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22 cgw o c t o b e r • n o v e m b e r • d e c e m b e r 2 0 2 5 when transfers are completed to eliminate guesswork and uncer- tainty. Moreover, with Media Shuttle, Aspyr gets to control where their content is stored. Signiant storage independence ensures assets always flow directly into and out of Aspyr's storage—whether that is on-prem or in the cloud with AWS, Azure, or GCS [Google Cloud Storage]. Aspyr seamlessly maps dedicated Media Shuttle portals to their Amazon S3 buckets, giving the team organized, secure, and fast access to every build. This once time consuming and error-prone process is now streamlined and secure, allowing Blackburn and his team to send out RFP materials in minutes, instead of hours or even days. "I can have RFP's and source codes out in two minutes," Blackburn avows. "There's no more back and forth." Goodbye Chaos, Hello Control While streamlining the RFP process was the initial driver behind Aspyr's search for a large file transfer solution, the team quickly dis- covered additional ways to improve workflows using Media Shuttle. Game testing and QA [quality assurance]—oen handled by both internal and external teams for larger titles—now run much more ef- ficiently. Previously, QA teams relied on Google Drive to upload and down- load game builds, which was slow and inconsistent. "[Media Shuttle] has streamlined where we find things, how we find things, how we send thing, how we download, and distribute." — John Blackburn, Aspyr IT operations manager "People were pulling builds down from Google Drive, and they would take forever," Blackburn explained. "Or they would upload it to Google Drive so others could then download it, and it would take forever. Now, it's always in S3. And we always access it through Media Shuttle. If you want the build, it'll be under the portal for that game." John Blackburn uses Media Shuttle to manage access with preci- sion, adding users, assigning permissions, restricting access to spe- cific assets, and tracking activity so there's complete visibility into who's accessing what. building partnerships for the future Partnerships are the lifeblood to Aspyr's development model, and fast, efficient workflows help the team stay on track—especially when working on titles aligned with major media launches and licen- sor timelines. "When you're in this kind of partnership-driven model, it's import-