GDC - The Importance of Self-Publishing

Eric Zimmerman, head of the Gamelab development project, has announced on the eve of the Game Developer's Conference that they're moving to a self-published format. From the article: "I think we have something else to offer ... and we've decided that it's hard finding partners that share this kind of vision and that want to take the risks that we're talking about to really create new sorts of games. And additionally we're working in a field right now of online games with a downloadable distribution model, which means that we can self-publish. It's relatively straightforward for a small company to publish."

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Re:Thi is the promise of the internet

[LordKazan]

Nice sentiment, little reality. Private entities own all the "pipes" that transfer data over the net, they only play nice still because the government hasn't whored out to them enough yet. With the current crop of criminals in washington i fully expect them to sell out the internet if they can.