Word last week that Clover Studio, developer of Okami and the just-released God Hand, is being shuttered by Capcom.

This is sad news, as Clover was essentially an indie label inside Capcom, which may have lost money, but was actually changing how games were thought about and played. Hell, Okami is a game about ecology, if you think about it.

Games Industry’s Rob Fahey wrote the best editorial on what the dissolution of Clover means in terms of games and culture.