founded by leo lerner , the chain was a force in community journalism in chicago from 1926 to 2005 , and called itself " the world 's largest newspaper group " .

in its heyday , lerner published 54 weekly and semi-weekly editions on the north and northwest sides of chicago and in suburban cook , lake and dupage counties , with a circulation of some 300,000 .

editions included the booster , citizen , life , news , news-star , skyline , star , times and voice .

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lerner newspapers . the lerner newspaper microfilm collection includes newspapers from chicago neighborhoods and suburbs ranging from 1905 - 1993 .
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he continued his newspaper career as vice - president and general manager of the lerner life newspapers , and later the lerner voice newspapers , a suburban newspaper chain .
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lerner newspapers was once the largest chain of weekly newspapers in the world . founded by leo lerner , the chain was a force in community journalism in chicago from 1926 to 2005 .
this building used to house lerner newspapers , a publisher of community newspapers . it has since been torn down , after laying vacant for years .
mr . lerner is survived by his wife , susan , and two daughters , jane lerner and lucy lerner , both of chicago .
published materials consist of articles by leo lerner , articles about leo lerner and miscellaneous published materials .
( citizen ( chicago newspaper ) ) lerner newspapers was once the largest chain of weekly newspapers in the world . founded by leo lerner , the chain was a force in community journalism in chicago from 1926 to 2005 .
lerner newspapers was a chain of weekly newspapers . founded by leo lerner , the chain was a force in community journalism in chicago from 1926 to 2005 , and called itself
the world ' s largest newspaper group
.
: at first radiant when gazing at her lover pete , then painfully distraught when his affection flags . ” — beverly friend , lerner newspapers
“chicofsky further stated that he feels a lot better now that lerner is off the streets because when lerner was around , he was never really sure when lerner might decided to ‘plank’ him . ”
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as editor and publisher of the lerner newspapers inc . , which publishes community newspapers serving chicago and its suburbs , and an official or director also of other publishing concerns in the area , mr . lerner was consulted by many of the democratic presidential aspirants before and during the primaries . cultural activities
the booster is the oldest newspaper to ever be owned by wednesday journal . it was originally known as the lincoln - belmont booster . leo lerner launched his lerner newspapers empire when he acquired it in 1926 . in 2000 , it , along with the other surviving lerner newspapers , were sold to pioneer press . in 2005 , pioneer press sold the booster to the wednesday journal .
newspapers from burlington , n . c . , to walla walla , wash . , told the same story : maury ( pro ) lerner could hit .
unlike the city newspapers , suburban newspapers are paid . they can be found in newsboxes throughout their respective coverage areas . they are also available by subscription . compared to their city - based counterparts , the suburban newspapers are larger and contain more articles per issue .
the lerner newspapers chain , a fixture on the chicago scene since the late 1920s , is expected to shut down in early october unless it can be sold .
crain ' s chicago business columnist greg hinz , who worked with gerber at lerner newspapers , said she was
her own little private force of nature .
born in chicago and raised on the west side , mr . hoffenberg helped his grandfather sell newspapers as a boy and began reading newspapers at a young age , his son said .
lerner , based in lincolnwood , operates 14 weekly newspapers in the northern and northwestern suburbs . the papers have a combined average weekly circulation of about 100 , 000 .
lerner , leo alfred was born on september 20 , 1907 in chicago , illinois , united states . son of harry and dora ( jacobs ) lerner .
lerner : seattle times management says both ad campaigns are scheduled to run through election day . for npr news , i ' m sara lerner in seattle .
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glen lerner is the son of maury lerner , a former professional baseball player and mob hit man . “i wouldn’t trade him for anybody as my father . ”
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with lerner losing his love of spending , the supporters had the taste for rebellion .
lerner : the reporters went on to say these ads threaten their independence and credibility .
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after graduating from senn high school and theuniversity of illinois at urbana - champaign , mr . hoffenberg joined the city news bureau . lerner newspapers then hired him as a news columnist . in the 1970s he left lerner after a disagreement with management over his columns , his son said .
wednesday journal is a newspaper publisher based in oak park , illinois . it publishes free weekly community newspapers throughout chicago , paid weekly newspapers in the city ' s western suburbs and parenting magazines in the chicago metropolitan area .
lerner in my judgment acted according to the contract ,
said the former executive .
lerner recently began converting the circulation of its skyline and booster papers to paid from free .
he says lerner , whom he respected , was of a different prison stripe than most .
lerner with his wife , arrene , not long after his release from prison in 1988 .
the lerner family bought its first chicago newspaper in the late 1920s . it expanded in the 1940s with the purchase of the north side myers newspapers . in 1965 , leo lerner died and was succeeded as editor and publisher by his son , louis , who soon began expanding into the suburbs .
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but then torgeson and lerner teamed up against some cuban players , after lerner complained about too many brush - back pitches . torgeson got into a fistfight with a cuban player and resigned . lerner attacked a cuban pitcher and a cuban umpire but kept on playing . and hitting .
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lerner’s arrest allowed others to relax . according to f . b . i . records , another federal informant , richard chicofsky , told his handlers that “that bastard lerner got what he deserved . ”
producer and director danny lerner died march 6 in culver city , calif . he was 62 . lerner . the brother of producer and nu image / millennium films founder avi lerner . worked on more than 100 films , including most recently
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the expendables 3 .
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now the lerner agreement has also fallen apart . it is a matter that labor and management come at with diametrically opposed perspectives . a former executive of the lerner papers remembers louis lerner , the late owner , showing him the 1975 agreement after it was signed . lerner was smart : he ' d hung on to a way of laying off his printers - - they ' d go if their workplace disappeared .
“maury lerner crashed a triple off the clock and rode home on jacoby’s single . ” “maury lerner doubled in two runs sunday night to lead boise to a 7 - to - 5 victory over pocatello in the pioneer league play . ” maury lerner singled , doubled , tripled , homered , won the game .
her column became the lifeblood of lerner ' s skyline newspaper that catered to the tony gold coast crowd , but was just as much at home next to the aldermanic shenanigans and pothole coverage of the chain ' s neighborhood newspapers .
lerner : in his mind , this goes well beyond the paper taking a stance in its opinion section .
a 1978 graduate of wauconda high school , howard graduated from the university of illinois in 1982 with a bachelor ' s degree in journalism . she worked as a reporter and copy editor for lerner newspapers before joining the daily herald in 1993 .
rosemary k . sazonoff , 79 , a suburban journalist , was a feature writer and general assignment reporter for two decades for lerner newspapers . before that , she wrote a column ,
life in deerfield ,
for the deerfield review .
