New year, new job, good vibes?

Wow, it's a New Year already. We just hung out in downtown San Jose with some friends for NYE, which was very agreeable (and very walkable from the house, more to the point!), so now we're just chilling out and waiting for the resumption of work festivities.

Speaking of which, my day job has now shifted up a gear, and as of January 1st 2005, I'm now the Editor of both Game Developer magazine, the print publication which goes out to around 35,000 professional game developers, and Gamasutra.com, the sister website, which itself has about 220,000 registered members. We already have some outstandingly great staff and contributors on the magazine and the site, and it's going to be fun to further editorial integration and kick things up a notch (ack, an Emeril-ism!) in 2005. Oh, and talking of the magazine, check out the December 2004 Game Developer cover, masterminded by ex-editor Alex Handy, for some awesome custom Katamari Damacy art (and corresponding postmortem) - forthcoming issues will feature neato postmortems for The Sims 2 and Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal.

Oh, and it would be remiss of me not to mention science fiction author and Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow's rather startling review of 'Gaming Hacks', my O'Reilly practical game hacking tome. "I can't remember when I've had more engrossing fun with a technical book... the perfect mix of informative, enjoyable and fascinating."? Wow, that means a lot to me that someone, someone notable, even, digs the book, and digs it so eloquently.