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  1. Rick Goodman On Building Empires

    Games · Pcgames · · posted by simoniker · from the one-brick-at-a-time dept. · 20 comments
    Thanks to Empires Heaven for their interview with Stainless Steel Studios' head Rick Goodman regarding the PC RTS title Empires: Dawn Of The Modern World. He discusses why the game will become a trilogy by using expansion packs ("One of the compromises I think you make in Civilization 3 is, to cover that [large of a] period of time, you can't cover any one period very in-depth"), and the circumstances that led to his split with Age Of Empires creators Ensemble Studios, which he co-founded ("Ensemble wanted to do their next game in a year, and I told them that I wasn't the kind of guy that could do a game in a year and I should probably go off and take whatever time I needed and let them take the time they needed.") He concludes by discussing the difficulties of development: "One thing you learn [in the industry] that most gamers don't understand: that game development is a series of compromises."

  2. Giant Meteor Hit Earth as Life Formed

    Science · Space · · posted by michael · from the kidnapped-mulder's-sister dept. · 10 comments
    BenGarvey writes "CNN.com cites a new study claiming huge meteors hit the Earth and Moon around the time that life formed, leaving two possible conclusions. That any existing life died out and had to start again, or the "panspermia" theory of life arriving on the meteors themselves."

  3. Multiplayer Game Cheating

    Games · Games · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the if-you-only-read-one-story-today dept. · 247 comments
    Washizu writes: "Ensemble Studios programmer Matt Pritchard, who worked on both Age of Empires, and Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings, has written an article for Gamasutra, the online game developer magazine, on multiplayer game cheating methods and prevention." A lot to say here about human nature. A lot of it applies to virtually any form of online human interaction: from games to, yes, even Slashdot's message boards. A very worthwhile read.