Jason Schreier is an American journalist and author. He worked for Kotaku before joining Bloomberg in New York. After Blood, tears and pixels, he signs here Press Reset – Press Reset – Disasters and reconstructions in the video game industry, a behind-the-scenes book on the video game industry, this time investigating job insecurity in the video game industry.
What’s it like to start a video game company only to see it fall apart? What happens to an author, graphic artist, designer, programmer, sound engineer, quality tester or producer when their employer’s studio closes? How are their lives affected? What do they do next? How do they move on? What are their stories? This book “Press Reset” by Jason Schreier tells what happens when video game studios go out of business. More specifically, what happens to human beings in such cases.
With this book, the author and journalist asks a question: why is it so difficult to ensure job security in the video game industry? He wanted to know what it felt like to work in a field where you might have to pack up and move across the country overnight. He wanted to know why studio closures and layoffs are still common, how they impact people, and how those people are recovering from it.