News Summary

• Video game development is expensive and risky because you’re on two frontiers at once.
• The tech frontier, trying to do something with hardware that hasn’t been done before, and the game mechanics frontier, perfecting and polishing new forms of interaction that last.
• Successful movies are a combination of one creator’s vision and the coordinated work of hundreds or thousands of professionals using proven tools and techniques.
• And books, five hundred years into the genre, still remain the work of one voice.