Softimage today has launched a forum based website called Softimage|NET for the 3d community that uses Softimage. It has galleries, support and a “How To” section. It is similar to Autodesk’s  ”AREA” Site which provides a place for users of Autodesk MAYA and 3DSMax to gather. Speaking of Maya,  Audodesk announced today that they are dropping the price of May Unlimited Standalone from 6,995 to 4,995 and the Network license version from 8,345 to 6,245. While Maya Complete 2008 users can upgrade to Maya Unlimited for only 2,995. All of this and they just released Maya 2008 Extension 2.