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              <p><font color="#0000FF"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000CC">volume 
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        <p align="LEFT"><i><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">What's 
          up this week in loonygames? Ask our editor. </font><font size="-1"> 
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        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="../images/letters/i.jpg" width="26" height="40" align="LEFT"> 
          &nbsp;tell ya, nothing's more fun than a jet lag/hangover combination. 
          I mean, you think you know, but oy, is it fun. :)</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Had quite a 
          weekend, kids...I was out in sunny Las Vegas covering the <b>Klingon 
          Honor Guard </b>launch party (look for my full review this week in the 
          Top Shelf). A big thanks goes out to Microprose for throwing one hell 
          of a party.</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So what was 
          it like? </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well let's 
          see...the Klingon Blood Wine was flowing, that's for damn sure, so things 
          are kinda hazy. :) </font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The event was 

          held at the <b>Star Trek: The Experience</b> portion of the Las Vegas 
          Hilton, and if you're a Trekkie like me (sad, but definitely true) you 
          absolutely <i>must</i> go to this thing...it's like a Mecca for geeks. 
          Notable moments: sitting at <b>Quark's Bar </b>(which is so accurate 
          to <i>Deep Space Nine</i> it's truly frightening) next to an honest 
          to golly Klingon (whose name escapes me...but I believe it was Ch'Rok...that 
          sounds about right) discussing the various interstellar drinks available. 
          My Klingon friend had a preference for Blood Wine and Romulan Ale...when 
          I mentioned Guiness (the official drink of <b>loonygames</b>) he got 
          one of those patented Klingon grins, and replied: &quot;I know of your 
          Guin-ness. It is very good. It tastes like tree sap.&quot;</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I got a chance 
          to play plenty of <b>Klingon Honor Guard</b> on the big ol' monitors 
          they had set up, and I gotta admit, it's a fun deathmatch game...I had 
          one fantastic bout with Christopher David Clark, one of the game's designers 
          which despite the fact that we were neck and neck for a while, I got 
          my butt wooped all over the damn place. :)</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The whole event 
          was covered by yours truly for <a href="http://www.allgames.com">AllGames</a> 
          so keep an eye out for it...it was a ton of fun, and we've got some 
          truly surreal footage of the AllGames crew getting lost in the middle 
          of nowhere...and then of course there's the impromptu puppet show. It 
          has to be seen to be believed...I can't make stuff like this up. </font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I've got a pretty 
          extensive report in the works...i'll get it edited down in time for 
          this week's Top Shelf as a sidebar sort of thing. Stay tuned.</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This week's 
          Featured Article is a piece by Charles &quot;BedMan&quot; Bedford, on 
          LAN Parties. BedMan is someone who I met recently at the CPL event in 
          Dallas Texas, and he really knows his stuff...be sure to check it out.</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you're wondering 
          what happened to last week's Guest Editorial by Austin Grossman of DreamWorks...it 
          got pushed back due to extenuating circumstances. Those being (in no 
          particular order) final work on Trespasser, our server problems, and 
          my having to be on a plane to Las Vegas at nine o'clock on Friday morning. 
          A big thanks goes out to my sister (and associate editor) Stephanie 
          &quot;Bobbi&quot; Bergman, without whom, there wouldn't have been an 
          update on Friday at all (since I wasn't able to upload anything until 
          I got back yesterday). Regarding the server problems...I appologize, 
          and we're working to make sure it never happens again....or at least 
          so rarely that it's not an issue. Thanks for putting up with it.</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This week begins 
          a two week hiatus of our &quot;Birth of a Gamer&quot; column...the fabulous 
          Elaine O'Neal is off to Italy, so we're going to have to wait on the 
          edge of our seats until she returns for the next installment. Don't 
          worry...we've got some incredible new columns in the works to keep you 
          busy until she gets back. Stay tuned. </font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Anyway, be sure 
          to check out all the stuff we've got this week...as usual, it's all 
          fantabulous. Really. :) </font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>This Week 
          in loonygames:</b></font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Monday: </b>Article: 
          LAN Parties...It's a Scene, Baby!</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tuesday: 
          </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thinking Outside 
          the Box, Pixel Obscura</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wednesday: 
          </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Beaker's Bent</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thursday: 
          </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Top Shelf, 
          Guest Editorial (&quot;Austin Grossman&quot;)</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Friday: </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Community 
          Profile, The MailBag</font> </p>
        <p align="LEFT">&nbsp; </p>
        <p align="RIGHT"><i><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- 
          Jason &quot;loonyboi&quot; Bergman is the editor-in-chief of <font color="#804000"><b>loonygames</b></font><b>.</b></font></i></p>
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