The Washington Times didn’t take the news of Sony’s poor Playstation sales well. They’re calling the sales fumble internal sabotage, and they’re hopping mad about it.
Sure the Playstation 3 didn’t do so well last month, selling 378,000 console sales in November, down from 466,000 last November. And the PS2 also saw a drop in sales, with the company moving less than half what they did last year.
But sabotage?
XBox 360 has made serious inroads by dropping the price of its core system to $199. So how did Sony respond?
By releasing a new version of the PS3 … that’s $100 more expensive. Yes, it comes with a game, and yes, it has more hard-drive space, to which I respond: Who cares?
Smart move by Game Developer magazine! Rather than chronologically list their top developers for 2008, they’ve taken a cue from the Bush administration’s anti-terror campaign and split them up into a deck of cards.
Microsoft may not be looking at further price cuts for their console as the country tip-toes through this recession, but they’re looking at ways to make their console attractive to thrift-minded families.
With a casual-friendly interface, a low-priced console and a bevy of games, Microsoft believes that their Xbox 360 may have more than doubled Playstation sales last month, Aaron Greenberg, group product manager for Xbox 360 said today.
Yesterday’s announcement that 
Another choice bit of 
We mentioned Pascal Luben’s series on the ‘megatrends of gaming’ 
GameSetWatch has a nice essay up from Gregory Weir, who takes a look at why Puzzle Quest was so damn successful at creating a satisfying hybrid.
It’s been one hell of a week for Chinese company NetDragon, who announced (along with EA) the development of 
There’s a wonderful interview at Gamasutra with Hiroyuki Kotani, creator of Patapon — a game that I still adore, having snuck in quite a lot of time with it on my PSP.