those look cheap and nasty.

won't happen. legal reasons. Nintendo lost the case and we lost the GC controller (and the Classic, considering both have analog triggers)

There are legal reasons that Nintendo doesn't revamp the GC controller. I'm assuming that what they put in the market now for the new Smash Bros. is probably repackaged stock from existing parts.

It's an entirely different peripheral compared to the other controllers, located on the EXI bus. You need to actually define the controller type while developing Wii games, and this holds true for Wii U as well.

this is great. makes me feel like a talentless piece of crap. :D

genius, I love it.

edited: apparently the circle pad pro, working over IR, makes that 5% pop up on the CPU?

Call me names but I can't tell the difference really - they all look spout out from the same graphics subsystem..now in the good ole' days, consoles had a personal tone to their graphics, due to their fundamentally different tech. I miss those days.

THIS POKEMON NEEDS A DIET.

winamp with global hotkeys. Everything else is a compromise.

Ideas like this have always existed in the minds of children and adults alike - yet the prudent game designer knows where to cut the romp in order to make a shippable, feasible production that ends in a profit. Good intentions and ideas do not a good game make.

There's a hidden uranus joke somewhere in this madness.

that's actually awesome.

If it's any consolation, they kinda look like girls.

just find a way to interpret it as parody and you should be fine Activision.

Poor guy.. could have happened to any of us really. Hang 'em.

If microsoft takes away the creative control, the in-depth player involvement in all aspects, including servers (but not the payment part - i don't think anyone would complain about that) and just keeps a sterile/walled off experience..expect that playerbase to alienate and eventually change, or even fall dramatically…

Black Pit is owned by Disney actually.

read the terms and conditions for more information - speculating without them is just an exercise in assumption. What you describe sounds like a promotion, where I'm sure conditions in the license make your rights clear.

Indie games aren't known for their legal tightness - just look at what happened to Fez and many other games that did and didn't see the light of day.

Making an indie game is based mostly on good intentions, not thorough legal thinking - hence why professionally-made video games are exactly the opposite, made in the…