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So, it’s good that my last conversation was with Hermen Hulst. The managing director and co-founder of Guerilla Games claims Amsterdam as his home and he was able to give me a glimpse of the way that Playstation spread out in Europe. Hulst’s story differs in other ways from David Jaffe, Ted Price, Evan Wells and Scott Rohde, too. He didn’t grow up wanting to be in the games business and came in through the business side and not via the creative ladder. Also, while I asked everyone in the Playstation and Me series about stereoscopic 3D game development, Hulst’s the only one who’s actively doing it. Guerilla’s Killzone 3 will be the AAA test case for a hardcore 3D gaming experience when it comes out next year and the Dutch dev studio’s been getting its collective hands dirty with the tech for many months now. Hulst brings the team’s learnings about 3D and much more to our talk. Read on. **So let’s get started in terms of you as a gamer before you got into the business. What was your interface with video game systems? When did you decide you wanted to do this as your career? I’m particularly interested in your account because everybody I’ve spoken to so far has been on the American side, so there’s some commonality in their experiences. And I’d love to hear what was different for you growing up across the pond in Amsterdam.**  The U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian negotiations still have life but few expect any real progress after both sides up the ante What Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas intended on Tuesday when he abruptly signed a raft of international treaties was not to sink the peace talks with Israel, but rather to aim a shot across its bow. Israel had failed to live up to its promise to release 26 Palestinian prisoners last Saturday, a goodwill gesture vowed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the start of the talks last July. The Palestinians entered the talks with a promise of their own: To abstain, for as long as negotiations continued, from joining United Nations agencies that might give Palestinians leverage over Israel in international courts.rnrnSo by abruptly signing 15 U.N. treaties and conventions–and doing it on television—Abbas was reminding Israel that a deal’s supposed to be a deal. Even if the deal at hand involves only how to continue talks that so far appear to have gone nowhere.rnrn“We don’t want to confront anyone,” says Xavier Abu Eid, a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization’s negotiations unit. “It’s not a step against the Americans. But Israel was not abiding by its obligations, and therefore we decided we were not obliged to keep ourselves from our rights.”rnrnAbbas made as much clear in his remarks Tuesday, praising U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s “superb efforts” and vowing to continue the talks. Still, a sense of crisis ensued. The news cycles had been humming with reports that, in order to keep the talks moving beyond the April 29 deadline—and the Palestinians away from the U.N.—President Barack Obama might release Jonathan Pollard, the American sentenced to life in prison for spying for Israel. When Abbas picked up his signing pen, Kerry called off his plans to fly in to consult with the Palestinians. And after a dozen trips to the region and 39 meetings with the Palestinians alone, a cancelled session will qualify as news.rnrnStill, there were signs on Wednesday that Abbas’ move would bear fruit. Danny Danon, a hawkish senior member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, said the prime minister was now prepared to proceed with the release of the 26 prisoners – a move that Danon had vowed would prompt him to step down as Deputy Minister of Defense in protest.rnrn“Now, the only reason you don’t see the prisoners boarding the buses and me resigning, is Abu Mazen is trying to get more,” Danon tells TIME, referring to Abbas by his commonly used kunya, an Arabic honorific. “What we see today is Abu Mazen trying to blackmail more trade-offs.” Danon said that in order to continue the talks, the Palestinian leader seeks the release of high-profile prisoners such as Marwan Bargouthi, a popular leader of Abbas' secular Fatah party serving multiple life terms on terror convictions. Earlier in the week a senior Palestinian official privately hinted that Bargouthi's release may be imminent.rnrnA spokesman for Netanyahu did not respond to a request for comment.rnrnThere’s ample time to cobble together the terms of an extension: Four weeks remain on the official clock, and both sides have an interest in overtime. Embracing the “peace process” shields Israel from international criticism for its continued occupation of territories captured in 1967\. In a conference call arranged Tuesday by The Israel Project, a nonprofit that promotes Israel’s position, Udi Segal, diplomatic correspondent for Israel’s leading news station, Channel 2, called the talks “a strategic Israeli weapon against international pressure, especially from Europe.”rnrnAnd on the Palestinian side, Abbas has long promoted achieving a Palestinian state through negotiations. Most Palestinians think he will agree to an extension, according to a poll released Wednesday by the well-regarded Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, and almost two-thirds think he should if more prisoners are released. The extension-for-prisoners trade is supported even