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very, very, very awesome. best game-related media i've seen since the tripod song.

Jeff correct. Hulk still angry.

Headline awful. Make ears bleed. Make Hulk angry.

"started to morph" my buttockses! Great pain was taken to copy the exact look of the game. The dude's a punk.

The dude's got obvious programming talent but decided to COPY someone else's creativity. Makes no sense. It's parasitic and lame.

He doesn't have a legal leg to stand on. Darn right he pulled it down.

The owners of the Tetris IP are in fact quite willing to sue people who clone their content.

Gamers can't have it both ways. We can't whine about sequelitis but at the same time cut the knees out from people who are creating truly creative, innovative games.

If you want indie creativity to flourish, you need to protect it when and where it happens. That's why the copyright system exists. ... but that system may not protect game IP sufficiently.

Robin implies the NYT, WSJ, and Economist group are, somehow small little independent organizations despite these figures:

NYT Co.: 12,000 employees; $436m annual revenues
Economist Group: 1,000 employees, $412m annual revenues
WSJ (Dow Jones): 7,000 employees, $1.8b annual revenues

At what level is a publication "independent"? What is meaningful independence? If GameDaily were purchased by THQ (a games company), it'd probably be less independent than if it were purchased by AOLTW (a content company).

Being indie is not a guarantee of quality. Editorial quality has far more to do with the management and processes in place than it does with the percent ownership of various shareholders.

Why even play the part of pawns in this bullshit PR campaign? If the company wants to share the info, they'll share it. If you report on anything else, then you're playing into their marketing schemes.

Machewchew: if a site is successful, it will attract interest. Readers show up. Investors show up too.

If a site's been independent forever, chances are the product stinks so much that obody wants to buy it.

The very best news in the world is produced by organizations that are owned by Mega Corps. I challenge you to find an indie rag that matches the integrity and quality of the WSJ, Economist, or New Yorker.