Living through the transformation of games in Dubai | Mario Rizzo interview — The DeanBeat

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Mario Rizzo just announced he was establishing Artisan Studios as the first foreign-owned game studio in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

It took him about 18 months to do that work, but the announcement was recently blessed by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Investment, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Saudi Arabia and Nine66.

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