THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the bestselling author of Blood Sweat and Pixels
comes the next definitive behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of
the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart—and the stories both triumphant and tragic
of what happened next. Jason Schreier's groundbreaking reporting has earned him a place among
the preeminent investigative journalists covering the world of video games. In his eagerly
anticipated deeply researched new book Schreier trains his investigative eye on the
volatility of the video game industry and the resilience of the people who work in it. The
business of videogames is both a prestige industry and an opaque one. Based on dozens of
first-hand interviews that cover the development of landmark games—Bioshock Infinite Epic
Mickey Dead Space and more—on to the shocking closures of the studios that made them Press
Reset tells the stories of how real people are affected by game studio shutdowns and how they
recover move on or escape the industry entirely. Schreier's insider interviews cover hostile
takeovers abusive bosses corporate drama bounced checks and that one time the Boston Red
Sox's Curt Schilling decided he was going to lead a game studio that would take out World of
Warcraft. Along the way he asks pressing questions about why when the video game industry is
more successful than ever it's become so hard to make a stable living making video games—and
whether the business of making games can change before it's too late.
