{"id":693,"date":"2024-10-02T12:15:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T12:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2024-10-02T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T12:15:09","slug":"from-daredevil-dennis-to-die-hard-trilogy-simon-pick-has-a-hell-of-a-tale-to-tell-robert-purchese-eurogamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/02\/from-daredevil-dennis-to-die-hard-trilogy-simon-pick-has-a-hell-of-a-tale-to-tell-robert-purchese-eurogamer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFrom Daredevil Dennis to Die Hard Trilogy: Simon Pick has a hell of a tale to tell\u201d &#8211; Robert Purchese (Eurogamer)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe two games were a disappointment to EA, the studios that made them were closed, and Pick was shunted to another internal studio instead. A new studio EA had bought to embrace the zeitgeist of the time: Facebook games. Specifically, The Sims Social Facebook game. Pick didn&#8217;t care for it at all. &#8220;I hated every minute of it,&#8221; he says. All day long he&#8217;d stare at huge leaderboards showing which in-game pieces of furniture were making the most money. &#8220;I felt sick to my stomach working there,&#8221; he says. So he left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This, really, is where the trail on Simon Pick starts to go cold, because it&#8217;s the point he turns away from the games industry\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/from-daredevil-dennis-to-die-hard-trilogy-simon-pick-has-a-hell-of-a-tale-to-tell\">https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/from-daredevil-dennis-to-die-hard-trilogy-simon-pick-has-a-hell-of-a-tale-to-tell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe two games were a disappointment to EA, the studios that made them were closed, and Pick was shunted to another internal studio instead. A new studio EA had bought to embrace the zeitgeist of the time: Facebook games. Specifically, The Sims Social Facebook game. Pick didn&#8217;t care for it at all. &#8220;I hated every&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}