Stino - we'll have to take the bad with the good! Very nice online portfolio, where are you based?

Alfonso - thanks so much for responding. I'm glad to know Mori is under active development, I'd assumed it wasn't since the last official update came out in July of 2008. I look forward to future versions and will try to contribute some valuable feedback.

William,

It's available for earlier versions; see here:

http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english/apps.html

Interesting. I'll refrain from reading the whole article due to "spoilers," but I think the important thing to look at is the vision rather than the execution. Regardless of whether Heavy Rain's reach exceeds its grasp, imagine the same tech with a GREAT story -- not just by videogame standards, but by film standards -- combined with a truly branching storyline dependent upon a player's choices (instead of smaller interactions along a linear timeline). Not just different endings, but different paths entirely. Kind of like, you know, life.

Thanks for the link.

Nick, thanks -- I could go either way but really what it comes down to is what boat I'm in when CS5 comes out, both in terms of the production I'm currently working on and, of course, the money boat. I also think a factor in choosing an editing machine will be whether Adobe enables GPU acceleration on mobile chipsets; most recently they've said "no" but I wonder if that will change given the release of more powerful mobile cards. I've managed fine with editing on a laptop but if Adobe sticks to desktop-only cards I'd have a hard time justifying another laptop. We'll see!

Von, it's a bit light on narrative and heavy on FX for my tastes too, but who's counting?

As for the new genre of DSLR movies, you're absolutely right -- thousands of (aspiring) filmmakers are thrilled with the prospect of shooting great-looking images for unprecedentedly cheap, and so we have tons of films that look great and are about nothing. It'll wear off with time, and the good narratives will come to the front I think.

Nice look behind-the-scenes for Nuit Blanche here -- I had no idea everything but the people was CGI.

http://vimeo.com/9076775