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They are going to make 2 million of these little silicon discs--burn them, in the lingo--and then they will be richer. Their game, Diablo II, an Internet-based slasher romp, has been described by at least one game-industry magazine as the "most anticipated in history." Diablo, their first game, was among the best selling ever, moving a couple million CD-ROMs, making the game's co-creators, brothers Erich Schaefer, 34, and Max Schaefer, 32, multimillionaires. But what is striking about walking into the Blizzard North building in Menlo Park, Calif., is not the casualness...
...have somehow turned what used to be a clique of adolescent boys--our rabble of pimply, geeked-out teenagers in Pacific Palisades, Calif.--into a highly profitable, 100-employee, new-economy juggernaut that is currently the focal point of millions of young males eagerly awaiting the Christmas launch of Diablo...
Will the world end? Will El Diablo himself manifest in your Crimson Cash? The catch here, of course, is that no one can really know so all bets...
...McMillan, the most self-revelatory writer in the world--this week, anyway--she grouses that "nobody would dream of asking Toni Morrison who she is sleeping with." Later, her Jamaican friend Plummer, a slim, amiable fellow who studies hotel management at Diablo Valley College, pokes his head into her cluttered office. He admits that he is "flattered" to be the model for Stella's Winston Shakespeare, though "I don't really read books." "But he will," says McMillan, "or else he's moving." Laughter all around...
...from $60 to $95. Little wonder that Hardaway was booed lustily by the paying customers in his first game back. They were entitled. Hardaway scored 11 points, 29 fewer than the team's real star, Shaquille O'Neal. The fans have figured out who is paying for the Lamborghini Diablo Hardaway drives...