Items tagged with Curt Schilling
By his own admission, there are several groups that have cause to hate on Curt Schilling, the former Red Sox picture who played on an injured and bloody ankle to beat the New York Yankees in Game 6 of the 2004 American League Champion Series. And he's fine with that. The outspoken Republican is used to a high level of vitriol, but when it's directed at his daughter on social media, that's another story. It all started with a single tweet. Schilling's daughter had just been accepted to college to play softball, and as any technology savvy father would do, he posted a congratulatory message on Twitter. It read, "Congrats to Gabby Schilling who will pitch for the Salve Regina Seahawks next year!!"...
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Boston Magazine has posted an in-depth article on how and why 38 Studios fell apart, including a significant number of comments and insights from Schilling himself. The article confirms much of what we initially expected; Schilling was absolutely committed to the game, faithful to the cause, and had no idea how to run a company or attract investors. Employees that supported Schilling in the early days have turned on him as more details became apparent. Schilling wanted to be "Bill Gates rich" and was interested in the latter's philanthropic work. Reading the article, however, the man who comes to mind isn't Gates -- it's Steve Jobs -- and please, wait a moment before you sharpen up the knives....
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38 Studios, the game developer behind Kingdoms of Amalur and the unfinished Project Copernicus MMO has filed for bankruptcy. The company is seeking to liquidate its assets in order to pay its debts in what's known as a Chapter 7 filing. 38 Studios claims $21.7M in assets, mostly personal property, and $150.7 million in liabilities to 1000 different creditors, including $110 million owed to the state of Rhode Island. How bad does it look? Pretty bad. (PDF) Even if we ignore the $110M owed to Rhode Island over the estimated payback period of the loan, 38 Studios owed $300K to MoveTrek, the company that managed the employee relocation we've previously discussed, $116K to Atlas Van Lines, $715K to...
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