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pulitzer selling its newspapers in chicago ,
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gerber , who attended senn high school , wright junior college , northwestern university and mundelein college , began her career at age 16 with the lerner newspapers , then a thriving chain of community newspapers on chicago’s near north , north and northwest sides . she went on to become a fixture on chicago’s society and celebrity circuit and one of the longest running newspaper columnists in the country .
lerner did not mince his words when he completed his £62 . 6million takeover before the 2006 - 07 season .
there was no formal announcement , no issued news release . but pro lerner had given up baseball to concentrate on a new career . a name that once appeared in scouting sheets and small - town newspapers was now popping up in police intelligence reports .
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diamond moved to chicago after living in sunnyvale during the 1960s to be managing editor of 49 newspapers in the lerner newspapers chain of weeklies and semi - weeklies serving chicago suburbs . she received a knight fellowship at stanford university in 1978 , and moved to palo alto . in 1982 she started the california lawyer magazine as editor in chief , and then began working at stanford , holding several positions .
edgar miller students receive free backpacks donated by crossroads connects and glen lerner injury attorneys during the first day of school .
a 1957 issue of the idaho daily statesman included a photograph of maury lerner when he played for the boise braves .
maurice “pro” lerner’s professional stats included an arrest for larceny in his hometown , brookline , mass . , in 1963 .
lerner was a model inmate who ran an elite prison softball team and once saved the life of a correction officer .
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manor , robert ,
pulitzer sells lerner papers ,
st . louis post - dispatch , october 8 , 1992 .
lerner has been a laggard performer in this area for pulitzer , which also owns the daily southtown economist and the marketer weekly shopper . those publications have a wider advertising base than lerner , which depends primarily on classified advertising , especially help wanted .
neighborhood news veteran lorraine swanson launches a north - side chicago news site whose roots reach back to the old lerner chain .
baseball scouts used to scrutinize maury lerner’s every move . then f . b . i . agents were the ones watching .
raised on the north side , gerber attended senn high school and then wright junior college and northwestern university . at 16 , gerber began writing for the lerner newspapers chain . by 1950 , she began working as the chain ' s gossip columnist . she also eventually became the editor of lerner ' s skyline newspaper , which was launched in the 1960s and covered the city ' s near north side .
former lerner newspapers reporter felicia dechter , who along with butler had recently been working with gerber on gerber ' s memoirs , called her
a dear friend and a longtime mentor , and underneath that tough exterior was one of the most generous and caring people i know .
lerner was arrested again a few months later , charged with conspiring to commit armed robbery and carrying a firearm without a permit . according to brookline police records , detectives interrupted lerner and his ex - con companion in the midst of robbing an acquaintance .
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except for a brief stint at the sun - times in the 1980s , gerber has been synonymous with skyline since 1960 when she began chronicling society life in chicago’s gold coast and near north side neighborhoods for the publication’s original owner , lerner home newspapers . her lively mixture of caustic comments , blind items , and genuine news about movers and shakers had been running since 1950 in other editions of the lerner chain .
“portrait of young woman as artist , ” sandra parlin , lerner papers , dec . 3 , 1980 , p . 7 .
frank kostro , a future major leaguer known for his pinch - hitting , competed against lerner that winter . “i was hitting well over . 300 , ” he says . “but i wasn’t even close to the leading hitter — who was maury lerner . ”
baseball scouts used to scrutinize lerner’s every move . now agents from the f . b . i . were the ones watching .
mr . lerner served as ambassador to norway from 1977 until 1980 . a longtime worker in the democratic party in chicago , mr . lerner said when he was named envoy to oslo that he was ' ' probably the first carter supporter in illinois . ' '
from the time he was 10 or 11 , he spent his time reading newspapers and obsessed over journalism and the news media ,
rick hoffenberg said .
today , new technology is again shaking american newspapers as the internet drains away more and more advertising revenue . cities with dailies may soon face a newspaper blackout much darker than what new york experienced a half - century ago . for a brief period , new york was a laboratory that demonstrated what can happen when newspapers vanish .
fitzgerald , mark ,
pulitzer to fold lerner papers ,
editor and publisher , august 15 , 1992 , p . 9 .
hundreds of colorful backpacks were donated to edgar miller students by crossroads connects and glen lerner injury attorneys during the first day of school .
charged with murder , lerner was found guilty and sentenced to life in a rhode island prison , where he kept his mouth shut .
ann gerber , seen here on may 10 , 1992 , at arlington park , also was editor of lerner ' s skyline newspaper .
the chicago typographical union calls this a sneaky trick . gilbert cornfield , the union attorney , tells us web set is a corporation created by the compucomp corporation of broadview strictly to do lerner ' s printing . lerner has leased space in the niles building and that ' s where lerner ' s production manager and makeup editors now have their primary offices . and they aren ' t the only familiar faces .
after three days of deliberations in march 1970 , a jury in providence convicted lerner , patriarca and three others of conspiracy , while lerner was also convicted of murder . the man with a career batting average of . 308 was given two life sentences . he was 34 .
by the mid 1990s , broadcasting accounted for nearly 75 percent of company earnings . the post - dispatch , like most large metropolitan dailies , was suffering from declining circulation while battling rising costs . to bolster its newspaper holdings , pulitzer acquired 16 daily newspapers and nearly 30 non - daily publications from scripps league newspapers for $ 214 million .
her former lerner colleagues - - and there were many - - remember her generosity , kindness , and love for dogs and liberal causes .
the lerner newspapers ' composing room at 7519 n . ashland expired at the end of the workweek saturday , september 3 . survivors were consoled in the traditional way , which is to pat them on the back and wish them luck finding another job . and the trucks rolled in to collect the stilled equipment .
leo alfred lerner , american editor , public . recipient 1st prize best editorial illinois press association , 1937 , herrick award , national education association , 1951 ; named public of year , controlled circulation newspapers american , 1953 ; chicago medal of merit , 1961 ; mayor daley’s medal of merit , chicago , 1962 .
copeland , david . debating the issues in colonial newspapers : primary documents on events of the period . westport : greenwood press , 2000 . 15 may 2016 . web .
lerner has studied and worked in five different states stretching from washington , d . c . , to california . before joining abc15 , lerner was most recently a morning anchor at kvoa - tv in tucson . she also worked at ksby - tv in san luis obispo , calif .
pulitzer , joseph , jr . , and michael e . pulitzer , pulitzer publishing company : newspapers and broadcasting in the public interest , new york : newcomen society , 1988 .
the acquisition expands the regional newspaper reach of hollinger , which bought the sun - times and several dozen weekly newspapers surrounding chicago in 1994 . hollinger has since picked up the daily southtown and the post - tribune of gary and now , with the lerner purchase , has 96 publications in its chicago - area newspaper group .
