I'm not sure how many of you are aware of the recent flap over at Blizzard over their plan to require real names for all participants on their forums. I just learned today that Blizzard has stepped down after receiving considerable pressure from the fans--apparently many were threatening to quit over it.

Ah, summer time. I decided that my big summer project this year would be to write the best text adventure I could using Inform.  You may remember that several years ago I tried writing one from scratch with C++, but too much of that was reinventing the wheel. At any rate, I've been having lots of fun with my new project (tentatively called Panic in the Year Zombie!), but have had so much difficulty with Inform that I'm wondering if it has really saved me any time. I realized that after spending three hours trying to make a milk bottle with a removable lid.

With all the hooplah over the Transformers movies, it was only a matter of time before a studio (in this case Tunkah Productions) put a Gobots movie in the works. You can see an early trailer for the film here.

Charlie Lowe, always a huge fan of the toys and cartoon series, has managed to land the enviable role of Cy-Kill, the super-cool motorcycle Gobot. Below is a brief interview I conducted with him.

Hi, everyone. Been awhile since I posted any updates, but a timely email from Charlie concerning the little bit part I've been playing in Stargate Universe sent me back here to see how ol' Kairosnews has been doing. Anyway, I thought you might enjoy a video interview I did recently with R.A. Montgomery, author and publisher of the famous Choose-Your-Own-Adventure series of books for young people. Mr. Montgomery and I talked about many topics related to the books, including his thoughts on education. Enjoy!