I don’t know any company that would slack on their main franchise for that long.

Yeah, Kotaku is coming to the story because there’s a publicly-available information about it already, so any C&Ds that coincide with a Kotaku story are for that reason - both Kotaku and the legal guardians of the IP became aware of it about the same time, based on the same information.

The man isn’t stupid

The number of gamers also increases each year.

There’s a hilarious bit in the episode of “The Toys that Made Us” series on Netflix about He-Man, and how they made his cat mount. They had run out of money to build new tools for new figures, so they re-used the equipment for a pre-existing tiger figure, despite the fact that the toy had been designed for a much…

Once you start re selling the same content back to players

Or at least we look for ways to be more efficient.

what people call “laziness” is really more a case of the fact that people won’t pay more than 60 dollars for games, yet they want the time and care and envelope-pushing technical features and graphics of the games of their youth, which would cost an inflation-adjusted 130 bucks or more today

Yeah, the irony is that while we’re entering an era in which studios/publishers are finally realizing the importance of archiving, in large part because they now see that games can have multi-decade commercial lifespans (when, in the days of carts/disks on shelves, a game was lucky to have a commercial lifespan that…

Yeah, so much preservation still gets left to developers, so when studios get shut down and developer laid off, the odds of the source code and assets being preserved in any systematic manner is even less likely. I was working on a team doing expansions for a game after the original studio went under, and they hadn’t…

Yeah, exactly - they only just introduced the characters in the previous movie, but because so many of them were essentially not themselves for most of it, there was zero development of those characters and their relationships, and very little development of the others. So it was left, presumably, to this movie to…

Yep, that’s it. Except it’s slightly worse, as they didn’t recast some roles with the reboot, but all the roles. (Except Hugh Jackman, but he was only in one of the rebooted films.) Though they’re also using some different characters, since the films have been jumping a decade in between, and only just re-introduced…

They knew this would be the end of the Fox X-Men films and they just apparently decided that meh was just fine instead of just going all out.

Yeah, feature creep is always a problem, even for professional developers. But doubly so with amateur developers, who haven’t ever actually had to ship a game with time/budget constraints. They raise some money and think they’ve got bountiful resources and more time to develop a game than when they were doing it as a…

Especially when you don’t have the budget for it.

But... this seems reasonable?

More relevant: if you made a movie or TV show, you’d not need the permission or pay a license fee to the makers of Humvees. (Nor, if you were writing a book, would you need their permission/license to use the name of the vehicle.) Because that would be silly.  But games (and their relation to trademark) is treated as…

Given all we know of his public - and a lot of his private - behavior, I think at this point one would have to make a rather extraordinary argument to suggest that he’s not a narcissist (nor a sociopath). One doesn’t even have to do armchair diagnosing, as even the professionals are saying, “Goldwater rule be damned, y…

Honestly, I’m not sure he even fundamentally understands that, given the way he’s been weighing in on the current Tory leadership race in the UK. He’s acting like it’s a US congressional election and they’re all desperate to get his approval so they can win. (While, ironically, plenty of Republicans were eager to…

To be fair, most children’s stories go over Trump’s head.  Though I can’t imagine Trump read the letter - or had it read to him.