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Chapter 582 The Shadow of the Famous Tree
The game companies and partners of the entire Xueleshan series came to join in the show, including Blizzard, V Agency, Rock Star, Id Games, Sammy, Sega, SNK, Nexon, NCsoft, Actoz, Xishanju, Target Games, etc. A group of studios and department heads have already rushed over.

It is no exaggeration to say that Xueleshan has formed a faction in the game industry now. The studios under its umbrella and the game companies it invests in have begun to spread all over North America, Asia and Europe!

Distributors, agents, media, game stations, and Wired magazines in the game industry that have cooperated with Xueleshan also sent people to join in the show.

As for the members of the nine management committees of the TGA Game Awards, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Eidos, Activision, and EA, they have all sent people here. As for the other two management committee members, they are Sierra Mountain and Blizzard is equivalent to Xue Leshan occupying two TGA management committee positions!

The whole hotel has become noisy. The lobby of the hotel has turned into a temporary banquet hall. People from all walks of life gather together in twos and threes. The Blizzard trio Mike Morhaime and Alan Adham People are one of the most popular people in the banquet hall, and major game chain retailers, media people, etc., all gather around them.

For these people in the game industry, Blizzard is now their cash cow. As long as the news about Blizzard is reported, the click-through rate and ratings will increase a lot. Sometimes, it is natural to want to get involved with Blizzard.

Compared with the situation where Blizzard is sought after by the crowd, the founders of both the V agency and Rock Star under the Sierra Mountain, Gabe Vineul and the Hauser Brothers seem a little deserted.

The Hauser brothers looked at the Blizzard trio who were surrounded by the crowd and were praised. The two brothers couldn't help but feel a little envious. They longed for fame and recognition. It feels like being watched by everyone, but now, Blizzard, who joined Xuele Mountain in the same batch as Star R, is now a red and purple star, a rising superstar in the game industry, while Star R is still unknown.

Compared to the Hauser Brothers, Fatty G Gabe Vineul is very open-minded, and he is eating a cold meal.

"How is the development of your "Grand Theft Auto" going? It will be displayed in the exhibition hall tomorrow!" Fatty G said looking at the two.

"It's not bad," Dan Houser, one of the two brothers, smiled. "It's in the final stage of processing. It's no problem to go to the booth tomorrow, but it's V agency. "Very commendable!"

Mentioning this fat G is a bit proud. John Carmack, a man regarded as a god by practitioners in the game industry, single-handedly developed a 3D game engine.

Carmack once famously said that design games do not need a plot, as long as they are fun enough to play and have a strong sense of shooting, then FPS shooting games are enough.

But after seeing "Half-Life", John Carmack was also silent for a while. Although his evaluation of "Half-Life" was "not bad", Fatty G heard that if it weren't for "Thor's Hammer 2" After the development was completed, Carmack even wanted to overthrow and redo Quake 2, which shows how much Carmack was stimulated by "Half-Life".

John Carmack is also the idol of G Fat Gabe Vignul. He developed "Half-Life" and named it by name. He wanted to use the "Thor's Hammer Engine" developed by Carmack to be recognized by the idol. For For G Rang, it made him happier than selling a few more sets of games.

"The Half-Life game is inseparable from Carmack's support. If he hadn't developed a new game engine for Half-Life, Half-Life would not have been developed so quickly!"

For Carmack, Fatty G showed enough respect. Half-Life's current game engine was improved on the basis of the "Quake Game Engine", and Carmack personally operated the knife.

Carmack is no longer in charge of game development. He has a very special position in Sierra, and Sierra has set up a "game technology laboratory" for him, allowing him to develop new game engines, technologies, and so on.

John Carmack's status in the arena is there. Even if he doesn't develop games, as long as he plays his banner, countless people in the game industry are willing to follow, and game users are willing to pay for it!
As they said, Brother G and Hauser looked at a man in the banquet hall. It was John Carmack who hadn't seen much in the game industry recently.

Unlike the Blizzard trio, who were surrounded by game dealers and media people, John Carmack was surrounded by people from the game industry, and many of them were even executives from the game industry. Surrounded by Carmack, for many game industry practitioners, Carmack is a superstar in their minds!
The number of people in the hotel lobby keeps increasing. There are people from Xueleshan game companies, as well as people from game manufacturers such as Ubisoft, Activision, and EA. When people from game manufacturers such as Sony, Nintendo, and Konami arrive, the entire banquet In the lobby, most of the famous game manufacturers in the game industry are basically gathered.

Just like the pattern of the entire game industry, it is basically divided into two camps. America and European game manufacturers are in the same camp, and Japanese game manufacturers are in the same camp alone.

A few years ago, these two camps were basically inseparable, the kind that could fight with a dog's brain, the Japanese game camp still had an advantage, and the American and European game manufacturers could barely defend.

The emergence of Xueleshan has changed this situation. Now Xueleshan has the meaning of occupying the American and European game markets, and has extended its hand into the console game market that Japanese game manufacturers value most. The Japanese game industry is now very important to Xueleshan. be vigilant...

However, on such an occasion today, coupled with the TV station media and reporters invited by TGA to record at the banquet, people from the two major game camps kept their calm on the surface. Manufacturers such as Activision, EA, and Ubisoft also followed Sony, Nintendo, etc. are talking about cooperation, and the atmosphere is pretty good.

The editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, Kevin Kelly watched this scene with great interest. He felt that today's scene might be a historic one in the game industry.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, fighting is inevitable. Now that so many game manufacturers gather here, it is enough to show the influence of Xueleshan in the game industry. Although I dare not say that it is the leader of the martial arts in the game industry, it is obvious The major game manufacturers have to quietly listen to the voice of Xue Leshan...

(End of this chapter)