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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
        • "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, even though there really aren't any PC specific gaming gods that I can think of.

      Aug 31, 2010 8:19pm PDT
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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