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gerber was an old - school gossip columnist who knew where all the bodies were buried and what they were wearing - - or not wearing . her column ran for over 65 years , mostly from the storied lerner newspaper chain that in its heyday published 56 community newspapers that covered the near north , north and northwest sides .
professionally , cecil ' s greatest triumph still lay ahead . alan jay lerner and fritz loewe wanted him to design the costumes for my fair lady in 1955 because , as lerner wrote , it was ' difficult to know whether he designed the edwardian era or the edwardian era designed him ' .
. lerner solicits advertising and publishes the newspapers but subcontracts the printing of the papers with other newspaper printers . the purchase price of the net assets acquired totalled $ 1 , 078 , 626 consisting of $ 475 , 000 cash at closing and a short - term note payable of $ 602 , 431 paid in early 1993 plus other assumed liabilities of $ 1 , 195 . the operations of lerner are included in the sunstates ' consolidated financial statements since the date of acquisition .
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no question . pro lerner was looking ahead . by the summer of 1961 , the professional ballplayer was also trying out for a life of crime .
all the while , lerner remained a family man ; that is , to his own family . when appeals to overturn his conviction seemed at a dead end , lerner moved his wife , arrene , and their two young children , glen and jenni , to a small house close to the prison .
last month we brought you news of radical change at the lerner newspapers . booster and skyline papers heretofore given away would be delivered by mail for a modest yearly rate . the pulitzer publishing company , which bought the 66 - year - old chain in 1985 , hoped this measure would pluck the chicago holding from the mire of unprofitability .
questioned by the police , lerner repeatedly lied . and while he eventually beat the rap , the young ballplayer made an unfavorable impression . “i know the brookline police were not fond of him , ” glen lerner says . “a jewish troublemaker would not be well looked upon by an irish police force . ”
in 1980 , lerner came to the rescue of a correction officer who was being choked with a cord by another inmate . he subdued the inmate and escorted the injured officer to the infirmary . a formal commendation was entered into lerner’s file , applauding him for a “heroic action” that would not be forgotten .
liberty , which bought the suburban life weekly newspaper chain in january 1999 , owns 60 newspapers in the chicago suburbs and has accumulated more than 300 papers nationwide in less than three years .
maury lerner batted . 328 for the boise braves in 1957 . twenty years later , he was serving time at the adult correctional institutions in rhode island .
those personal matters might have included lerner’s arrest that summer for the armed robbery of a boston furniture store . he was later sentenced to three years’ probation .
news - star and booster are two of the last three lerner newspapers that the chicago journal group bought in january 2008 from the chicago sun - times when the sun - times ' pioneer press division was being downsized . news - star covers rogers park , ravenswood , edgewater and uptown . booster covers lake view , north center and roscoe village .
staff members of the newspapers were told at a special meeting at 4 p . m . monday that diamond was leaving
to pursue other interests ,
not that she was being terminated .
ann gerber wrote for local chicago newspapers for more than 70 years , authoring a sometimes - catty gossip column that was a must - read for the city ' s socialites and political class .
seeking to expand , in 1985 pulitzer bought the lerner newspapers chain of 52 small local chicago weeklies for $ 9 . 1 million . the firm hoped to win readers and advertising dollars from the large metropolitan dailies , the chicago tribune and chicago sun - times , in the same way that the suburban journal chain of suburban weeklies was weakening the post - dispatch . the lerner papers had a combined circulation of about 300 , 000 , and pulitzer planned to increase that to compete in the chicago newspaper market .
oak lawn public library local history page : local newspapers . this is a partial index to over 54 , 000 references to articles found in the following newspapers from the period june 1 , 1988 - daily southtown ( south ed . ) , oak lawn independent , oak lawn reporter , southtown economist ( south ed . ) , southwest courier ( 1998 - december 31 2000 ) , southwest news - herald ( oak lawn ed . ) , and village view ( 1994 - ) . this is not a complete index . rather , the newspapers have been examined for articles dealing with oak lawn and the immediate area . nevertheless , items concerning many other suburbs have been included . obituaries are not included . however , a separate obituary index to local suburban newspapers for the years 1985 - is available .
lerner claimed to have enjoyed a happy childhood , spending part of his youth in a duplex on verndale street , about two miles from fenway park . but his son , glen lerner , disputes this assertion of boyhood happiness . maury’s father , glen says , never told maury he loved him , never went to his ballgames .
when some men made the ill - conceived decision to rob a bookie operation linked to a high - ranking mafioso , it was lerner , along with kelley , who was dispatched to straighten things out . when certain people disappeared or stopped breathing , lerner often seemed to be , shall we say , part of the postmortem conversation .
“when asked what he meant by that , he replied that lerner was a sadistic killer and that he got his kicks from watching people bleed . he told of the time that lerner had bragged to him how he killed billy aggie ( agisotelis ) with a . 45 while he and aggie held a casual conversation in an automobile .
the deal was completed in 1999 and left pulitzer on the hunt for newspapers to add to its arsenal . michael pulitzer remained chairman while robert c . woodworth was named president and ceo of the new spin off . under the direction of its management team , pulitzer set out to expand its business . in 1999 , it acquired the bloomington pantagraph and seven smaller newspapers in illinois for $ 180 million . the following year the firm purchased the suburban newspapers of greater st . louis and paid the herald co . $ 306 million to increase its stake in the post - dispatch from 50 percent to 95 percent .
sucs , loretto dennis . chicago and cook county : a guide to research . salt lake city , utah : ancestry publishing co . , 1996 .
