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   Chapter 582 The shadow of the famous tree of people

Game companies and partners from the entire Xue Leshan series rushed over to cheer, Blizzard, Valve, R Star, Id Games, Sammy, Sega, SNK, Nexon, NCsoft, Actoz, as well as Xishanju, Target Games, etc. A group of studios and department heads have already rushed over.

   Now Xue Leshan, it is no exaggeration to say that a faction in the game industry has formed. The studios and game companies invested by it have all begun to spread across North America, Asia and Europe!

   Distributors, agents, media, game stations, Wired magazines, etc. in the game industry that cooperate with Xue Leshan also sent people to come to support.

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

The whole hotel has become noisy. The lobby of the hotel has become a temporary banquet hall. People from all walks of life are gathered in twos and threes. 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 those in the game industry, Blizzard is now their cash cow. As long as Blizzard's news is reported, the click-through rate and viewership rate will increase a lot. Game retailers also make a lot of money selling Blizzard's games. At that time, naturally, I wanted to get involved with Blizzard.

  Compared to Blizzard being sought after by many people, the founders of both the V Club and R Star under Xue Leshan, Gabe Vieux and the Hauser brothers, seem a little deserted.

The Hauser brothers looked at the touted Blizzard trio surrounded by the crowd. The two brothers couldn't help but feel a little envious. They were eager for fame and recognition. They had played rock and street music. They wanted that kind of thing. It feels like being watched by everyone, but now, Blizzard, who joined Xue Leshan in the same batch as R star, is now red and purple, a rising superstar in the game industry, but R star is still unknown.

  Compared to the Hauser brothers, G fat Gabe Vieux is very open, and he is eating a cold meal.

   "How is your "Grand Theft Auto" developed, it will be put on the showroom tomorrow!" Fat G looked at the two and said.

"It's not bad," Dan Hauser, one of the two brothers, showed a smile, "It's in the post-processing stage, and it's no problem to be on the booth tomorrow, but at Valve, I heard that Carmack is very interested in the "half-track" you developed. Life "very praised!"

   Mentioning this fat G can’t help but feel a little proud. John Carmack, a man who is regarded as a **** by the game industry practitioners, developed a 3D game engine by himself, and now he is the same as him, under the door of Mount Xue Le.

  Carmack once famously said that design games do not need plots, 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", Fat G heard that if it weren't for "Quake 2" already After the development was completed, Carmack even wanted to knock down Quake 2 and redo it. It can be seen how much Carmack was stimulated by "Half-Life".

John Carmack is also the idol of G-fat Gabe Vieux. When he developed "Half-Life", he named his name. He wanted to use the "Thor's Hammer Engine" developed by Carmack to be recognized by his idol. For G Rang, it made him happy instead of selling a few more sets of games.

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

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

   Carmack is no longer in charge of developing games. He has a special position in Xue Leshan. Xue Leshan specially set up a "game technology laboratory" for him, allowing him to develop new game engines, technologies and so on.

  John Carmack's status 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!

   Having said that, Fat G and Brother Hauser looked towards a man in the banquet hall. It was John Carmack, who had not been seen very often 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 inside the game industry, and even many of them were executives of 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 is increasing. There are people from Xue Leshan game companies, as well as people from Ubisoft, Activision, EA and other game makers. When people from Sony, Nintendo, Konami and other game makers come, the whole banquet In the lobby, most of the famous game makers in the game industry are basically gathered.

  Like the entire game industry, it is basically divided into two camps. America and European game makers are in the same camp, and Japanese benzene game makers are in a camp alone.

   A few years ago, these two camps basically didn't get along with each other, and the dog's brain could fight. The Japanese benzene game camp still had an advantage, and America and European game makers could only barely defend.

The emergence of Xue Leshan has changed this situation. Now Xue Leshan has some meaning to occupy the American and European game markets, and has reached out to the console game market that Japanese game manufacturers value most, the Japanese game industry. Be wary...

However, on an occasion like today, plus the TV station media invited by TGA to record with reporters at the banquet, people from the two major game camps maintained their calm on the bright side. Activision, EA, Ubisoft and other manufacturers also followed Sony, Nintendo, etc. talked about cooperation, and the atmosphere was good.

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

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and if there are rivers and lakes, fighting is inevitable. Now that so many game manufacturers are gathered here, it is enough to show the influence of Xue Leshan in the game industry today. Major game manufacturers have had to quietly listen to the voice of Xue Leshan...

   (end of this chapter)