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  redhead is fine. the rest of them look like tools. : rtrson
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    who is she? : mnok
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      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Case : Deathlove
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        It's amazing how many jobs she has bounced between since her Romero days, without doing anything of subst... : fishbone
        • pics of her: http://www.google.com/images?rlz=1C1_____enUS395US395&q=stevie+case&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&... : yaystuff
    • Killcreek? She posed for playboy. : thekidd
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  cliffy B probably still dresses like that : manero
  • haha, literally the words I was typing. : Deathlove
  • The guy in Grandma's Boy was totally based on him wasn't it? : zakazi
  • Those clothes look very Matrix inspired. : EnderWigginDA
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  Stevie case. Hot shit. : Sgt_Boomstick
  • Was. Not anymore. : Ender.Wiggin
  • Her boob is shaped like a triangle : Sailor of Fortune
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  http://scans.roushimsx.com/PCGamer_2000_11_pg078.jpg sims online? lol? : Kombit
  • and how douchy does that picture make them look. you have 4 people still dressed for a shoot and the rest... : zakazi
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  Wait, gears of war started development in 2000? : boomstickah
  • Back then it was a project called "Unreal Warfare", which was the major engine version after Unreal Tourn... : the archvile
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  Front page. First guy is barely a force in gaming, Killcreek is pretty well gone, Alex hasn't been releva... : Fred Garvin
  • not everyone can be Ken Levine or Robin Walker :( Also, I had no idea just how young the dudes from Bi... : roushimsx
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    American McGee has a lot of shit with his name on it, does that mean he's a NEXT GAME GOD? : azuvatar
    • aside from Alice and Doom levels, what is "a lot of shit" : RikiTiki2
    • he went from doing doom levels and phone support to working on Quake and then splitting off to helm devel... : roushimsx
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    Alex Garden could have been a "game god" if he stayed in the industry. I don't get why he left anyway. ... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
    • In February 2005, he founded the company iVALET Systems Inc. to develop an advanced parking system. http... : the archvile
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  i remember that issue : flasher 907
  • Me too, I wonder if I still have it at my parents place. : melkore
• lol cliffy $$$ : devpaul
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  Amazing to read them talk about the industry back then, so much has changed. : freakynipples69
  • big lols at all the quotes regarding console gaming from Cliffy. : freakynipples69
  • Oh man... I remember this issue too. Thanks for making me feel old. : snot3353
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  Easily one of the dorkiest magazine articles ever done. : Godhatesfatpeople
  • Remember the cards that came with this issue? : Godhatesfatpeople
  • I remember back when this was released, gamers were panning it for how ridiculously overhyped it was. : the archvile
• God that reminded me of how long we waited for TF2. It was damn worth the way though. : SolveChrist
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  "I find it very disturbing going from the PC to the console and to have to be Sony's bitch; to have to ha : the archvile
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    rofl : Godhatesfatpeople
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      "I'm sorry, but I don't want a game that takes 30 hours to play. You all may hate me, but I would like t : the archvile
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        lol : Godhatesfatpeople
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          "I don't know if it's the users being spoiled, but [people loved] this level of customizability in Unreal Tournament. And for our next project, I actually would like to have a lot less of it. When I go to play Tournament online, I want to play just a regular deathmatch game, but there's so many servers set up with so many different configs, I had a hell of a time finding a normal game." -- Cliff Bleszinski, PC Gamer, November 2000, page 88
          
          Almost nine years later, Infinity Ward fulfilled that wish. Thanks a lot, Cliffy.
          
          But seriously, they did release UT2003 with mods and mutators, and a lot of servers were lowgrav and/or instagib, and the server browser didn't have a way to filter out servers running mutators. UT2004 made this a bit better (among other blemishes in UT2003), but then UT3 required the use of GameSpy ID and had a craptacular server browser. I'm mad at how the bad quality of the server browser was ignored, and developers like Epic and Infinity Ward seemed to whine about this, and either stopped making PC games, or ditched dedicated servers to clone XBox Live's matchmaking.

