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Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play
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Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play

by Morgan Ramsay
February 2012
Beginner
356 pages
10h 50m
English
Apress
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John SmedleyCofounder, Verant Interactive

image With the impending launch of PlayStation 2, the leadership at 989 Studios, the first-party software house of Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), refocused the studio on PlayStation products in 1999. The PC games group that was headed by director of development John Smedley was then excised. Along with 56 other refugees, Smedley cofounded Verant Interactive to operate EverQuest, on which development had started three years earlier in 1996.

SCEA continued to support EverQuest through Verant, whose ...

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