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March of 2011. <\/strong>After a couple of moderately successful decades, the Italian gaming industry was facing its worst crisis yet; only a couple studios survived the dawn of the 2010s, and the country was still reeling from 2008\u2019s global recession. Because of limited funds and developers leaving the country to work abroad,\u2026<\/p>\n

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Source – kotaku.com<\/p>\n

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March of 2011. After a couple of moderately successful decades, the Italian gaming industry was facing its worst crisis yet; only a couple studios survived the dawn of the 2010s, and the country was still reeling from 2008\u2019s global recession. Because of limited funds and developers leaving the country to work abroad,\u2026 Read more… Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25317,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3765,667,1419],"class_list":["post-25316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pc","tag-3765","tag-after","tag-march"],"yoast_head":"\nShooting The Pope: The Near Ruin Of A Country's Gaming Industry | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View Shooting The Pope: The Near Ruin Of A Country's Gaming Industry for free, here on XtremeServers. 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