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With $35M Invested, Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios to Release Xbox, PS3 Game
Posted February 4, 2012
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38 Studios, the Providence, R.I. gaming company in which Curt Schilling has invested $35 million, is preparing to release "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning," a single-player, role-playing game for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows.
Formerly Green Monster Games, 38 Studios was founded by the Boston Red Sox pitcher in late 2006.
Schilling, his company, and his new game were profiled recently by the Wall Street Journal.
From WSJ:
- "This isn't your typical retired celebrity jock slapping his name on a few projects and pressing the flesh to support it. It's a passion project and a personal, entrepreneurial risk. ‘Everybody hears about athletes who go into business,' Schilling says. ‘That was the conversation I had around this company: ‘I don't want to do clothing or a restaurant or broadcasting. I want to do something I love.'"
- "Schilling has invested $35 million of his own money into 38 Studios, which he founded in 2006, banking that gamers will embrace his vision for intricate, story-driven formats and trust a 45-year-old ex-ballplayer-and a longtime videogame aficionado himself-to know what they want."
- "Over his major-league career, in which he struck out more than 3,100 batters and won three World Series, Schilling used software programs to compile databases on hitters, digging through statistics in search of weaknesses and tendencies in his opponents. All the while, he kept up his interest in gaming. A teammate introduced him to Ultima Online in the late 1990s, and not long thereafter Schilling became ‘addicted, hardcore' to EverQuest, a multiplayer online game. He says he would retreat to his hotel room after baseball games to play it."
38 Studios has two development studios, one in Providence, R.I., and one in Baltimore, Md.
Read the full story here: http://tinyurl.com/77t2bz2
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