Our man Brad put up a poll in the forum to find out where everybody is. We have no idea, and if we're going to plan where we're going to go based on where you are that's a piece of information we might want to acquaint ourselves with.

As you may have noticed we now have an ad for King of Route 66 up on the site. Sega has decided to do a sort of test campaign with us to see if we are worth working with on a larger scale in the future. The ad will probably only run for a few days. I don't know if they intentionally gave us the worst looking ad ever in order to stack the deck against us, but I do apologize for it's terrible quality. Assuming this ad of theirs performs well then hopefully they will come back to us in the future with other games and hopefully better ads. As for the game itself I don't know much about it. You can go back through the archives a few years and read how much I liked 18 wheeler. Route 66 is essentially a sequel to that title so I have no doubt that it will be enjoyable and probably brief.

I have been dying to know how FF X-2 turned out since it's Japan release, and Tokyopia's indispensable Chris Kohler has delivered a few scalding words. Of course, if you fear spoilers, you shouldn't be reading something like this.

Star Wars Galaxies, the massively multisomething offering from Verant and Lucasarts, has been delayed again. You might recall that it was to have a Holiday release, followed a year later by an expansion which would allow (among other things) player owned ships. I would prefer that they finish the game before releasing it, so perhaps it is all for the best.

I am like post crazy or something today. I apologize, it must be the cough medicine. Just a few quick things and then I will leave you alone for the rest of the day.

I just watched the MTV special on gamers and I thought it was really cool. Although I would have to say that Graig (is that how he spells his name?) the Golden Tee golf guy and the Pac Man dude were in the wrong show as they are most definitely not gamers.

Well I was gonna go to bed but I decided to read the forum. That is always a bad idea since I often give to much credit to the opinions of strangers. Anyway, I happened to see a thread about a young man making a CTS game. Check out his Sprite work!

Just a peek at what Club PA members will see this month:

The Amplitude demo is on OPM, not PSM. We actually run in OPM, so you'd think I could remember that. Jesus.

I often discuss intellectual property issues with our coder Ramius, and he mentioned that the hearings I mentioned in the main post are already online in transcript form here. I've mentioned this link before, if you are a Digital Liberty sort of person it is an invaluable resource.

The sixth and final page of Cardboard and Steel is up. This story encapsulates everything else we do with the CTS that is "narrative" in any way, with future installments named along "The Wandering Age: X" conventions. God only knows when we would do something like this again, or what form it would take - even though it was highly enjoyable for us, I doubt any return to the topic will be soon. We are dedicated adherents to "the path of least resistance," and this much extra work for a daily update is highly uncharacteristic of us. Although, if you just can't get enough of it (which seems inconceivable, but we live in a world of deep and enduring mystery), don't forget that the full color version goes out to Club Members this month along with the sixth page of Over Easy.

I have just learned that "Hilary" from IGN is a dude. I uh...apologize for the mistake. Junior high must have been a bitch huh buddy?

I haven't had much time for games lately which sucks because I am not nearly as far into Dark Cloud 2 as I would like to be. Obviously the positive side is I spent all that time working on the CTS mini series which I feel is probably my best work to date. I took some time off from the insane schedule I have been on this afternoon and I played some Kung Fu Chaos with Robert, a guy who used to be my friend. The fact that he is no longer my friend has nothing to do with Kung Fu Chaos and everything to do with Guilty Gear X2.

With cool unique content coming out for the PS2 and the GameCube, it's nice to know that those of us who adopted early will have something to show this Friday.

If you think Raging Blades (four-player, 3D hack and slash action) looks cool, and you have the hardware to play Japanese Imports, just try to find a copy of Raging Bless. That's what it's called over there, and the entire Goddamn game is in English to there's no reason to wait.

First of all, thank God Evil Avatar is back. Jesus Christ, I thought I was going to die.