Em Stock and Jonathan Long
friday, april 26, 2002
The widely popular Em Stock has joined City of Heroes publisher NCSoft, makers of the foreign MMORPG, Lineage. She will be working community on City of Heroes out of the Cryptic Studios in Santa Clara. Jonathan Long, well known for his work on MCO, will join Nexon, makers of Shattered Galaxy, in Santa Clara.

The CPL on ESPN
thursday, april 25, 2002
ESPN confirmed today that the CPL will be included in the show "Outside the Lines Primetime" which will examine a few aspects of gaming. An ESPN crew filmed the finals of the CPL's World Championship Event (December 2001) and interviewed several members of the CPL staff and a number of competitors. Although this doesn't make them a sport like Magic: The Gathering (which a tournament was already shown on ESPN2), it's another step to officially calling Video Games a Sport. The show will air: ESPN - Thu., May 16 at 7 p.m. ET
ESPN - Fri., May 17 at 4 a.m. ET ESPN - Mon., May 20 at 2 p.m. ET
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Xbox Creator Gone
tuesday, april 23, 2002
Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of Microsoft's Xbox and one of the company's most prominent spokesmen for the game machine, has resigned from Microsoft, a company spokesman confirmed Monday. This announcement comes just after Xbox announces 500,000 short of sales forecast and European price cuts. Full Story.

Infogrames Shuts Down AtariLabs
friday, april 19, 2002
It was just over a year ago, that Infogrames sent the infamous letter to atarilabs.com requesting that the "cybersquatting" webmaster turn over the Domain Name. Infogrames actually backed down once they realized it was a legitimate website once world reknowned for it's retro gaming information. Infogrames has now pulled the plug on the AtariLabs group and can safely say that they don't need the Domain anymore. In related news, Andre Salcedo left SOE yesterday.
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Theresa Bottenhorn/Neemer V. Reunion
thursday, april 18, 2002
In what may be the first and only time, Konami's Theresa Bottenhorn and Neemer Velasques of Immersion invite you to the reunion of the minds. They will be hosting the short but sweet happy hour starting at 7pm on Friday, 4/19/2002 at City Pub in Redwood City. Do not forget to be there. Special guest stars including Julius Willis who will be in town for Joe Saxe's Open Studio weekend may make an appearance and Leslie Chen. Here's your chance to redeem yourself for not seeing Theresa Bottenhorn since she returned to No. Cal last year. Post Comments Here.

City Pub
2620 Broadway St
Redwood City, CA
94063
Friday, 4/19 @ 7pm

Minkz Ngo Joins Maxis
wednesday, april 17, 2002
Ever wonder where that punk, Minkz went? People ask us everday about Minkz Ngo and his whereabouts. They usually don't ask about him by Minkz or theminkz.com, they usually use one of his many names including Sterling or Frank Poncherello. Well, let me just tell everyone right now. Minkz Ngo is now working at Maxis.
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E3 Lineup Announced from gamersmark.com
tuesday, april 16, 2002
The titles to be shown at this Year's E3 in Los Angeles are released. -BAM! Entertainment-Chase (Xbox)Ecks vs. Sever (PS2) Fire Pro Wrestling 2 (GBA)
Reign of Fire (PS2, Xbox) Riding Spirits (PS2) Way of the Samurai (PS2)-CDV-Breed. Click here to see entire list.

Maria Hernandez Sighting?
monday, april 15, 2002
New rumors are spreading about the whereabouts of Maria Hernandez. Many people remember that she was expected to stay in Japan for one year. However, new sources reveal that she will be moving to Los Angeles to work with Tina Kowaleski on the much anticapated G4 Network which is a fully dedicated Video Game Network (similar to courttv, except with Video Games). Click Here to read CNN's story on G4.
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3DO Lay-Offs of Might and Magic by Various
friday, april 12, 2002
It's been ages since the original 3DO system came out and planned to take over the video game market with it's slick digital images that Jeff Rotter and K.Lee would personally try to sell you. In the last 12 months, we have seen 3 lay-offs from 3DO, including the lay-offs yesterday. Rumors are flying and claims that 1/2 of the Might and Magic team has been let go. Other rumors insist that 3DO's entire European office has also been cut.

