That is not quite correct, you seem the be the one who is in the dark here. I have been working in the game industry for years now, and it is a bit more complex than you might think.
It is not a problem to MOD a game, and use the characters, names, trademarks etc... that are already IN the game, since their use was…

To everybody who says “it was just a mod”: No, it was not.
A mod would just add content, but still run in the original engine, using the original game to transport its content.
As soon as they changed the engine, they lost all legal grounds to stand on.
Lucasfilm HAD to write that C&D-letter, because otherwise Lucasfilm…

His own son recently debunked this reported attack as a rumor, that has been proven wrong years before, and has just recently surfaced again by reporters interviewing his mother to bring this onto the table again for clickbait reasons.
Check it out, he gave a statement online concerning exactly this point.

We all do not…

The stuff that marketing guy babbles on about is NOT what the typical 3-series driver wants to hear.
They don’t want it to be easier to drive at high speed. They don’t want it to be more silent, more comfortable, more cocooned.
I know not a single person who have driven a fast E46 or E30 that would want more comfort and…

^^ it is a bit more complex, but you’re not far off. I would rather compare the Xbox OS to the Windows Server Core edition, running nothing but the bespoke applications it was designed for.
All code is run in a closed-off sandbox environment, games from the microsoft windows store are actually running in a similar…

Correct. The difference is only that iirc Sony has a lot of actual consoles doing the rendering there, while MS could theoretically use their vast cloud infrastructure to do the calculations on any machine and then stream the result. They have a lot of unused horsepower around the globe at any given moment, and the…

They are probably making a new one so they can switch (haha) to a new hardware revision which doesn’t have that un-fixable bug builtin which allows homebrew stuff to run.
One of the reason prices of current models haven’t come down much, the demand is there.

There is a 996 first gen for sale here in Libel Turquoise Metallic with green interior.
I almost bought it for the color alone!

Then again, I have a soft spot for weird Porsche colors. If I had money, I would repaint my 911 in Violettchromaflair ^^

Do not forget the earlier “virtual tours”. There was a NCC-1701D interactive technical manual, as well as another disc which had tours of all kinds of bridges. It was early Quicktime VR tech being used, but you could “jump” from point to point in the ship and look around, kind of like a Google Streetview tour.

^^
Porsche actually did a lot of engine work for other companies. There were the infamous SEAT engines with “System Porsche” stamped on the valve covers, the Volvo 4-5-6 engine family of the 850, later 960/V90 and first V40 was built in cooperation with Porsche (it was designed as a family of engines, so that the…

I just wanted to write this!
The Volvo 480 Turbo, which was available from 1988 on, hat its modest Renault 19 engine outfitted with a Mitsubishi turbocharger. The development work was done by none other than: PORSCHE.
That is the reason why there’s a 480 sitting there. I immediately recognized it, I had two of them ^^

It actually wasn’t that short lived in Japan. Also, it had quite a few controllers, the Twinsticks for Virtua On, a racing wheel, an anlogue flightstick which could be configured from right hand to left hand (pretty cool actually!), and two different arcade sticks (the ony offered in Japan was vastly superior,…

No, the reason was different. The copy protection of the PS1 could be foiled with a matchstick. Sony knew it, Nintendo knew it, everyone knew it.
That was the way you sold consoles back then, because kids could swap burned discs (which came down in price just at that moment in time) on schoolyards. There were shops…

These were built long after Lotus stopped making them by... KIA! Granted, a “Kia Elan” doesn’t sound nearly half as good, but they are of better built quality, and rumored to have even more reliable engines in them.
That said, this one is a Turbo, and as such is a bargain. The dropping windows are the norm for the Elan…

oh, it is important, playing an FPS on a console with just one analog input device feels somehow restricted. Case in point: Goldeneye on N64, Quake3 or UT on Dreamcast.
Playing a FPS on a console feels somehow wrong anyway though. I played Destiny on console (Xbox, like the stick layout much better) for a lack of…

Remember that the dual sticks came only after other consoles already had analogue inputs. Sonys only feat was putting two of them on a single controller. The first playstation controllers had no analogue sticks at all.
The NegCon from Namco was iirc one of the first analogue peripherals for the console. Then sony had…

The Omega Caravan was actually pretty loved by the police and other authorities since it had the biggest space in the back in its price range. It was even roomier than a Volvo 700 or 900 series, and when the Omega was phased out and “replaced” by the Insignia, the police departments were scrambling to buy the last…

I think nobody has commented on the main advantage of these screens: If the cameras are well recessed, there will be no rain, fog or snow covering the image, so you get a better view in bad conditions!

Have you considered the i30 N Performance? almost 400nm and 275hp are nice figures for such a small car, and it has the loudest exhoust currently allowed on the european market as stock :D (regulations say that the driving noise may not exceed 70db or something, but that is measured betweed 40 and 70km/h. So, the…

Sounds Red Bull-y ^^