Added by Brad on Sept. 17, 2008
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Elliott, Boston-bound.
Earlier today, longtime
Computer Gaming World...sorry,
Games for Windows Magazine editor and current 1UP staffer Shawn Elliott filed a
blog post revealing his intention to leave games editorial behind for the salt mines of game development.
On tonight's
GFW Radio podcast, Elliott spilled the beans on his destination:
2K Boston, home of
Ken Levine and (at least some of) the team that made
BioShock. Elliott will be an associate producer on "the project," whatever that may be. This departure is right on the heels of
GFW EIC
Jeff Green's relocation to
EA as a
Sims producer in the last couple of weeks. It seems neither dude got the memo that making games requires you to work
way harder than merely writing about them. Oops! In all seriousness, Elliott is a funny and talented writer; we wish him well and I personally look forward to his contributions to 2K Boston's next project.
You know what this means: Someone create a Shawn Elliott wiki! Green already has one. It's only fair.
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Edit: rough beats!
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Cake > Pie.
on Sept. 17, 2008
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Dammit. Good luck to him.
GFW radio is finished :(
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The Brodeo will be missed.
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on Sept. 18, 2008
OH MAN!
The Brodeo is gone, and it's a sad, sad time. That was definitely one of the highlights of my week.
on Sept. 18, 2008
Good luck to Shawn he was a good games journalist and a memorable character on 1UP. It seems like more people are using games journalism as a spring board to leap into jobs within large and successful games development houses. I find this totally justifiable and a wise career choice. When you consider the popularity of games today and the profits made by games development this is not a difficult choice to understand. Take Nintendo’s profits over the last two years as an example. Of course games journalism has lost a main stay in Shawn Elliot. On the positive side, it shows developers are interesting in the kinds of people that are passionate about and really understand games….so in the words of D:Ream from the 1990s – “Things can only get better ahahah, ooh can only get…”
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He is an absolute genius, though. So him moving into the development process can only mean good things for the industry.
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