After obtaining a degree in mechanical engineering,[1] Hudson began his career at the Canadian video game developer BioWare with credits as a technical artist on several games, including MDK 2.
[2] He eventually became the project director of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
[2] Hudson fulfilled the same role in the development of the Mass Effect trilogy,[2] a series of games based on a new science fiction intellectual property.
[4] On July 18, 2017, Hudson announced that he had returned to BioWare and replaced Aaryn Flynn as general manager for the studio.
[6] In June 2021, Hudson announced that he had established a new game development studio, Humanoid Origin, that was working on a new intellectual property[7] later to be revealed as Space Age: Parallax.