if it means delaying the diplomatic confrontation in the U.N., the strategy that has the broadest support among the Palestinian public, most of whom have given up on negotiations.rnrnIsraelis harbor the same reservations. Polls consistently show Jewish Israelis support talks in principle but do not believe they will produce an agreement. And their pessimism appears to be justified by the current contretemps: None of the bargaining is around issues of borders, or refugees or the status of Jerusalem – the core issues of a final pact. Rather, the debate has been about what it would take to keep the talks going, peripheral issues known in the shorthand of the peace process as CBMs, or “confidence building measures.”rnrn“But they’re not even CBMs because I don’t think anybody is expecting them to build confidence,” says former Israeli negotiator Pnina Sharvit-Baruch. “All these kinds of external elements are a way of gaining time, I guess.”rnrnIf there actually has been progress on the core issues, Sharvit-Baruch, now a law professor at Tel Aviv University, says she’s been impressed by the secrecy that both sides maintained since the talks began in late July. But, she adds, “maybe they’re good at keeping secrets because there’s nothing to reveal. I’m not optimistic, unfortunately.”rnrn—with reporting by Rami Nazzal / Ramallah Sure. Well, let’s see, where did that start? My mom had a toy store. So she had, back all the way, the Vectrex on the counter. I must admit that after hours in the shops–which they close here at 6:00, so even for a kid, there’s a good chunk of time before bedtime. I picked it up and worked on the high scores a lot. We also had the early systems. We had Pong at home and it was kind of easy for us because of my mom’s business. So I had early access to the early machines. And I played them a lot. But I kind of went on and off. I didn’t touch games for a number of years. And picked it up here and there in my student years. But my first professional experience was when, during my student years, I landed an internship with Ubisoft on the marketing side. They were just setting up in the United States. It was an opportunity for me to really delve into understanding what makes great games, because I was running focus groups on them, writing marketing plans for them. That was in the years where they launched the first _Rayman_, so that was ‘94 we’re talking now. So, I was in business school, and I spent some time at Ubisoft. Then I left the industry again and I worked as a strategy consultant doing serious stuff. I worked with Philips Electronics in strategic marketing. And I was always working on the technology and media side of things. I was working on things like video conferencing and interactive television. But I always enjoyed the interactivity, the turning images to graphics part, the gameplay and the technology. So, that sphere always intrigued me. I really enjoyed that working experience at Ubisoft. I was doing some other things. I guess I kind of told myself that I should enter a profession that was serious, because games were still very young at the time. nextpage But I enjoyed it so much that when this opportunity arose in 2000 to set up Guerrilla Games–by merging a number of small studios into an organization that had a chance to really compete–that kind of was perfect for me. Because it brought back my business skills, my love for technology, and my past with games. **I am hearing some divergent things in your story at least in compared to what is more typical with people who work in the video game industry. I’m hearing that you came to the games business as an adult and decided to make a career as an adult. It’s in direct opposition to somebody who has these deeply ingrained childhood experiences, pushing them into becoming a game designer. And that’s really interesting, because I imagine you must have been a lot more clear-eyed about what your chances were when you finally decided to form the conglomerate that became Guerrilla Games. So who were the development studios that you brought together for the collective?** There were three. The first one I should mention was Orange Games, and that was a studio owned by someone named Arjan Brussee, and he’s currently our development director. So a lot of the old crew is still here.Orange Games worked in the mid ‘90s on a title called _Jazz Jackrabbit_. It was pretty popular at the time. Arjan worked on that with Cliff Blezsinski. So there’s some connection with other industry figures.  The online giant's small television set-top box, which costs $99 and begins shipping today, will stream movies, TV shows and music from users' Amazon libraries, services like Netflix and Hulu, and apps like Pandora and iHeartRadio Amazon has announced the Fire TV, a small television set-top box for streaming movies, TV shows and music.rnrnThe box is slimmer than a dime (standing up, that is), and can either sit in an entertainment center or mount behind the television. A small Bluetooth remote has a handful of buttons for media playback and navigation, similar to an Apple TV remote, but it also has a microphone for voice search.rnrnAs with Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets, the software is partly based on Android, but it also uses HTML to support easy porting of apps from other television platforms. Apps for Netflix, Hulu Plus, YouTube, WatchESPN, MLB.tv, NBA, Crackle, Bloomberg TV and others will be supported at launch, and of course Amazon will