>>First I heard about Minter was from Eyrie's own NXE
>
>Here's something freaky to consider: NXE takes place THIS YEAR.

Yeah, ever since we've gotten to the year 2000 it's been kind of funny to look back over history and see the dates on various sci-fi literature, movies, etc, and see how close/far they are to modern day.

>More on topic, I'm saddened by this, but not surprised, particularly
>given that the company now called Atari has the square root of fuckall
>to do with the one that gave the world so many great games in the '80s
>and '90s. What we have today is the video gaming equivalent of that
>outfit that scrounged up the rights to the name "Indian" and sold
>rebadged Harley-Davidsons, only with more defensive, predatory zeal.
>Capitalizing on heritage and goodwill with essentially zero effort.

I'm not sure "earning enough money to purchase the corpse of a dead company" is exactly zero effort. But I certainly eyed Infogrames sideways when they changed their name to Atari. It just seemed... tasteless at the time. (And still does, come to think of it)

-SmkViper