darkmage has also moved to the game creating system Verge, as Jeff Conroy told me today. This is another loss for the ZZT scene. The ZZTer Bongo also moved to Verge and guys like Legendd did so long ago.

Today the zzt.org message boards returned. They fit in the current style of zzt.org now and have some new features, such as automatic signature adding and some other things. Visit them!

breakout has recently joined the company of Masamune, Knightt and TheYoda, which did not have a name at first. Creatively TheYoda named this company "The Company".

Knightt, who left the company Starlight Shadow some time ago, has now joined the company of Masamune and TheYoda, which is still without a name.

From what I read at zzt.org, the message boards will be back very soon with some new features. The old message boards will still be there as well, but you can only *read* old posts there.

I spoke to Misteroo on AIM today and he told me the date of the Summer 24 hours of ZZT. This one is of course being organized by Misteroo, because he won the last contest. The contest will take place on June 25.

ChryoZak is running the 48 hours of Zeux, also known as the Weekend of Zeux. This contest will take place from June 18 (start at 8:00 PM Central) until June 20 (end at 8:00 PM Central). If you want to participate, email ChryoZak. For more info, visit the official WEoZ page. I myself might be a judge in this contest. The old scoring system of Stargazer (also used during the previous Day of Zeux) will be used. Some guys want the date of this contest to be changed, most noticeably Lipid, because they can't compete at that day. Ibrahim has announced that he wants to be the head judge, but all decisions are up to ChryoZak, who runs the contest.

The ex-member of Autumn Dreams, yenrab, who was long believed dead or missing, is in fact not dead. I met her at #igmo and she said wasn't around in the scene anymore, but at least she didn't die (that's what she said).

This morning, while I was on #zzt with Koopo, Smiley13, Myth and draco, something surprising happend: mono joined #zzt! It was a short return, because he said he no longer played ZZT or MegaZeux, but he justed wanted to see what was going on. So mono is not completely gone, but he is not interested in ZZT or MegaZeux anymore.

CoolZx has said that he will keep releasing games under the reptile house banner, even though the company died a while ago. He says that if he will keep on putting "reptile house" on the title screens of his games, reptile house will live on as an undead company. So what will happen to the undead reptile house? That's up to CoolZx.

Some days ago I found out about a new ZZT company, called w2d. It is the company of lemmer and scissor. w2d stands for nothing, lemmer just thought of it as a wonky name.

I will now announce that Interactive Fantasies will be celebrating its third birthday (which is on June the 1st) with a special birthday ZZT world. I will keep it a secret as of now, but expect it to be done in the beginning of June (maybe even on June the 1st).

As we all know Bongo, the author of the great Rhygar Trilogy, stopped ZZTing a while ago. I spoke to him on AIM yesterday and found out that he is now working with Verge, a VGA game creating system. He says it's the best GCS out there. So that's where the good ol' Bongo ended up.

This will be an up-to-date news page with the latest news, updated by Hercules (almost every day). You can also send news to me.

Jeff Conroy has announced that he is redoing his mafia ZZT game Hitman, because he didn't like the way the plot was going. The restarted game will be more linear and better.

I will be releasing my new ZZT game, Post Apopleptic Chill, soon. I am still waiting for the music, which is going to be done by Flatcoat Lab and Viovis and I am also waiting for some of the bug reports. If you want to know what the game is about, check out tucan's feature here.