For the film director, see Michel Gondry

Michael Condrey is the co-founder and former studio head of Sledgehammer Games, which he 😊 founded with Glen Schofield after their collaboration on the popular video game franchise Dead Space. He is now the president 😊 of 31st Union, a 2K studio located in Silicon Valley, California.[1][2]

Career [ edit ]

Condrey graduated in 1997 from the University 😊 of Washington. The following year, his senior thesis on applying biotechnology to conservation biology was published in the Molecular Ecology. 😊 After working as a scuba diving instructor and boat captain in the Cayman Islands, he began work on a graduate 😊 degree in Seattle. It was there that he launched his game development career, beginning with a summer job at Electronic 😊 Arts (EA) during the peak of Seattle's gaming explosion. Condrey later relocated to Redwood City at the EA-owned studio Visceral 😊 Games, where he became studio chief operations officer, as well as senior development director on the 2008 title Dead Space. 😊 He also worked on three other successful EA franchises: Need for Speed, FIFA and the James Bond game series.[2][3]

Condrey (right) 😊 and Glen Schofield at the Sledgehammer headquarter, 2009