I don’t remember Patapon 2 having multiplayer, but 3 did. I never finished 3 because it was packed too much with stuff. Patapon 2 was the peak of the series and still my favorite.

I backed this project with the hopes that it will be good, but I’m wary like most people. I haven’t had great luck with Kickstarter games.

IIRC it wasn’t full multiplayer as much as it was another person’s Patapon Hero could be sent out to your game to help out on special missions. Sort of like the Pawn system from Dragon’s Dogma.

Shades of LocoRoco in there too.

They found what looked like a tape backup, but it turned out to be Laserbeak in disguise. (He was part of a deep cover mission to make Starscream look like an idiot...)

From the sounds of it, during office moves and whatnot, some of the archived stuff (after the ‘closing’ of High Moon Studios) is likely just in storage somewhere and not catalogued accurately. This seems to be especially common after covid and a lot of offices just threw everything into storage and went remote, or…

I’m... guessing they’re talking about the source code files that would need to be reworked a bit for compatibility with modern systems? Because Activision keeps copies of their releases, they had a whole process for it back when I worked there (which was in the late 00's, before either of these games got released).

Except in order to say no you have to hire someone to do it and that costs money. Especially if you are dealing with media content. Yeah they have money but taking a loss like that would just encourage people to take no win shots at them just to hurt the wallet. 

They have permission. Explicitly and contractually.

The Snow White animatronic

We gone get you through this, Richter!

I am hyped, I only watched castlevania last year but it was pretty good from beginning to end. Curious to see if Alucard makes an appearance this season.

That argument keeps getting weaker as more and more games ship in an incomplete form that requires an additional download or require day 1 patches to be playable. Your physical copies are highly likely to just turn into pretty coasters when servers shut down all the same.

From the article above:

So in conclusion:

And people laugh at me when I say I always buy physical over digital…

As bad as it is now, the internet is going to be sooooo shit in like 3-ish years

“FUCK SPEZ” reads enormous swathes of the picture, over and over, referring to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman

It’ll still bump a bunch of metrics even if it’s not bumping up unique visitors, which they can then spin as needed to help with the IPO.

Mods are being caught trying to disrupt the hate by deleting pixels 

“Honestly, it’s hard to imagine what else Reddit was thinking would happen.”

They were thinking about record high engagement on their platform.