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‘those were grim times in new york , ” nora ephron remarked in 2009 . “it was like part of the blood supply of the city was cut off . ” the disappearance of newspapers reverberated widely .
she wrote with vitality , and i enjoyed editing her copy ,
leigh hanlon , who worked with her at lerner newspapers , said .
she was a staunch defender of 1st amendment rights , and younger people in the newsroom were always surprised to see how committed she was . i guess they thought someone her age was past caring about freedom of expression .
maury lerner held on a little longer to his baseball dreams . he spent part of the 1962 season with the raleigh capitals , of the senators organization , batting . 308 and hitting eight home runs , the most of his professional career ( “a two - run homer by first baseman maury lerner in the eighth inning won the game” ) .
cronin stated that being on the suspended list indicates either lerner did not report to the york team or was suspended while there for some infraction of the club’s training regulations .
ann gerber , seen here on may 10 , 1992 , at arlington park , also was editor of lerner ' s skyline newspaper . ( jose osorio / chicago tribune )
ann gerber , a genuine chicago original whose deliciously catty column was a guilty pleasure for readers of skyline and other local newspapers for more than 65 years , prided herself on printing what she called “true gossip . ”
in 2008 , inside publications acquired the news - star ( which traditionally covered rogers park , edgewater and uptown ) and the booster ( which covered lakeview , lincoln square and ravenswood ) from wednesday journal inc ( which got them from pioneer press , which got them from lerner newspapers chain ) . inside was merged with booster into inside - booster , and news - star remained the same .
suzanne lerner boasts decades of experience in business , as well as a background in philanthropy with a primary focus on gender equality , economic empowerment and social justice . in 1986 , lerner co - founded clothing company michael stars , of which she now serves as president . lerner’s second career focuses on philanthropy and giving back to communities , both domestically and abroad . she supports numerous causes personally , as well as through the michael stars foundation . lerner serves on the boards of the women thrive alliance , the ms . foundation , the aclu foundation of southern california , and as advisory board members for prosperity catalyst and children mending hearts . she is also a member of women donors network and women moving millions .
maybe lerner had gravitated toward father figures who had led him astray , his son says , sounding wishful . maybe he was looking for someone to look up to . maybe .
sara lerner , byline : the ads are in support of one washington state gubernatorial candidate , republican rob mckenna , and a state referendum that would legalize same - sex marriage . seattle times spokesperson jill mackie says the paper is running the ads to prove a point : that political advertising in newspapers can make a difference , at a time when the bulk of campaign money goes to broadcast television .
all of wednesday journal inc ' s chicago - based community newspapers are published on thursdays and distributed free of charge . since 2008 , none of the papers have staff writers , with editors relying instead on freelance contributors .
in st . louis , the globe - democrat competed with the post - dispatch . under a 1961 agency agreement , which allowed competing newspapers to share printing and other facilities so that both could stay in business , the post - dispatch was st . louis ' s afternoon and sunday newspaper , while the globe - democrat was the morning paper and produced a weekend edition . pulitzer managed the production and printing of both newspapers , while their news , editorial , advertising , circulation , accounting , and promotion departments remained separate . in the late 1960s , the post - dispatch became one of the first major u . s . newspapers to oppose the vietnam war .
hopefully , this brief overview of digitization and the historic jewish press will stimulate an interest in further explorations of how computers and electronic information can impact our own research and scholarly output . the editors invite you to comment , contribute , or suggest other topics for this newsletter relating information technology to our field of jewish studies by contacting heidi lerner at lerner @ urltoken .
kelley told federal investigators that lerner , the primary shooter , was bright , courageous and homicidal : the most dangerous man he had known in his 25 years on the dark side .
according to tillinghast , lerner’s interaction with his players ended on the ball field . he might say hi to a teammate in the yard , but he rarely engaged in serious conversation .
lerner and his wife quickly left rhode island for california and then for las vegas — as if to get as much distance as possible from the past . patriarca was dead and now so was a part of lerner . he had no desire to reconnect with his former cronies , no interest in being compensated for keeping his mouth shut . he just wanted out .
as promised , lerner dug deep and spent £200m . for that , he got consistency in the shape of three sixth - placed league finishes in a row — but no success .
jerry strader , president of hollinger ' s community newspaper division , said the company had been in talks with lerner for a couple of months . strader said the deal closed friday .
michele lerner has gathered the advice of financial and real estate experts from around the country into a simple , yet comprehensive guide which is valuable to anyone buying a home . ”
michele lerner ' s real estate expertise helped us make the right decisions when we bought our first home . this book provides real - world advice for any potential buyer . ”
gerber told michigan avenue magazine that she had always wanted to be a writer . while a student at senn high school , gerber was 16 when she began her writing career at lerner newspapers . by 17 , she was promoted to editor . she watched clark gable drink six bourbons for lunch at the old pump room , and turned down a 30 - year - old marlon brando for a date . .
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but he returned in 1957 to join the milwaukee braves franchise in boise , idaho , where he smacked 158 hits in 127 games and batted an impressive . 328 ( “second - sacker maury lerner got the vital hit , a double to right - center” ) . then , up in yakima , wash . , he hit . 348 ( “lerner’s drive was against the right field fence” ) . then , over in the pittsburgh pirates organization , he hit . 372 for the wilson tobs in north carolina ( “lerner popped one over the short center wall” ) .
fifty years ago this month , striking printers shut down seven new york city newspapers . the strike would last for 114 days and helped to kill four of those newspapers . “this was an absolutely unnecessary strike , ” recalls tom wolfe , who worked for the doomed herald tribune . deep down it was about technological disruption—a foreshadowing of dislocations that roil the newspaper industry in our own time . as a newspaper town , new york was never the same again .
brill , marlene . the trail of tears : the cherokee journey from home . brookfield : lerner publishing group , 1995 . ebook collection ( ebscohost ) . 15 may 2016 . web .
but rather than join in , lerner removed himself , capitalizing on the uncommon deference he had earned by keeping his mouth shut about patriarca . he was , after all , a pro .
hollinger international inc . , the owner of the chicago sun - times , said wednesday that it had acquired the suburban newspaper chain of lerner communications inc . terms weren ' t disclosed .
michele lerner is a longtime freelancer who i love for her willingness to track down interesting people and get them to spill their guts about really sensitive personal financial stuff . like this :
launched by lerner newspapers in the 1960s , the skyline covered the gold coast , lincoln park , the loop and the near north side , with an emphasis on society gossip . the skyline was the only lerner paper not to cover school sports . in 2005 , pioneer press sold the nameplate to the wednesday journal . today , it covers the gold coast , lincoln park , old town , former cabrini - green and river north . true to its historic emphasis on society gossip , it is the only wednesday journal newspaper to retain a gossip column , written by ann gerber . circulation : 9 , 400
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pulitzer , publisher of the st . louis post - dispatch , was eager to enter the chicago - area market in 1985 , believing it could duplicate here the success of community newspapers ringing its flagship in the st . louis suburbs .
