Stormy weather – Dallas Observer (1999)

TITLE
Stormy weather

AUTHOR
Christine Biederman

PUBLICATION
Dallas Observer

YEAR
1999

ARTICLE TYPE
Article

FROM THE ARTICLE
Now is the moment to do or die. Again.

[…]

Oh, well, black-magic time. Pointing your staff at the three zombies, you draw a circle, then a pentagon, and the gates of Hell fly open, and…next thing you know, the menacing undead explode into a few dozen flying, bloody chunks.

“More gibs for your money,” laughs a voice from across the centuries. “That’s gibs, as in giblets.”

And with that, you’re back in the late-20th-century offices of computer game developer ION Storm, located high atop a downtown Dallas skyscraper. It is December 17, 1998 — less than three months before the scheduled release date for Daikatana, the computer game that Mr. Giblets, ION Storm producer Kelly Hoerner, has just been demonstrating. It’s the game that a tribe of computer gamers is dying to get their trigger fingers on.

It’s also the game that could make or break ION Storm.

COMPANIES MENTIONED
Ion Storm

GAMES MENTIONED
Daikatana

PEOPLE MENTIONED
Todd Porter
Mike Wallace
Mike Wilson

TOPICS MENTIONED
Working Conditions

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