All the big companies realize how much gamers are spending on indie games and they want a piece of the action. They will slap indie on anything that moves, lol.

The whole indie thing is largely pointless at this point. It's nice to support smaller studios but indie itself is about as meaningful as green is.

People like to wax poetic about it, but indie itself was never particularly well defined and was usually the result of publishers being too timid to take on a project.

Hate EA all you want, at least they sometimes take chances with new ips, like Dead Space, Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect, Spore, Dragon Age etc etc.

Activision on the other hand...

Can we get a link please? The EA indies are usually of very good quality.

And what about that indie operating system, OS X ?

What IS Activision doing right now anyway?

Are any new IP's planned from the publisher at all at this point? Or are they going to rename themselves "Codvision" soon?

Because right now it as always can't shut up about how "awesome" the new Cod will be (Spoiler and surprise: it will not) but there doesn't seem to be a single mention of any other game from them

If WoD and SC2 are any indication, they've taken over responsibility for making games so that Blizzard doesn't have to.

Speaking of new ips Bioware are planning a new one, should be interesting. FIFA on the other hand... but then again that's more a problem with the genre than EA.

This. In my opinion those are still indie games despite being published by a bigger company. Otherwise there are many games on XBLA and PSN that you certainly wouldn't be able to call indie (like Journey) just because they are published by either Microsoft or Sony. Anyway, there is no clear of definition of what "indie" stands for.

Klei, the indie studio that made Shank is still independent, and i think that this is what matters. Their lastest game Mark of the Ninja, for example, was published by Microsoft, not EA. They don't belong to any company, so they pretty much have creativity control over their games.

For me there's nothing wrong with big companies publishing indie games. I guess some people just want to find irrational reasons to jump on the EA hate bandwaggon.

At an online game store, browsing through the offers...
I see an EA bundle,
Says it is indie.
"Man, these games ain't indie...
They're EA-published."

I posted on the FORUM !

He should be arrested for a serious littering charge :P (If not real should be invented just for him)