Over at Gamedrool.com there's what the site claims is an email from Trip Hawkins, the ex-head honcho of defunct developer 3DO, complaining about a review of one of his games. The message was, according to the site, sent by email to the offices of US publication GamesPro and relates to the now utterly forgotten title, Portal Runner.
Reminds me of the many furious emails I received while working on Edge Magazine. I've lost count of the number of times enraged PR people threatened to withdraw advertising. I dare say we asked for it. Thing is, people lose all their critical faculties when they're involved with a project, like parents refusing to believe their child isn't perfect. I can understand that, being one of the few games journalists who has actually been involved in the development of a game.
Trip, incidentally, is now head of Digital Chocolate a very good mobile games developer. I don't think he's planning a Portal Runner conversion...
