“Google wished video games that solely labored within the cloud—which don’t exist,” Raccoon Logic co-founder & artistic director Alex Hutchinson told VGC in an August interview. “They have been asking us to ship the sort of video games constructed by 400 to 600 individuals, big Marvel license video games and Star Wars tie-ins. They mentioned in case you make the sport and it’s nice with 25 individuals, then we’ll allow you to rent 500 artists, which isn’t the way it works. Nobody was speaking the identical language.”
gunther harrison , your days are numbered!! pic.twitter.com/j3e4kqz9In
— Revenge of the Savage Planet (@SavagePlanetHub) November 27, 2024
Raccoon Logic’s new San Francisco billboard features a QR code that directs guests to a promotional page for Revenge of the Savage Planet, that includes the pithy sympathy message that “We obtained fired by him as effectively!” The location guarantees a donation to the Canadian Psychological Well being Affiliation for every one who scans the billboard; as of this writing, these donations sit under $2,500.
Harrison served because the very public face of Stadia shortly after his hiring in 2018 when the service was still being teased as “Project Stream.” He was a important presenter on a GDC stage almost exactly six years ago when Google revealed the Stadia identify and promised that the streaming service could be “the way forward for video games.” By 2020, although, Harrison had stopped tweeting or showing in promotional movies, earlier than lastly leaving the company in 2023.
Earlier than the ill-fated Stadia, Harrison helped lead Sony’s gaming efforts during the troubled launch of the PlayStation 3, at one level going as far as to brag that “no person will ever use one hundred pc of [the PS3’s] functionality.” He then labored in Microsoft’s gaming division during the disastrous rollout of the Xbox One and its confused used game policies.
Since leaving Google, Harrison has but to announce a brand new function on his LinkedIn page.