While I'm in the office crunching on this amazing title I can't tell you about yet, may I point you to a number of news items I scammed off Slashdot Games?

• Will the ballooning costs of developing next-next gen games crush small developers? Hardly a new topic for developers, but it remains interesting.
  
  
• The rise of video game fashion. Since, what, 2002? video games have been making a major impact on Western culture. Here's more proof.