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at its core , the new york newspaper strike was a battle over technology . the 1950s and 1960s saw the emergence of computerized typesetting systems that would revolutionize the newspaper composing room . newspapers that prohibited unions , such as the los angeles times , rushed to install cutting - edge computers such as the rca 301 . newspapers with union contracts , including those in new york city , faced tempestuous resistance from labor leaders , who could easily see that automation would cost jobs .
“one of his biggest regrets , ” glen lerner says . “whenever he was going to get promoted , he would do something to undermine it . he didn’t know how to explain it . ”
but in 1969 , the patriarca operation suffered a critical security breach when one of its associates turned informant . unfortunately for pro lerner , the canary was his friend and mentor , red kelley .
f . b . i . agents arrested lerner early one morning at the brookline apartment he shared with his wife and two young children . while lerner dressed , an agent noticed a brown gun case . when law enforcement officials returned hours later with a search warrant , they discovered its contents , a pump - action shotgun and a fully loaded pearl - handled . 45 - caliber pistol .
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pulitzer said a closing wouldn ` t have any material impact on its earnings . the company wrote down $ 3 . 9 million in goodwill and other intangible assets of lerner ` s last december .
bartirome remembers lerner being so well mannered that “he was like a priest , almost . ” oh , and another thing : he would occasionally leave the team to take care of some personal matters .
through it all , lerner was the odd man out : a jew from brookline , not an italian from providence , who sought comfort in the regular visits to the prison by a boston rabbi .
gerber ' s frequent lunch companion in her later years , former lerner colleague jack bess , recalled gerber as direct , down to earth and witty , who could sometimes be sharp in her comments . .
lerner grew up in phoenix and is a graduate of chaparral high school . she attended saint mary’s college in south bend and received her master’s degree in broadcast journalism from northwestern university medill school of journalism .
michele lerner is one of the most intelligent , informed and diligent journalists i have met covering real estate . i am interviewed by journalists about real estate every other month and have even met assignment editors for real estate sections of major newspapers who were out shopping for investment properties . i was often astounded by how often these people were covering stories that happened 3 months ago , or were regurgitating government agency talking points , or how often their backgrounds consisted of previously covering
style
section type topics . michele lerner , however , is always informed about the real estate market and has herself bought and sold homes in dc and the surrounding suburbs .
part of the growing lerner reputation was how pro once applied his bat skills to his new profession by ringing a doorbell and taking a cut at the head of the man who answered . the oft - told story may be apocryphal , but word of lerner’s penchant for violence had clearly reached the front office of the patriarca crime family , the boston red sox of the underworld . and he got called up .
a teammate , john kennedy , a future major leaguer , hasn’t forgotten the sounds of obsession that emanated from lerner’s home in raleigh , the rhythmic whacks of a fixated hitter striking a tire with a bat .
back in the states , lerner’s private life was in turmoil , too . a messy divorce from wife lara came as his family stake in bank of america was hit by a calamitous share - price dip .
cecil ' s greed for self - publicity was all - devouring . he sent photographs of himself to the newspapers ( nanny developed them in the bath ) and when that didn ' t work , he dressed up his sisters and sent in photographs of them .
though the two ballplayers crossed paths only briefly more than a half - century ago — one going up , the other going down — michael never forgot lerner , a good fielder and a great line - drive hitter who advocated chopping down on the ball to beat out the throw to first . over dinner one night , lerner lectured on baseball strategy and training in ways that the younger , less experienced michael had never heard before .
lerner signed with the washington senators at 18 and was dispatched to play entry - level ball in erie , pa . he batted a miserable . 167 in 13 games and spent the next few years in the marines .
but maury lerner never lost his sense of belonging to the professional baseball fraternity . among its members , he was not known for being anything other than a loyal teammate who could hit like hell . a real pro .
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in 1938 , came cecil ' s first real setback . to a drawing for american vogue called new york society - an explosion of trombones , telephones , party girls and swizzle sticks - he added fluttering newspapers in which were some anti - semitic phrases in microscopic type .
his work as a journalist has appeared in the chicago reader , the chicago tribune , chicago magazine ( notice a trend here ? ) , new city , the pulitzer - lerner newspapers , the publications of the national safety council and many , many more . he has covered city hall , the police beat , real estate development , the public schools and more . he’s most proud of his series of in - depth feature profiles of chicago artists , broadcasters , professional athletes and other colorful characters .
lerner : clark says print newspapers do need to find creative ways to make money , and that ' s perfectly evident here in seattle , where news consumers are still feeling the sting from the loss of the post - intelligencer newspaper three years ago . it ended its print edition and dramatically downsized . but clark says this isn ' t the way to generate revenue . many seattle times readers are also upset about the political ads . retired county judge michael fox has read the paper for decades .
but the old computerized advantages that used to spit out ads for the lerner papers were not laid to rest beside the ludlows and linotypes of times past . the trucks wheeled them west to a building in niles where a new firm called web set inc . had just set up shop . web set now typesets the lerner papers . come september 6 , the day after labor day , the advantages came back to life and went back to work .
lerner : and fox appreciates the editorial page ' s role in helping readers choose county judges . the ads , he says , go too far . but seattle times spokesperson jill mackie says readers can figure out the difference .
kelley kept talking . about how a patriarca lieutenant , luigi manocchio , had recruited lerner for his controlled violence , and how lerner had recruited kelley for his meticulous attention to escape plans . how they repeatedly scouted the daily movements of their intended victims , the wayward bookie , rudy marfeo , and his bodyguard , anthony melei . how manocchio later shook hands after a job well executed and conveyed the message that “george” — code for patriarca — was pleased .
