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Just had to share this one. I am in LOVE with the Amazon MP3 music downloads. Pricing is awesome. Tons of great special deals. 256k MP3 no DRM Audio. It’s pretty much perfect in every way. Short of being completely free of course. I’m sure I’ll find another post to rave about the service again. But for today just know this. Coldplay X&Y for $1.99.
Update: Today you can get A Rush of Blood to the Head for $1.99! Word from Amazon is that they will have one Coldplay album a day at this price.
Caught wind of a little news via Joystiq via GameDaily that we will soon have another video game developer joining the ranks in the Raleigh area. Insomniac Games is planning to open a new 30 person studio in the area for development of new PS3 titles. Insomiac are well known for their fun and graphically impressive PS3 titles of Resistance as well as Rachet and Clank. Other developers in the area include the well known Epic Games who bring us the Unreal Engine and games like Gears of War. Also Red Storm Entertainment who focus on military based first-person shooters under the Tom Clancy name.
I wouldn’t say that I am a dedicated video gamer anymore, but I still fire up the 360 from time to time to play a little GTA4 or Forza2. I once was addicted to World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike before that. Also being a software developer I can’t say I haven’t thought about making the jump from enterprise software development at my current position over to game development. I’m not sure that I have the chops for the development side of things when it comes to gaming. My native development skills are not the sharpest these days and my math could use a serious sharpening I would guess. Maybe project management? Did I just say that? Yikes.
