{"id":1079,"date":"2008-10-16T13:59:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T17:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/16\/outside-the-comfort-zone\/"},"modified":"2008-10-16T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T17:59:59","slug":"outside-the-comfort-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/16\/outside-the-comfort-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside the Comfort Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from a quick trip to THQ headquarters in Southern California where I had a chance to see their new WWE pro wrestling game in action.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know.<\/p>\n<p>But I was available, my editor needed someone there, so off I went at the expense of the publishers of <em>Company of Heroes<\/em> and <em>Dawn of War<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the talk was all about ladder matches and tag teams and heel turns. You know. The stuff that keeps West Virginia up at night.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it was great, as a writer, to come face to face with a preview about a genre\/series that I knew little about. I could focus on the technical presentation, the features advertised, the differences between platform interfaces, etc. without any pollution from high or low expectations. Media journalists can&#8217;t really promise to be impartial, only fair, and nothing is fairer than a blank slate.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you know when the preview is finished and online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from a quick trip to THQ headquarters in Southern California where I had a chance to see their new WWE pro wrestling game in action. Yeah, I know. But I was available, my editor needed someone there, so off I went at the expense of the publishers of Company of Heroes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-hp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}