We've been keeping tabs on this story, as James Kim is one of us.

He's a geek. He's a gamer. He's a face we grew to know when he used to be on Tech TV (back when Tech TV was cool).

When he and his family disappered, something in us knew they were safe. He's a smart guy. He just pulled a "Stolpa" and was going to take a barrelful of jokes at his expense once he was back.

When his family was found in their disabled Saab seven days later, we all began to worry a whole lot more. He has struck out from the car to find help across the snowbound Oregon wilderness.

But there was hope we would all be making some good-natured fun at his expense in the near future.

So it is with heavy hearts that we at GamerAndy report that the body of James Kim was found this morning in a canyon in the Southern Oregon mountains.

From reports:

A helicopter crew located Kim, 35, in a steep canyon known as the Big Windy Creek drainage, within a half a mile of where the creek meets the Rogue River. Searchers had been focusing their efforts in the five-mile canyon for the past several days after following Kim's tracks there.

Our sympathies and prayers go out to his wife, Kati; his daughters, Penelope and Sabine; his friends and his co-workers at CNet. When we lose a member of the geek community, we all grieve.