The video-game industry has been through ups and downs in the past few years, and even the arrival of Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4 hasn’t prevented some developers from folding, some publishers from contracting.

But Bethesda Softworks is growing, and has seven studios working under its banner. For Pete Hines, the Maryland-based company’s vice president of public relations and marketing, the success is a result of designers creating games they want to make.

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