Remember kids, corporations businesses do not make moral decisions, they make financial ones.

What I don’t get is why developers (or Engine devs for that matter) aren’t more willing to work with Nintendo to really optimize their games for Switch. The only thing I can think of is this crazy desire to write once, build for anything. A thing I think is a major fallacy.

It was canon-ized in the Star Wars: Rebels animated show as the pet project of Grand Admiral Thrawn (and a competing project to the Death Star)

This is why I’m waiting to see what the data says, but keep in mind that none of these companies want to be remembered as the company that released a “bad” vaccine.

I feel like I post this on a regular basis now, but the X-Wing Alliance Upgrade project modding group has been going strong for 20 years and is still upgrading the game’s visuals to this day:

I wonder how this will effect Doom developer id. They historically refuse to use DirectX for PC games and the developers have a particular hate for it. Will MS force them to use DX instead of Vulkan for Windows games? If so, will the developers leave the company?

(ID started using OpenGL before DX even came out and…

I’ve heard this several times, but I have never once had to contact Steam support for anything, but with Origin I’ve had several issues throughout the years.

It may just have been that they didn’t feel the need to acknowledge it. Other mario games that appear in the “family portrait”, but not in the reel are:

They are claiming Apple has a monopoly on Software distribution on Apple hardware. I’m honestly not sure how that argument will play out in the long term, but if either the Apple or Google case were to be a win for Epic, it would be Apple due to the level of control they have on their users.

The key difference between the two is that you can’t install anything on iOS without Apple’s App Store. You don’t have any such restriction on PC.

As much as I don’t like Epic, this is definitely something that needed to be addressed. We can complain about the Play Store and Steam all day long, but neither Google nor Valve have such a stranglehold on their respective platforms that it’s their way or the highway on Android and PC.

The difference here is that Steam, Epic Games Store, Origin, etc don’t block a 3rd party game from being installed outside of their platform as they don’t control the OS of said PC. So if I don’t like Steam’s practices, I can put my game on one or more other stores and/or sell it directly.

A programmer dug into the crash dump files and information can be found in this article:

everything that we know of. Less than 2 months ago we didn’t know that Paper Mario existed.

Unions unfortunately don’t solve everything, and sometimes make things worse, depending on the situation. Not to mention there’s nothing stopping a company from just slowing pushing unionized workers out.

My Father-in-law worked for Kellogg’s and was part of the union there. The union did a lot of good things for…

Being a good person and perpetuating a system that is morally wrong are mutually exclusive things.

I was kind of hoping the New Republic Flagship would be a Nadiri Starhawk-class Battleship (seen in the trailer a few times) that’s built from salvaged Imperial II-class Star Destroyers

how popular previous X-Wing and TIE fighter games have been

That is more a preference issue than anything else. Many Doom players play on PC, and a wide variety of configurations at that. Not everyone, not even the majority, of gamers care about top-of-the-line graphics. This, however, looks like a lazy port or a result of poor optimization in the main game.

Why would you recode a game using a programming language meant for Data Science?