2025 Speakers
Steve Escalante, CEO, Digital Bandidos
Steve Escalante is a 25+ year veteran of the game industry, where he started as an indie developer in Colorado, to working at Bethesda, and ultimately founding independent game publisher Versus Evil. Having a successful 10 years at Versus Evil, Escalante signed multiple, award-winning video games across, PC, Consoles and Mobile, running multiple game development projects around the world, from Australia/New Zealand, the EU, South America, US to Asia. In 2017 he also founded QA service company Red Cerberus. In 4 years, he took the company from a small, boutique QA studio, to over 340 personnel located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Over its short time span, and as one of the first QA companies in Brazil, Red Cerberus tested, localized, certified or co-developed numerous AAA, AA and indie level projects. In 2021 Escalante successfully negotiated the exit of both Versus Evil and Red Cerberus. With over 400 projects published, Escalante continues to pursue publishing, development and business development activities within the game industry. Currently he is CEO of new publisher, Digital Bandidos where he and his team will pick up the work he began years ago; working with great indie teams, on amazing games, with amazing people.
