escapism

Here are games currently under development that I am anticipating greatly:

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
STALKER: Shadows of Chernobyl
Sid Meier's Pirates! (the new one, coming out soon)
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
The Bard's Tale (the new one, which I hear is pretty decent)

...and I guess that Half-Life 2 thing I keep hearing about.

Huh, this says a lot about the game industry at the moment, I think. Of six games, one of them is an entirely original concept, two are sequels, two are updated remakes of some sort, and one is a licensed property (although one that hasn't been exploited much in the past).

AU plugin!

Cheese Machine! Swoopy analog string ensemble emulation. So pretty...

...also VST versions, but it's freeeee! And out for the Mac, which means you could use it with GarageBand or anything that uses AU or VSTi plugins. This is a port of the Windows version, so it's out for that, too.

Swoooopy. I have to go listen to Oxygene now.