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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK [Author: Lum the Mad]

First, from Mr. Sage to the Destination-Games email list comes these comments on Arcadian Del Sol’s post: I understand being angry, but I do not understand this kind of provocative action and name calling. For those who aren’t aware, OSI can’t possibly comment on this publicly, because

SHOCKING NEW PC CONTROLLER [Author: Arcadian Del Sol]

Mad Catz, a designer in Santee, California, revealed a prototype PC controller this week, code-named Bioforge. Bioforge is a rather genteel looking PC controller equippped with several electrodes which the user hot-sticks to their forearms. The purpose? To send an ELECRICAL SHOCK TO YOUR BODY. Product Manager Steven Sandwisch cautions

GL-JEFF FIGURES OUT HIS USERS ARE NOT HAPPY [Author: Lum the Mad]

From the Stratics ex-Dawn site and now confused site comes word that in the wake of Dawn deciding that making a MMORPG isn’t the most effective use of their vast coding resources, tomorrows “DuskHoC” has been cancelled. “Its going to be a zoo in there,” said Jeff, judging from

NEWSFLASH: PEOPLE ARE RUDE ONLINE [Author: Lum the Mad]

I know this will come as a great shock to many of you, but in his latest column print journalist and media analyst Howie Kurtz of the Washington Post thinks web ranters are bad. Why so personal? Are these guys just acting like playground bullies? What is it about the

NOW INTRODUCING OUR FAVORITE ANTI-PVP FANATICS ENGAGING IN VIOLENT IRC ANTICS [Author: Hedron]

NOTE: I have edited the original log to try and add some coherency to the order of peoples responses. If there’s a big demand for the original log, I’ll post it in its original state. In the meantime, what I did was cut and pasted statements to put

AS PROMISED, TODAY’S OSI PERSONNEL UPDATE [Author: Lum the Mad]

We just recieved word that Ultima Online’s Manager of Community Services, Susan “Leilo” Kath, has given notice that at the end of this week she will be resigning to join the Destination Games team. No replacement has been named as of yet. Good luck to Leilo and her future

PLAYING TO CRUSH [Author: Lum the Mad]

Seemingly every massively multiplayer game arriving on the market now has some element of player vs. player combat (PvP) involved. In fact, I\’e2\’80\’99m at a loss to think of a major game due on the market which doesn\’e2\’80\’99t involve players beating other players on