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the journal ' s independent group of community weekly newspapers also publishes wednesday journal of oak park and river forest , forest park review , riverside brookfield landmark and austin weekly news . the company also publishes three regional parenting magazines : chicago parent , chicago baby and chicago special parent .
the deal also accelerates the national trend of increasing corporate control of the weekly newspaper business that only a few years ago was known for family ownership . the combination of a booming economy and shifting advertising strategies have driven up the values of weekly newspapers and fed the consolidation movement .
maury lerner was 24 , then 25 , then 26 — middle - aged in minor league time . a veteran bush leaguer making about $ 700 a few months of the year . a one - time prospect with no prospects .
as lerner’s wife took sick and went upstairs , they went downstairs to find a cellar converted into a shooting range . a silhouette target had been drawn on the bullet - pocked wall , and bits of lead peppered the floor .
the promise was investment on a grand scale . the ambitions of the club , which had just appointed o’neill as boss , would finally have a chance of being fulfilled . lerner even had the villa badge tattooed on his ankle .
lerner needs concessions to compete with the other community presses around them without unions ,
he said .
the reader ' s competition . you wouldn ' t live with restrictions in either area - - editorial or production .
louis a . lerner , a chicago newspaper publisher and the united states ambassador to norway in the carter administration , died of cancer yesterday at the university of illinois hospital in chicago . he was 49 years old and lived in chicago .
mr . lerner was born in chicago and received a b . a . degree from roosevelt university there in 1960 after studying at the university of chicago from 1951 to 1954 and attending scandinavian study seminars in copenhagen in 1956 and 1957 .
perhaps wisdom will come with numbers . the 34 - member lerner unit of the chicago newspaper guild called a meeting to talk over the practicality of employee ownership and to figure out how many guild employees genuinely want to go after it .
the ctu argues it ' s been grossly violated . thirty printers had been protected for life in ' 75 , and 18 of them were still working for lerner on september 3 . the ctu filed for arbitration to keep the composing room open and lost , but the union still hopes to prevail in federal court ; it ' s filed suit alleging breach of contract . gilbert cornfield said he hopes to get more facts out in court than the arbitrator would permit , in particular the full story of the financial arrangements among compucomp , web set , and the lerner papers .
lerner has the right to buy their equipment back ,
cornfield told us .
the agreement ' s only for three years .
pulitzer snapped up lerner in june 1985 . but within a year , a larger , more suitable vehicle for its role here came on the market , the economist group , for which pulitzer paid $ 40 . 8 million in april 1986 .
nicholas penniman iv , pulitzer ` s senior vice president for newspaper operations , said that , barring some unforeseen turnaround in lerner ` s business , the only probable alternative to a shutdown is a sale of the properties to one or more buyers .


the development studio was started in may 1998 by chris taylor and several other ex-cavedog entertainment employees .

in 2013 they became the seattle studio of wargaming.net .

wargaming seattle

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wargaming seattle , formerly known as gas powered games , is a video game developer located in redmond , washington .
led by scott bandy , wargaming seattle is a team of highly skilled professionals who are creating truly next - generation games .
seattle - based mobile gaming company dropforge games is now officially part of wargaming , creating a new division called wg cells .
dropforge and wargaming have been intertwined for years , but dropforge has technically been an independent studio that was fully funded by wargaming .
wg cells will be headquartered with wargaming in cyprus , but it will be operationally centered in seattle , with an additional team in ukraine .
now , the seattle mobile gaming startup has been officially absorbed into wargaming , giving the 60 - person team access to resources of its new parent company .
wg cells marketing head mike schmid clarified that this wasn’t an acquisition , since wargaming already owned dropforge . it also won’t have any impact on the company’s seattle employees .
five core values are the pillars on which wargaming builds a foundation for success .
taylor said his company has tentatively been renamed
wargaming seattle ,
adding ,
that ' s not 100 percent sure , but it ' s not a bad thing to say .
miniatures wargaming also has a presence at metro seattle gamers . in addition to the occasional civil war game , we have a regular de bellis antiquitatis group . metro seattle gamers currently is searching for a core group of dedicated miniaturists who are intrigued with the idea of participating regularly as members of our club .
when asked if the new game from gas powered games / wargaming seattle will include
world of
in its title , taylor laughed .
i can ' t say , because i don ' t know .
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in recent years our capabilities have been noticed by some publishers . as of january 2014 , we were playtesting three board wargames at metro seattle gamers .
wargames really shine at metro seattle gamers . our members have interests ranging from ancient history to science fiction . historical discussion is not unknown across our tables .
we have the space , time and storage to play any published titles , making us practically the center of board wargaming for the seattle area . play a wargame in one session or play a wargame across months of time , letting each session simmer in your mind as you plan for your next encounter .
during the early years of dragonflight , the sga provided a large percentage of the game events and staff for the convention . in time the hub became prohibitively expensive for a campus gaming club to use , so in 1990 members of the sga asked the dragonflight board of directors to consider sponsoring a game club to serve the seattle area . in october 1990 the first metro seattle gamers was opened in ballard at 1139 northwest market street . in june 2007 metro seattle gamers moved to its second location in the interbay business center , 1600 west armory way . in june 2017 , metro seattle gamers moved to its third location at the nickerson marina building , suite 200d .
the team will be led by ceo david bluhm , a superstar in the seattle gaming industry and former ceo of dropforge . it will focus solely on the exploding mobile games market .
campaigns , tactical wargames linked together with an underlying purpose , are another feature of wargaming at metro seattle gamers . we have hosted a number of campaigns including for star fleet battles , de bellis antiquitatis , command decision , achtung ! spitfire , advanced squad leader , fire and fury , panzer / 88 , fear god and dreadnought , and close action .
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“it’s very exciting to bring the full force of wargaming’s brand , expertise , know - how , and resources to the fast growing mobile games market , ” bluhm said in a tuesday press release .
wargaming—the developer of mega - popular free - to - play online game world of tanks —just announced that they ' ll be acquiring gas powered games , the company responsible for dungeon siege and supreme commander .
major layoffs at gas powered and the cancellation of their wildman kickstarter project made the company ' s future look uncertain . for wargaming , this is another move that seemingly preps them for expansion to newer platforms .
though the team is still very early into designing its first game under the wargaming banner , taylor confirmed that it will be a
free - to - play , triple - a mmo with pvp ,
in keeping with the model of other popular wargaming titles such as world of tanks . he said that wildman , the game he had attempted to fund through kickstarter , is no longer in development . taylor expects to be ready to talk about the new project in a few months .
metro seattle gamers has two parents : dragonflight and the university simulation gaming association ( sga ) , the latter of which met at the university of washington . the current dragonflight organization was started in 1981 to continue the dragonflight annual conventions and to promote the hobby generally . the sga started in 1979 : it was a registered student organization that used to meet for long hours of gaming in a conference room on saturdays and held shorter sessions during the week in an office in the husky union building ( hub ) . contrary to rumors , dragonflight and its convention predate metro seattle gamers by about ten years ; the convention and the club are separate divisions of dragonflight .
