I came across this site and thought it may be of interest to others - it appears to be a new UK based company offering consultancy specifically to game developers:

http://www.hivepartners.com/

It's a bit hard to tell from the site exactly what they do - on the one hand, it looks like they want to be an "ASP for game developers", but they also seem to be a consultancy offering advice and development (musicians, artists, PR etc etc). The most interesting thing is that they offer to handle your game design, or at least provide advice on how to improve it.

What do you think? Is this something viable for indie developers, or likely to be beyond the indie price range? Is outsourcing (or independent review of) game design a good idea? Seems like an interesting idea to me but I think only established indie developers could take advantage of it.