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Curt Schilling retires from baseball, but is ready to play and build video games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Curt Schilling said today he’s retiring from Major League Baseball with four World Series and three World Championships under his belt. Baseball’s loss is gaming’s gain. Schilling is the founder and chairman of 38 Studios , a startup creating a massively multiplayer online role-playing game code-named Copernicus.

He last pitched a game in 2007. Over his lifetime, the 42-year-old Schilling had a win-loss record of 216-146. He scored 3,116 strikeouts. He helped the Boston Red Sox score a World Series victory. Now we’ll measure his victories in terms of registered users and whether or not his next-generation fantasy game can outdo World of Warcraft, which has about 12 million monthly paying subscribers.

Schilling will be speaking at VentureBeat’s GamesBeat 09 tomorrow in a fireside chat with Adam Sessler, co-host of G4TV’s X-Play video game cable TV show.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.