I don’t know about Fallout 4 (but I’d be surprised if it’s much different from Skyrim), but the Skyrim Unofficial Patch will not work under these restrictions. Arthmoor, the project manager, has confirmed this. It includes a number of texture, mesh, and script fixes, all of which would be classified as external assets…

Scripts are external assets in Skyrim, at least (haven’t played around with Fallout 4 modding yet). They’re packaged externally from the plugins that appear to be the only files allowed on the PS4.

From “relationship.”

The Mario jump sound effects are the reason I won’t watch a SM64 speed run without muting the audio first.

As an aside, one of the big reasons comic books were relegated to specialty shops instead of traditional newsstand retail during the 1970s and 1980s was that it’s largely expected that newsstands will be able to return unsold periodicals to the distributor. As such, those retailers tend to be less careful about…

No, the reason they publish the number of issues distributed and not sold is because those numbers have a business-related purpose for the publisher. They’re not designed for people to argue about on io9. What the publishers ultimately care about is whether or not they’re getting paid for their work. And consumers…

The companies don’t care about those figures, except indirectly. They don’t get money from consumers buying their books. They get paid when comic book stores place orders for X copies of a given book with the distribution company (Diamond). The stores anticipate demand based on subscriptions, preorders, and (when all…

Basically nothing. They let go all of their internal development studios (including Black Isle, responsible for Fallout) back in the early 2000s with the intention of going exclusively into publishing/licensing to overcome their ongoing financial troubles. That led to the license, and subsequently sale, of the Fallout…

I think the rights to all of the old D&D games was always with the company that owned the license (Wizards of the Coast, these days). I know that Interplay hasn’t had anything to do with any of the recent remakes/remasterings of the old Infinity Engine games (both Baldur’s Gate games and the first Icewind Dale, so…

That’s not quite true. Yes, Batman was campy to a degree that would have made the TV show blush... in the 1950s. By the time the show premiered, the comics had already veered back towards a more grounded portrayal. Not exactly Frank Miller-esque, but not campy, either. That change in direction was temporarily reversed…

I believe so. The original plan was for a four issue miniseries. The first thing Morrison wrote once it was extended into an ongoing was “The Coyote Gospel,” not coincidentally where one of the series’ key themes of metatextuality really takes off.

There are a lot of ideas here I could agree with (Moore’s Swamp Thing, Giffen/DeMatteis’s Justice League International, Levitz/Giffen’s Legion of Super-Heroes, Morrison’s Doom Patrol, David’s Young Justice, Claremont/Byrne’s X-Men, etc.). But I think my all-time favorite is one I haven’t seen mentioned: Grant…

Wild Cards used the “metahuman” term first, yeah, in 1986. Its first appearance in DC Comics was the Invasion! event in 1989. But that’s not exactly a secret, so I doubt DC/Warner would be likely to sue. Plus, unlike with the phrase “super hero” (which has been held as a joint trademark by DC Comics and Marvel since…

I never liked Warburton as the Tick. He’s too deadpan for me, and I’m still partial to the cartoon version of the character, with his gung-ho overeagerness. He certainly looked the part, but I wasn’t particularly impressed by the last live-action series. Except for Batmanuel.

That was Midnighter, I believe. He started off a WildStorm’s homage/parody of Batman, before WildStorm was folded into the DC Universe proper in 2011. Basically, he’s Batman with fewer scruples. He’s also gay, and has been in a long-term relationship with Apollo, WildStorm’s similar take on Superman.

They seem to be the same as the connector at the bottom of the Wii/Wii U remotes, so chances are the new gamepads are designed to be interchangeable with the classic controller models.

I was wondering if the thing had a proper cartridge slot, too. I can’t find any confirmation one way or the other, but I’m guessing no based solely on the apparent size of the thing. Going by the box art, for it to have a proper cart slot would mean that Nintendo managed to find a model with freakishly large hands.

Regarding Steam, this isn’t true. Most Steam games use Steamwork’s CEG (Custom Executable Generation) system, meaning that the game executable needs to communicate with the running Steam.exe before it will startup... but it’s not a requirement. There are a good number of games that available on Steam that are…

I dunno. DeForest Kelley was no spring chicken, even at that point, and while it’s not like the rest of the cast was anywhere close to infirm, they didn’t look particularly young. That was the logic behind adding Ilia and Decker (who, had the original plan to do a new TV series instead of a movie gone through,…

I don’t really understand that part. Were they going to recast everyone? Because it’s not like Shatner et al. were getting any younger.