Damn, this is bad news! Stainless Steel brought us Empire Earth, Empires, and were working on the absolutely gorgeous Rise and Fall. Although not my personal favourite RTS games, they were very well done and showed all the technical and artistic talent of the SSSI crew. I had the pleasure to meet Rick Goodman a few times, and it was apparent he loved his job and cared for his employees.

Best wishes to Rick and all the SSSI developers, hope they land on their feet and deliver their talent in many top-notch games.

In completely unrelated news, this article on Sony’s future regarding digital formats is short and well written. I’ll highlight one sentence: "if you treat customers like criminals, you’ll turn them into criminals."

Edit: More anti-copyright opinions, this time from Ernest Adams.