Archive for March, 2009

DANGER! A phantastique summer tea party approaches!

Monday, March 30th, 2009

When Manifesto Games was just getting started, I suggested to its owner, Greg Costikyan, that he should try to tap into the vast doujin games market, and localize doujin games like Hitogata Happa and Akatsuki BK and the Toho games. Unfortunately, Manifesto Games’ Japanese representative was unwilling to brave Comiket or something and simply [...]

Mommy, your best is too good.

Monday, March 30th, 2009

So, then! It’s five months late (and, coincidentally, after GDC and after all of the free trial XBLCG memberships expired and everyone had to buy new memberships), but Microsoft has finally released sales data to the creators of XBox Live Community Games. Until this last Saturday, none of us had any idea at all [...]