Video-Game Publishers Outsource Development

Posted by simoniker on Sunday March 21, 2004 @01:48PM 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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Nothing new by SuperBanana · 2004-03-21 13:59 · Score: 1, Redundant

Um...since when did "video games from Russia" become a new thing? Tetris anyone?(although I seem to recall the original programmer got screwed somehow out of most of the profits).
And Asia? Has anyone forgotten that true jem, "all your base are belong to us"?
Oh, and since nobody else has said it, I might as well get it over with:
"In Soviet Russia, video game PLAYS YOU!"

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