NCsoft has made a "strategic equity investment" in Texas-based studio Empty Vessel. The South Korean developer and publisher made the investment through its North American subsidiary, NC West. It ...

Thanks to Donald Trump, the world has been getting a crash course in antiglobalism from a populist-right perspective. Perhaps the singular merit of Ian Kumekawa’s “Empty Vessel” is to remind us that, ...

Former Naughty Dog, Id Software, and Activision developers have established Empty Vessel. Based in Texas, Empty Vessel will be overseen by CEO and game director Emanuel Palalic. Alongside him, COO and ...

This incisive study from Kumekawa (The First Serious Optimist), an economic history professor at Harvard University, uses an oceangoing barge as a window onto the global economy. The barge, which ...