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Yup. Spent last 3 years as a producer at Sony.

PC games are much easier and cheaper to dev than console games. Console game development requires substantial investment in tools, technology and hardware, so it is not the easier route by any means. You can't dev a console game anyway without the approval of the console manufacturer. BTW...

You know, in all of this hypothesizing about Ballerium, no one really knows what deal was actually done. If I had to guess, no cash ever changed hands (unless it was some minor amount like $10,000). No way in hell was it $500,000 (or more). Interplay hasn't had that kind of free cash on hand...

Hey! I've got more cash than Interplay!! Woo hoo! I also don't have numerous federal, state, local, private business, and ex-employee organizations after my ass. Pretty sad when I think my personal financial situation is much better than an entire company's.

David, we know too much about you.... http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/member.php?userid=4505 http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/5130/nwnsx.htm http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/5130/cpk2.htm From June 28th, 2000... PRE David Allen finding sucker investors to bail out...

OMG say it isn't so... Artifact Entertainment - the company founded by David Allen the biggest lying piece of crap in the games industry (worse even than Herve if you can believe it). Artifact Entertainment - the company that almost went bankrupt about 500 billion times until David Allen...

Ignorance is its own reward. So glad you are all-seeing and all-knowing. Perhaps you'd like to comment on something else you know nothing about?

You're ignoring things like how much equity he had in a public company, his fiduciary responsibility as a company director, anti-compete covenants, or employment contracts. Phil wasn't in the same class as a Feargus (a senior manager whatever title he liked to give himself). You make it sound...

You have to consider where he was coming from. If you look at the public statements you can see that he had much/most of his money sunk into IPLY. He didn't come from a rich banking family like B. Fargo. When IPLY went public he was actually worth a fair amount of money. Over the last 6...

For you hard core PC game trivia fans out there... Phil Adam was actually one of the founders of Spectrum Holobyte. One of the coolest games of all time; X-Com!

By the way - Brian "Pip Boy" Menze is still at Obsidian, so there is hope...

I was enjoying it until I hit: In 2003, Interplay began development of project “Van Buren,” which was the “secret” name for Fallout 3. In December of 2003, however, Interplay shut down its Black Isle Studios division, essentially killing the development of “Van Buren.” Although the studio no...

Well, since they went public Fargo never had a profitable quarter, nor did he have a single quarter with positive cash flow - at least not until long after Caen came onboard and Phil A started dismantling the company wholesale to the highest bidder. Of the many bad moves Fargo made (not the...

You have a very good point. These games were released during the days of (1) RPGs are dead and (2) M-rated games have no audience. Baldur's Gate changed the first (which has also been reinforced by other successful RPG's including online ones), and GTA3 clearly changed the second (just to...

Whoa there, Mr. Buffett :) Two years after release, Fallout 1 had sold 130,000 copies in the U.S. TOTAL. Fallout 2 sold less (I seem to recall 80,000 units in the first year). Neither game was released on a second platform. Neither game had substantial international distribution - anyone...

Who paid what? So far as I can tell, the only money on the table is $1.175 million, which doesn't even begin to cover IPLY's current liabilities. Then there are the TERMS of that $1.175 million - there is a good chance they didn't just cut a check; if I were Bethesda I would have made all...

The only secret I am interested in is this: IPLY stock owned by insiders 76.9% IPLY stock owned by Herve Caen 71.5% Current assets (as of March, 04): $4.5 million Current debt (as of March, 04): $18.0 million Net current debt: $13.5 million Too bad we can't go after Herve and ask him...

They've gotten the boot already in all ways that matter: 1) No self-respecting Publisher will deal with them (don't ask me to explain their Fallout3 deal...) 2) No self-respecting Developer will deal with them 3) No self-respecting Employee will deal with them 4) No self-respecting...

Man some of this Euro humor is tough to figure out... A plane is flying from the US to Europe and is in the middle of the Atlantic ocean when suddenly one of the two engines dies. The pilot gets on the PA and says that they might just be able to make it to land if three passengers...