Definitely not "sprites" or "text-based crap".

Much closer to the latter. I didn't start "playing" social games/zyngaware until I got involved with Blackbird over a year ago. It's not a "Zynga" style game.

Fair enough! So many good games to spend time on. It's pretty well a smorgasbord now a days.

Social, free to play, etc etc... buzzwords that just mean "you grace us with your money if you really like the product".

Blackbird has eyes on multiple platforms. PC up first, probably IOS/Android after that, and consoles after that.

Anyone interested in knowing more? Read this article: [gamasutra.com]

(Disclosure: I "work" at Blackbird).

These ARE the guys from Relic (some of them anyway).

Josh is now down at Blizzard.

Homeworld was too complex for the average gamer, that's why it never really took off commercially. Homeworld 2 was more accessible, but even then...

Assuming the other account isn't being used, just register a new account with that key, it'll transfer the key to your account.

The lead designer on CoH (Josh Mosqueira) was Canadian infantry.

They killed it early last year shortly after the dead designer died in a car crash (not because of him dying of course). THQ didn't think it was going to make them any money, when they'd not even really started to market it.

Luke, you see this? [starshiptroopers.tumblr.com]

Did anyone notice that the tased person was wielding some kind of object that the fellow in the white shirt was defending himself from? The officer is approaching the situation and at 18 seconds the target was just swinging away at the fellow in the white shirt. At 19.5ish seconds, the guy in the white shirt disarms…

There's a lot more to the situation than "he was coming to canada to see his mom..."

Fire rearward missile.

Company of Heroes Online. It's Relic's Company of Heroes (entire single player campaign) for Free, with multiplayer beefed up with new features.

Here's a great video explaining the jump process (Canadian version, but very close to the US drills).