Video-Game Publishers Outsource Development

randomErr writes "According to a San Jose Mercury News article reprinted at the Miami Herald: 'Mark Vange is in the vanguard of globalizing the video-game industry. He employs 30 game developers in St. Petersburg, Russia, who have worked on everything from flight simulators to dragon-fighting games. 'We can get the work done for half the cost that it takes in the U.S.,' said Vange, president of Ketsujin Studios. Similar outsourcing of video-game production is being done in places like China, India, Vietnam and parts of Eastern Europe. California game developers, who are the creative force behind a $10 billion industry in the U.S. market, view the trend with a combination of fear and anticipation'."

Here we go...

[Anonymous Coward]

Standby for a flood of "In Soviet Russia" jokes in 3....2....1....

Re:Here we go...

[Joey Patterson]

In Soviet Russia, game developers outsource income!

All Your Base

[Autonomous Coword]

I wonder how "All your base are belong to us" translates from Russian?

Re:Here we go...

[mattjb0010]

exactly where did this start from?

In Soviet Russia, of course!

Well!

[LordK3nn3th]

This is an outrage! Next thing you know, Nintendo will outsource to some obscure place, like Japan!

Next to be outsourced...

[Anonymous Coward]

Today, video game enthusiasts throughout the country announced that they are outsourcing their playing to countries like Burma, Zaire, and Elbonia, where people can be found to play video games much cheaper than in the USA.

In Soviet Russia

[Lord Kano]

American Jobs belong to YOU.

Gotta love the mods

[Anonymous Coward]

Score:-1, Truth Hurts

Re:cause != effect

[torokun]

Only Geeks. ;)

Re:Bill Lumbergh

[DragonTHC]

yeahhhh, I'm gonna have to ask you to move your desk again. why don't you move it to india!

Re:The irony, of course....

[be-fan]

The sad thing is that nobody can hear you over the deafening sounds of hipocrisy.

Re:Awesome!

[beowulfcluster]

but if this company martyrs itself for the cause of domestic labor, where's the reward in that?

They'd get mad props in the FLT and DVN .nfo files.

You just move the "middle"...

[rsilvergun]

and raise everyone's standard of living. That's really the problem with America. Not only is our Middle class too well off, but our poor are _far_ too rich. I mean, what good's being a rich capitalist if you don't have some truly desperate people to push around?