This final entry has to be my favorite. Denis talks about the one console/few publisher future and how the way the industry is going mirrors both the Hollywood system of the 20’s and 30’s and his predictions about our industry shadowing theirs. He also gets a little snippy about IP ownership and future games chat. Excellent stuff. Again Xav — bang up job.

In which Xav gently dangles Denis’ feet over the fire, and Mr. Dyack proves himself an adept firewalker.

His answer on the valkyrie thing is horseshit though. You want a penalty for death? Your armor degrades — that’s a penalty, sir.

Old friend to the site Xav de Matos recently had the chance to sit down and talk with Silicon Knights founder Denis Dyack. Joystiq will be broadcasting the interview in three parts, the first of which is up today. Thanks to the glory of the internet, you can check out an embed of the video here.

Awesome work, Xav! Looking forward to part two. The teaser at the end is my number one question for the man.

Living in the same town as Silicon Knights has it’s advantages. For example: Denis and the gang decided to do a signing at a local EB today. A short bus across our little burg and I was face to face with gaming royalty.

Not much to say really — a signing is a signing. They set up Too Human on a few TV’s and the SK team walked people through it, which was pretty cool. T-shirts, posters and tote bags were given out. And Denis Dyack? Couldn’t have been nicer (or a more likely body double for yours truly).
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As regular readers will know, I live no more than a few minutes from the offices of Silicon Knights. Usually that sentence comes for no other reason than a sense of hometown bragging rights (we’re also the home of Neil Peart, Trivial Pursuit and the zipper). Today though? It’s thanks to a little local rag called the St. Catharines Standard.

Mr. Dyack made the cover of the paper today, boasting about how — if Too Human performs as well as he expects — it’s going to turn our local economy around.

“If Too Human does what we expect it will (in the marketplace), then it can change the world for St. Catharines and Niagara.”

Big words, Mr. Dyack. Big words indeed. And you know what? I actually believe him. Dyack and friends have been in the paper a few times this year, often in relation to their attempts to turn the local economy around via tech jobs and other 21st century industries.

You can see it in it’s original form here, but the STC Standard has a habit of pulling it’s articles down after 7 days. As such I’ve posted the full article after the jump.

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