have its own services on board, such as Amazon Prime Instant video and a store for purchasing and renting videos.rnrn\[caption id="attachment\_46903" align="alignright" width="300"\] Doug Aamoth—TIME\[/caption\]rnrnBeyond video, Fire TV will stream music from users' Amazon libraries and from streaming apps such as Pandora, iHeartRadio and TuneIn. Users can view photos as well, as long as they're stored in Amazon's Cloud Drive services.rnrnKindle Fire users can see information about what's on the TV using Amazon's "X-Ray" feature. Users will get a notification on their tablets, letting them tap to learn about actors and other information on a video, and see lyrics for music. Amazon's FreeTime Unlimited service is supported as well, allowing parents to set time limits for their children and get recommendations on kid-friendly content.rnrnAs rumored, Fire TV will have a gaming component, and Amazon lists Disney, Gameloft, 2K, Ubisoft and Double Fine as some of the publishers that are on board. An optional Fire Game Controller will sell for $40, but users can also play games through the remote control or with a companion phone and tablet app. The games are mostly adaptations of mobile titles, such as Gameloft's Asphalt 8, Minecraft Pocket Edition and Disney's Monsters University; many are free to play, and the average price of a paid game is around $1.85.rnrn\[caption id="attachment\_46964" align="alignright" width="300"\] Doug Aamoth—TIME\[/caption\]rnrnAmazon did recently acquire a game studio, Double Helix, and Amazon is now building games specifically for the Fire TV and Kindle Fire tablets. One example Amazon demonstrated is Sev Zero, a third-person shooter that includes some tower defense elements. (Amazon's website shows how a second player can use a Kindle Fire tablet to view the map, collect resources and launch air strikes.)rnrnFire TV's components are similar to that of a smartphone or tablet, with a quad-core processor, a dedicated graphics processor, 2 GB of RAM and dual-band Wi-Fi. It supports 1080p video and offers Dolby Digital Plus Surround Sound via HDMI or optical output.rnrnAmazon says it set out to fix a few common complaints with existing TV boxes: Performance can be laggy, search is too difficult on a typical remote control, and closed ecosystems don't always offer the services users want. The Fire TV's powerful specs and remote control microphone may solve the first two problems, but with the exception of Apple TV, many other set-top boxes are open to competing music and video services. Still, the gaming element is a unique feature, and the focus on a simple, speedy interface could help Amazon stand out.rnrnAmazon's Fire TV costs $99—same as an Apple TV, but twice the price of the cheapest Roku device—and is shipping today.rnrn\[gallery size="small" skin="light" type="square" ids="47159,47160,47161,47162,47163,47164,47165,47167,47168,47170,47171"\] Then there was another studio called Formula, which later became Lost Boys. The main guy there was Mathijs de Jonge, he’s currently game director on Killzone 3\. So that’s another one of the guys that’s basically been with us for 10 years. A lot of hand-held stuff in the beginning. Lots of Game Boy titles and much smaller games. And the final one was, it’s not a name you would have heard of, it was a company called Digital Infinity. They were working on title called Knights . It was a platform game. **Oh, Nights, the Dreamcast game?** Actually no, it was a totally different title and we had to can that in the early days. But you were talking about entering the industry as an adult. The point you make about a different decision-making process is probably right. Because when I started with Guerrilla Games, back in late 2000 or early 2001, part of my role was to not only take a creative view on things, but also, make sure it was going to evolve into a proper business. And back then we were, I think, developing three, four different games in different genres on different technologies at the time. Streamlining that, making sure that we actually had a chance to compete in something serious. That definitely comes with being an adult, right? **Right. Right. You can’t afford to fly by the seat of your pants.** You can’t be 30 people and compete on handheld, on PC, and on all the game consoles that were out there and in different genres. If you compare to what we’ve been doing recently– a very large team, in one particular genre, working on one franchise–it’s almost the opposite turn that we took there. nextpage **How big is the team working on** **_Killzone 3_** **?** We are, the core team, about 135 folks right now. It’s a massive game with a lot of detail in it, with a whole lot of features. It’s a huge multiplayer game, it’s a massive single-player game. We’re supporting 3D, Move, a whole lot of stuff in there. And it’s on top of that even a whole bunch of freelancers and outsourcing staff. **Sure.** Right now, everyone’s simply locked in at this stage in the project. **We’ll get to the** **_Killzone 3_** **stuff in a bit. So, Guerrilla games forms in 2000\. When did your relationship with Playstation start?** Actually very early. We signed a preproduction contract for a shooter game called _Marines_ that evolved into a contract for _Killzone_. And that was not day one but day two basically. Day one was us working on the technology. We won that contract by showing a great technology demo. I actually talked about all of this for the first time at a keynote at GDC Europe last month. So the game was called _Marines_. And on the back of that, we had a preproduction contract that we landed early 2001, and that was the beginning of the relationship between Guerrilla and Sony and also the coming into existence of the _Killzone_ franchise. **So that was right at the launch of the PS2 or right before it?