Headshot! Sony Pwns Lik-Sang

Usually I leave posts about electronics and game industry happenings to the big boys, but this story struck a nerve with me, and I couldn’t resist.

Yesterday Sony, merciless, all-powerful corporate juggernaut, filed multiple lawsuits against Japanese game importer Lik-Sang, which resulted in the company closing up shop for good. This idea of a company being sued so hard that they are completely destroyed, wiped off the face of the economic map, just sounds really funny to me. It’s like Sony has litigated first-degree corporate murder, and the gaming community is the heartbroken spouse at the funeral.

It’s sad really, lots of consumers got the products they craved via Lik-Sang, and these were legitimate retail products: not pirated copies. Maybe the appeals of innocent gamers everywhere will resurrect Lik-Sang in some fashion.

Of course then the gamer’s training will kick in and they’ll probably put a shotgun in the drooling maw of zombie Lik-Sang to finish the job: for good.