On the one hand, a potential remaster of Battle for Middle Earth and its sequel would be amazing.
On the other hand, the moment they sorted out the rights they’d definitely cease-and-desist the free downloads and fan patches that have kept it alive and popular all these years.
Or lingering dampness.
They got rid of Medieval Tapestry Art Baby?
I hope Knytt Stories gets a similar treatment. There were so many excellent user-generated levels that shouldn’t be lost to time.
If you’ve never played it, try the level “Don’t Eat The Mushroom”, and go in blind.
Speedrunners have thoroughly dissected Hitman’s AI and found ways to completely break the game. There’s a brief explanation of the systems at the beginning of this video, but basically the devs wanted cinematic moments where guards rush past 47 to check out a distraction, but bungled the implementation to the point where you can reliably waltz past armed guards while undisguised and with your weapon out after half a second of preparation.
One of the “contractors” who was let go was a producer on the new Halo who’d been at the company for six years, so yeah, it’s just contract fuckery to keep wages/employee protections down.
What are you talking about? He’s much more humble than you would understand.
(I love her expression after he drops that line without a hint of irony or self-reflection.)
They were referring to Mario and Luigi matching the Italian flag.
“The Only Thing They Fear Is You” intensifies.
Damn, you’re right. That frog has been thoroughly boiled.
The document also includes details about a way for players to get a digital version of a game that they already own on a physical disc, which The Verge’s Tom Warren reported on in July. The document says that if a player puts an Xbox One or Series game on disc into an Xbox One or Series X console with a disc drive, they’ll be granted a digital license that’s bound to “that disc and the player’s account.” The license will stay with a player across Xbox devices, but if the disc “changes hands,” the license will transfer to the new person. That should mean that gamers can still trade and sell discs; once the original owner of a disc does so, they can’t play the digital version they got from that disc anymore.
What a fair and simple system. Sony, take notes!
It’s 100% a mistake. “Wretched souls” is a well-known phrase that goes back to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, if not earlier.
I’m guessing they didn’t catch it because retched is also a word, even though that use is grammatically incorrect (unless they were souls that’d been vomited up).
IIRC Fox scored well below people who reported watching no news at all.
No, for that you’d use Cherokee.
I read it! I know most of the characters you use, and the remainder were easy enough to figure out through context. :)
What was VTM? Search is not being helpful today.
Unicode support in your coding language is great right up until someone accidentally inserts a lookalike character or closing quotation mark somewhere (phone keyboards and accessibility tools do this a lot). The code will look correct but fail to compile, and it can be a nightmare to debug if you don’t know to look for it.
They’ve technically been compliant since Godot 4 came out in 2023, but they’ve continued to update their i8n and l10n (internationalization and localization) support with every subsequent release. And since the Godot editor runs on the Godot game engine, developers benefit from these changes too.
From what I hear they’re one of the nicer engines to work with when it comes to translations now - Godot has added lots of usability and testing tools, including in the UI design layer so developers can verify the localized versions are working and look right from the earliest stages of development onward.
I prefer vertical langs myself.
I wonder if users of vertical languages prefer portrait screen orientation to landscape?
Funnily enough, that was one of the major complaints fans made about Fallout 3. For some unfathomable reason Bethesda decided to set it generations after the first two games, yet the Wasteland hadn’t changed at all despite it now being centuries since the bombs fell.
Come to think of it, they did the exact same thing with Skyrim.