STACK NZ Nov #79

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Do you guys have any kind of mission statement that you abide by? Pete Hines: We probably do. I’ve been with Bethesda for almost 17 years, but I don’t know if I could tell you what it is. I can tell you what I think we’re about; we try and focus on a select few games. We’re not a volume publisher, we were never set up to be one. We want to make the kind of games that

we want to play, that offer up something new or interesting, or different. Whether that’s to a franchise, or to the genre, or to games in general, we don’t like to rehash what other people have done. So that can be across everything. That can be what the id Software guys did with DOOM , where sure, it’s a first person shooter with multiplayer and co-op, but doing Snap-Map and trying to give players the tools to make

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that’s what I think most players appreciated. Even aside from DOOM ,

and just saying ‘hey, this franchise and game can be about character and story, and that kind of stuff can matter’ - in a game where nobody could tell you anything about BJ Blaskowicz from the previous releases, right? He was a big dumb guy who liked to kill Nazis. They’re very different types of games, but they all have that same common thread of trying to do something unique or different or bring something new to games. That’s what we’re about.

with Machine Games taking on franchises like Wolfenstein and breathing so much new life into them,

their own maps and experiences - it just felt very different than most other shooters, and

How do you go about selecting studios to publish games for?

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