Pointless Waste of Time's David Wong and Haimoimoi bring us the fantastic Gamer's Manifesto (kudos: Adrian). This is something every games publisher should read. The Sony Playstation 3 is going to cost $465.00. -- In the desolate economic climate of post-apocalyptic 2006, I'm thinking that's going to be a lot of money. Now, it's true that at E3 Sony was boasting the Playstation 3 could crank out 1.8 TFLOPS, or 1.8 trillion FLOPS. If that many FLOPS were piled together they would fill the Grand Canyon, assuming each FLOP were the size of a muskrat. So what do gamers want from all that money and FLOP? Just ask them. They continue by listing things that gamers really want to see like AI that's actually intelligent, no misleading videos (which, admittedly I've helped promote of late) and mostly less bullshit everywhere. I caught in last month's Edge that at this year's Game Developer Conference Nokia's game guy (sorry, no name in memory) proclaimed "we're all fucked!" This was met with thunderous applause from the crowd (made up mostly of game developers) as they all know it's true. With game development budgets bumping up to eight figures the pressure of making games more imminently marketable is omnipresent. Which basically means misleading graphics, celebrities and less gameplay. Welcome to Hollywood.