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QFT. Seriously, Escapist. I'm wondering why I read you guys for news these days, since I need to parse it all to find the actual news.

Thanks!

Hey Allen, Fantastic article. Masks was the campaign-of-record for my college group, and we loved it. Do you have any plans to release the rest of the story on the creation of Masks? I know a lot of people who would really enjoy reading it.

A good bit late to this thread, but Andy - "this kind of housecleaning is commonplace at newly-acquired companies"? Laying off 50% of your devs? That's a bold claim with no backup; in my experience, you lay off half your developers and you'll do a great job of ripping out the soul of your company.

For people saying, "it's just another band game, there's no innovation" - sure, to us. But if you're on the Escapist, you're pretty much cutting Edge(tm) on games compared to 99% of the world. To a huge amount of the public, everything we do as game devs and gamers is brand new. And a...

HardRockSamurai - Members of the IGDA (like myself and Corvus) are calling for his removal - the IGDA as an organization is not - like if someone at Sony said they hate Microsoft, as opposed to it being a company statement. The Board, it seems, is caught in a tough spot. The unconfirmed...

The survey was put up by Corvus Elrod, who is in the IGDA and one of the chairs of the Writing SIG. His original blog post with the link is here: http://corvus.zakelro.com/2009/07/its-fun-to-stay-at-the-igda/ Scott

Interesting article, Michael. Thanks for doing it. One upside to digital distribution that you didn't address is that it helps lower the barrier to indies getting their games to an audience - the odds of your average (or even spectacular) indie getting on the shelves at GameStop or WalMart...

@BonsaiK - I don't think they're scum! Don't get me wrong - I think Epic is a highly successful company, and their corporate culture is part of that. But I also don't like what I see of their culture - from what I see portrayed by Capps, there's a real "we're rockstars and we crunch and sell...

What Capps says there is definitely true - but that wasn't the point of the whole blow-up in the first place... by the time this whole story made it to the websites, it had turned much more into Greg trashing on Capps, and about Epic being unfair. The actual start of this whole thing was when...