January 2006

January 16, 2006

Some very sad news

4:01 PM EST

It's my very sad duty to bring you this news. We received messages from various people telling us that Shiva, our Age of Mythology Heaven webmaster has died unexpectedly. link.

Shiva has been a valued member of our community and was a friend to many of our staff and regular members. Apart from working on our sites, he was involved in the Age of Kings design community. I guess this comes as much as a shock to you as it came to me, and I know he will be sorely missed. Not just by his family, but also by the countless friends he made here.

Shiva, where ever you are, may your next path be a bright one...

January 1, 2006

HeavenGames

Happy 2006

6:55 AM EST

I guess, all of us have now crossed into 2006? So it's time to welcome you to the new year, at least a new year for those of us following the Gregorian calendar.

Looking back on the year, I think I can say it was a fairly good one for HeavenGames. It also marked the historic occassion of all the owners meeting up for the first time at the E3, in Los Angelos. We saw a lot of new games this year and a couple of those were chosen for new sites. So far the signs seem positive on more of that happening this year.

Looking at the world, it seems to have been a fairly average year. A few good things, a few disasters hitting various continents and a fair amount of mischief created by various idiots.
Somehow I feel that none of these are going to change any time soon.

What does seem to be changing for the better is the games out there, they get more involved, more richly detailed, and more absorbing. There's a little danger in that, though. A danger that we become so enmeshed in our games we forget there's a world outside of that created in our computers. A world we need to be involved in if we want it to become a better world.

But there's a good thing too. Games make the world smaller in that we meet up with many more people from different climes and places we otherwise would have. We make friends all over the globe and I think that can only do good.

So, happy gaming!