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Gamespot managed to catch up with CCP's CEO Hilmar Petursson at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, where he was giving a talk on EVE and showing off some nice videos.

If you're not an EVE player you may not be aware that CCP have hired an economist from an Icelandic University - not only will he be giving input on the economy, but he'll also be publishing quarterly reports on the state of the game economy. It's a pretty powerful and complex environment, and it's good to see CCP taking it so seriously.

Richard Garriott is a god amongst developers. He created one of the greatest series of RPGs ever, Ultima. He founded Origin studios and brought the first major FMV titles to us in the form of Wing Commander.

Pushing on, he founded the whole MMORPG genre with the release of Ultima Online, a game which is still going strong.

Lord British is truly The Daddy.

At the Develop conference in Brighton, Gamespot had a quick interview with The Man. He's currently developing Tabula Rasa for NCSoft, a sci-fi MMO that promises to once again break new ground and shake things up.

Gamespot managed to grab ArenaNet's co-founder Jeff Strain at the recent Develop conference in Brighton.

Before helping to start ArenaNet, Jeff was a team lead at Blizzard, working on World of Warcraft, as well as a programmer working on the Starcraft and Diablo team. He knows his stuff ;-)

LucasArts used to be the greatest game company in the universe. They created the best graphical adventures - Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Loom, Sam and Max. They tapped into the rich Star Wars universe and gave us the greatest combat sims ever - the X-Wing series. And then came the Star Wars first person shooters - who can forget the first time they played Dark Forces?

But now! Now, LucasArts have falled to the Dark Side.

Check out this excerpt from a Gamasutra interview from Jim Ward from the once great studio: