Reboots on the ground.

• Position: Triangle

When they scheduled a two-day conference for late April, the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and other organizers wanted to draw attention to the Triangle video-game industry--at least 30 companies employing more than 1,200. Among them are superstars such as Cary-based Epic Games Inc., which developed the Gears of War franchise, Some of the attention was not so welcome. The day before the event, Raleigh-based Atomic Games Inc. lost its publisher, Japan's Konami Digital Entertainment Inc., due to the outcry over Six Days in...