I actually cringed when I saw that it was the same guy that did the Crysis soundtrack, but listening to these samples, it sounds pretty good.

The melody in the main title gives me a bit of a "wild west" kind of feel to it, with a good level of foreboding doomy sounds.

This actually makes me look forward to the game even more. The blend of good synth sounds and acoustics, in the track Megaton, kind of touches on a theme that seems really cool to me. Sparse harmonica and twangy slide guitar, little banjo kind of sounds.

What else would you expect from a game about a post-apocalyptic society? To me, the best score would be something like the amazing Bladerunner soundtrack mixed with classics like Ennio Morricone (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly). Thats just my opinion tho. :)

It's great that NVIDIA made it to the top by having great driver support, frequent updates, and great price for performance ratios. Since last December, they've refreshed and introduced new lines, yet we still haven't seen a WHQL driver release for the 8-Series cards.

As everyone has said, what's the point? The 9-Series GPU's don't have "new" architecture, only smaller chip sizes. Are they DX10.1 compatible? Does that even matter? Very disappointed in NVIDIA recently, it seems they're moving away from the direction that brought them to the top.

-m23

360...
They look the same because it works for Final Fantasy (American looking characters with blond & whacky hair) and none of those lead-characters have anything to do with each other. :)

WE'VE GOT A WINNER!!!

I'm still rockin the old 80286 with the monochrome monitor and Prodigy for DOS. Fortunately they have a built-in internet client so I'm able to check Joystiq, although its in monochrome and theres no picture support. (Which is cool though, because I don't see the ads). Oh, and I recently upgraded to a 14.4kbps modem, which is blazing fast.

-mb

7 Million subscriptions to Chinese gold-farming businesses.
2 Million subscriptions to legitimate "players".

:)

Hey Guys. Updated my Zune software this morning. I used iPods for a few years, and all I gotta say, ZUNE FTW. The desktop software is fantastic; its quick, simple, and effective. And the firmware? Yea thats good too. The desktop software always bugged me, and this new release is MUSIC to my ears. Absolutely fantastic; if iTunes was the big reason people bought iPods, then most certainly the Zune Software will move LOTS of Zunes. :)

Actually, in Law, an "Act of God" is a real legal term. (Its not to imply that God exists, or that it was God's fault). In real terms, its used usually when something completely out of the ordinary occurs.
(IE, you are a business in Hawaii, and you order 1,000 pineapples from a company in Hawaii. While the truck is on the way to deliver the pineapples, it begins snowing and haling, destroying the pineapples en route.)Or, if you were in Canada, and the temperature swelled to 120 degrees F in the dead of Winter, ruining a good.
I'm surprised they'd use that term in this situation: it seems they'd just say it was the result of the customer being negligent (ie setting up his PS3 in the middle of a construction zone, or using it in the middle of the desert with a generator, or whatever). Maybe there was a massive dust storm at his house? :)

Why no PC love? They didn't want to show everyone what it looks like on dual 8800's? :)

http://hritcu.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/crash-different-2-small.jpg

http://flickr.com/search/?q=GSOD+mac

Yep,yep,yep. Anyone using a Mac for a few years would get used to seeing this. I'm amazed that more people don't discuss the "Grey screen of death"...