How's tricks, GameSpot? I been down in Irvine for the past year, still working at Obsidian, cranking away at Alpha Protocol (recently nominated for the official RPG of Show nomination from the E3 judges). Been a busy year!

I went to Germany when I was in the 11th grade, but I don't remember much of anything. I remember it was gray and gloomy the entire time I was there for some reason. But now I'll get to go for work and the Leipzig Games Convention, which should be entertaining. I've never been to Leipzig, although my experiences in Tokyo can't be that far off from it, I would imagine. Although the flights are a bit more complicated: Orange County to Oakland to SFO to Frankfurt to Leipzig. That could've been a bit less complicated, but I wanted to stay over in SF on my way back and see some friends (although I imagine I'll regret that when the jetlag winds up destroying me).

Anyway, it should be fun to show off some more of Storm of Zehir to the enthusiastic European press. I'm not much of a cameraman but I am planning on taking plenty of pictures...

All of Obsidian's artists are pretty awesome. If you've seen any of the concept art behind our games, then you'd know that. Anyway, I was thumbing through the personal site of Justin Cherry, our art director, when I found this sketch of Dante from DMC as a woman. Pretty interesting, as are the more final artwork that he has up there.

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One of the funner things about working at a game company is seeing the concept art for things like characters and environments. I think some of Justin's work is also in some of the galleries for Obsidian games, like Mask of the Betrayer. I think this is another one of his, tho I could be wrong.