Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Video Interview and Gameplay Footage

In a new multi-video feature on ABC News, 38 Studios founder Curt Schilling takes the reporter through the game while answering questions about its creation, his love for RPGs, what it’s like to run a company with 400 employees, and more. Most of the content is in the videos (including an exclusive look at the launch trailer), but some of it is translated:

Curt Schilling former World Series MVP has bet $35 million dollars of his own money that his champion skills are transferable.

(I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball,) Schilling recently told ABC’s John Berman. (I’ve always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset)

After Schilling’s pitching career ended in 2007, he took the helm of his own video game studio. Schilling even chipped in $35 million dollars of his own money to help pay for the 400 or so top designers, programmers and artists he employs. $60 million dollars later, the studio’s first release called (Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning) is complete. It hits store shelves on February 7th.

You have to respect a guy willing to shell out $35 million of his own money to follow a video game development dream.