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Reminder: Question Of The Week On Developer Consolidation

Gamasutra is issuing a reminder for interested professionals to comment on our latest "Question Of The Week", discussing the continuing purchase of independent developers...

Simon Carless, Blogger

January 27, 2006

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Gamasutra is issuing a reminder for interested professionals to comment on our latest "Question Of The Week", discussing the continuing purchase of independent developers by bigger publishers, and its ramifications for the industry, following major recent deals such as Sony buying Zipper Interactive and Guerrilla Games, Vivendi purchasing High Moon Studios, and 2K Games acquiring Firaxis. The question, which can be answered at the official Question Of The Week page until January 31, is: "What do you think of the continuing trend of major publishers acquiring significant independent game developers? Is industry consolidation necessary for reasons of stability and growth, and what does it mean for the future of game creation?" As with the previous questions, the best responses will be compiled into an article to be published on the site, and users can either respond publically, with their name and company specifically cited, or anonymize their answers if they wish.

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Simon Carless

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Simon Carless is the founder of the GameDiscoverCo agency and creator of the popular GameDiscoverCo game discoverability newsletter. He consults with a number of PC/console publishers and developers, and was previously most known for his role helping to shape the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Conference for many years.

He is also an investor and advisor to UK indie game publisher No More Robots (Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw), a previous publisher and editor-in-chief at both Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine, and sits on the board of the Video Game History Foundation.

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