6/21/2023 0 Comments Jason schreier books![]() ![]() Volatility in the games industry is a huge problem and one that Jason Schreier’s sophomore book focuses on, Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry. One day you can be working on what you think will be the next great FPS (first-person shooter) and the next day your studio can call it quits. ![]() Making video games is tough, whether you’re a small cog in a huge wheel or the single designer on a team of a handful of people. He covered everything from large-scale AAA games developed by huge studios to indie games created by just one person, he even featured some games that were never released. ![]() Each chapter focused on one specific title and its development cycle. In his debut book Blood, Sweat & Pixels (2017) he focused on how video games are made and the problems they go through during development. Schreier has covered some of the biggest stories in the gaming industry - most recently stories about crunch, layoffs and harassment and mistreatment in the games industry. He’s also a co-host on the podcast Triple Click - with former colleagues Kirk Hamilton and Maddy Myers. He was previously at Kotaku for eight years before moving over to Bloomberg to cover games and technology. I was recently granted “early access” (aka an early review copy) to Jason Schreier’s second book, Press Reset (out today, May 11th).įor those of you not familiar with Jason Schreier, he has been reporting on the video game industry for over a decade. ![]()
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