I wonder if Take Two's shareholders will sue the board now similarly to Yahoo's shareholders.

Given Hillary Clinton's [senate.gov] ongoing fight to convince America that she's better at parenting our kids than we are, these sorts of buyouts may wind up being poor judgment calls should she somehow get elected...

GTA and Crackdown creator runs down his contemporary-themed PC, 360 MMOG [gamespot.com]

removing "the grind" [is] a top priority

You go back far enough, and you realize they also ate themselves. Remember when Electronic Arts meant Pinball Construction Set? Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Sim? M.U.L.E.? Archon? The creativity in Electronic Arts was once nothing short of amazing.

Maxis may have gotten decapitated, but EA is still giving Will Wright their full support. We'll see the fruits of their labor when Spore finally comes out later this year.

And the real test to whether or not EA is going to stop screwing up their acquisitions [wired.com] will be the fate of Pandemic/BioWare. The jury's still out on that one.

See, this is where people are wrong. No one will ever get tired of sports games any faster than people get tired of watching sporting events. Its really that simple. People have been saying that they would get tired of the sport games for the past 5 years or so, but it hasn't happened yet.

Horse and Buggy, hmm, what about a grand theft auto (I know auto doesn't make sense here anymore), set in old western times? Riding with a gang of thieves to take down a stage coach full of gold on fast horses actually sounds pretty fun. The entire skill of quick shooting could be pretty interesting when paired with today's twichy mousers. The wild west in a video game?

All of the old movies could be brought in. The good, the bad, and the ugly. The unforgiven. Sounds awesome.

You mean like...

• Cliff Bleszinski [wikipedia.org]
• David Jones [wikipedia.org]
• Hideki Kamiya [wikipedia.org]
• Hideo Kojima [wikipedia.org]
• Keiji Inafune [wikipedia.org]
• Ken Levine [wikipedia.org]
• Peter Molyneux [wikipedia.org]
• Shigeru Miyamoto [wikipedia.org]
• Shinji Mikami [wikipedia.org]
• [wikipedia.org]Tomonobu Itagaki
• Will Wright [wikipedia.org]

There are certainly others, but those are the names of game designers that, in the past, I've purchased, or at least taken a closer look at new games because their name was attached to it. I've seen interviews with these guys packaged in bonus CDs with the games and on game news sites, I see videos of them giving talks and presenting their new games at conventions, etc.

There are a lot of creative names in game design. IMO if you aren't noticing the developers behind the games, it's only because you aren't paying attention.