If the PSN hack was this year, then it easily has to take the crown.
Zynga's failures should be in consideration. Huge profile company that went down the shitter. FarmVille really was a fad.
Silicon Knights having to recall their games & destroy them is embarrassing. But I kinda felt they would lose their lawsuit ever since it was announced.
38 Studios was just another studio failing & closing. 'Twas even better because it happened to that cunt Schilling. Fuck him, and his flawed opinions. But in the end, it was just another studio closing. The studio getting taxpayer money to locate in NH isn't anything new either. Local & state govts make those sort of deals with private businesses regularly (something conservatives don't want their voters to know).
ME3's ending fiasco was pretty bad because it was the first time I've seen a dev basically admit they were wrong. But I am glad BioWare improved the ending. Much, much better ending, IMO.
PSV sales are not surprising to anyone who paid attention to the portable gaming market. It shouldn't even be in the Top 5 of 2012 FotY. It's '
failure' was incredibly easy to see before it ever launched.
GAF overreacting about product placement and other stuff.
Yup, extra bonus hatred for Halo 4 being an X360 exclusive. It's not all that different from when CoD had the Mtn Dew sponsorship, or Uncharted 3 doing so with Subway.
Game '
Journalists' have been little more than another marketing arm for devs/pubs for about as long as I can remember. They should be called Enthuasist Press. The #1 gaming magazine (Game Informer) being owned by Game Stop is a prime example of this.