Krazy Ivan "Koogy" Birthday Cancelled
thursday, april 11, 2002
Many of you know the Krazy Ivan "Koogy" Kougenki of Sony Fame. You may not know that hisbirthday is this Saturday, April 13. Neil Musser went through the trouble of setting up his birthday bash but Ivan, showing no concern for Neil's feelings, forced Neil to cancel the birthday festivities because Ivan would rather go skiing.
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Off Topic: I had a problem with my mouse when I was playing CS this weekend. So I called techsupport and left a message, but they never called back. Listen to my call here and let me know if you can help me. Thanks!

Xbox down, GameCubed sales from gamersmark.com
wednesday, april 10, 2002
For the month of March PS2 again came out as the leader in the home console market. The PS2 continues to sell in strong numbers selling 65,000 units in March. Coming in second in the home console market is Nintendo's tiny console the Nintendo GameCube with sales risen above 32,000 units to beat out Microsoft's Xbox by only a mere 4,000 units. This is the first time since launch that the GameCube have surpassed Microsoft's console in sales . Market analysts have already begun speculation that the reason for the Xbox's sales decline are the result of the poor European and Japanese launches but this seems highly unlikely...Nintendo's GameBoy ADVANCE sales increased from the month of February to once again pull off incredible numbers. The AGB pummeled its big brother by a 4:1 ratio with a massive 116,000 thousand units.
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Mark Lowe is Ready for Action
sunday, april 7, 2002
No longer tied to any contracts or those nagging obligations (Except to Gamelord.org), Mark Lowe is a free agent with all of the talent you need. However, he's not ready to go back to work full time so you'll only be able to contract him for his valuable programming skills. Now that Mark Lowe is dedicating his time to the home life and the award winning Stimulus.com, Mark Lowe is now ready for his EXCLUSIVE interview with gamelord.org which will be featured here in two weeks. Submit your questions here before it's too late.
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David Lee and Mike Benton
friday, april 5, 2002
The search is official over. David Lee is no longer looking for a roommate. David Lee and Mike Benton will be moving into the same apartment building as Jeff Ng and Alben Pedroso. It's too bad they left the famous Julius Willis apartment.
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Maria Hernandez turns Japanese
thursday, april 4, 2002
In what appears to be a very Maria Hernandez-type move, Maria Hernandez is leaving her duties at SCEA and will be joining the much overpacked area known as Japan. Her travels will only span over a year. Many details were left out because i don't have the full story yet. Maybe someone can send me the details. As we say in Nihongo, "So long, sucker." TaruTaru-san, benjo wa arimasu ka? you can also send me a newer picture, mines' old. Post a comment here.

Erik Zwerling on GDC 2002
wednesday, april 3, 2002
In what appears to be Gamelord.org's best feature story ever, Erik Zwerling writes about his first GDC experience. This can be found in the Features section. "I had been looking forward to my first visit to the Game Developer's Conference for the past few months. While I couldnot afford to buy a pass to attend all the conference sessions and workshops, I was excited about being able to walk the exhibit floor and attending some of the free lectures that were included with the purchase of an Expo Pass.click here for more....
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Laura Naviaux and Chris Sturr Engaged
tuesday, april 2, 2002
Eat your heart out suckers, this ain't no April Fools joke. Laura Naviaux and Chris "Sturrgeon" Sturr are engaged to be married. Sturr popped the question on Saturday morning, a thousand feet over Napa Valley in a hot air balloon. Laura was completely surprised and had no idea this was coming.
From Laura, Thanks to our friend Bob Johnson I thought we were taking a holiday train ride through the vineyards. I guess I should have seen all the hints - the lack of a train station, the large balloon at the entrance, the trucks pulling out the equipment and the fact that my mom insisted on painting my nails at 10pm the night before. Anyway, to make a long story short, it was a complete fairytale day, even though the shock of the question kept me from saying yes until I had the ring on and Sturr had been on his knee for what seemed like an eternity. Post Comments here.

More news this week, including David Lee's new roommate and Eric Zwerling's review of the GDC.

David Gray Leaves EA
friday, april 1, 2002
Yesterday, David Gray - Not the Singer - celebrated his last day as an EA employee. In his fairwell address, he says to his onlookers, "Do not grieve. Soon... I shall be one with the Matrix - The Matrix of Power and Lighting." Gray refers to Pacific Coast Power and Lighting where he is joining long time friend, Kim Rogers. David Gray is best known for his work at Sega and his friendship with Kim Rogers. He is also known for his recent work on Battletech. He ends his fairwell address with, "Now all I need is a little energon and a lot of luck." Uh, Dave, those are Mechs or Mechwarriors, not Autobots. Thanks.