The option to buy Fotenite bucks at a discount exists on all the platforms right now. The drop in price was 20%, and the option to go to an external site and buy those bucks is valid for all consoles and the PC. Apple and Google threw a fit because Fortnite put the link to the discounted version in their game (despite…

There’s a difference, I don’t HAVE to buy all my products for my Playstation/Xbox/Switch from Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo. I can buy them from a game store, I can buy them from Amazon, I can buy them from multiple different places. And those don’t have to be officially suggported by the parent company either, look at…

Problem is that anti-trust enforcement by the government is at an all time low. The law has always allowed for “injured consumers” to bring their own anti-trust cases, and its sad it came to this, but Apple has enough money that it was going to take another company with buttloads of money to fight them. Combine that…

Pretty much any development tool EVER can be used to make software that willingly breaks Apple’s policies.

Apple does WAY more than take 30% though. They require you to pay a license fee in order to even begin to develop on Apple, and another fee for each Apple device you want to test your code on. Then you have to pay them again to have it listed. Then they take 30% of the sale.
Your console comparison doesn’t work. I…

“Why are people suddenly acting like taking a cut is a new practice designed to hurt developers?”
They’re not, but Congress is paying attention now.
At the hearing with the big tech companies not too far back, Apple got cornered by this exact line of questioning and couldn’t pull a decent answer out of its hat. Or as…

Retail takes a much smaller cut than that, it’s closer to 5-10% with video games (even lower with consoles). I was told by my manager when I worked at Gamestop that used games were where the money was, if they sold just new stuff, they’d never stay open because the cut they got was so small.

I mean, yes, but then the hackers would just set themselves to do a fraction of a second under the “best possible time” and continue to cheat anyway and avoid the system. Imagine having to get a near perfect time every single game just to have a chance.

Heh. Yeah, not really. I have a friend that works at that warehouse. They just got themselves back up to full speed a week or two ago.

Everything for the US and Canada for Nintendo ships out of Washington state, which has been in a pretty hard lockdown.

Then a decade later, everyone looks at the failed one like it was some kind of “classic” that we somehow failed to realize was actually the best system ever.

Sony does not own the rights. Sony owns the rights to the movies. The video game rights were, until 2014, owned by Activision. After that, Disney/Marvel took those rights back. They haven’t sold those rights to Sony, as doing so would have required the sale to be announced to the public, as it’s a major thing for a…

Sony does not. Until 2014, the video game rights were owned by Activision. Disney/Marvel did not renew that agreement. They also haven’t sold the rights to Sony, something that would have been a required disclosure of a public traded company. This means Disney owns the video game rights. Likely Sony threw bunches of…

Not only that, their own sheet showed that developers weren’t the ones worst off.
“employees in quality assurance and customer service often barely surpass minimum wage.”
Which is very standard for this and most other industries. QA, AKA game testers, can be hired off the street in bulk with a single ad asking people to…

It’s one thing to be talking to 11-14 year olds who think they’re just watching a video game and trying to secretly recruit them. Quite another to talk about ROtC and job fairs aimed at 16-18 year olds in high school who are getting ready to go out in the world and might not be sure what job paths are open to them.…

What this article kind of misses is the fact that it wasn’t voted down so much because of Twitch, but the fact it was Twitch AND High Schools. Should be no surprise to anyone that the military gets most its recruits right after they graduate. This amendment would have stopped them for going to a high school to recruit…

Helped Rocket League.

There was the Pokemon game on the 3ds that would corrupt your save if you stood in the wrong spot in town. That might be a bit more recent.

It takes a bit. I found that using screenshots but putting the more vague Unknown (no rain/snow) or Unknown (Rain/snow) helps as the later in the hour it gets, the two weather patterns from the hour and the next one will start to melt together. Had a few false starts using absolutes but once I started using unknowns…

I have 4 at last check. One for me, my wife and my daughter, plus an unopened Animal Crossing one just because.