the club has seen its share of trends in gaming . early in the club’s history wizards of the coast held one of its first organizational meetings at msg ( note : we have never had any formal affiliation with wotc ) . the 90’s at the club saw magic , lan gaming , experimental wargaming , lots of titan , and the early beginnings of euro gaming . since the turn of the century we saw considerably more euro gaming , some rail gaming , and now we are seeing a resurgence in wargaming . the club has generally hosted at least one roleplaying game group at any given time .
wargaming is a giant in the free - to - play game genre , producing titles for pcs , consoles and mobile . founded in 1998 , it now employs 4 , 000 people around the globe and owns titles like world of tanks , world of warplanes and world of warships . world of tanks blitz , the company’s foray into mobile , has counted over 35 million downloads .
in a shocking twist for age of empires online , original developer robot entertainment is out , and chris taylor and his gas powered games crew ( of supreme commander fame ) are in . gpg has picked up where robot left off , and will carry microsoft ' s free - to - play real - time strategy game to completion . what exactly happened to prompt this switcharoo is unclear , and microsoft probably isn ' t too eager to share , but we ' ll be poking around for details at today ' s microsoft showcase event .
we ' re all big fans of gpg ' s work , and taylor is a known fan of ensemble ' s classic age of empires ii , so this seems like a good fit . in fact , taylor cited aoeii as one of his all - time favorite rts games when i talked to him about gpg ' s now - on - hold fantasy rts kings & castles last year - i suppose this explains why taylor ' d be willing to set that project aside to work on an aoe game .
update : robot entertainment president patrick hudson called to clear up the mystery . read on for his side of the story .
patrick hudson : we were always scheduled to roll off age online in february 2011 . we ' ve been working with gpg since last fall on the transition . we really enjoyed working with microsoft , and know that they ' re in good hands with chris and the gas powered games team .
robot was founded to work on original ip , but working with aoe was a great way to get the company off the ground . the plan was always to move to original ip as soon as we had the ability focus on our core business goal .
ph : i guess it ' s unusual , but as the game has evolved it ' s turned into a platform for a lot of content . we developed the game and the first two civilizations , the egyptians and the greeks , and gpg is taking it from there . that was always the plan when we started the company .
we ' re now working on shipping our first original game , orcs must die ! and will be announcing additional projects that we have in the works in the near future . that ' s ours , we ' ll stick with that one forever .
so it looks like this story isn ' t quite as scandalous as it first appeared , but still a pretty unusual occurrence in game development , and certainly great news for gas powered games fans . we ' ll be talking to chris taylor about his plans for age of empires online very soon .
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today , with four days and another half - million dollars in funding required to reach its goal .
at this point , it makes sense for us to focus our attention on other ways to keep gas powered games running . unfortunately , we are unable to share any specifics in public ,
an update reads on the
kickstarter page .
we are profoundly grateful to those of you who backed this project and gas powered games . your passion and hard work put us in a position to write this exciting new chapter in the history of gpg .
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2k games now has something in common with maligned german director uwe boll , but the publisher doesn ' t seem to mind . the new york - based company today announced that it has acquired the publishing rights to dungeon siege , the gas powered games role - playing series serving as the source material for boll ' s upcoming film , in the name of the king : a dungeon siege tale .
in accordance with the agreement , 2k games will release two new dungeon siege properties , an expansion for the pc game dungeon siege ii , and a new psp game set in the dungeon siege universe .
dungeon siege ii : broken world will open up new realms for fans of the series this summer on the pc . the expansion begins where dungeon siege ii left off and includes a new campaign , a new race , and a multiclass character development system . gas powered games will be developing this first expansion for the second dungeon siege game .
the franchise makes its portable debut on sony ' s psp with dungeon siege : throne of agony . scheduled to hit stores in the fall , throne of agony will include a brand - new single - player campaign as well as support for competitive or cooperative ad hoc wireless multiplayer modes . the game is being developed by supervillain studios , which formed in 2004 and is headquartered in costa mesa , california .
no rating or pricing information has been revealed for either game . for more details on the franchise , crawl through the dungeons of gamespot ' s previous coverage of dungeon siege ii .
expectations are tricky , particularly when a developer takes a proven game concept to a new setting . we didn ' t want to presume too much about this
dungeon crawl in space
approach to
' new action rpg . while space siege definitely delivers the superficial experience of a classic dungeon crawl , it fails to provide the player with enough meaningful choices or variety to make it worthwhile .
the story is full of stock sci - fi elements that aren ' t surprising by themselves and aren ' t used with any great effect . the game begins with the player hunting down stowaway aliens on board a massive spaceship and then runs through many of the standard twists and predictable turns . there are a few surprises here , but your emotional involvement with the story is never enough to give them any great meaning . it ' s simply enough to know where your objective is and that you have to shoot every alien , robot or cybernetic soldier you meet along the way . the few characters you meet are generally interesting but aren ' t really given enough to do to get you from one chapter to the next .
getting from a to b is fairly straightforward . the sequence of objectives and the basic layout of the levels don ' t allow for any real variety or flexibility in the way you approach the game . there are definitely plenty of instances where you can choose whether to go left or right , but the choice ends up the same in the end . the only real challenge is in trying to determine whether or not the objectives that show up on your mini map are above or below the level you ' re on . at the very least it would be helpful to see where the elevators are .
space siege bills itself as an action rpg but the developers have cautioned that it leans more towards action than rpg . the combat mechanics are functional if not particularly inventive . the player simply points and clicks the mouse to move and shoot , and uses the number keys to launch the occasional special attack . we ' d have loved to see a wasd - style movement system like we saw in shadowgrounds , because using the mouse pointer to control movement and shooting makes it impossible to do both at the same time . it ' s not usually a problem but in the bigger firefights it can be a real liability that you can ' t move while shooting .
there is a dodge function in the game , but it really doesn ' t work all that well . in order to dodge to the side or the rear , you have to move your mouse cursor off of your target and onto the other side of your character . if you have to do that , you might as well just move out of the way yourself .
