MinnMax Interview - Jason Schreier On Breaking News, Game Reveals, And His New Book Press Reset (Patreon)

MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews reporter Jason Schreier about his new book on the unsustainable aspects of the game industry called Press Reset. Jason also talks about when reporting should break the news on game reveals, his transition from Kotaku to Bloomberg as a writer, the challenges of having a large platform on Twitter, and apparently a remake of Knights of the Old Republic happening at Aspyr Media.

You can watch and share a video version right here - https://youtu.be/exXHsNPXFYM

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:55 - The downside of being known for scoops

00:02:31 - The Knights of the Old Republic remake rumors

00:03:17 - Does reporting “spoil” game reveals?

00:10:55 - Writing Press Reset

00:21:56 - Early ideas for a third book

00:23:00 - BioShock, Irrational, and Ken Levine

00:29:28 - Thoughts on 2K’s next BioShock

00:35:06 - How to stay in the loop with developers

00:40:05 - The impact of Schreier’s reporting

00:42:44 - The transition from Kotaku to Bloomberg

00:46:45 - The dark side of Twitter

00:55:25 - Favorite development tidbits from the book

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