The rise and fall of 38 Studios

Jason Schwartz for Boston magazine:

Back at the softball field in Dracut, Schilling is still having trouble fathoming what happened. “I’ll find myself in the middle of the day, just aching,” he says. He concedes that he’d promised his employees 60 days’ warning if the money ever looked like it was going to run out, but argues that the situation was moving too fast for him to keep sending updates. “It wasn’t that I didn’t want to tell anyone,” he says, “it’s I didn’t know what to say.”

If you read one article about the massive implosion of “Kingdoms of Amalur” video game maker 38 Studios – founded by former Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling – let it be this one. It’s an incredibly in depth look at the company’s rise and fall, and the dangers that celebrity hubris bring to such an enterprise.