

They helped optimise Dragon Age: Origins to be able to fit on the limited memory available on the existing home video game consoles. For several years, Panic Button worked silently in the shadows contributing to various games under development by other studios. In order to form a steady revenue stream, they developed a few low-budget titles while building relationships with other game studios. In January 2008, they rented a small office space with aspirations to get back involved with game development by forming partnerships with other game studios and publishers. The desire the four founders had to return to game development drove them to leave Midway and establish Panic Button at the end of 2007. After the acquisition Midway decided to remove all game development responsibilities from the studio and tasked them with streamlining Midway’s development tools and technology instead.

Inevitable Entertainment was acquired by Midway Games in 2004 and renamed Midway Studios Austin. Michael Traub, Russell Byrd and Aaron Smischney joined video game developer Inevitable Entertainment after leaving Acclaim Entertainment. The founders of Panic Button, Craig Galley, D. The development studio is currently best known for their AAA video game ports from other platforms to the Nintendo Switch. Founded in 2007 by four coworkers that worked together at Acclaim Entertainment, a now defunct video game publisher. Panic Button is a video game developer based out of Austin, Texas.
