Chris Charla

I worked with Nick at my first game dev job at EA in the mid-2000s. He was such a great guy, and he went out of his way to help me learn the ropes, even though I wasn't even on his team! He had such a great attitude, and really seemed to delight in working with other people to make games.

Remembering Nick Ferguson, a tribute. Nick was truly special in his own right, his passion for anything video games, writing talent and fun loving energy, British humor and wit. We were ve....

Really missing Nick today. I'd love to talk to him about the Xbox Ally and hear what he thought!! Missed in most tributes (like the great one linked here) is that he was a core member of the original ID@Xbox v-team, in addition to later leading ID@Azure. netyaroze.com/Community/Re...

It's such a good park. Hoping for Padres-Mariners WS this year!

I'm at a wedding and most people here are hardcore rock/gem/mineral people and it's interesting how close the conversations are to videogame people but with a different subject. "I have so many rocks. I mean not too many, but so many..."

That new Arby's Italian sandwich is pretty awesome.

A crossword puzzle, filled in, with the clue and answer for "classic video game cheat" and "KONAMICODE" highlighted.

Videogames x crosswords. This one's a little meta.

Anybody who knows anybody that might be interested in Demonschool and might give it a little boost, please entice them to fill out this form! We put a lot into this game and we really want people to see it.

BYTE stands alone: archive.org/details/byte...

Amazing!!

I said "exacerbate" at a job once and everyone freaked out.

Half timbered buildings in a modern street scene in Strausburg France.

I'm playing the Xbox PC edition of Octopath Traveler II on my ROG Ally right now and every building looks like Strausburg. Also I know I'm LTTP but it's 🔥. Had to drag myself away from pixelated half timbered buildings to go look at real ones this morning.

Giant RPG looking Villa in Strausburg FR

This is the exact kind of place you go inside and in the first room there's a save point and like 3 maximum health / spell point packs and then someone asks you if you're ready to go upstairs or if there's more you need to do in town first.

(Also Strausburg is very beautiful!)

Thanks!

They're great, what are they called?

A cluster of red edible berries which look like these inedible berries they have in America.

This is a berry that is edible and common in Europe that they don't have in America.

Also I was going in a secret entrance at gamescom and a guard asked me if I was at kolnmesse for the aircraft equipment conference or the game show. I'm like "ma'am I'm wearing a polygon skull t-shirt..."

Politely, I hope!

They rent solid mountain bikes and e bikes and they're at the main station. They speak English and are very cool.

A mountain bike locked to a pole

Cologne has a great bike rental place, the aptly named Radstation Köln, and a bike is by far the fastest way to get around the city. 20€ a day and you can get to most places you need to during gamescom before an Uber can get to you.

A picture of a graffiti covered wall in Cologne

My gamescom challenge this year is to not take any photos of the Dom.

SeaTac has fish in the floor, not sure if those are them

We'll take a look ASAP (but probably Monday when everyone is back in the office!)

I'm super excited to get to talk game development with folks @ DICE Europe this year!

#evo2025 we're at BYOC Table 3! If anyone wants to play the build!

A very beat up game boy color cartridge of KLAX

This was the first console game I worked on! Someplace in here is a secret screen for my girlfriend (now wife) that I lost the code for. Also @mikejmika.bsky.social's proposal to his now wife is in here (he didn't lose the code!)
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Also this game looks amazing. Obscure licensed sports game? Sign me up.

Look I'm not saying this a curse on the 7th generation of the 7th generation thing but do you really have to put anti theft price tags right on the label art?

I wish it had been jammed down there by a kid back in the day, but my best guess is it slipped out of a bag during a shopping trip in ~2022.

Petz Countryside 3DS cart on a bed of green Xbox DVD cases.

A world where you lower the back seat of your car so you can take something to the dump and Petz Countryside 3DS pops out from the seat is not only a world I want to live in, it's the actual world I do live in.