Upcoming Events:

On November 6th come chat with the producer of Last Bronx, Steve Hutchins. He'll be available to answer your most pressing questions and give you special insight about the new furious fighting game.

On the 18th of November we'll welcome Steve back to answer questions about another game he recently produced, Quake.

A Brief Bio on Steve:
Steve Hutchins, a Senior Producer at Sega Product Development for approximately two years, received his start in gaming many moons ago. It all began when his Dad brought home this strange box for the top of the Hutchin's family TV. It was called the "Channel F System". The system led to a determined affinity for fun and later progressed to Steve's encounters with arcade units of the classic age (late 70's and early 80's).

After shunning his Computer Science major after a year which included FORTRAN (ouch), Steve graduated from UCLA with a shiny B.A. in Political Science. He proceeded to find the job of his dreams when he happened upon an ad for a small Japanese firm in Pasadena that wanted to hire someone for the exciting "videogame market". It was this first job at I.G.S that taught Steve the ropes and different facets of the industry (Marketing Manager one day, Tester/Producer the next). I.G.S. Inc. was the second ever U.S. NEC Turbografix third party licensee and actually shipped 3 titles. Next was SuperNES, and work as a Co-Producer on The Rocketeer game. Steve's last project at IGS, was Super Shadow of the Beast for SNES, finished, but alas, never shipped.

In 1993, Steve joined The Software Toolworks company in Novato, "a fantastic and exciting time with a great introduction to the PC development world". His first completed project was the vastly underrated Star Wars Chess (which set a company record by originally shipping on 14 HD floppy disks!). Three years later, and with approximately 4 million copies of Megarace sold, Steve packed up and moved to his current homestead with Sega.

Handling the production of key Sega Saturn titles including NiGHTS, VirtuaCop2, Fighting Vipers, Fighters MegaMix, The Lost World has severely cut into Steve's planned vacations to more tropical regions of the planet. Last seen poring over specifications for assorted proposed modem protocols...he keeps mumbling about his new secret projects that can neither be confirmed or denied by Sega upper management.

There are more events are to come. Stay tuned!