The thing that struck me as the most insane about this year’s show was the total lack of any rhyme or reason for the awards that got the Keighley shotgun treatment, and the awards that got an actual presentation.

Really curious how feasible it’ll be to buy the upgraded internals on iFixit (once they’re available) and just upgrade a non-OLED model to the OLED.

I’d bet money on Thomas Brodie-Sangster being at the top of the shortlist for Link. He’s worked with director Wes Ball before on the Maze Runner films, and he has the l0ok.

Did an AI write this or are there just no editors at Kotaku now?

Guessing this has been in the works for a minute and is why Pete Hines stepped down last week.

These companies, by law, must meet the unending demand of exponentially increasing profits margins, no matter what.

I’ll second this, at least as far as NES cartridges. Those things got dusty af.

Yeah, I’d noticed the ring thing this season and had chalked it up to strain from the disparity in success after he’d gone to start his own thing and basically failed at it. More than one Hollywood relationship has fallen apart for similar reasons.

Honestly, if this extra three bucks meant I could watch everything on Freevee without ads too, it might be worth it. There’s a lot of good stuff on there, but the ads make it outright painful to watch.

I fully expect that the Unity Hub will auto-update everyone’s installs to the latest LTS when it releases, and they’re going to make finding the installers for the older versions extremely difficult.

There is literally no chance of that. Microsoft, in entering a Game Pass distribution agreement with a developer who uses Unity, does not become a signatory of that developer’s Unity license, and thus will not be under any obligation to pay any fees to Unity.

I don’t even expect them to try to collect from Microsoft, or any other storefront. It’s clearly a damage control line that they don’t seem to think anyone will actually apply even the most basic legal scrutiny to. I’m sure somebody in Unity’s legal department has drafted and deleted like ten different e-mails to…

“developers like Aggro Crab would not be on the hook, as the fees are charged to distributors, which in the Game Pass example would be Microsoft.”

They’re not talking about ‘broadcast’ streaming (i.e. Twitch), they’re talking about cloud gaming streaming, like Game Pass Ultimate, PS Now and Amazon Luna.

You need to work on your reading comprehension. I’m not blaming AoM’s failure on it being set in the same universe/multiverse SR. 

The show is basically not an adaptation of the books. Every criticism that has been leveled at the faithfulness of Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher applies a thousand fold to Wheel of Time.

The rights for Freespace have always been a little funky. Interplay owns the Freespace trademark, but the copyright on the games themselves is (as of 2013) co-owned by Volition and Interplay. This is why Volition was able to legally open source the Freespace 2 source code.

Agents of Mayhem wasn’t a new IP. It was a spinoff of Saints Row with many of the same characters and the same tongue in cheek open world gameplay. Volition was clearly operating under a publisher mandate to stick to Saints Row, and that sapped a lot of the creative juice out of the studio.

It’s more likely that they figured that any other publisher wouldn’t be interested in buying Volition without also acquiring the IPs that Volition is known for, and since Embracer is more about IP ownership than they are about studios they’d be unwilling to part with those IPs.

I think the Sci-Fi Channel had the right idea by combining Dune: Messiah and Children of Dune into a single mini-series. Dune: Messiah doesn’t fully close Paul’s story, and the ending of Children of Dune very much paints the story of the Atreides as a tragedy.