I feel the same way. The default mode isn't very good.

He was talking about a blatant in-game popup soliciting money to give you access to extra content. The Warden's Keep thing is pretty much exactly that. It'll probably only get worse in Dragon Effect 2.

Buy a copy of Dragon Age: Origins (regular edition) and you can have just that! Today!

Ignore the screwed up formatting. I think I forgot to close a tag.

Dead Space. It isn't particularly original, but it's highly polished and what I'd consider quality.

The funny thing is that the apartment probably isn't even there. The scenes look like they were shot against a green screen (and badly at that). Look at the woman's pixelated hair. Pretty mediocre craftsmanship, I'd say.

There's a ton of usability work behind Office 2007. I don't know if anything's actually published, but Jensen Harris, a Program Manager from Microsoft, has been blogging a lot about the UI and the thoughts behind the ribbon.

http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/11/10/the-office-2007-ui-bible.aspx

Thanks. I hadn't thought about outright blocking it.

Speaking of which, why won't Slashdot let me turn the tags off?