HAKEN

Name: Todd Hollenshead Email: Description: CEO Project: Last Updated: 07/14/2004 12:36:49 (Central Standard Time) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7-14-2004 11:52 AM CDT IT'S DONE!!!!!!! Yes, this is the official word that DOOM 3 has been code released and has been approved for manufacturing! It won't be long now until the anticipation ends and the PH34R begins ;-) We literally just hung up with Activision and have confirmed that our latest release candidate has been mutually approved and is finally GOLD. Thanks to everyone for their patience (yeah right! =) and for everyone at id, Activision and our numerous partners for helping us create what I believe is absolutely the best game we have ever made. So, the next question is release dates. Retailers in the States will be allowed to pick up games starting at 12:01 AM on August 3rd. The official street date is actually August 5th in the U.S.A., but some of your favorite stores will probably have it early for those of you who have to have it first. Check with your local retailer for that information. Internationally, the game will take a few more days to make it to the store shelves. The UK will probably get it first, on or about August 6th. Everywhere else will probably be Friday, August 13th (que Twilight Zone Theme) or close to that date, with just a few exceptions (e.g. Russia and Poland). This isn't because we don't have love for you folks outside the U.S., but the localization and manufacturing process takes a bit longer outside the U.S. where we will have JVC run 24/7 to get the units built. I guess the European manufacturers prefer to give their employees nights and weekends off. Go figure! The champagne is flowing here at id and smiles abound! I'll update again with some DOOM 3 preparation tips (not what hardware to buy - you'll have to wait for a programmer for that sort of thing). In the meantime, I want to see those "DOOM 3 GOLD!!!" threads set new records for swamping message board servers, destroying productivity, and post counts ;-) Recapping today's headlines....DOOM 3 GOLD!!!

HASLINGER

thursday. I hate thursdays just about as much as I hate mondays. I hate waiting. I need to learn to be a bit more patient. Fistfull of Soundtracks is playing the most depressing music ever, but I don't feel like changing it. This log sor of sounds depressing, but I am far from down. I saw her again last night. That makes it 5 official dates. Yeah. I hate maya. I think programs tuck features away so that users feel like intellectuals once they find aforementioned featured submenu sets. It just makes me feel dumber or is it more dumb? You know for once I reallly don't have anything else to say. I am tired.

RHYMEPHILE

So I thought I would start my first log entry (Captain's log, stardate...ooh, sorry, I guess I'm looking forward to the Jean-Luc Picard DVD collection due out August 3) and mention how I came to join FFF.net, um, last week. Doesn't it suck when you love something and no one else you know has an interest in it? You're excited about something and people haven't a clue. Well, the reason I came here last week is because I was getting off a NJ Transit bus at Port Authority (I commute from NJ to New York City every day) and there walking next to me, was a guy in a business suit that could have been Alan Tudyk's [i]twin[/i]. Really. It was uncanny how much this business dude resembled Mr. Tudyk. I had to tell someone! It was so cool! But nobody I know cares, so I came to the board. I admit I stared at the poor guy while we were walking to the escalator. He was wearing sunglasses that made him look like his was about to pilot a fighter jet, or a starship. Of course, reality tells me that Mr. Tudyk was in California filming, but now when I get off the bus every day I keep my eyes open, hoping to see this guy again.

ZIL

... from Creed, but NO there is twice as much Creed as there was before!! ahhh! for the love of the goddess!!! when the band Creed died I was like YAY! but now they have resurected themselves as two entities. the lead singer has started a solo thing and the rest of the band has formed another band. amazigly [snort] they BOTH sound like creed. to be continued...

NRKANGEL

Hey, I just read the recent blogs from Jewel Staite and the interviews with Adam Tudyk! Great stuff! I just wish that there was a location on this site specifically geared to the postings, writings and interviews of the cast members. (if there is, could someone please tell me gently so I don't feel quite so stupid?) It's sooo cool to see people who love what they do doing it for our sakes as well as their own and it also feels great to know that they care enough about the fans to share the experience with us. Well, this week is the week I finally find out what the company has in mind for my exit strategy. Funny, in an American company, you tell them you're leaving and when. In a Japanese company there's so much more to deal with as far as negotiations about when and how. (Of course I could handle it the American way, but if I want to arrange a departure package, I have to give something in return. Which, in this case, is the time for them to make arrangements to replace me.) Anyway, this week is the week of our big (semiconductor industry) tradeshow here on the west coast and we have people coming in from Japan, Singapore, Korea and our New York offices. I'm supposed to have a meeting with one of the bigwigs from our Japan office tomorrow who will tell me the schedule they worked out and the package they would like to propose. I guess the negotiations really start in ernest then. This experience I'm having is really liberating and not a little frightening. To think that I'll soon be unemployed for the first time in fifteen years is daunting. Amusingly most of the guys I'm with at the show aren't even aware that I'm a short-timer so I'm having a lot of fun with my little secret in my head. (I've been asked to keep this quiet until the final issues are decided.) One BIIIIIG positive is that I will no longer have to suffer the slings and arrows of our tradeshow experience anymore. After years of co-ordinating everything from booth design and amenities to setting up and taking down the equipment I'm in charge of, I'm soooo ready to give it all up and chuck it out the window. It's funny, but for a looooong time now, my year has basically had two markers. One was Christmas time when I took two weeks off (which I had never had a chance to do in retail) and the other was mid-July for the Semicon Tradeshow. Not having this particular rock to roll uphill makes me darned near giddy. For all of my adult life I've lived the practical, "let's make something of ourselves" way that parents and society smile upon. I've studied, written, planned, worked and climbed my little ladder in business and have found that, while the challenge of my job has been enjoyable and the experiences were generally worthwhile, the essential passions of my life have been supplanted by the persona I've had to develop to do what I do successfully. Many moons ago, 'fer skool, I read "Steppenwolfe" by Hesse. Not a happy writer, that guy... Still, over time I've found myself identifying more and more with his character. That thought has not made me a happier person, let me tell you. While I'm not quite the old guy in the book who lives a bitter existence until he learns his lessons late in life, what worries me is that I could end up that way. I look around my office and I see papers stuck up on boards, manuals and tools on shelves, schematics laying out with parts from different projects and not a few mementos - a stuffed bear and bottle of wine (unopened) gifts from customers that make the whole idea of departing that much more bittersweet. Leaving it all makes me realize how transitory everything is. It's like looking at a huge sandcastle. All that work. All that stressing and worrying and laughing. All that mileage to distant places and in a few weeks or months it'll be washed away, leaving little to no trace of me in this world. Why am I so happy to leave it? Well, imagine that you have a passion inside you to do "something". Imagine that you've only have a rudimentary knowledge of how to accomplish it. At heart you know that

OOG

I submitted an entry for the Wash Filk contest over at Browncoats.com. Contest entries can be seen here:

ZIL

I haven't eatten in days, I've been trying to put on a brave face and face it all. funny how my life of nothing can be so overwhelming. if you want to get lost, whatever the cost you'd better not stay. away, I want to go away. haven't been sleeping but thats nothing new. reruns of reruns of reruns of the golden girls keep me company. estel getty! 3am. why does it always feel like 3am? my mind is a motropolis. my soul a battle ground. I want novacaine to numb it all.