You have my condolences. But upside: lots of wine in Italy!

HOOO, boy. Perillo Tours, here we come!

Remember Nintendo Power?

Yes, that one!

Abortion Jones.

Avoid SEPTA. Tourists are fine for the most part.

No I mean that’s great and all but none of those companies, and I mean NONE OF THEM magnified value by thousands of percentage points year after year. BC had points where a small investment could have been cashed out a year later for a small fortune. Even in the case of Google, all of BC’s gains have come 10x as fast.…

You’re not giving Kirby Dream Course enough credit, it’s a great game.

One final note, though - one long-term option for companies to to start expanding into cheaper cost-of-living areas. If you want your game company to be in San Francisco or Los Angeles or New York or Seattle or Austin, you probably have to be paying $60k/year to your juniors - we’ve all read the articles on the…

1. The $10k/month figure is an estimation based on a *competent* team. Your inefficient or badly managed teams will be running at a multiple of that, and they almost always end up failing to recoup costs. Of course it happens a lot, and everyone has a story - check out Penny Arcade’s Tales From The Trenches some…

I don’t think there’s any way to bring the $10,000/person/month number down. If anything, that’ll just get higher over time, to account for inflation and cost of living. Cutting team sizes seems like a more reasonable option. Do video game productions really need thousands of people? At what point do companies give up…

Whaaat is going on in Bucks County? First this and then that young guy who killed 4 of his friends?

Someone else remembers Virtual Springfield? Sweet! Best part about that game was being able to play Super Slugfest and Larry the Looter in the Kwik-E-Mart

“Reminder: Crazy Taxi Is Still A Thing And It’s Still Amazing”

Yeah, but at least the White Working Class (PBUT) has had their Economic Anxiety alleviated.

How coincidental, Triple H will be our bond rating after the Trump Presidency.

Wooooo! Thats me up there as the Samurai Vader. There were so many great costumes this year.