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On The Life Of A Game Guide Writer

Posted by simoniker on from the ay-ay-captain dept.

marcot writes "The Canadian National Post has a story on the life of a videogame guidebook writer. I can't work out if it's a dream job or torture." Michael Lummis, the writer in question, "has done about a dozen books for [BradyGames] in the last 18 months", but says that contact with the game's developers "...is finite. They're working 18-hour [days] just like we are." We've previously discussed the pluses and minuses of paper-based 'official' game guides.

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  1. C64 on your PS2 by incompetent_bitch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Saw this today as well, seemed appropriate to post. A VIC-20 emulator for your PS2. Unfortunately only runs in native PS2 environment (sorry Linux) but still pretty neat.

    http://ps2vic.sourceforge.net/