Since it's a reasonably slow news day, allow us to try something different. Please take the time to observe the slightly-dated humorous video above by YouTube user Kater17. Yeah, it's in the spirit of the upcoming Tomb Raider: Anniversary. Anyway, funny(?) as it is, it does highlight several things that developers have to often think about, and gamers have to wrestle with when it comes to videogames.

• That casual gamers, a crowd that ranges from Zuma playing moms to ex-hardcore-now-a-parent gamer, are often easily annoyed with an unwieldy "cinematic" camera or an annoying control system. On the other hand, there's a separate crowd that digs all this cinematic stuff.
• Sometimes it's not the "cute" that draws folks to cutesy games, it's the immediate fun factor. If you're enjoying yourself within the first 5 minutes of playing a game, you're probably going to prefer that game over others. Of course, making things a bit too simple and light on story will piss some other folks off.
• Unless you're really really interested, or something decent is happening on screen, people often skip the long intro cinematics. Yeah, yeah, some folks like the cinematics, it's just that... *editor presses X to skip cinematics discussion*