I’m going on a mini vacation starting tomorrow afternoon.  Not much of a vacation really as I will be attending my son’s wedding in Oxnard California.  Me and the wife are going a week early to enjoy some of the finer things that Cali may have to offer.  During my trip, my old infantry partner, Patrick/Thunder has ok’d a small walk through over at Blizzard.  Hell, that might be the second best thing I do over there, especially if I can score a Diablo 3 t-shirt.

I finished all of the AI pits for the game and have moved on to some more graphic upgrades for the Unity upgrade patch.   You don’t know how happy I am to have those done.   I replaced all of the real low poly guys in them but didn’t replace all of the heavier weapons with more visually appealing ones.

Man I would really love to re-visit the infantry.

It seems the screenplay is written and the author would love to have Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) as the main COG.  It might not be such a bad idea.  The guy is a decent actor and he has the frame to play Marcus Fenix…too bad he will forever be associated with that fiasco called “Doom”.

Are you a Left 4 Dead, zombie killin’ freak?  Then you might enjoy this photo salute to the game.  Very cool stuff.  Done by the team that made the “Night Zero” photographic novel, the HDR is spot on for recreating the look and feel of the game itself.

Well, I have caught the bug once again, to learn a little scripting.   I loaded UnrealEd, found some old video tutorials, and dove right in.  I know it’s not “scripting” but I also downloaded Visual C# Studio Express and started messing with that as well.  I’ll give it another couple of weeks before I come to the conclusion that I suck.

On the art front, I am finishing a personal piece and after that, I have plans to build a really nice British trooper (on my own dime), using Mudbox to sculpt and see if I can’t convince some folks it would be worth the effort.

Well, it’s not all bad…just aim for an exec position and not one of the worker bees that we have seen can get axed at a moment’s notice.   When companies fall on hard times they cut the production side of things but the suits that run the joint keep collecting bonuses.  Bottom line good, bonus will be good too.

Activision’s Kotick received a whopping $5M in bonus money but I guess it’s hard to argue with the revenue that WoW brings in.

An interesting one on the list was Riccitiello and his $625K in “incentives” after the company posted a $641M loss in Q4 of this fiscal year.  I’m pretty sure EA let go of some people in light of the losses.  Way to go John.

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