EA GAMES – Ultima Online Samurai Empire … If there’s ninjas, consider me SOLD. And what is it with the monks, ninjas, teras kasi, martial artist classes in games?
They’re so goddamn universally appealing, and I can’t figure out why, other than I must want to flip out on people. IRL!!1!!11!!!
Scott Jennings, the once and former Lum the Mad, finished porting over the old Lum archives to his shiny, happy blog. You can go relive the Golden Age (hey, not my words, some guy’s comments on that permalink) of ancient arguments and dirty deals.
John Smedly, my favorite president of a large nexus of evil, denied the rumored impending divorce of SOE and LucasArts:
Not sure where that rumor got started about LucasArts / SOE. It’s absolutely untrue. Tin-foil hats are in order.
John Smedley
President, Sony Online Entertainment
So, more accurately, the story is: LucasArts and SOE should part ways before that bloated bitch of a game sinks them both.