Thriller New Media hopes to bring back the good old plays of military games
Thriller New Media is looking to raise $8 million to finance its nostalgic dream of creating massively multiplayer online games, a social network, strategy games and other media built around military themes.
It’s a tough job to try to revive a category of gaming that has fallen by the wayside — except for first-person shooter games such as Call of Duty. Once the domain of hardcore gamers, military simulation and strategy games for the PC have… Continue Reading
Gilman Louie on the great lies of venture capitalists and why it’s still a good time to start a company
When times get bad, it pays to have a sense of humor.
That’s a hallmark of Gilman Louie, a celebrated video game geek and seasoned venture capitalist. He was chief executive of MicroProse, a seminal simulation game company that made flight simulations such as the Falcon series. He was also more recently the founder of In-Q-Tel, the Central Intelligence Agency’s venture capital arm in Silicon Valley. While at In-Q-Tel, he did 61 deals. He used to… Continue Reading