The Baltimore Banner, a news website dedicated to Baltimore, has just before Christmas ran a title called “How Baltimore County became a hidden world of video game companies“.
As many of you know, Baltimore is the home to our most important gaming studio, Firaxis, but not only that. Its predecessor, Microprose, responsible for Civ1+2 was also situated in Baltimore, and more recently also many things have happened there. Firaxis personnel has spawnd other studios like “Big Huge Games”, which were responsible for “Rise of Nations”, and very recently Oxide Games, which has developed “Ara: History Untold”. And we don’t know yet what games will come from 2 other studios founded by Firaxis employees, Bit Reactor and Midsummer Studios.
If you want to read a bit more, then check out the article by the Baltimore Banner here, and discuss it with us here.