Schilling ‘surprised’ by Amalur turnout

BOSTON – Curt Schilling, former Red Sox pitcher and founder of 38 Studios LLC, was “surprised” by the roughly 250-person line for the release of his company’s first video game, The Boston Globe reported.

Schilling was signing copies of “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning,” released Tuesday at midnight, at GameStop in Bellingham, Mass., along with R.A. Salvatore, who created the game’s storyline.

“For five years, I haven’t been able to say a word about this,” said Salvatore to the newspaper. “And tomorrow the game gets to talk for us … I think this game is outstanding. It’s the world I envisioned back in 2006.”

“I honestly thought it was going to be all people from my company,” Schilling added. “I don’t recognize anybody in line. They’re all gamers.”

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One of the people on line, Andrew Stone of Milford, said that he was convinced to buy the game after downloading the free demo version.

“It’s a fun environment, to see the people who are kind of like you,” said Stone about the crowd.

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