And I mean that in the best possible sense, that he is manly. At his talk on Tuesday he gave a brief most-mortem in which he basically apologized for Blacksite. I wasn't there, but I heard about it through friends.

I think this is incredibly brave of him. It's very unusual to have this level of frankness from a creative director about a game. But I appreciate the honesty and the attempt to provide some transparency to game development. Sometimes projects don't go as planned. ...Sometimes, they don't even get planned properly. Harvey was brought into Blacksite really late to, basically, rescue it. All summer and most of the fall this year he was personally staying up to 3 am to go in and fix code and track bugs. He cared about the game and poured his energy into it.

It's like my friend Ryan always says: the line between a bad film and a good on is a razor's edge. So much can go wrong to turn a good film bad. I wonder if the line is even thinner in games.

In any case, I think Harvey is so articulate and personable and talented that he'll weather this and go on to something even better. Because he's the man.