on the plus side , there are some tactical elements you can use to make the fights a bit more interesting . as in any large space ship there are hundreds of explosive red barrels and crates scattered in every area and you can use these to create some interesting surprises if you can get your enemies to walk by them . you can also use your engineering skills to lay booby traps or drop turrets in front of your enemies . since none of the enemies do anything more sophisticated than running straight at you , you can usually be sure that they ' ll hit the traps you place .
your greatest tactical asset is hr - v , pronounced
harvey
, a combat robot that you can outfit with a couple of different weapons . hr - v basically follows you around and shoots at whatever happens to be in its field of vision . while it doesn ' t have as much personality or charm as the pack mule from the original dungeon siege , it ' s definitely useful to have an extra pair of guns when dealing with large groups . though hr - v follows you around and engages in combat automatically , you can also give it specific move and fire orders . the movement orders are sometimes useful , but for the most part the game doesn ' t give you enough breathing room to hand - select hr - v ' s targets .
massive layoffs crush gas powered games just days after launch of $ 1 . 1 million kickstarter [ update ]
kinja is in read - only mode . we are working to restore service .
we ' ve heard from two sources that there have been big layoffs at gas powered games , the company that just launched a kickstarter for $ 1 . 1 million to make their next game , wildman .
the makers of total annihilation and dungeon siege want $ 1 . 1 million from you for wildman , an rts…
the latest big - name - developer kickstarter comes from chris taylor & apos ; s gas powered games . they…
one source said these layoffs may be connected to the kickstarter ' s current performance , which you could argue has been disappointing , based on their goal . right now , it has been up for four days and earned around $ 173 , 000 .
update : we ' ve heard from two more sources saying that almost everyone at the company has been laid off . according to one of these sources , the company has let go of everyone except ceo chris taylor and one or two people .
located in redmond , washington , gas powered games is the developer behind games like dungeon siege and supreme commander . it ' s run by chris taylor , who created the popular real - time strategy game total annihilation .
we ' ve reached out to both taylor and a pr representative for the company ' s kickstarter project . we ' ll update should we hear back .
update 2 : chris taylor has confirmed the layoffs . he sent over the following e - mail :
we do have a layoff , and we ' ll be updating our kickstarter as well with details as well very soon . i ' m way behind , so many wonderful people to talk to and share stories with , so it just takes time . it ' s actually been a fairly positive experience , because i run a very open company and everyone knows what ' s going on .
update 3 : taylor has offered some further explanation to gamasutra , saying ,
the studio is still operating , but we had to slim way down to conserve cash reserves .
update 4 : taylor has offered a further bit of explanation to joystiq , telling them that about 40 people have been
affected by layoffs
( joystiq ' s language ) , that the decision wasn ' t as sudden as it appeared to be , and that it will allow the company to pay severance and remaining paid time - off .
update 5 : taylor has made a lengthy statement via a video update to the wildman kickstarter page . he explains the reasoning behind the timing of the layoffs : if the company ran through the entire kickstarter campaign and it failed , he says he ' d have to let everyone go , shut the company down , and not give any paid time - off or severance .
that ,
he says ,
i decided was not worth it .
in the video , taylor goes on to ask backers if he should continue the kickstarter campaign .
now that the team has been laid off ,
he says ,
should i continue the campaign to see if the numbers do improve , and hire them back at the end of the campaign if they still want to come back and if they haven ' t found jobs ? or do i shut the campaign down tonight , or tomorrow , and call it done ?
taylor then asks people to vote with their comments , and says they will tabulate them .
do we kill the campaign , or do we keep it going ? it ' s up to you .
designer chris taylor has canceled his troubled kickstarter , just four days before funding was scheduled to end .
wildman , an action - role - playing game that promised to be
evolutionary ,
had earned roughly $ 504 , 000 , more than half a million short of its $ 1 . 1 million goal . the kickstarter was due to end on friday .
this project has been troubled for a while now : a few weeks ago , days after the project launched , taylor laid off a bulk of his staff at gas powered games . he later said he would
see the kickstarter campaign through .
at this point , it makes sense for us to focus our attention on other ways to keep gas powered games running . unfortunately , we are unable to share any specifics in public . when we have news to share , we will be posting it on our site . if you want status updates , or if you want to continue discussing wildman and / or this kickstarter , please consider migrating over to forums . gaspowered . com .
we are profoundly grateful to those of you who backed this project and gas powered games . your passion and hard work put us in a position to write this exciting new chapter in the history of gpg .
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after a canceled kickstarter attempt and heavy layoffs , beleaguered developer gas powered games was purchased by urltoken last month . talking about the change at gdc 2013 , gas powered games ceo chris taylor called it
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it ' s not a publisher acquiring a developer ,
taylor said in an interview with polygon .
it ' s a developer acquiring a developer [ . . . ] there was a 99 percent overlap in terms of company culture , genre choices , and leadership .
he also revealed that he ' s been able to rehire some of the employees that were laid off earlier this year .
we went down to less than ten people , but we ' re back up to 30 now , and that number continues to grow ,
taylor said .
fallout 76’s todd howard : no cross - console play because ‘sony is not as helpful as everyone would like . ’
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headquartered in europe , the company has a worldwide network of development offices , marketing teams and users wg cells will be able to use to cross - promote its new titles .
“independent studios can do these things , but they don’t have nearly the access to those resources , ” bluhm said .
schmid said that business will continue as usual , except now under a new banner . the dropforge brand will disappear over the next couple of months , but its games , including recently launched loot & legends , will live on .
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even if it is quite complete , it still miss some direct x functionalities . this article present how to add this missing functionalities by installing native direct x 9 . 0c in your wine environment . on february 24 , 2011 , it was announced that gas powered games would be taking over development on the upcoming real - time strategy game age of empires online , replacing robot entertainment on the project .
a players ' score depends on his in - game performance ; good performance leads to increased rating , while poor performance causes a drop in rating .
you can find your exact rating here , but keep in mind , a high rating does not mean you ' re good , but you may have a high rating because you ' re good . 1v1 ladder matches affected 1v1 and global rating for a while , but now they are limited to 1v1 rating only .
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in march 2006 , take - two interactive purchased the full publishing rights of the dungeon siege series , ending the four - year microsoft partnership with gas powered games .
gpg released supreme commander , a real - time strategy game in february 2007 , published by thq .
announced in the august 2005 issue of pc gamer magazine , chris taylor touted supreme commander as the spiritual successor to total annihilation as total annihilation remains the intellectual property of atari .
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