The writing in GTA V was one of the reasons I never finished it. Very "first draft" even by the standards of the series.

Twitter had an official gaming account? With it's own marking team? I'm no Elon fan, but this seems like a waste of money that never should have existed in the first place (and definitely not as an in-house project).

Agree that Google isn't trustable, but it seems a little weird to me that they won't let you just download your save data through Google Takeout or something. They obviously have the files stored somewhere, right? Should be a simple matter for the company that can give you a list of every YouTube video you've ever clicked on; Certainly easier than refunding all these Stadia purchases.

They never should have retired (then made "budget") the Pentium name. At the time every Joe Blow knew that you wanted the BMW car, the Rolex watch, and the Pentium PC. Why screw that up?

Beamer wrote on Sep 7, 2022, 13:32:
Speilberg

Sounds like a trend. I'm going to have to miss Jaws, but I caught the Jurassic Park 3D conversion and it was top tier.

Leaked Spider-Man screenshots show how it looks running on PC.

Finally, pictures of Spider-Man!

CS: GO Prime Status Upgrade.

Was puzzled by this for a second, but remembered the ban wave that just happened: https://convars.com/csgostats/en/bans

Whole lot of possibilities there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlus_games

I always thought ESP Ra.De. looked like it could use some kind of story expansion, not sure that live action would be ideal though.

Title is pure clickbait which is never backed up in the text of the article. The Shadowrun FPS was DOA for well known reasons and was not made by the same company that made "Returns" etc. The Shadowrun tabletop RPG was still going strong three years later when some key freelancers quit after financial irregularities were discovered at Catalyst. At that time (2010) Shadowrun was one of very few profitable tabletop RPG systems, which may explain why Topps renewed the CGL license that year (and have continued to do so ever since) despite the shenanigans.

I guess it could be noted that Jordan Weisman licensed the digital rights back from Microsoft in 2007 (via Smith & Tinker) and how this is indeed the same year the FPS was released. I also recall some (very) small amount of management personnel overlap between the post-Microsoft-acquisition FASA Studios and Harebrained Schemes. But even though these facts could conceivably be used to spin a larger connection between the FPS and the latest CRPG titles than ever really existed, they are not mentioned in the article.

slightly hollow feeling

So the game about a dystopian future is making you sad? Sounds about right.

A number of the Steam reviews are name-checking Terminator: Future Shock and Terminator: Skynet so if you appreciated those it might be worth a closer look.

...And yet the (far superior) director's cut still hasn't been released in HD.

For years I have assumed that most of the extravagant feature-related promises of Barkley 2 were part of the joke and that the game would release with a lot of cleverly designed pseudo-systems; Most of them just developed enough to support a parody or reference to similar features in other games (as some of my favorite parts in the first one did). Reading posts from the (now former) developers over the past few days, however: ToG were as serious about fully implementing all of that stuff as post-Cyberpocalyse Charles Barkley was about damn near everything (another one of the first game's high points).

The failure of this game has ruined my decade, but the fact that it failed in part because the devs committed to their own (what should have been) jokes too hard is fascinating.

Respect. Listening to The Last Ninja SID now.

RedEye9 wrote on Sep 10, 2018, 11:55:
Peter Norton is rolling over in his white-smocked grave.

Nah, he's still alive.

There are still serious unresolved issues with the July Windows updates.

Peter M. Smith wrote on Apr 20, 2018, 13:03:
Hosting high availability systems is not cheap. I work for a medical group,

Steam is not high availability. Goes down every Tuesday evening for maintenance (which can sometimes last an hour or more) and goes down randomly plenty of other times. The weekly outages even include the Store and Community Market pieces, which is something that still kind of blows my mind: If you had a money printing machine would you ever turn it off?

Nobody's life depends on Steam, so you can be assured that Valve is paying nowhere near what any medical group is. No extreme SLA, no "backups of backups for every piece of hardware and every network route" policies, nobody expensive on call 24 hours. They might not even have their own hardware in some locations.

Compared to physical distribution it is is insanely cheap to run something like Steam these days -- even if you aren't doing it all on AWS (as Netflix does).

Fletch wrote on Jul 13, 2017, 10:04:
I'd much rather see "Lode Runner: The Legend Returns" updated for modern computers. Don't make it 3D or anything. Just up the resolution and make it run on a modern PC. That would definitely push my nostalgia auto-buy button.

No resolution update, but there is a completely faithful fan rewrite that uses the original graphical assets and runs on any modern OS:

http://www.quarkrobot.com/about-this-project/

There is also this project that successfully re-implemented the engine from Lode Runner: The Legend Returns (and The Mad Monks Revenge) so that those games can be played on modern OS:

http://www.quarkrobot.com/about-this-project/

Native builds for Windows, OS X and Linux.

Toshiba article says it is from December 2015...