We’ve come a long way since Snake—or have we?

Almost everyone has a cell phone, and those who do usually grow bored of their stock features. I mean, really, how many times can you play that Bejeweled demo while sitting in your dentist’s waiting room before you start yanking out your own teeth?

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This past weekend while I was drinking Sierra Mist and trying to keep food down, the Call of Duty 4 double XP event was going on. Now, I don’t really care about my rank, as I’m never going to play it online enough to ever have to make the decision to prestige, so I wasn’t concerned. I did, however, want to get to at least a respectable enough rank to stop hearing insults every time I entered a game.

Except, like I said, I was sick. And gaming while you’re sick isn’t always fun.

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So, Guy Somberg, a programmer for Flagship Studios working on Hellgate: London posted a now-removed blog entry last month about the game’s epic fail. Its failure to keep its staff, that is. He completely overlooked what a terrible conglomeration of shitty code the darn thing is.

Please, cry more about the community who assaulted your team with their ridiculous demands.

Demands for a playable game.

Completely ignore the possibility that if the game didn’t have such a surprising amount of problems, the playerbase would actually be spreading some positive word-of-mouth about it.

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Are you bored with your job? Perhaps you’re tired of taking orders from someone you hate? Or maybe you don’t even have a job at all? Regardless of your situation, if you want work, I have great news, dear reader! Our inbox has recently been inundated with requests for people to fill some out of the ordinary job positions.

You’d just better act quickly before they’re gone!

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