You Can't Spend All of Your Money on Rocco Sfreddi "Criterion Collector's Series" DVDs...

Oh yes you can. Them pups are pricey.

They are worth it, tho. I just got the original "The Blob" from the Criterion series and the picture is crystal clear.

Later,
bbeck

Ahem, you missed an "i" in Rocco's name.

Not that I know this. I only watched Taylor Loves Rocco for researc-- I wanted to see how those Europeans lived.

Yup, that's the ticket.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Shit be crazy. If Killzone's in game comes out looking anything close to the clip floating round, then virtua-crack is finally here. I'll be promptly dropping out of the go-to-work, staid adult life to stay home suckin on my HD game teat.

These specs actually worry me. SEVEN processor cores running at 3.2 gig each. Half the memory my PC has right now, only running at an even clip with the processor. 20+ gigs of space on the game discs. The video-card horsepower of TWO top-of-the-line GeForces that would cost a thousand bucks by themselves today.

Why does this worry me? Right now, studios have to recruit hordes of overworked programmers just to crank out something that looks good "for an XBox game". Now, you have the hardware to make a game that looks like the Final Fantasy movie, or something Pixar would make, only in real time. But each notch up the graphics-o-meter requires an order of magnitude more work to get it done right. The first time one studio pours the money into one game to get everything just so, the bar has been set. EVERYBODY feels the need to spend 10 mil on art and rendering and so forth, and the two results are both bad for gamers: gameplay suffers as more budget goes to eye-candy, and the price of the games keeps going up, up, up. At least, that's my prediction. I'll buy one anyway, don't doubt, and I probably won't even bother to check the reivews for games like MGS4 before I add them to my library, even if they're $60+, but I shudder to think what my checkbook will look like in 2007.

OTOH, maybe all that computing power, if used in the studios, will make game production more efficient/cheaper/easier.

Witness Star Wars Revelations, done for $20k.

And another thing- how come I can't buy a stylus that connects to a USB or mouse port, that lets me draw freehand with direct import into my PC?????

My son loves doodling and he's really good at drawing anime characters with pen or pencil. But he can't do it on a PC, as far as I know.

it'll be interesting to see who wins: PS3 or XBOX 360.

Microsoft really, really, really wants to win this fight, but Sony is no chump.

So, like a real man, I'm going to sit on the sidelines until a "winner" starts to emerge . Very cowardly, yet financially wise of me.

Pffft.

I'm gonna buy one of each. Who needs food?

Pixy Misa has the right idea, although I've planned ahead and stocked up on cheap-ass Ramen noodles and stuff. There's buckets on the roof for collecting rainwater, too.

The Nintendo fanboy in me is screaming for joy over the Nintendo Revolution console featuring Wifi out of the box and Smash Brothers Online (as I call it) being one of the launch titles.