The true Las Vegas confessions of game industry leaders

Two game industry leaders gave confessional and heartfelt talks yesterday at the annual DICE Summit game conference.

Ted Price, the chief executive of Insomniac Games (the maker of Ratchet & Clank) for the past couple of decades, and former Microsoft Game Studios chief Ed Fries (who snagged Halo for Microsoft) gave some very different but very personal talks about leading creative teams. Both showed the vulnerable sides of running big operations and why their career paths have taken different turns. Their advice is instructive for anyone who wants to succeed in the game business. And the part where they admit their hardships is the most valuable, and it was something that they would only do in front of their peers.