I'll believe the $100 XBox 360 rumor when I see it but Derek and I were discussing whether or not there would be a price decrease this holiday season or not. I had heard there would be (as a torpedo in the side of the PS3) and he strongly doubted it...

An article on the growing schism in gaming between the hard-core gamer and the casual gamer. It brings up the reality that even though the two audiences can play the same game, they can have a vastly different experience of it...

A new "indie label" for games. A lot of these look pretty great and non-traditional.

Quoted: The machinery of gaming has run amok.

Quoted: Instead of serving creative vision, it suppresses it. Instead of encouraging innovation, it represses it. Instead of taking its cue from our most imaginative minds, it takes its cue from the latest month's PC Data list. Instead of rewarding those who succeed, it penalizes them with development budgets so high and royalties so low that there can be no reward for creators. Instead of ascribing credit to those who deserve it, it seeks to associate success with the corporate machine.

Quoted: It is time for revolution.

Games are about to get "scary-good."

Quoted: CNET presents screenshot slide shows from new and forthcoming games for the Xbox 360, including Full Auto, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Dead or Alive 4 (DOA4), Perfect Dark Zero (PDZ / PD0), Project Gotham Racing 3 (PGR3), Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (a.k.a. Ghost Recon 3), and Quake 4.