wednesday, july 26, 2000
Are you a Sega employee or a Former Employee?
Friday, August 18, 2000
Marvin Gardens
1160 Old County Road Belmont, CA 94002 (South of Ralston) (650) 592-6154
6:00pm - 10:00pm
An opportunity for former and present Sega Employees to meet for drinks at an establishment once frequented by Sega Employees. If you are free the evening of August 18th, come on down to Marvin Gardens. You never know who will be there. According to Chip, the owner of Marvin Gardens, Fridays are pretty busy. But he will put some tables together for Sega and he misses the Sega crowd. NOTE · This is not a corporate sponsored event. · There is no guarantee how many people will attend. · This is not a company organized or planned event. · Attendees are responsible for purchasing their own food and beverages · There is no main contact to RSVP or Host to coordinate with.

tuesday, july 25, 2000
Tidbits from South
01 steve thompson has a girlfriend who really likes him. he met her in vegas. they went out the next day in los angeles. he told her he loved her the day after that. that's all i know. 02 "Julius is planning a big surprise for Willie...

thursday, july 20, 2000
Julius Willis Reviews X-Men the Movie
I've X-amined the X-men movie about three times now and feel I can give it an unbiased review. There were bad parts about the movie but all in all, it was entertaining and will probably spawn a sequel. To illustrate my review, here is a top ten format for my findings. (there are some "spoilers" in this review so if you haven't watched the movie yet, you may not want to read this) The Top Ten Reasons Why I Liked the X-men Movie...

10 Hugh Jackman does a great gob as a rough and tough, wise-cracking Canadian mutie looking for his forgotten past. His introduction, uncomfortable due to shirtlessness, was to the point and enjoyable... Wolverine gets better as the movie rolls. Definitely gets the award for "best lines". Unlike the part of Storm, Wolverine was alive and eXpressive; ready for and wanting a fight. Good job, Jackman. (salute)

09 The special effects were done well. Cyclops seems less wimpy and anal when we see him tear through ceilings, steel doors, and green, suffocating goo. Girls and gays may consider him cute, but i don't that much. (that last comment had nothing to do with special effects, but there it is) There was good jelly fish effects. Weather effects. Magnetic power effects. There's cool, i-wish-i-had-that white and yellow eyes effects. There high jumping hoo ha and morphing effects. Now, there was also a bad mutant radiation going on around a spinning mini-"Contact" reminding looking thing effect, but it's almost forgivable because it led to an always appreciated weary-old-man effect. Then there's a creepy stalkish ice-sculpting as a gift effect, but!!! as an effect it was nice.

08 The X-men reparte was nice. It's not up there with "Pulp fiction" or "My dinner with Andre", but it made the characters less stiff than in the comicbooks. Nobody said "dolt" or laughed deep and hard and long... um... and it felt like there were tangible relationships between the characters... except for Storm, who had no soul. Yoda watched it and said, "No wrinkles leads to no facial eXpressions. No facial eXpressions leads to no acting. No acting turns to review anger. Review anger turns to review hate..." and so on. The eXtras in the movie were lacking in development. Even as an eXtra, a New York City policeman would know how to move a little out of the suspended bullet's way instead of whimpering. That was as silly as not having one or all of them skidaddle in fright. Not even a billy club was thrown. Another detail overlook was the lack of caterers and news crews at the U.N. summit on Ellis Island.

07 Patrick Stewart. Patrick Stewart can go into any movie as himself and it would be an accepted and loved appearance. There should be a Patrick_Stewart_Cam site on the net. I'll name all my kids Patrick Stewart. Pat, stew, rick, art, straw, warts, wet, trick, crate, wait, raw, cries, and trap are some of the words you can make from the name "Patrick Stewart". No movie should be made without Mr. Stewart from now on.

06 Anna Paquin is a cutie Brit who plays a mutie southerner and that's seXy on top of seXy with a side of seXy... to use one of Devlin's apraisals. Milk and cookies that chickeedee. Plus, you can't touch her!?! Yow!!! SeXy rating: Double Joy Plus.