          Aug 31, 2010 6:46pm PDT
          "I don't know if it's the users being spoiled, but [people loved] this level of customizability in Unreal : the archvile
• haha I remember that one. : skinlab133
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  2000 doesn't seem that long ago but reading the article reminds me how much smaller the games industry wa... : EvilDolemite
  • yeah same here. : zakazi
• Those scans make me depressed : shirif
• Most awesome, Roushi. Your collection scans are great for nostalgia and info, contributing a lot to the c... : limpossible
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  Weird that Alex Garden is no longer in the gaming industry at all. But he did leave a big legacy. : Sailor of Fortune
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    According to his LinkedIn profile, he's the "General Manager, Xbox LIVE Customer Experience" at Microsoft... : the archvile
    • Hmm, last I heard he opened up a parking garage system developer. Good to hear but he went from a develop... : Sailor of Fortune
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  roushi I want to see the Sheng Long April Fools Hoax article from EGM! :( : PlanetPerfecto
  • I also want to see this. SF/\MK : Deathlove
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    I don't have that issue here. Might be able to pull it from storage in October. Did you check retromag... : roushimsx
    • thank you for the reminder re: retromags- I knew you'd mentioned it before but couldn't recall the name. ... : PlanetPerfecto
• lol, I remember Homeworld: Cataclysm! That was a fun game. : Vividvoid
• Omfg, I remember that article!!! : paulatreus
• Impossible Creatures was so fun. : Cliffzorz
• Great article. Thanks for these, I love these scan posts of yours. : zyklonbee
• This very issue is sitting somewhere in my parents' attic. : Trips
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  Do you have the original game gods article? : EvilDolemite
  • I actually have that one. PC GAMER, SEPTEMBER 1999, VOL6, NO9. I tell you what I DON'T have, a work... : X-GOUKI
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    I'll try to get that up tomorrow. Was going to post it first but...yea...I suck. here's the cover http... : roushimsx
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      roushi, how many old mags do u have man? I only kept a few I managed to save over the years from both m... : X-GOUKI
      • a couple hundred? A bunch of stuff got flood damaged but thanks to kind peeps on the shack and occasional... : roushimsx
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      11 Years Later http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/t-FgiUuwv950QZhk5g5b-qGRrhKLk7B48g-lXMMjeyE?feat=dir... : EricZBA
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        I'm not a huge fan of Lord British's output, but I'm fucking fascinated with him as a person. He's just s... : roushimsx
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          I mean, the motherfucker went to SPACE. And he touched me at QuakeCon.. Have any of you been touched by s : EricZBA
          • I chatted with him and made him go to space to escape me. (Ultima V days - back when they demo'd/tested i... : AxeMan808
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      That makes me really miss PC gaming during the 90s, oh well. PC gamer should do a 2010 version of that, ... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
      • Minecraft dude : Crabs Jarrard
    • now those are some fucking game gods : EvilDolemite
    • That magazine article drove Bruce Carver insane. I was in a meeting with him where six months before r... : RomSteady
• lol i remember this - so that chick did a playboy shoot...? : bolneze
• Team fortress 2. . .? : goatjc
• Holy shit I can't wait for 2001 :O : dognose
• man I remember I used to have that same issue, so long ago. haha thanks for the scans man : X-GOUKI
• I still that issue around, because I told myself there was no way I was going to let stevie case do bette... : sammyl
• I don't really think that anyone involved in the games industry (especially Cliffy B) can really be used ... : Vantage
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  hey, i used to have the same haircut as Ken Levine! : CecilPhilpot
  • so did i, but I was a little bit younger and it was ~5 years earlier. also, i never looked quite as emo a... : roushimsx
• +INF, dude. I remember that article. Funny to see all that with the benefit of hindsight. : funnynamehere
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  Too bad all but Walker have abandoned PC gaming completely. : herradura99
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    What do you mean by "abandoned completely", Unreal and Bioshock still come out on PC. Alice: Madness Ret... : aethyr
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      Aethyr you can only make games for consoles or PCs, haven't you heard? : sammyl
      • No one wants to play shitty ports on their PC sammyl, they want to play PC games on their PC. : SpaecKow
    • Okay, you're right. They develop games primarily for consoles then have some other studio make (usually)... : herradura99
• really interesting, i still remember the fuss about how young Alex Garden was when Homeworld came out...i... : CecilPhilpot
• Huh. I actually think I read this issue. : The Grolar Bear
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  I still remember the PCXL cover with stevie case on it. Hot stuff : Cheeziologist
  • I know for sure that I don't have any of my issues of PCXL anymore... I dug around last time I was home a... : roushimsx
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  1/4, not bad. : SockMonkeh
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    CliffB, Ken Levine, Robin Walker, Ray Muzyka, and Greg Zeschuk are all still active and kicking out solid... : roushimsx
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      American McGee may have a distinctive vision, but his hope is to move game development to more of a studi... : RomSteady
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        What do you mean by studio model? Do you mean in the old Hollywood sense cause I'd say you have that now.... : SpaecKow
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          More a collection of companies brought together for an individual project. Spicy Horse is a great expe... : RomSteady
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            Ahh I see, yeah so you mean "studio" in the classical sense. Yeah it's interesting what he's doing. I won... : SpaecKow
            • Grimm and to a limited extent Bad Day L.A. were attempts at proving and refining the model. : RomSteady
    • Oh, I only looked at the cover. I didn't realize they had more than those four! : SockMonkeh
• LOL game developers are always 5 years behind so they all had 1995 haircuts : spiderfill