Speaking of soundtracks, here a USA Today interview with n00b videogame soundtracker Hans Zimmer, in which he reveals that he was out of his element when doing the music for Modern Warfare 2. The guy seems to normally do, I dunno, movies and stuff. He comments on the difference:

It's actually not that different from working on an animated movie other than there are certain things you just can't do. You don't know how long it's going to take the player to get to the end...so things which we musicians take for granted, we work out all these big dynamic arcs, that is suddenly gone. So we have to think in a slightly different way...Rather than working from a main character who is an actor, in a funny way the main character is the participant in the game. So you have to think slightly differently in how you approach the thing.

My favorite part of the interview is when the USA Today writer says it sounds like Zimmer thinks there's "some legitimacy in the art form". The subtext of that comment was, "That Roger Ebert guy is a big fat jerk, isn't he?"