It's my name and it's my domain. Crazy, right?
Witness Jonathan Coulton and Paul & Storm doing all of They Might Be Giants’ album Flood in a row. Why, you ask? Well, what would you do if you were booked the same night as They Might Be Giants performing the same set?
If you don’t follow LucasArts news, you might not have noticed that they released a new game today. There’s no mention of it on their website, after all. On top of that, with the exception of the press release, all mention of the game has been through a development blog that, if you stumbled across it, you’d probably think was a fansite rather than an official outlet.
Even so, I don’t think this game would have benefited from the usual hype machine that is a traditional game release. It feels very much like a small development team at LucasArts said ‘Hey, we’d like to make this game. We think we can do it with a small team and without much cost, and we’re pretty sure it’ll sell well enough to at least cover its own costs. If it doesn’t make us millions, no harm, right?’ I’m guessing that’s not far from the truth. It’s very much like the sort of indie game you’d pick up on Steam, except that it’s actually by a big company.
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