DailyTech: Sony to Activision: Shut uuuup.
Joystiq: The Japanese game market is shrinking so fast, you'd think it had been submerged in cold water.
Joystiq: Of the three million people who played Dead Space, only about half of those bought it new. Cue grumbling from publishers about the unfairness of it all.
Destructoid: EVE Online in-game banking exec absconds with space money, spurs space-panic and run on space-bank; government bailout imminent.
Destructoid: Alan Wake dev: PC-shmeesee.
Gamasutra: The Independent Games Festival is now accepting submissions. You've only got a few months to make the next Audiosurf or Dyson.
CVG: Uncanny Valley be damned; BioWare thinks there's nothing wrong with sex scenes in mature, sophisticated videogames. Call me when the money shot isn't suffering framerate issues.
MTV: Boivin, get ready. There's a new Mortal Kombat movie on the way? And Chris Cassamasa's going to be Scorpion again? Does anybody else remember that martial arts show WMAC Masters?
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Marginalia 7.8.9
