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