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Celebrity Byte Nabs Curt Schilling, Other Famous Folk

- Have to be honest, I often forget to check out the Yahoo! Video Games site, because it runs a mix of repurposed content (from GameSpot) and original material, and I've never quite found an 'original features/columns' RSS on the site. Anyhow, I wandered back to find a neat 'Celebrity Byte' Q&A with Curt Schilling, quizzing the Red Sox pitcher about his gaming predilections.

He notes: "I like military simulations. I've been hooked on Rome: Total War and the expansion pack -- I've been playing that a lot. I'm a guy gamer. I pick one and I stick with it until I'm done with it and then I move on to something else" - but obviously, it's his MMO interest (with 38 Studios, the former Green Monster Games) that he's best known for: "I got started with Ultima Online. That was my first real online game and then I went to EverQuest and have been with EverQuest ever since. I've played some of the other ones on and off, but EverQuest is the one I stuck with."

Writer John Gaudiosi, who does a lot of work for The Hollywood Reporter and is a nifty hand with the celebrity gaming connections, also has interviews with Tobey Maguire (who likes Knights Of The Old Republic!), Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer (who appears in games, but isn't so into them), and Entourage's Jerry Ferrara, decidedly a gamer ("...although it's not the manliest game in the world, Cooking Mama is very, very entertaining.") Nice layouts, too.

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