Monday seemed to be suprisingly deep in gaming conversation with notable industry figures. EA's CEO John Riccitiello talked about how licensed games, and specifically the bad ones, hurt the industry. THQ CEO Brian Ferrell says that "hardware cycles" as we knew them are gone, mostly. And coming straight from the Shack itself, Nick has a piece on id Software president John Carmack regarding both where they are and where they're going. Oh and hey bikini clad zombie killers!