Shine a light
Read this Kieron Gillen piece on Gears of War right now, because it is excellent and well worth the five minutes it takes to get through it.
Good writing informs while it entertains, and this piece does that in spades: I had never really put together how the dichotomy between western and eastern juvenalia in the games industry shakes out, but Gillen lays it out very nicely in this piece.
Speaking of Gears of War, this new footage of the game doesn’t do a whole lot for me. I liked the first game because it innovated just enough to be interesting while still keeping a bear-like grip on its FPS legacy, but I’m not sure that increasing the amount of on-screen enemies, making the graphics nicer, or increasing the size of multiplayer games is going to grab me this time around.