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Article: Sony Bend bigger player in the game.
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- May 28, 2006
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Byline: Chuck Chiang
May 28--Few people in Bend know where Chris Reese works.
When people ask Reese, who is technical director at Sony Computer Entertainment's Bend Studios, he says the answer almost always draws the same response.
"'There's Sony here?'" Reese said with a chuckle.
It's hard to believe, but Sony Bend, a subsidiary of Sony Corp. of America, has been in town for 13 years. It employs 60 people.
And while its Sony parent was busy promoting the highly anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console in Los Angeles earlier this month, Sony Bend had a version of the same machine sitting quietly in its office in the Old ...