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Congratulations to the "Be Mine, Land Mine" Contest winners.

"Darammer: Grand prize - khaki bio-hazard vintage bag and an Ultra Force® black wool beret.

Pitroid & Blight: Second place winners - each get an Ultra Force® black wool beret"

My four hours behind the wheel in freezing rain will be worth it as long as my flight isn't cancelled in the morning. Watching the vehicles around me careening and cavorting into the ditches like a drunken mechanical marching band was entertaining in a "don't hit me on your way to the 911 call" kind of way. That is behind me now as I wait to see if my 8:30am flight will be exterminated by the weather police. Assuming the poltergeists that are haunting GDC allow my flight to leave Toronto tomorrow I will be in San Francisco, getting you the tasty bits, by 1pm Pacific.

GDC, the Game Developers Conference is an industry only event that for the most part is spent saying, "Hey, good to see you again." It is low-key and educational rather than being full of pomp and circumstance like the show in Leipzig.

Do you have a question for me to pitch at GDC? The Loading... forums await.

Do you feel the need to contact me personally with naughty pictures or derogatory comments? Here's my E-mail.

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8 new MMOG hand-crafted articles today! 145 so far in February! 422 so far in 2008!

New MMOG Articles At Ten Ton Hammer Today

• Club Penguin: Poll - Help Name the New Submarine
• Lord of the Rings Online: Book 12 - The Ashen Waste Delving of Fror Screenshots
• Ten Ton Wiki: Hello Kitty Online and World of Kung Fu
• ToonTown: Poll - Which Type of Toon is Your Favourite?
• Vanguard: Game Update #4 Preview
• Warhammer Online: Interview With Josh Drescher and Lance Robertson
• Warhammer Online: Career Mastery - Warrior Priest of Sigmarr
• Webkinz: Arcade - Goober's Lab

Hot Content - Or, what I took a fancy to

1. Warhammer Online: Interview With Josh Drescher and Lance Robertson
2. Age of Conan: Exclusive Bear Shaman Screenshots
3. Age of Conan: Class Interview #7 - The Bear Shaman
4. Contest: Be Mine, Land Mine
5. Dungeon Runners: Creating a Ten Ton Hammer Interview With Mark Tucker
6. Dungeon Runners: Exclusive Chill Bill Images
7. Myst Online: Uru Live - An Interview With GameTap
8. Lord of the Rings Online: A Book 12 Session With Turbine - Part 1
9. Earthrise: An Interview With CEO Atanas Atanasov
10. Age of Conan: Class Interview #6 - The Ranger

Real World News

• USDA Makes Nation's Largest Beef Recall
  Your child's just ate some mad cow for lunch.
• Mass Culture is Dead
  Kind of like Kenny.
• Kosovo Wants Independence
  What could possibly go wrong?
  

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