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38 Studios LLC, the teetering video game company of former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, could be ineligible for million in state tax credits because the firm is incorporated in Delaware, not Rhode Island.
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(Updated, 6:30 p.m.)
Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee on Wednesday said the apparent departure of two of 38 Studios’ top executives – CEO Jen MacLean and Senior Vice President of Product Development John Blakely – "is not good news" for the struggling video game company.
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By PBN Staff
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Michael Pachter, managing director of equity research at Los Angeles-based Wedbuch Securities told gaming-publication Joystiq that 38 Studios' intellectual property is worth only $20 million.
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By Emily Greenhalgh |
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Several 38 Studios employees attended a Providence recruiting event by video game-creator Turbine Inc., according to WPRI-TV CBS 12.
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By PBN Staff
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The R.I. Economic Development Corporation board of directors adjourned its regularly scheduled monthly meeting on Monday without taking any action on the troubled video game developer 38 Studios LLC.
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By PBN Staff
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(Updated, 7:45 p.m.)
38 Studios LLC founder Curt Schilling, along with a team from his company, have come and gone from the weekly meeting of the board of directors of the R.I. Economic Development Corporation without a comment.
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By PBN Staff
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Still unable to pay its workers, 38 Studios LLC, the cash-strapped video game design firm founded by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, has released a video trailer for its new game, code-named “Project Copernicus.”
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STOKES RESIGNS: Keith W. Stokes said his decision last week to resign as executive director of the R.I. Economic Development Corporation was a “mutual” agreement with Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee. The move followed closed-door discussions between the EDC board and 38 Studios Inc. on the firm’s decision to default on a $1.125 million fee payment.
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5/21/12
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Swipely CEO Angus Davis was one of many skeptics of Rhode Island’s $75 million loan guarantee to former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios LLC video game startup two years ago. Now he has even more company in the business community urging state leaders not to sink any more money into the embattled Providence firm since it defaulted on part of its public-financing deal.
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Rhode Island’s taxpayers were hit with a couple major news stories within the last week, but in neither case should the state’s leaders be distracted from creating a positive economic-development climate in the Ocean State.
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5/21/12
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