Sundays are for forming all-star comic boyband on stage at an 3am at a comics festival, snatching hurried sleep, catching a train back to the South away from the land of 24-hours Greggs shops and compiling a list of interesting game related that caught my eye from across the week, while trying to avoid linking to something to immortalise that pretty magical evening. Go!
- I almost linked to this one as a singular story this week, as I suspected it could be a monster comments thread. Gamesindustry.biz reports that marketing matters three times as much as game quality. In other words, you’re better off reducing your budget on the game and not polish and pass it over to the marketeers. To be honest, I think what’s quoted seems disingenuous – noting that Bioshock sold more than Dead Space because it had more marketing assumes that they were actually equivalently good games. And even metacritic doesn’t think that, y’know? I’d like to see the actual hard numbers, I admit.
