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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">To 
                        the Extreme</font></i></font></b><br>

                      
                      <div align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">By 
                        <a href="mailto:radpipe@loonygames.com">Russell &quot;RadPipe&quot; 
                        Lauzon </a></font></div>
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
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            <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Like 
              5 years in the future?  100 years?  1000 years?</font></b> </p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b>Maybe 
              20 to 30 years.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b>  
              Maybe 50.  And it’s based in the Earth’s solar system.  We haven’t 
              got out of our solar system yet.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Oh interesting.  
              That leaves a lot of room still.  </b></font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b> 
              Yes it does.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>A lot 
              of room.   So we’re looking at 20 possibly 50 years in the future.</b></font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b>  
              I’d say more like 50.</font></p>
            <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>But 
              we’ll still have weapons that are popular today?</b> </font> </div>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b> 
              Different versions of them, probably.  </font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>I guess 
              this is still big design stuff.</b></font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b> 
              Yeah we are concepting a lot of weapons.</font></p>
            <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Weapons 
              and monsters, and I guess everything right?</b> </font> </div>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b><i> 
              </i>  Yeah.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b>Weapons 
              and monsters and spaceships, oh my.</font></p>
            <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Spaceships!  
              </b> </font> </div>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b>  
              Uh oh I just opened up a can of worms.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Well 
              when you mentioned anywhere in the solar system I’m thinking spaceships, 
              and maybe you’re going to the asteroid belt, and maybe the corona 
              of the sun, and uh…</b></font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b>  
              Moons of Jupiter.</font></p>
            <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Moons 
              of Jupiter!  What else can you tell me about the game at this point?</b> 
              </font> </div>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b> 
              I can just say, for myself, that this is a game that I’ve been wanting 
              to play for a long time.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b>  
              Exactly.  We’ve been talking about this, tossing it back and forth 
              for –</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b>  
              And we say, “Oh wouldn’t it be great if…and that would be so awesome 
              to do…” and now after Unreal Tournament we said, “Well let’s do 
              it.”  And we looked it over and the bigger picture, and we found 
              it feasible so we started.</font></p>
            <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Was 
              there any pressure, internally or externally, to do Unreal Tournament 
              2?</b> </font> </div>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b>  
              There was a time when we talked about perhaps doing that.  It floated 
              around with a lot of other ideas.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b> 
              I think it was a natural thing to talk about.  </font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b>  
              But for us we were really ready to do something different.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b>  
              To hang around too much in the Unreal universe for us was not --- 
              we wanted to do something different, something that we would enjoy 
              to the fullest.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b>  
              That’s the other thing too.  Everybody on our team was so excited 
              to do this project.  We were like giddy school kids.  </font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b> 
              We got so many responses from people saying, “I have been waiting 
              for this game.  I can’t believe you guys are doing it.”  And “Oh 
              it’s going to be so cool.”</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b>  
              In a way, we’re so excited and happy to be doing this, but it’s 
              also a little scary too because there’s so many expectations out 
              there so many people.  So many people have been waiting for this 
              kind of game, and they all have their own expectations and ideas 
              on what it’s going to be like.  I know that people are going to 
              love our game, but you always have that little fear in the back 
              of your head, “Oh what if my idea is different from everybody else’s” 
              but it’s been nice so far.  Everything we’ve released we’ve got 
              really positive feedback and comments on.  </font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b> 
              But definitely, because of our open mind, because of our ability 
              to have the whole group in there, and criticize the hell out of 
              the game while we’re making it, I think that it’s a pretty safe 
              bet that the game will be fun to play.  So if somebody looks at 
              the game and says, “I thought it was going to be different,” but 
              they played it they’ll still have fun.  It’s not like we’re going 
              to make something that’s totally off the wall.  It’s a logical step.  
              It will be fun to play.</font></p>
            <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Thanks 
              guys, you’ve been terrific.  Next time I think we should have clothes 
              on when we do this interview.</b></font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&lt;laughs&gt;</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b> 
              Okaaaaay!  Don’t put that in!</font></p>
            <p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
            <p align="left"><div align="center"><div align="LEFT"><div align="LEFT"><div align="LEFT"><p align="right"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>- 
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                      record for using the word &quot;exhumed&quot; 15 times in 
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