Game developers and execs contribute to US Presidential campaigns

Posted Oct 5th 2008 9:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz

Game Politics has been doing an excellent job covering which game developers and game industry executives have been contributing money to the various US Presidential campaigns. It shouldn't come as a shock that most of them are Democrats who have given money to that political party's nominee Barack Obama.

So far nine game industry members including Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello, Take Two Interactive chairman Strauss Zelnick, Rockstar Games co-founder Sam Houser and Sony Online CEO John Smedley have all given money to Obama's campaign. Only three gaming reps have given money to the Republican candidate John McCain; Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, 38 Studios founder Curt Schilling and, in what might be a surprise to some, Maxis founder Will Wright.

Tags: 38-studios, activision, ea, electronic-arts, rockstar-games, sony-online-entertainment, take-two-interactive, will-wright

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

great, when someone plays gta4 or nfs pro strt they re gonna be advertisings floddedwith Vote for Obama! andObama 2008. The hell with politics in videogames! Posted at 9:33PM on Oct 5th 2008 by nailbuster

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