05 People floating. Storm and Magneto did most of the floating scenes. The act of floating has something inherently sophisticated about it. There's walking on all fours, there's walking like Kate Moss, then there's floating into a room. It's the next step in travel, no pun intended. Aslo, anger seems magnified when lensed over with floating, i notice. If i saw anyone floating around in the building, i would applaud nervously and leave. Floating should be in all movies.

04 Rebecca ecca ecca Romjin omjin omjin Stamos amos amos is is is cool ool ool. The attitude of a stripper, the attributes of a capcom fighter, and the virtual closet of a shape shifter. Yum. The perfect escort. She has a cat walk and diplomacy skills. Forget that college degree, do your folks proud and take her home to meet them. If she hisses like a Klingon, she's a keeper.

03 The fight scenes. They were for the most part good. There's fast kung fu like action. There's brawls. There's gorwling and snarling and sniffing and tonguing. There's tree snapping. There's quartz beams. There are lightning and taking-over-your-body attacks. Car lifting and car dropping. Then there's an oops, bad dream attack. And, there is even chess moves. But there should've been more fighting and less effects. Logan should've been pummelled by Mystique and Sabretooth... or at least he should've engaged with Sabretooth for a lengthier more brutal time. Jean Grey should've done more, too. She can create force fields, attack psionically, and connect all X-men thoughts like AT&T on steroids. Then there's Storm's too little-too late fits of anger. Anti-climactic when all her goddess power focuses on Toad... not Magneto. No snowstorms. No indoor clouds. No Twisters. It took the Deathstar in Star Wars less time to power up than it did for her to damage federal property. Carrie would've kicked her ass. Get Phoenix and Storm outta there and let's see Carrie on a bad trip lay waste to The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. One more thing about X-men fighting... first few rounds they lose, then they use team work and win big. They either switch enemies with Cyclops, always aware of the big picture, calling the shots, and Ororo as back up leader with strategy suggestions. The team work should've had the feel of a fastbreak; the ball with the X-men. Come on, Singer, read the comic.

02 The art of the movie. Cinematography and direction of what is there is good. Aside from the story, effects and action, it's a pretty view. From the monochromatic scenes of Poland to the colorful scenes in Xavier's school, the moving camera doesn't fail to go where you'd want it to look. Nice job for a guy who doesn't read comic books. ...and the number 1 reason why i liked the X-men movie...

01 The X-men movie is about super heroes.

tuesday, july 18, 2000
Ron Allen and his Viper
Pictures of Ron Allen's Viper can be found at the magnificent website called cornfish.com. It's been a long time in the making and many people hoped that he would pick the viper over the corvette. After all, what's a few bucks to this guy? What is most confusing is the color it is since we know he works for darren. Check out his site for more pictures.

friday, july 14, 2000
Ladies and Gentlemen.... Laura Ford
Many of you wonder what the impressive Laura Ford is doing now. thegamelord.com apologizes for being late with this update on the one of the fastest movers and shakers is doing. In early April, Laura took a job in 3rd party of SCEA as the Account Management Assistant. She crossed the massive Safeway parking lot and now sits within the corporate powerhouse that builds mini Playstations' that you can hang from your keychain. Laura has promised thegamelord.com an exclusive interview as this will be the first time she has been interview in any publication. We will work out the details and start fielding questions for this main event.

thursday, july 6, 2000
Quitting Time
Scott Morris says good bye last friday after work and Wilson says goodbye today and his last day is July 25th. Wilson, the lowest leg of the infamous Triad, has decided to join old friend Ramon Herrera, who never keeps in touch, at Digital Island. Matt Titelbaum of San Diego, the last of the Twisted Metal Programmers has left last week.

