Ted Price, CEO of Insomniac Games, calling B.S. on the travel ban.
Ted Price, CEO of Insomniac Games, calling B.S. on the travel ban.
Categories

Insomniac CEO Ted Price pummels Trump’s Muslim ban in YouTube video

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
  • Updated
  • 2 min

Insomniac Games CEO founder Ted Price took a stand against President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from seven Muslim countries.

While other game developers issued tweets or sent emails to employees about Trump, Price took the extra step of creating a YouTube video, where he stood in front of a camera with all of Insomniac’s employees behind him. He made a plea not only to Trump but to gamers to stand in opposition to the policy. And Price, whose company makes many popular games like Ratchet & Clank or Resistance, used the medium that gamers turn to just about every day, YouTube.

Unlock premium content and VIP community perks with GB M A X!
Join now to enjoy our free and premium perks.
Become a Member
Written by

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.