Official Retraction:

There are no alien archaeologists. They want me to tell you that if there were, they would kick Pirate butt. No contest. And they don't have any interest in funding a game project, so stop asking.

Quick thinking Eric Anderson snapped this photo of the conference-that-didn't-happen in progress.

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Sorry, we're gettin punchy here as Uru Offline Gold Master looms larger. The nice thing is that we'll slip right into crunch time for Uru Live without any of that awkward, end-of-project whaddoIdowithmyselfnow angst.

The Crunch is dead. Long live the Crunch!