friday, june 30, 2000
Jo Party Exclusive
Ladies & Gentlemen, Summer Time is here! Many things have changed. People leaving, and People moving on to better things and better places. It is about that time again for another gathering. I have decided to change the usual meeting place to change accordingly to people's lifestyle changes. Yes, it is still in Palo Alto (I doubt that will ever change), but this I am sure you will agree, it's called "CIRCADIA" a two-story bar, and Café (Due to the fact that it is owned by Starbucks), and yes there is no age discrimination in this place. So here is the itinerary for the evening: DATE: The 15th of JULY TIME & PLACE: 7:30 PM @ CIRCADIA: 518 Bryant Street, Palo Alto, Ca, 94306 PH# 650-327-8954 (Note: The restaurant/Cafe is located right behind City Bank on Ramon Avenue (Nearest Restaurant is Nola's). TIME & PLACE: 9:30 PM @ Buca di Beppo - 643 Emerson Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 (650) 329-0665 Thank you, JO.

William Wat Leaves for Verant
In what seems to be an amazing turn of events, Willie Wat, roommate of Julius Willis is leaving SCEA to join the crew at Verant. Inside sources say that it has something to do with Birgit and Julius revival.

tuesday, june 27, 2000
']['ransformers Fan WallPaper from Devlin Jones
Devlin Jones has come through again! Twice in a week! If you are one of the fans of the Transformers, we have the new Wallpaper from the NEW Transformers being shown in Japan. Devlin has also promised to do his review on this show soon. Stay tuned for this featured review and download these wallpapers now! 1 2 We are also waiting for Constipated Lover to write the full Beast Machines story for this site, so if you see him, let him know we are waiting.

monday, june 26, 2000
Julius "The Thespian" Willis III in Murder at Center Stage
One of our great editors at thegamelord.com , Devlin Jones, has done the world a favor by writing a review and sending movies to us of the great Julius Acting Debut. thegamelord.com thanks Devlin Jones for the great contribution. This is new addition to our Reviews section and if you want to see the great Movies and read the reviews, click here.

friday, june 23, 2000
Do you own a Geforce?
A new update of the Geforce Tweak Utility is out, it's now version Beta 5.2.2 This nifty program works with the NVIDIA detonator 5.xx drivers only. the Geforce Tweak Utility allows you to make a lot of modifications to the registry settings of your Geforce. All registry mods work. The only thing that doesn't work at this time is changing the core/mem clocks. That's why you can't change these clock settings and the util still is beta. If you can help the author with this problem then e-mail him. New in this version · Added option to download Detonator drivers ver. 5.30 · Link added towards the authors page. http://guru3d.com/geforcetweakutility/

thursday, june 22, 2000
7bits Clan Page is now in Business!
Check out the Clan page that Sterling built and see the great members that this clan has recruited. The Keg and Foolius can be found here and you'll notice that the mighty Optimus has something to do with the whole thing. Click here to get to the 7bits Clan Web Page.

tuesday, june 20, 2000
Happy Birthday, Joe Hakik! from ashif hakik
First comes the surprise that thegamelord.com friend Ashif Hakik has a brother, but in a double sucker-punch we find out not only this, but that he is also part of our beloved industry at 3DO. Yes we have seen stranger things (take Julius Willis for example), yet it still is a surprise.

Joe Hakik celebrates his birthday June 20th.
Happy Birthday Joe.

sunday, june 18, 2000

Happy Birthday to the Good Son
Everyone knows the J. Willis SR. is often disappointed by one of his sons known as JR. However, what everyone doesn't know is that this disease does not run in the family. John, who's birthday is today, sunday, june 18, is shown above with his son Nicholas and his wife, Sheila Willis. If you only knew Julius, you would never believe there could be any relations between the 2 brothers. Anyways, Happy Birthday to John Willis from Julius Willis and thegamelord.com .

