Kotaku - The Thinning Video Game Fall Of 2009.
Maybe the publishers are just less in it for just the hardcore than they used to be. Nintendo leads the trend, outbalancing Mario and Zelda with Style Savvy DS for girls, a new Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon for kids and Wii Fit Plus for, no pun intended, a bigger audience than they might ever reach with any games targeted for the hardcore gamer. Take Two has a game based on the circus. Sega's got a Sonic kart-racer. And money will be made. The holiday rush was often too much for the kind of gamers who want to experience the big brand blockbusters from the big-name studios. Not enough money. Not enough time. So maybe this slight calming, this change from a mouthful of cotton candy to a mouthful of Gummi Bears is slightly healthier.

GameSpy - Disastvertising: The Worst in Gaming PR.
The Internet makes promotion easier than ever: Throw up a blurred screenshot from a helicopter passing over the developer's headquarters and a hundred blogs go into full CSI-mode. Content-starved sites suck up announcements like a nymphomaniac vacuum cleaner, so companies have to invent brand-new ways to screw up their PR strategies. And they do! Here we've gathered seven videogame advertising stunts which make that Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare thing look like a good idea.