Publishers in the Seattle area?

[Staffan]

I think the metropolitan area of Seattle holds the highest concentration of game publishers in the world.

A large part is probably due to a major game publisher that keeps laying off competent people. I can think of three game publishers off-hand that got started by former WOTC employees (Green Ronin, Bastion Press and Malhavoc Press - I know Monte wasn't laid off, but he's still a former Wizards guy). There's probably at least one more coming in the near future - at the chat with the MM2 creators (who were almost all victims in the latest layoff) at WOTC's site last weekend, one of them said that a few of the latest batch was looking into starting up something themselves.