Very reminiscent of Aliens & Starship Troopers (released the same year), Quake II was a great single player game although lacking in the multiplayer department compared to the triumph that was Quake / Quakeworld.

This intro set the scene perfectly and kick started the story with a bang.

Another great intro from Diablo II back in 2000. More cut scenes followed during the game and bizarrely none of them had any relevance to the storyline. At least the game was good though.

Back in 1997, Mechwarrior 2 was launched to much fanfare. The demo included a fantastic intro (as did the full game) although sadly the game was somewhat lacking.

It's a fantastic little movie in its own right. The game will probably be an anticlimax though as they so often are. In fact I might have to go on a great intro / rubbish game search through youtube now.

Well if they actually make something that looks like that then I'll be first in line. Sadly it'll be watered down, much like the new BMW 5-series which has been de-Bangled

An excellent presentation of how social networking (yes, looking at you Facebook) are really very poor tools compared to how most people actually socialise. The main advantage Facebook had was to get there first and get the viral takeup.

It's rather long but well worth a lunchtime read.

Judging by how thorough Google's research appears to be, they may well be able to combine all of their labs technologies (wave, talk, buzz etc) into one killer app.

Or maybe they'll just blow it as usual :)