If they lose, they’ll probably have to port it over to pay for their losses, so you win either way! Maybe they’ll even have to make a new Lemmings...

Have they not heard of eBay (if they want to make money), retro game stores (if they want to make a bit less money) or even charity (if they’re feeling generous/want a bit of good PR/a tax write-off)? Heartbreaking indeed. I wonder if there were any rarities amongst all of that?

Stardew Valley is the best Animal Crossing game I’ve ever played.

Dammit, someone really needs to make this game now!

Yeah, me too! Gears of Stardew Valley or something.

Unless they’re trolling us and it’s actually a farm sim game in which Marcus Fenix settles down and raises a family, plants some trees and lives in peace for about 30 years and the rest of the trailer is justfrom a bad dream that his son has one night after he tells him some of his war stories.

In my analogy, the Ford is the game itself, the roads are the servers. They haven’t made rip-off parts of the game, they’ve just made their own servers and let people use those for free. But I suppose the question is, where do you get a copy of WoW v1.12? Does it have to be pirated? I guess you won’t be able to…

But many players run their own servers for games - in fact many games are built around that very concept (eg. Minecraft), especially games where the official servers have long since shut down (eg. C&C Red Alert). There’s nothing inherently illegal about running a game server. They haven’t pirated the game and they…

It’s a Bluetooth device so if your PC has Bluetooth you can just connect it. If not, you can connect it directly using a USB cable. There aren’t any official drivers so you’ll have to use a program like InputMapper to make it appear as an Xbox controller (which is what most PC games expect, as Windows obviously has…

“Remote Play is a technology that allows a PS4 to become a hub device that spits a video stream to other displays.”

Yeah, when playing Quake II at school I was aware that we were playing the multiplayer component of a game that had a single player campaign with a plot. Like most games at the time, multiplayer, as cool as it was, was almost like an afterthought because most people wouldn’t have the facilities to play it so they’d be…

I got my first PC for Christmas in 1999, so right after the first UT was released, and I got a couple of magazines with demo discs to get a taste of what games were available at that time. The UT demo blew me away - I’d never played an FPS with a keyboard and mouse before (I’d had an Amiga, but that never had any…

I know what you mean - I never really considered Doom to be an ‘online’ game because it never was to me, my experience of it was solely single player as I didn’t have internet access at the time. My first experience of multiplayer FPS was Quake II installed on a bunch of PC’s over the LAN at school, which was shut…

Streaming really isn’t that demanding in terms of processing power - the PS3/360 would definitely be capable of streaming while playing a game. I think the more limiting factor there would have been internet speed/bandwidth 10 years ago, but take streaming out of the equation, store the videos locally, and it would…

Not that uncommon these days - Age of Empires II got a fan made expansion in 2012, which was made into an official expansion in 2013 a few months after the HD version of the game was released on Steam - 14 years after the original game was released and 13 years after the previous expansion. It was so successful it was…

I’ve just (last night) completed the Age of Empires II campaign on the HD/Steam version and this evening I’ve started playing The Conquerors campaign for what is actually the first time for me, despite having the game since early 2000! (By the time the Conquerors was released I was playing a lot of AoEII multiplayer…

And Age of Mythology just got a second expansion after just over 13 years too!

And I thought Nintendo were out of touch their internet/online gaming systems were terrible!

Figured as much. It’s so ridiculous considering it would take two lawyers five minutes to hammer out an agreement on how to split the profits, of which there would be plenty because people would buy them. As it is, neither EA nor WB (nor Newline nor the Tolkein estate for that matter) are currently making anything out…

So, in other words, it’s exactly what we expected and it’s still going to make $1 billion.