Rocketwerkz boss Dean Hall s fury at Economic Development Minister Stuart Nash s Amazon deal
19 Apr, 2021 05:43 AM
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RocketWerkz chief executive Dean Hall talks about his new office.
Video / Michael Craig The head of New Zealand s second-largest gaming studio says he s been kneecapped by the Government - and specifically Economic Development Minister Stuart Nash and his self-described landmark subsidy deal with Amazon over its locally-shot Lord of the Rings series.
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Rocketwerkz founder Dean Hall says he has 70 staff working on Icarus - a multiplayer sci-fi game that will see one or up to eight players trying to survive as prospectors on an unexplored alien world. When finished, later this year, it will be the biggest-budget, most lavish game to come out of NZ.
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While I’d already posted a small snippet of my long chat with Dean Hall about the success of
Icarus coming along, exactly? And how has the studio fared over the last few years, given the difficulty Dean Hall famously had initially when first setting up the studio and more recent challenges with COVID and layoffs? How exactly does
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Amidst the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Valve co-founder and internet gaming dad Gabe Newell got stuck in New Zealand. The world went into lockdown, and instead of heading home to Seattle to cope with the United States’ brand of public health management, Newell stayed down under. That resulted in a happy affair with the country throughout all of 2020, so much so that Valve employees started asking about potentially moving to New Zealand permanently. But in a chat with Rocketwerkz co-founder Dean Hall, it’s become apparent that Valve’s good intentions haven’t quite evolved into action.
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