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Another road show this week, live from DICE 2020 Las Vegas. Illfonic’s Gio Corsi rides shotgun with Dave, wherein they talk in vague generalities about the industry, before diving into Gio’s video gaming origin story.
After that, Dave chat’s with Tara Bruno of Tara Bruno PR. They celebrate their friendship-versary, and then dive into Tara’s history in the industry.
00:06:00 – Gio gets into his origin story, starting with EA Vancouver.
00:16:00 – Gio gets into digital animation at Mainframe Entertainment.
00:18:50 – Time for a re-entry into video games, enter Propaganda Entertainment.
00:22:30 – Dave almost worked with Gio at Midway. Almost!
00:27:00 – Gio and family pull up stakes and heads to Singapore to work at Lucas Arts.
00:38:20 – Tara Bruno jumps on the pod, and starts by explaining who she is and what she does. Dave & Tara also celebrate their 4-year friendship-versary huzzah!
00:42:50 – Tara describes her start in the industry at GT Interactive.
00:47:50 – Tara jumps to Edelman, and quickly determined being at a large agency wasn’t for her.
00:48:30 – Tara jumps around and a few different PR jobs before opening her own company.