I think the Video, but mainly your article Luke, is misleading.
Both show that there are companies that ignore local work laws everywhere in the world, or exploit them to the bone.
Case in point: Daedalic Software in Germany (Deponia, Harveys new eyes etc...), where unpaid interns actually did graphics works on the…

yes, but thats one of those games. Still not valid for all games, and quite a few of those titles play subtly different on a newer machine. With Crimson Skies they went the extra mile, it even is multiplayer compatible across all generations (lan parties with all consoles from OG Xbox to Series X are possible).
But…

Back in the time, these games were good. But visiting them now, you see how the hardware struggles (or how badly they were coded). Gex is janky as hell, considering I came from the Amiga and was used to super smooth scrolling from James Pond and Zool it was a huge disappointment to me.
Playing Gex on the 3DO feels…

True, and if you have a modded 360, you can play basically any original Xbox game on it.
Like if you have a modded PS3, you can play any PS1 and PS2 game on it.

But that doesn’t change where the games came from, and if you do not have another xbox, there’s a valid question which titles would warrant emulation. And I…

That didn’t stop people from emulating the 3DO. Which is a POS when it comes to games. I own one, and apart from tons and tons of bad FMV, and the first 3D-Fifa (still with 2D-sprites, a bit like Doom) there’s nothing to it at all.

The Xbox had the original Halo, Project Gotham Racing 1&2, it had Fable, the only…

rubber bands around... what?
The original PS controller had not analogue sticks at all :D It was all digital, and the first games of the Playstation could only be played that way. The first analogue pad for the PS was afaik the NeGCon (1995) from Namco that could be twisted in the middle, used for racing games. There…

If you wanted to experience the Raids in vanilla WoW or the first expansions, you had to devote an ungodly amount of time to the game for farming buff food and potion stuff, grinding for better gear, and then dying and dying all over - managing 40 people to do the right thing at exactly the right time was so hard, but…

in Europe, SUVs are only bought by Soccer moms or pseudo-hip middle-aged people with too much disposable income.
Older people buy sedans like they always did. Relatives over 80 drive Audi A4s and Mercedes E-classes. They tried the SUV equivalents but found them cumbersome to get in, not very practical while parking…

Postal is actually a very funny movie, although it is one of the kind “leave your brain at the door and enjoy the mindless chaos”.
It basically was the best adaptation you could hope for, and stayed somewhat true to the tone of the games.

Funny, that Boll made on really serious film, and financed that one out of his own pocket afaik and really lost a lot of money on it - but he wanted to make it anyway. “Darfur” is a film about the massacre in the region of the same name, and the movie actually was not that bad, although shocking and not easy to…

They also added and over time improved multiplayer to the point where it is actually working well most of the time.

With both parts of Destiny, they added, removed, tweaked and overhauled so much of the gameplay and metagame that it is barely the same game as it was when they originally released it.
Luckily for Destiny, the basic formula, the gunplay itself, always felt extremely solid.

No. This is absolutely inline with the 80s and 90s tuning culture. Look at a D&W catalogue (those with the bikini-clad girls on the front 30 or so pages of the telephone-book sized things), and you will see lots of stuff like this from all kinds of companies.
They even made grilles, spoilers and fender flares for the…

Koenigseggs system is used in their tiny giant 3-cylinder engine in their new car, and also they developed a version for Qoros, the Qamfree engine which was used in the Qoros 3 protoype (don’t know if it ever went into mass production).

The price for premium unleaded gas (95oct, worst you can get here, premium plus ist 98oct here) has already been more than 6 US$ per gallon for years here in Europe. It was a little bit cheaper during the beginning of the pandemic when nobody drove, before it was close to 7 US$ per gallon.
Premium plus, or the special…

Can attest to this. Samurais and the smaller Jimny are quite stable vehicles. Had a friend in university who used her Jimny to tow her 2-horse-trailer, even up inclines. She also pulled her fathers old Land Rover out of the mud with it after he got over-confident pulling a trailer full of logs out of the woods ^^
David…

unfortunately, with some games the physics engine is tied to the graphics engine and the fps, so upping the fps will break physics. Quake was a prime example of this, later speedruns with longer jumps were only possible due to higher framerates. Quake 3 suffered from this too, that’s part of why they did the…

leaving the engine running? WTF?
That would be against the law in most civilised states!
In Germany you are also not allowed to let the car run in your driveway to warm up, you have to get in, start, and drive away immediately. (noise and pollution reasons)
You are even required to shut down your engine if you have to…

Please do not forget the people with “invisible” disabilities. A lot of them are gamers too, but they are sometimes left in the dust by poor design choices.
Latest example: Little Nightmares 2 has some puzzles in it that rely solely on audio clues. There are no subtitles for the hearing impaired. These parts appear…

I think it is great that not everybody has the same taste. That’s why we still have variations in car design, instead of everybody just driving the same box.
Look at the Kei car vans in Japan that came out in the last 10 years, with some of them I think that they just absolutely wanted to maximize the used space within…