
At most other firms, its contents would have been considered "not safe for work." On JSam Houser, the president and co-founder of Rockstar Games, wrote an email to Jennifer Kolbe, the company's operations director. We want to thank you for what you've done." "Hello, Patrick?" The accent on the end of the line was unmistakably New Yorker. Eyes still closed, Wildenborg lifted the receiver.

It was prompted not by an infant's wail but the hysteria of a telephone ringing in the night. With a one year-old baby in the house he was familiar with deep sleep being cut short by noise. Not for the first time that month, Patrick Wildenborg was disoriented. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.
