No they’d still laugh. Xbox not being a thing back then changes nothing. microsoft was still one of the biggest companies around. Xbox actually only makes up a small percentage of their overall business, even today. All Xbox would serve to prove is how different their visions are as companies. If anything Nintendo is…

Microsoft got laughed out of the room when they had a meeting with Nintendo about acquiring them. It's not going to happen unless Nintendo is on its last legs, which it is not and is not likely to be anytime soon.

If I were them, I wouldn't be so concerned since they could simply keep whatever they acquire separate and somewhat independent, but just accountable to Nintendo and have to be exclusive. When Sony or Microsoft acquire something, they usually absorb it into themselves, so that's what we have become accustomed to…

All they’ve done though is reverse engineer it. They haven’t distributed it with the game or assets as far as I know and they haven’t really done much else other than show the game COULD be played with this new code that does the same thing. What they’ll probably do next is create mods or expansions which will fall…

see atari vs nintendo, Sega vs accolade, Sony vs Connectix, granted in that first one, atari ultimately lost because they did not lawfully obtain the code in question, but did so through fraud. had they not committed fraud, they would have won the case. there is a more recent case, though I don’t believe it has…

Look, you cited one case which to be fair, I don’t know the specifics of. But there are a plethora of modern instances I could cite about people reverse engineering a game’s code and being successful in defending themselves in court as long as they never distributed assets. Reverse engineering is not the same as…

Well they aren't reproducing the same exact code. They are using modern code to create the same results. Something that is explicitly enforced as legal by law.

A EULA is written by a company, not the courts. EULA is not as legally binding as an actual law. An EULA could say your warranty is void if a sticker is removed, and there are many cases where this happens, but there are actual laws now that contradict this meaning its invalid and void. If a company could just…

reverse engineering a game is perfectly legal just as it has been established for a while now. Why is it every time another game gets reverse engineered, people seem to forget this? The illegal part isn’t reverse engineering and sharing the code, it’s distributing the game itself and its assets. the source code is as…

considering all the tentacles we saw in a scene with her, I doubt she is a covenant leader. probably flood.

To be fair Activision Blizzard int big enough for this to be a consideration. if we take telecoms for example we got a few big players who are everywhere in this country. we got Verizon, Tmobile, AT&T, etc. if Verizon tried to acquire Tmobile, that would be cause for concern. but if Verizon tried to acquire some…

I can see why a creator might do this. Just look at other creators who add to their creations on social media after the fact. Hardly any of them contribute anything positive. Not that it’s relevant to gaming, but before she got all transphobic, JK Rowling kept making stupid additions to Harry Potter after the fact…

what were they fired for? and what were the others “disciplined for” and how exactly were they “disciplined”? details man!

You’d think they’d pick a game with more realistic physics.

The show would have been infinitely more watchable for me as a kid if it was witches instead. Super cool idea!

do the people behind you know its going on? I imagine its only known to the people once they pull up to the window and are told what’s going on. if that’s the case, the only people who know are the people in front who’ve already paid and left, you and the barista. If it were me, I’d mentally say fuck’em. Throw what I…

if this is aimed at getting rid of the assholes in the company who harass and spread toxicity, its an interesting approach. they don’t deserve the money, but its a quick and easy way to tell them to gtfo while they can without too much corporate drama.

games haven’t actually gotten longer. publishers have just forced developers to insert more filler and delay mechanics in. the actual amount of content hasn’t really changed. we just need to redefine what it means to “finish” a game. most people think finishing mean 100 percenting it, but personally when I get done…

because that shit would actually take effort. publishers would rather developer minimize time spent making the game fun and interesting to play so they can spend that budget on marketing and giving the high ups a nice fat bonus. hence we get time wasting galore and things like decreased xp progression that slows to a…

its not even meat. its just endless collectibles and general time wasting that doesnt even take any real effort to insert into the game. the actual story and “meat” of the game only accounts for a small percentage of actual gameplay these days.