TheGuy

It's obvious what's happening here. Microsoft originally wanted a deal in good faith with Yahoo's board, and reportedly were even willing to add more money to the original 33$ per share deal to keep things in good faith. I think most of us can agree that was a generous offer. However, in an act of sheer stupidity/arrogance Yahoo's board rejected the deal. They were asking for a lot more money than Microsoft was willing to pay, and Yahoo has a pretty potent poison pill (greater collaboration with Google) to sour a hostile takeover. So, since the good faith approach has failed, Microsoft is going to plan B: pull the offer and let the shareholders replace Yahoo's board with people who are willing to let Microsoft buy Yahoo. We're already seeing the set pieces for that coming together, especially with Carl Icahn now leading the charge. So unless Yahoo has a really great product or service they're working on that'll substantially increase the value of the company to were it would have made sense for them to reject Microsoft's offer (my bet is no), the board will be ousted and the deal will go through.

I think I just lost faith in mankind.

Sony never had an exclusive deal for GTA4, and Jack Tretton stated the PS3 exclusive game he announced being developed by Rockstar is not L.A. Noire.

One of the rumors I've heard is that she's a game developer in Rockstar, so I guess there could be credence in this rumor. Still, she hasn't shown to have much accuracy in-terms of first-party Sony games (i.e. she claimed Sony would show Killzone 2 at GDC).

edit* in-game cutscenes. (TheGuy wishes there was an edit button)

The graphics aren't easy to appreciate during gameplay, due to how much everything is zoomed-out, but don't forget the footage shown in the recent trailers are in-game trailers. It's looking at that footage where you can truly see how visually stunning the game is, especially with all the activity happening in some of the scenes.

As for the size, it's obvious the uncompressed audio is a reason for the huge size but I feel it's something that is under appreciated. Most people might not be able to benefit from such crisp audio, but it's one of those things that will be able to help the game stand-up to the tests of time and still be impressive in future years.

"They must have had some dirt on him, but I suspect that Leno is quite agreeable and the good guy. NBC probably appealed to that part of him."

No. Conan was tired of waiting for Leno to pass-on the Tonight Show to him, so he was considering offers from other networks. They signed-up Conan early to prevent him from leaving, but it looks like it'll cost NBC Leno though.

@ThornedVenom

I do agree that a combination of disk and flash memory is the best balance between costs and performance, but my problem with hybrid memory storage is that having flash memory on each game cartridge/disk isn't cost efficient. Why use flash memory on each game when you can just use the flash memory on the handheld?

*Puts on flame suit*

@ThornedVenom

Since when has flash storage ever been cheaper than disk storage?

And you don't need a huge Memory Stick to use the installation option. The whole game isn't installed onto the memory stick, so a moderately-sized Memory Stick should be fine.