friday, june 16, 2000
Party Tomorrow at Christopher Keith's
so, a random saturday night is coming, and our neighbors are having a party, . . . so my roomies and i have decided to have an 'in addition to' party. i think that around 10ish might be a good time to let the festivities begin. we are hoping to have: some music, a few bottles of booze, a few snacks, and a good time. although none of these things are guaranteed, you'll have to bring your positive vibes and your party favors to make sure that things go as planned. rsvp if you like, don't come if you can, and if your wondering why you got this invite then please just ignore it. ck ps. for all of you sony guys, i will be seeing you soon, as i must pick up some things from the foster city head quarters. Christopher Keith - QA Analyst Acteva

thursday, june 15, 2000
Farewell then, SNK of America. from fgnonline.com
The Neo Geo Pocket Color is disappearing from shelves as we speak, but it's not as bad as it could be. The arcade arm remains intact, and we'll still get Capcom vs SNK... Apple Systems is the exclusive distributor of SNK's arcade systems in America, an arrangement which, according to GameFan, will be unaffected by SNK's U.S. pullout. "We've heard nothing that would affect us, and it wouldn't be common sense nor prudent business logic to halt any of our very successful arcade games," Tim Jackson, Director of Sales for Apple Systems told GameFan. Jackson also anticipates that half a dozen more titles will be released on the long-lived Neo Geo arcade hardware by the beginning of 2001. In addition you'll definitely be seeing Capcom vs SNK, as Capcom will be bringing that DC nugget to stores. Whether the publisher will also pick up licences for games such as Cool Cool Toon and King of Fighters, as some sites are hinting it will, is yet to be confirmed.

wednesday, june 14, 2000
Corrections
Mark Sherrod is an Associate Producer. Peter Clark has taken a VP job at Secret Level. Again, we wish him the best. And sources say that Perry Rodgers is a Senior Producer.

tuesday, june 13, 2000
Perry Rodgers Joins 3DO
Perry Rodgers (no relation to Kim Rogers) has taken a Producer spot at 3DO. He will report to Kelly Turner (Senior Producer) and works with Marc Sherrod (Assistant Producer). We wish him the best.

Alfonsus turns 27
Although he just a young punk to me, he has turned 27 today. More Alfonsus news is the official announcement from Arne that she will not leave Alfonsus even though his name is Alfonsus. All you boyz who were waiting for this to happen can now move on to other things. Apparently, Sonic was too quick for Arne.

monday, june 12, 2000
The Last of the Famous International Playboys
thegamelord.com is proud to announce the departure of Peter Clark from SCEA production. He is one of the last of the original AP's hired over 4 years ago in the beginning of SISA which turned into 989 Studios which turned itself back into SCEA. In his reign at Sony, he produced such titles as Medievil 2, Wild Arms 2, Speed Punks, Hot Shots Golf! 2, Tomba! 2, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? for PlayStation. Peter Clark is one of the only true friends of The Game Lord and is much respected by this website. Last Friday, Peter Clark, known to his friends as "Swee' PT" gave his 2 weeks notice. Although we believe he undersold himself and was worth at least a VP position, he has decided to leave SCEA to become Director of Production at Secret Level, Inc. Ami Blaire, Darren Yager, Misa Usui and Taku were not available for comment but we wish him the best of luck in the future and hopes that he stays in contact with us.

thursday, june 8, 2000
Barry "Baz" Pringle Buys the House
In the tradition of Joe Brisbois and his wife Megan, Baz, the developer of bazpringle.com, and his wife, Yen Pringle have bought the House. This is a spacious house in the Mission Elajo area and drop by unexpected because he likes that. Also, remember to tell Baz that Fight Club isn't a violent movie because Baz's wife, Yen loves the violent movies. Actually, Baz and Yen don't have much time for movies as they know the most important thing is to buy new curtains and other needed appliances.

wednesday, june 7, 2000
Birgit is moving in with Julius?
So how is Willie taking this? We want to know. And Julius had his acting debut so we're hoping to get a copy of videotape. Someone please do thegamelord.com and the public a huge favor by delivering the videotape to this website.

tuesday, june 6, 2000
TC Chang is Expecting
Monica is ready and they expect to have another baby in November. thegamelord.com is proud to announce the new arrival. TC Chang can afford all this because he nows runs Ping.net and they are looking for high position people as we speak. Email TC here if you have any leads for him.

sunday, june 4, 2000

Crystal Dynamics employees accept who they are!
102 Dalmations team member, Jon Guilford and Soul Reaver Designer Casto Vocal admit what everyone at Crystal knew all along! Congratulations!