Oh man, was it ever! As a fan of cars and car games, the whole abuse of the Test Drive Unlimited devs really did not have me feeling like we were being ruled by a good group. And then there was the whole “cease & desist or shell out to us” money-grab they did with online versions of classic Atari games... sheesh.

It’s not surprising what with a company like Perfect World at the helm. Ah well, at least we had the fun of working on the games. :)

As a former CO / STO / NW dev... yah, agreed. It’s what happens when you’ve got a big backer like Perfect World... at least it’s not “Atari” though (or should I say “the shell of Atari owned by a bunch of French investors / businessmen who don’t have a f-ing clue about video games”).

So glad I was at Cryptic to work on these games (and Champions). So glad I’m not there any more to just keep grinding on them, put up with public put-downs of something I’d be working on, and at a better paying job outside of the game industry.

May have to blow the dust off my PSP, charge up the battery, and finally get around to putting a iso-friendly setup on it.

First game I ever played multiplayer. I still remember coordinating at school and over the phone with a friend on when we’d play (to avoid family picking up the phone) and who would connect to who.

So much for encouraging players to contact you when they find major problems in your games. Nintendo’s actions aren’t the least bit surprising to me, almost a decade since I last had a direct or indirect dealing with a Japanese console company (from the position of being a game dev myself), and nothing’s changed in…

Those wheels look awfully familiar...

Thank you for putting The Dig in that list, really was one of those gems that many people I know (and I worked in the game industry for a number of years) have never heard of it, kind of like the Tex Murphy series.

Somewhere in my mess of a room I have the Gone Jackals CD because of this game.

1138 - Was wondering where that was in the movie.

On the C5 and C6 Corvette it was body color, but so many folks did the “halo mod” of vinyl wrap / painting it black that GM changed it to black on the C7.

I enjoyed the game, though it felt somewhat short on story and some of the forced running around (when you had to be on the far side of the map and hadn’t unlocked shortcuts) became annoying. What really bugs me is that they did an even bigger slap in the face to the original with CG cutscenes of the characters you…

If you yell “fly my pretties” at it will it start flapping its doors?

A lambo that didn’t set itself on fire? That’s a first.

Weird, it worked that time. First time around I got as far as the checkout page and it said “sold out”. Got mine on order! :)

Dang it, “sold out”. :(

The “Infidel” patch and stuck-on GoPro mount gave me a good laugh.

The bro-ness of that top gif alone makes me want to go see the film for a third time.

It’s a slightly more pleasant reality with rules and hazards you can cope with (or even walk away from)... even when that ‘reality’ involves splattering demons from depths of alternate-reality Hell.