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Human Head Offices Destroyed, Company Bands Together

Posted by Zonk on from the warning-games-may-be-flammable dept.

Yesterday, Gamasutra reported the sad news that the offices of Human Head studios were destroyed in a fire. Based out of Madison, Wisconsin, the indie developer recently signed up to do the next Mark Ecko game, riding high on their success with Prey from last year. Today, thankfully, Next Generation has the news that the company has survived more or less intact. "[Office Manager Carol] Smith said, 'I work with an incredible group of guys, and as soon as we got over the shock of oh my gosh, we had a fire--what if we lost data, what if we lost art? ...the next words out of everybody's mouths were, What can we do to help?' An update on Human Head's website confirmed that there were no injuries in the blaze that occurred at 2:30 a.m. on Friday and that the Prey developer 'suffered no significant data loss.'"

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  1. Grammar Police by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    [PET_PEEVE]
    Are they based OUT OF (meaning NOT IN; somewhere else), or are they based IN (meaning IN; not out of; i.e., not somewhere else) ??
    [/PET_PEEVE]

    1. Re:Grammar Police by 'nother+poster · · Score: 3, Informative

      They are based "OUT OF" Madison because they ship their frigging product OUT OF Madison to the rest of the world that is not IN Madison, got it Grammar Nitwit? It's a term that comes from the physical manufacturing and sales economy the U.S. used to have, and we have not yet seen fit to thow it upon the pyre of "not acceptable idioms".

      Not sure why that set me off so badly, but it did.

  2. Re:Strange... by falzbro · · Score: 3, Informative

    I live in Madison and I didn't heard anything about this.

    Madison's local news websites aren't the best. It was the historic Train Roundhouse building:

    http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/7118931.html
    http://wkow.madison.com/News/index.php?ID=10980

    Human Head simply rents space in that building, they moved there a little over a year ago.