Martin Freeman plays the Observer's foreign affairs editor – whose character name, Peter Edwards, appears to be a composite of Vulliamy and real-life editor Peter Beaumont, who is now the Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent.
Dave Nussbaum is adjunct assistant professor of Behavioral Science at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and the editor of Character and Context, the blog for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology.
It was immersive before "immersion" became an entertainment-industry buzzword, it was "interactive" back when interactivity meant writing reasonable letters to the editor about characters named Tigra and Man-Thing and it linked like-minded thinkers in an open-ended virtual fantasy world before there was a World of Warcraft or even a Web to play it on.
A good editor makes the character of the writer's persona, a thing the editor sees coming upon the writer well before the writer is possessed by it.
IGN's Xbox article editor described the character's inclusion as an unnecessary marketing ploy and would have preferred new characters made without McFarlane's involvement; the editor also wrote that Necrid did not "vibe" with the rest of the game.
The Private Character Editor program lets you create new type characters or edit existing ones, and you can insert them into documents using the system's Character Map tool.
While third-party tools like FontStruct and BitFont Maker 2 allow you to design and create your own characters, PC users can tap right into the Private Character Editor utility that comes with most recent versions of Windows.
To find the program on a Windows 7 or Windows 8 computer, just look for it by name in the system's Search box; Windows 7 users can also find the Private Character Editor by going to the Start menu.
To the Editor: The title character of Warren Beatty's 1998 film "Bulworth" is a politician so fed up with how leaders are elected in this country that he decides to do the unthinkable: tell the truth during his own re-election bid.
