Sweet Subterfuge

Kevan was pretty busy these days. After his miraculous “awakening” six years later and returning to Microworks to take control once more, he’d had a never-ending stream of documents and files to look at, as well as a never-ending stream of meetings to attend.

Not to mention that the new game they had been preparing for in the last two years. “Galeforce”, was about to go live-this was the biggest project this year, and he was required to follow up and monitor the progress of everything related to it. He no longer remembered how long it had been since he’d had a good night’s sleep.

When Dylan called, he was in his office, sipping on a double shot espresso that bumed his throat as he listened to the executive producer of “Galeforce”, Peter Jones, report on the work progress.

Kevan raised his hand to ask Peter to pause before he answered the call.

“I asked an associate of mine in Winston Hotel, but no one knows what happened to Larissa.” Dylan said, “But it probably isn’t related to

work.”

Kevan frowned a little, his eyes narrowing. “Got” He hung up and said to Peter, “Please continue.”

“We have prepared the promotional materials already. The original plan is to make it all public on the 1st of the next month. But – Peter

heard that Rubik Corporation will be launching a new kind of game this month, and it’s also a

of was a small gaming company that was established shortly alter Kevan slipped into a “coma” six years ago. The core employees were big-shot technicians pilfered from the gaming departments of huge

assistant for many years.

a company established

company established

threshold was not high either-any poorly made online game could generate tens of millions in revenue in a

they kept rebranding the same online game, shamelessly making a substantial amount of fast money for themselves. Such actions brought their brand reputation crashing down into the depths of the earth, Later, the other client-based games and mobile games that they

actually rather crude-it still attracted a whole group of gamers and topped the downloads on mobile gaming platforms as well as the charts of said platforms for

for Rubik’s game was

been established, and the character design, as well as modeling, had also been

had and managed to develop this game

despite the plagiarism uproar, it did not stop Rubik from eaming big

failed instead. All the human and material resources invested in the project had gone to waste, and they had lost