I think the next decade is going to explode with new and innovative technologies which will make our lives better...at least until the patents are snapped up and made unaffordable for the average consumer.

I dont know. I feel like the idea is a little half-baked. But who knows, maybe it will rise to the occasion and be really grate after all.

I can see this game making a lot of dough.

As a programmer let me just say Nintendo has a huge point here, it is extremely hard to make such a coding change. Most likely they would have to edit something like

Of course, denying gay people the right to get married in a game about relationships and marriage is itself "social commentary."

Yeah, it's amazing that it's 2014 and people still talk about gay marriage as if it's a two-sided issue.

I understand where they're coming from. They didn't think to put same sex marriage in the game because it's just supposed to be playful, and gay marriage is apparently anything but (?) - the problem for me though, is that they didn't originally plan to have it in the game. That's my issue. Call me crazy, but I'd…

I'm assuming the reward we would get is Early Access to Towns 2 (at full price, of course)

Wait, so if he's talking like the game is basically finished, why didn't they just RELEASE it instead of ABANDON it?

If anyone can make indie games, then where are the Black and Latino people? Developer Shawn Allen—one of the relative few people of color independently spearheading the creation of their own games—gave a talk at New York University's Game Center that looks at the dearth of diversity in the video game creator talent…

I think "cancel" is a too harsh word here. I'd say at one point we just had to decide that the game is finished.

Seconds before this story went live, Florian Frankenberger got back to my e-mailed questions. Here's the whole e-mail, for some additional context to this story:

There's something to be said about taking your time to release a quality game instead of the annual EA/Activision rehash of last year's game. A Skylanders-style Pokémon game would go over like gangbusters, though.

I see no problem with those tags. All of the fish are naked. Freddi Fish is a masterpiece.

They're a great illustration of why a user-tagging system isn't the best idea, haha.

Listen, I saw an episode of Dr. Who once. I think I know a THING OR TWO about Scotland.

If you're going to make assumptions, might as well make the worst ones.

Hack - "to write computer programs for enjoyment" Merriam-Webster

Stop being such a pedant, especially if you're going to be an inaccurate pedant.

Who buys a CoD game for the story?