I'm a designer, currently working at Heavy Iron Studios in Los Angeles, CA.
I've been in the industry one way or another for about 15 years now, starting out as freelance media in high school and then "graduating" to development after college.
I plan to talk about what games I'm playing, if I'm liking them, and hopefully will be able to provide not-uninteresting insight as to why I feel the way I do.
If and when I become comfortable with this, I may expand into some meatier stuff... but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
The dude had a good thing going, with that whole media silence thing. After Microsoft's experience with him, I don't envy his next publisher's PR people - I can see the headlines already: Silicon Knights Announces , Gameplay Not Everything.
I don't have a problem with WoW or MMOs - I play a non-WoW MMO, even. Didn't intend for it to come off that way, at all - in fact, my last two games have used the very exclamation point convention you mentioned. If everyone is playing the the same ...
I, too, think this sounds like a fun game. I express this sentiment in a wholly unbiased way that, most assuredly, has nothing to do with either of our previous employ. ...Do you think we fooled 'em, DRod
Hmm. It's interesting to see PR people getting defensive, and asking the media to consider their point of view. Their entire job is to create a certain perception and disseminate information, and when the media doesn't buy into it, suddenly its the media's fault Welcome to meta-PR There are a ...
