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I’ve been sick. I spent the past few days doing nothing besides watching cable news blearily. (That includes sleeping. As in, I haven’t been.) Apparently there is fighting in the Middle East. Who knew?

The latest from John Romero’s exercise in REAL ULTIMATE MMO POWER is this: Are you interested in joining our amazingly talented and highly motivated superstar game development team? Are you supercore enough to survive our hyperdimensional environment???!! It’s good to see that Romero has learned humility and the

Ran into this today, of interest to history nuts: “Operation Unthinkable“: a study by the British government of a possible option in response to Stalin’s imposition of a puppet Polish government. That option being invasion of the USSR.\’c2\~ This study was done in May of 1945, literally days

In Northern Virginia, I learned quickly to answer “programmer” whenever anyone asked what I did for a living. Any other answer only served to confuse them. Here in Austin, when I answer “game designer”, I get “Cool, do you know anyone at Company X?” in response.

TASS is authorized to announce that Matt Firor is no longer with EA Mythic. He headed up the development of DAOC as its producer through launch, first expansion, and thereafter. When I mention the good people that I left behind at Mythic, Firor was on that list. He was very

You know when you attend a meeting, and get a thick handout, and then the presenter proceeds to read you the handout? Yeah. I don’t like that very much.

This may well be the greatest game ever made. Keeping the universe oppressed, but at least free of non-Romanian, green and terrified mongrels. You know you’re in their world now from the very first sentence. Romanii In Spatiu, or Romanians In Space (everything is in Romanian, \tab\tab\