** Yeah, just about that time, really. Just after, actually. **So when you had gotten your hands on the first Playstation for the first time, where were you in your relationship with the industry? You were working in the other business-type jobs? You were more a casual observer at that point?** So me personally, the game we launched with Ubisoft was Rayman, amongst others, for PS1\. Right? **Yes.** So that’s when Playstation sort of made gaming more accepted outside of the area of the PC-addict in the boys’ room. Or being a sort of a handheld kiddie vehicle. It became more accepted as a grown-up media, or as a cool thing to do if you will. **The people I have spoken to on the American side said the Playstation was the first console after, say, Sega’s early systems, to really capture the public consciousness, and grow it up a little bit. Was there a similar shift in Europe that you can speak to from your own personal experience?** I definitely think so. I think Playstation 1 did exactly that, and Playstation 2 did it again. And what I mean by do it again is take the industry and move it from two big sections, one of which is children’s games, and the other one is what I call more the attic-room, the boys’-room PC kind of culture. The background of Sony, as a consumer electronics company, meant they had a really great knack for making it more mass market and a cooler–the word cool I think is very important there–experience. Playstation made it easier for people to tell to others that, they actually play video games, and it was OK somehow. I think with Playstation 2, in the years that I worked, or the early years, the fact that it was a DVD player, I think, really, really helped conquer that position under the television, and then in the living room.  What's funny, and what's just pandering? The affable Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon understandably toes this line more carefully than most. He's trying to update an old genre for a new audience, one that's less enamored of watching prolonged interviews with celebrities just before nodding off, choosing instead to sneak bite-sized segments online at work the next day.rnrnSometimes Fallon strikes gold with these sketches. He recently mimicked Bruce Springsteen alongside the man himself, while roasting Gov. Chris Christie in the process. And he and Lindsay Lohan threw water on one another. Good, clean fun! The segments deservedly circulate throughout the internet's favored corners, bringing joy to readers and traffic-conscious writers alike.rnrnAnd then there are segments like last night's self-contained "slam poem" "by" Samuel L. Jackson about Boy Meets World. For three minutes and forty-five seconds, Jackson performed his way through a written piece recapping the plot of the long-departed ABC show. There were references—were there ever references!—to memorable moments in the show's plot that had long since left our minds. Jackson, affecting the Def Poetry aesthetic (with added bass accompaniment), quoted dialogue from the finale. After a commercial break, he sat down for an interview with the host. Fallon: "Are you a fan of Boy Meets World?" Jackson: "I don't think I've ever seen a single episode of that show."rnrnWhere are the bit's laughs supposed to come from? The incongruity between Jackson's style and the source material? (They're both mid-1990s relics, albeit of different subcultures.) A great actor with high standards debasing himself? (LOL, says Capital One, which also counts Fallon as a spokesman.)rnrnNo, the humor, such as it is, springs forth from the goofy knowingness somehow still ascendant in the age of social media. Wait, you watched this show that averaged nearly 10 million weekly viewers during its seven-season run (and lived on long beyond that in syndication)? No way, me too! It's Dennis Miller's old shtick, minus the jokes and the cultural capital. This works? Hard to say. The amplification apparatus, those writers who love Jimmy Fallon in the good times and still need him in the bad, have gone about posting the video. "Samuel L. Jackson Performing Boy Meets World Slam Poetry Is Everything You Never Knew You Needed." Samuel L. Jackson Delivers Epic 'Boy Meets World' Slam Poem. Samuel L. Jackson Proves He's the Ultimate 'Boy Meets World' Fan. It isn't, it wasn't, and he didn't. And yet the YouTube count is at 155,224 views and counting. A recent report claimed 36 percent of all internet traffic was fake—it comes from robots. So what do you call the other 64 percent? I think that was a big shift. It was a good reason for a spouse. Typically, the crowd was boys back then. Persuading some space under the television in the living room. It was, frankly, a very nice looking machine, that PS2. That evolution already started with the PS1, that it was not nerdy looking, not scary looking. Friendly looking: that round shape and then that cool sort of square–that little black box that Sony’s been good at. So I think that is a massive, massive transformation. It’s image but it’s also performance and it’s also the multifunctional nature of the machine. 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