Greg Borrud Archives

Smilegate is investing in Dan Houser's Absurd Ventures.

How GTA pioneer Dan Houser’s Absurd Ventures will make great worlds with strong storytelling

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 16, 2025
12 min

South Korean game development and publishing company Smilegate recently made a strategic investment and became a partner in Absurd Ventures, a game studio founded by Rockstar Games...

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Niantic’s Greg Borrud: From falling into games to making games for the real world

Posted byby Jason Wilson
April 29, 2020
5 min

Niantic is known for its approach to augmented reality and location-based gaming. In the summer of 2016, Pokémon Go changed the world and how...

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Seismic Games acquires Grue Games as it expands into AR and VR gaming

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 15, 2016
2 min

Seismic Games has acquired Los Angeles game developer Grue Games as a way to expand into augmented reality and virtual reality games. Virtual reality...

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Seismic Games paves new game category on Facebook with CelebrityMe

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 28, 2012
4 min

Social game startup Seismic Games is launching CelebrityMe, a new Facebook title that lets players live out the fantasy of being a celebrity. The...

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4 min

With $2M in funding, social game studio Seismic comes out of stealth

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 4, 2012
2 min

Hardcore game veterans who worked at the now-defunct Pandemic Studios have started a new social game studio called Seismic Games. Unveiled for the first...

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