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This sucks.
February 20, 2009

About one month since last time. Finally finished with a commitment I've been stuck with for the last six months - but.. I'm an experience richer, I suppose. *grits teeth*

Meanwhile, the admin on gamersdigest.net (a page title apparently chosen for luring in casual gamers in the 45+ age group :p) was happy to push something i wrote about Killzone 2. It seems there might be review- copies once in a while as well. And the prospect of actually getting anything in return for writing things down - other than scorn, ridicule, envy, or deliberate silence - is starting to stir with an emotion I didn't think I had any longer.

What was it called again? Anticipation? No, that's not quite it. I wonder..

Unfortunately all is not well. I was supposed to interview the spokesdude on Psyonix - they recently released Super Sonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars on the PSN - about the development and publishing process. Apparently they self- published, and seems to have gotten all kinds of backing up to a point. Same as with Flower and flOw, or Riff - these titles are not bogged down in huge release cycles that publishers can expect returns on, instead being more of a boon to the PSN and so the Playstation brand. Meaning it's quality and image, rather than just sellability Sony seems to be looking for. Up to a point.

There are a few problems on the PSN, such as regions not getting the same releases, even though they evidently are not... exclusively going to sell in only one region. Other releases get delayed for months, for apparently no good reason.

SARP (Super Sonic Acrobatic...) was one of those releases - and here I was supposed to get any amount of dirt directly from a dev who did not seem terminally infected with Sony sychophancy.... and then he disappears. Curse me that I only have time to do this in my spare time, and couldn't be more immediate when he said he was willin to do an interview.

But then again, it's probably not going to be impossible to pick up some more data, and do a review on how the PSN has changed later on. I doubt no one will be willing to weigh in if I keep asking.

Asking /politely/.. fuck.

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