GameSetWatch - Brian Moriarty's Apology For Roger Ebert. Thanks Ant via Slashdot.
These quotes are boulder-size clues to Ebert's sensibilities.

He objects to the idea of self-directed effort as a means of experiencing art. He sees the intention of a single artist as primary. He speaks of inevitability. He's jealous of his free time, those 'precious hours' he has left for cultivation. He sees art not as an escape from life, but as a way to understand and accept life as it is.

No doubt about it. Roger Ebert is, like me, a hopeless Romantic.

GameFront - Electronic Arts Needs To Get Off of Call of Duty’s Nuts.
It doesn’t look like EA’s modus operandi is going to change anytime soon. Battlefield 3 is currently turning heads, but already the comparisons to Call of Duty are circulating around the Internet. It seems the cycle that we saw with Medal of Honor is happening once again, with EA claiming that this is the year it will become a major force in the first-person-shooter genre, and that Battlefield 3 will lead the charge. I have every hope that Battlefield 3 will be a good title, but if EA insists that DICE do the same thing Danger Close did, and make a concerted, conscious effort to beat Call of Duty at its own game, then I don’t predict we’ll have a great product on our hands. I’d rather see Battlefield 3 stand out on its own merits and not attempt to ape another franchise. I want to see the game strive to be different, and have that unique, personal touch that helped Call of Duty become the major player it is today. You don’t become top dog in this industry by blatantly copying something else — just ask the PlayStation Move how that works out.

Games On Net -- Everything New is Old Again.
I’ve asked FPS developers this many a time, point-blank, including the guys working on Homefront: “Why aren’t you innovating from scratch?” They all say the same thing in response: “We don’t want to mess around too much with what everyone’s comfortable with.” What they’re really saying is, “It’s worked for those guys, and our publisher’s bottom-line is crapping itself.” One day, it will stop working. Don’t wait for that day, seize it. What nobody seems to realise is that, if they were braver – like the guys who threw caution to the wind and bundled you up inside a ghillie suit – the potential for establishing a new status quo is right there, waiting, looking around, feeling kind of awkward, possibly wondering why nobody’s asked it to dance yet.