Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. Hephaestus made a brief ...

One of central Athens' best preserved ruins is the Temple of Hephaestus. Nestled within Ancient Agora, this site was built between 460 and 420 B.C. and once served as a Christian church.

That friendship led to Shotz and Steinberg essentially writing Hephaestus with Omundson specifically in mind, as he did not audition for the character. “I texted them when The Old Man came out ...