Why do so many AAA games feel increasingly expensive — but increasingly familiar? After 12 years at Epic Games and 27 years working with Unreal Engine, veteran game developer and executive Sjoerd De Jong left the company to help build something new: Immens Engine. In this episode of Gamer Galaxy, Sjoerd joins host Cher Hwang to explain why he believes the video game industry has reached a pivotal moment. They examine ballooning development costs, market saturation, risk-averse studios, the limitations of free-to-play games and the growing divide between older gamers and a younger, social-first generation raised on Roblox, Minecraft and Fortnite. Sjoerd also explains what Immens Engine is designed to do differently from Unreal Engine and…
The Trump administration's unconventional push to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers has hired more than 2,000 applicants in roughly four months, a pace officials call record-setting for an agency that has struggled with chronic staffing shortages for years. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the results in a post on X, reporting that the […] The post FAA's gamer recruiting campaign fills 94% of air traffic controller hiring goal appeared first on American Almanac .
The Trump administration's unconventional push to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers has hired more than 2,000 applicants in roughly four months, a pace officials call record-setting for an agency that has struggled with chronic staffing shortages for years. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the results in a post on X, reporting that the FAA's targeted campaign had reached 94% of its hiring goal. The initiative, launched in April, used YouTube ads built around footage from Fortnite, Madden NFL, and League of Legends, complete with Xbox branding and slogans like "You've been training for this" and "It's not a game. It's a career." Applications were originally capped at 8,000. More than 12,000 poured in. The…Open
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