Chris Cowger

Lead Zombies Gameplay Designer, Treyarch

Prev SDS, Ubisoft, Volition, ZOS, CCP

I only speak for myself. Poorly.

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Nothin makes you hope for an end to the Canada Post strike like having to deal with Purolator.

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Zip zop zooey

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LETS GO LETS GO

[Vinícius Medeiros @VinciusMedeiro6]

Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament can now be downloaded for free, Epic Games just gave the OldUnreal folks permission to host installers for both games on their website.

It'll install the games and the OldUnreal patches to make them run on modern systems without hassles.

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Would kids even get a "smoking or non-smoking?" joke?

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@DaveOshry I would go to a Carcass of Discourse concert.

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@VideoArtGame

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Yes I failed my first extraction. Stupid zombies ate me.

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Hey I shipped two games while at the same company.

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MW5: Clans, Dragon Age, and our own BOps 6 is gonna make this a busy gaming month for me.

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Mr. Fibble is very cross.

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Hot take: Public transit is good.

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I'm just kidding. Nostalgia was always bad.

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People are getting nostalgic for media I was too old to watch which means nostalgia is bad again.

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We can leave any given social media platform. I promise you we did it all the time in the 2000s

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@JesseCox When I worked on EVE Online a hundred years ago, the percentage of our player base that played in 0.0 space--the open PVP part they push and gets all the articles written--was a decided minority. Somewhere in the ballpark of 20-25%.

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The most important part of any feedback process is never listening to the raw feedback.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Studios are assembling superfan focus groups to assess various materials for a franchise project to avoid social media backlash.

“They will just tell us, ‘If you do that, fans are going to retaliate’ … If it’s early enough & the movie isn’t finished yet, we can make those kinds of changes.”

(Source: https://t.co/GRtdm5mkd7)

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Part of my career in games is just trying to recreate the high of the BOC needle-drop in the beginning of Prey.

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Me studying World War I in highschool: Ha ha people in the past were so stupid.

[Erik Loomis @ErikLoomis]

This Day in Labor History: September 30, 1899. Mary “Mother” Jones organized the wives and daughters of striking coal miners in Arnot, Pennsylvania to descend on the mine and intimidate the scabs working there. This critical action succeeded and helped their men win their strike!

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@itsrobdavis First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.