A change of scenery, hacking things up?

So, tempus fugit, and all that, and it's time for an exciting weblog-based announcement. As of this Sunday (22nd August), I'm stepping down as a Slashdot editor, after nearly 18 months (and over 3000 posts) - so I won't be editing the Games section or the main page anymore. In addition, I'll be paring down my Internet Archive activities to more of a spare-time dealio.

This is because I've taken a new position as Managing Editor of game industry website Gamasutra, which is part of the CMP Game Group - the group also includes Game Developers Conference and Game Developer Magazine. I've written for Gamasutra since 1997, even when I was working in game development, and so I'm absolutely delighted to be working full-time over at Gamasutra. I'm sure I'll talk about it more in due course.

[Incidentally, looks like Dom from MegaTokyo blogged about trying out for my Slashdot job before I'd mentioned it to anyone, which got me at least one quizzical email from Subi, hah.]

Finally, for those wondering about cryptic comments over my O'Reilly videogame-related book project, it's now been announced - it's 'Gaming Hacks' - and it's due out in October. Again, more about this soon, but we've tried to assemble a team of expert contributors and cover the pantheon of interesting, hackable game-related software and hardware. Yay.