That fire looks tasty. I want to eat it.

GameFly would suffer from locked titles too. That whole company would shut down if they could only rent back catalog. I assume GameFly purchases millions of copies of titles to rent out to their members. If consoles lock out this portion of their business how will that hurt that portion of thier revenue?

I agree with this message.

I think the developers exceeded in their mission far greater then even putting this on the shelves. In the original release of the "bust" they described it as a "interesting conversation piece for the mantle". They didn't even have to sell it or place it on anyone's mantle and they still got the conversation. Not exactly the conversation they were looking for but I believe that if you are a true follower of this type of genre (horror/zombie)there are certain elements that are going to be included. For the developers to pander to the the folks that don't understand is submitting to the fear of the common denominator. It's alright to step out of the box especially in this context. It's not like they are marketing this as anything but what it is. To use a term coined and cliched "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Art can be found everywhere,it's what your brain does with it that causes the chaos.

Sweet. Someone ripped the head off a Barbie doll and made it look like a zombie. Wait. What? Barbie dolls are bad now? Well shit. The pros said so.

Screens on controllers always confuse me. At what point in the action of a game is there time to look down at your hands? If you could use the "controller screen" while using your main screen I could see this as fun. I am thinking in a senecio like a shooter,say you need night vision or heat sensing. Bring the controller screen up to eye level and let that act as your night/heat vision for the moment. A controller screen would be awesome for games like fallout and Batman were your character actually uses mini LCD devices(pip boy)(detective tools). If you are going to do it do it so it has some substance. Don't just do it because the world is now a touch screen.

Let's see what "The Last of Us" can bring.

Could someone build a USB/FireWire device,like a portable hard drive size that could turn any PC into a gaming machine? I know in the Audio industry we have external boxes like the Apollo from UAD that runs multiple processors to take extreme DSP loads off the main CPU. If the same concept could be applied to graphics processes as it is to the audio processes in heavy weight audio software then acceleration could be applied to even the weakest net books to power AAA titles.

I joined Steam a while back. I couldn't buy/play AAA titles since I couldn't support them with my PC/Laptop. I did buy some indies. It's been about 3 years since I've logged on to my steam account though. If Valve had a "steam box" I would support their effort and purchase the hardware. Until then I get my tenticle raping/gaming enjoyment from Sony.

Great write up. Would like to read more content like this. OS is good reads.