Surprisingly few places seem to culturally benefit from the presence of companies. But I guess selling heavy equipment for public use helps.
Is game dev still happening in Chicago?
Happy to report they’re doing very well and releasing as great of fighter game as they did back in the good ol days :)
Only a few of those companies seem to be actively hiring.
Midway closed (and part of it became NetherRealm), there used to be an Electronic Arts office, a Disney Interactive office, Robomodo, Sega was around when they did arcade games, Game Refuge might still exist but it's barely still kicking, Yuke's used to have a satellite office here but that shut down, probably a bunch of others, but nowadays it's difficult to be a game dev and live in Chicago. Part of the reason I'm not in the industry anymore.