Business mag picks 'most innovative' game companies

Leading business magazine Fast Company has issued its Top 10 list of what it's decided are the "most innovative gaming companies." The list presents an eyebrow-raising mix of choices that make us wonder if "innovative" was really the adjective Fast Company meant to use.

The ranked list can be found on the magazine's site, but we'll offer up some of the highlights. Microsoft is at number eight, innovating (in part) by outselling PS3 and partnering with Netflix. Take-Two, in seventh place, was innovative in not being taken over by EA (and getting some GOTY awards for GTA IV). Let's see ... Harmonix is making a Beatles game, Blizzard sold a lot of Lich King expansions and Nintendo has mass-market appeal. Innovative stuff.

Actually, the only truly innovative item on the list is LittleBigPlanet, Media Molecule's refreshing take on the classic 2D platformer. Might we suggest that next year's list be produced using a journalistic innovation known as "research?"