizing the video-game industry. He employs 30 game developers in St. Petersburg, Russia, who have worked on everything from flight simulators to dragon-fighting games. 'We can get the work done for half the cost that it takes in the U.S.,' said Vange, president of Ketsujin Studios. Similar outsourcing of video-game production is being done in places like China, India, Vietnam and parts of Eastern Europe. California game developers, who are the creative force behind a $10 billion industry in the U.S. market, view the trend with a combination of fear and anticipation'."

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  1. Here we go... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Standby for a flood of "In Soviet Russia" jokes in 3....2....1....

    1. Re:Here we go... by Joey+Patterson · · Score: 1, Funny

      In Soviet Russia, game developers outsource income!

    2. Re:Here we go... by mattjb0010 · · Score: 3, Funny

      exactly where did this start from?

      In Soviet Russia, of course!

  2. All Your Base by Autonomous+Coword · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder how "All your base are belong to us" translates from Russian?

  3. Well! by LordK3nn3th · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is an outrage! Next thing you know, Nintendo will outsource to some obscure place, like Japan!

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  4. Next to be outsourced... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Today, video game enthusiasts throughout the country announced that they are outsourcing their playing to countries like Burma, Zaire, and Elbonia, where people can be found to play video games much cheaper than in the USA.

  5. In Soviet Russia by Lord+Kano · · Score: 3, Funny

    American Jobs belong to YOU.

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  6. Gotta love the mods by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Score:-1, Truth Hurts

  7. Re:cause != effect by torokun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only Geeks. ;)

  8. Re:Bill Lumbergh by DragonTHC · · Score: 3, Funny

    yeahhhh, I'm gonna have to ask you to move your desk again. why don't you move it to india!

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  9. Re:The irony, of course.... by be-fan · · Score: 3, Funny

    The sad thing is that nobody can hear you over the deafening sounds of hipocrisy.

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  10. Re:Awesome! by beowulfcluster · · Score: 2, Funny

    but if this company martyrs itself for the cause of domestic labor, where's the reward in that?

    They'd get mad props in the FLT and DVN .nfo files.

  11. You just move the "middle"... by rsilvergun · · Score: 2, Funny

    and raise everyone's standard of living. That's really the problem with America. Not only is our Middle class too well off, but our poor are _far_ too rich. I mean, what good's being a rich capitalist if you don't have some truly desperate people to push around?

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