Japan knows how to keep people reading their news papers that’s for GODDAMN sure.

What’s a newspaper?

He probably planned on taking leave for only a month or so and realized during his time off that he no longer wanted to come back. Thus, decided to use all the remaining leave he had banked. Now the studio can officially consider him no longer part of the studio.

Wonder what caused him to leave. I imagine a game like GTA V was quite stressful to develop, so it’s not surprising that he took a sabbatical. Maybe during the sabbatical he figured he wants to do something other than games from now on. Well in any case, may he find joy in whatever he does going forward.

Cosplayers lead dramatic lives. Ratchet (of Ratchet and Clank fame) cosplayer and TAY contributor division-ten told me how she encountered the official PSX Ratchet cosplayer, and they had an intense staredown. “They waited for me to put on my mask,” she said. Evidently, though, the encounter ended peacefully.