The DeanBeat: Pittsburgh steels itself to become a regional game hub

Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center is a sprawling building on the banks of Pittsburgh’s Monongahela River. It attracts students from around the globe, and it is a primary source of talent for the city’s technology and game industry. And, quite symbolically, it is part of a 48-acre research park that was once a gigantic steel mill.
The ETC and the companies it has spawned are where the old economy meets the new, and it shows the kind of economic transfo