I feel for Col and his kid. I really hope everything works out for him. Leaving Evolution Studios to be closer to his family was the right move. Pete Dodd got what he deserved for being way too loose with his mouth. Regardless of whether or not he had inside "gossip" the fact remains that he knew he was a personality that many listened to and would take seriously.

He also knew that his information could very well be inaccurate and yet spoke as if he knew for certain that was the case. That Col was in danger of being fired so he quit instead. He didn't even seem to stop and think as to why Sony allowed Sucker Punch months more time on Infamous without firing someone. How they allowed Stig's team four years to work on a project that went nowhere before they finally decided to pull the plug.

I have no doubt the Santa Monica situation went down as he described it. A lot of people figured that much already and Pete Dodd wasn't the only one saying it. Richmond? Yeah, that sounds reasonable. A studio made him a great offer that likely involved more money and power than he had with Sony so he took it. Tretton? An already powerful and wealthy guy wanting more money and power who got told "no" so he took his ball somewhere else? Totally see that. I like Tretton and I don't blame him for wanting more.

However, the situations involving Amy Hennig and Col Rodgers just could not be painted in a clear picture by anyone who didn't actually know what was going on because there was really nothing to go on. No indications. We still don't know why exactly Hennig left but now we do know about Rodgers. We know now that it wasn't because Sony was pissed at him for taking his time with Driveclub and it wasn't because "Sony has no money" so Col boned out and started up an indie studio.

Pete Dodd may very well have contacts in the industry but he's no DemonNite or Verendus. He doesn't work in these places. His information is second-hand and now very apparent that some of it could be nothing more than inaccurate gossip or, worse, speculation posed as facts.

Thuway probably does have a contact or two from his time in the industry that some claim he had but he's too much. Most of what he says is exaggerated speculation. Some seem like obvious lies. Like the time he claimed that people he spoke to were super excited about the Santa Monica project. Then DemonNite basically comes out and says the opposite. That pretty much no one even cared to mention the game as an indication of the shape it was in after all that time in development. Thuway is just too gungho about the things he says to be taken more seriously than a coin flip.

Totally justified ban from Gaf. Hopefully that is the end of his smoking shed speculating gossip. Good luck to Col Rogers and family for the future.

I never really did differeniate. The community sticks its nose up at each other and anyone they can.

Two birds with one stone, since this is also a big slap to the doomsayers appearing whenever someone leaves a studio.

Shame on everyone involved.

I, for one, will support his new studio.

It was a matter of time until some one call out the BS Dodd has been spreding....

I always suspected that him and Thuway were paid/worked for Sony some how to keep some sort of control over that forum. It just seemed weird that every negative thing Sony had in the media those 2 were on GAF controlling the situation.

The same thing with positive Microsoft news. The minute Microsoft took a step forward they were making threads about the OS being so fucked it would take a year to fix. Not to mention the yeild issues and countless other things.

They obviously did there job and if anyone read Dodd's OP where this all started it sounded like it came straight from Sony's PR.

He did sound a bit too fanboyish to take seriously.

Do you have any children? I have 4 and I would "overdramatize" the same way if one of my kids were in that position. Furthermore, his problem about what that POS posted were more along the lines of how it could fuck up his career than anything to do with his son. His son could make a speedy recovery but some "insider" on GAF still would have made news about how Col is apparently shitty at his job.

And ahahahaha @ his explanation of the "time of events". Yeah right. As if the very first thing he did when he woke up was check and see how much the GAF thread blew up where he dropped some "insider" knowledge. And if he were getting tweets and emails about it, that would be the very first place he checked. He knew his goose was cooked at GAF so he tried to take his ball and go home. When people called him out on that he finally apologized. If he truly meant a word of that stuff he typed, GAF would have been the first place he posted a word about it. He's just mad that he got banned.

I also wonder what this means for his website. Posting "any rumor even if it damages a publisher" is exactly what got him in this mess. He says he won't do it again, so no website?