First:

AP - Video-game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. said Wednesday that sales of its popular and eagerly anticipated title “Grand Theft Auto IV” reached more than $500 million in its first week of availability. [Link]

And then:

AP - Cablevision Systems Corp. is buying the Sundance Channel, a cable network founded by Robert Redford, for $496 million, the New York-area cable TV company announced Wednesday. [Link]

Is it just me, or is anyone else cracking up that a video game made more in a week than an entire cable network does when it sells? How sad.

I freely admit that I know nothing about the game other than what I’ve heard and read in the news lately, but I would much rather watch good independent film than pretend I’m a drunk driver and kill people.

This is the game that I’ve been playing all weekend…

and oh…how much fun am I having? lots….lots and lots.

I’m a huge fan of the first Neverwinter Nights, which was an incredible campaign of RPG fun. I finished the original campaign, and purchased the two major expansion packs, Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark. Both of them were equally engaging, and I finished SoU but I could not complete HotU. I got to the last major fight in the game and simply couldn’t be the bad guys.

So…I decided that my adventures would continue in NWN2 instead. Perhaps some day I will go back and resurrect my old character and play through the campaigns again, but it’s unlikely.

As a wise and learned man once said: We can go back…to the past…we have to move forward.

Indeed.