In Seattle WA did Microsoft a stately gaming dome decree... Home of soulless yuppies and whinging slackers, Seattle is also apparently official metropolis of gamers... at least according to a poll conducted by Sterling Bestplaces. A poll coincidentally funded by Microsoft.

What was the totally fair and balanced criterion?

Is it just us, or does that make it seem as if the criterion on a survey sponsored by Microsoft to find the epicenter of gaming was "How many people play XBox Live?"

But to be fair, this was the other criterion: "the number of video game systems owned per household — Xbox 360 , Xbox , Window-based PCs, PlayStation 2 and GameCube — number of games purchased, number of game rentals, and frequency of online gameplay via Xbox Live or Windows games, among other factors." It still seems pretty Microsoft oriented, but that — at least — makes it look a bit better.

We Built This City On Videogames [Gamescoreblog]