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Lionsgate knows the value of a second act
The studio behind John Wick and The Hunger Games has a business hiding behind the box office: selling stories more than once. Its next act depends on keeping that machine fed.
emptyvessel’s Small Team Takes On a Very Big City
The studio behind DEFECT is testing a practical idea: experienced developers, faster production tools and a tightly held vision can give a small team room to build a richly unpleasant world.
n-Space shipped the games. Who would fund the next one?
The Orlando studio put big franchises on small screens and persuaded Nintendo to publish a game about ghostly possession. Its story exposes the awkward business of being very good at making somebody else’s games.
Steel Wool Studios and the business of getting too close
Five Pixar artists set out to build their own worlds. Steel Wool Studios found its calling when it let players stand inside someone else’s nightmare.
Okay knows a good brand needs something real to stand on
A whale, a whiskey label, and a 50-pixel square: inside the design practice of Carl Bender, where the useful detail does the talking.