Black Sheep News

After working at Spin Master Studios for a month on website and online game design, I was asked by the toy company to take on the added responsibility of being Executive Producer over Tech Deck Live, an internally developed virtual world based upon its skateboarding toy line.

Spin Master Studio, a Los Angeles-based company for which I am producing a children's MMO game, is seeking a technical director. See the full story for job responsibilities and qualifications needed.

Spin Master Studios, based in Culver City, California, contracted me to re-design and produce a new website to promote their hot new toy Bakugan toy line, and to create online concepts for other intellectual properties.

On August 9, I met up with my Dark Seed II collaborater Raymond Benson at The Mystery Bookstore in Los Angeles. Raymond, who has written five official James Bond novels, presented a slideshow about The James Bond Phenomenon in honor of author Ian Fleming's one hundredth birthday. Raymond was gracious enough to pose for a picture with me and sign a copy of one of his latest books, a novelization of the Konami game Metal Gear Solid.

Six of One, the "official appreciation society" for the 1960's cult classic television series The Prisoner, which inspired two of my best-remembered videogames, announced the news that a six-part ITV reinvention of the show staring Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen, both of whom I also have connections with, will air in the U.S. on the cable channel AMC next year.