Susan Cummings co-founded the 2K Games label at Take-Two, where in a two-year window she signed BioShock, Borderlands, XCOM, and The Darkness, and pulled Civilization out of Atari one week after her first call with Firaxis. She is a Rockstar alum, co-founder of Tiny Rebel Games and Fictioneers, and today the co-founder and CEO of 10six Games, building the AI-forward roguelite YOU vs Zombies. In this re:Play, Greg Off traces thirty years of deal-making, platform pivots, and what "finding your rock band" really means.

In this episode:

• Intellivision, Utopia, and Don Daglow as the first game and a lifelong friend
• A Boston recruiting job, a "book of multimedia companies" in 1995, and a first cold call to Al Lowe at Sierra
• Ed Fries and a Microsoft lunch before Xbox existed — "Microsoft still has more money than you do" ...