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Steal This Game (Ep. 1)

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Doom Engine - The First Modern Video Game Company

"It's just remarkable. Before we ever talked, I knew about doom, but I never fully appreciated just how important it was to this whole journey," he says. "They were the first modern publisher in a lot of ways, the first modern video game company." The deal they did with us - and we were, it was the richest deal for a developer in the industry at the time -- ended up making them less profitable than before. And so their dream of becoming that sort of first platform based publisher kind of ended with the Activision deal.

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