The Armchair Empire's
Randy Pitchford Q&A chats with the president of Gearbox Software about
the latest happenings over there. The conversation covers things like how he got
to be prez, what a prez does, where they stand in development of Counter-Strike:
Condition Zero, what happened to cause the cancellation of the Dreamcast
Half-Life port they were working on, creative freedom they were permitted to
take with their PC port of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3, plans for post release
support for Tony Hawk, working in Texas, his feelings about ever-smaller PCs,
when we will see an original game from Gearbox, a bit on the game development
industry, and more.