A friend pointed out a great article on layouts and the future of web browsers. It is a very interesting article about how browsers are changing, but it's no real excuse for designers and developers not to think about being user friendly.

Quote:
Shouldn’t a web-site rather adapt itself to the viewing preferences of its users? If you think about it for a second, you have the same situation as in a cloth store where you are offered cloth only in some very specific size. If the size doesn’t fit to you, it’s your problem, not store’s owner. And if you want to you can take a needle, some fabric and create the cloth of its own choice for free. That is not user-friendly.

Check out the article:
Flexible Layouts: Challenge For The Future

Grand Theft Auto IV is now the best selling video game. Take-Two's game generated 500 million dollars in it's first week in sales.

The biggest opening 7 days ever for a major motion picture is Pirates of the Carribean with just under $200 million. Over 10 days the movie generated $300 million.

Here is more from the LA Times article:

"Grand Theft Auto IV," the latest version of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.'s gangland video game, generated a record $500 million in sales during its first week in stores.

Sales beat the $300 million benchmark set by Microsoft Corp.'s "Halo 3" in September. Stores sold 6 million copies of "Grand Theft," including 3.6 million, worth $310 million, on the first day, Take-Two said.

And BTW, I am playing the xbox 360 version... it's ridiculously great.

I tend to follow two sites when it comes to reviews for video games. The first and foremost being Gamespot, and with these guys if the review is above an 8 it's usually buy worthy. The second site is Gametrailers.com. Gametrailers does work with SpikeTV so this site may seem familiar.

Today they released the official Grand Theft Auto IV review. Head over and check it out.

Game hits store Monday at midnight.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33327.html

Here is an early review from OXM (Official XBOX Magazine). Download the file below and check out the hi-res scans from the magazine. I got this from a buddy of mine. There are no major spoilers, but there are some details about the game here. If you have been reading any articles online about the game, this shouldn't be news to you.

The release date for GTA IV is April 29th.

Download the magazine review now! (Right-click and Save)

Here is the last official trailer for the game, just to get you even more excited:

No updates since last year. That is really sad. Nothing much going on though. Now that spring is hear it's time for nice weather, blue sky, green grass, and my mustang to start tearing up the streets. Well not really, but it is time to get it back out from the winter break.

In case you don't remember her, here she is.