I just got a link from my boss to an article on Gamasutra that reports the demise of Indrema, the potential venue for indie game developers... Ya know, as always money is the problem.

This does kind of raise an interesting question, however. Would Indrema have taken the Linux Game developer's market and both helped the Linux community gain more interest and also let the independent developers see the light of the day? Or would it have failed anyways due to the fact that Microsoft is in the league with their XBox??

It would have been a lot harder for Indrema to start a campaign in Japan like Microsoft did... Was it just doomed to fail from the start since game console really need big-name publishers like Sega, Capcom, Konami, Square, etc and Indrema never did? What do you guys think?