I think BioShock just got grandfathered in through its System Shock lineage.

Are you thinking of Spy Hunter?

Wow - Take Two shuttering this studio AND Roll7 (OlliOlli, Rollerdrome) just a month after they announced they’re buying Gearbox for almost half a billion. Absolutely catastrophic mismanagement. What a shitshow.

Jumping into the Yakuza/Like A Dragon series from a random point would be incredibly confusing because of the storyline.

There are actually 3 good entry points (Yakuza 0, Yakuza 1/Kiwami, or Yakuza 7: Like A Dragon) but couldn’t recommend starting outside one of that set.

Flaming Fowl were founded back in 2016 by a bunch of former Fable devs out of original studio Lionhead

Literally just had to scroll a tiny bit further

‘Wanko’ comes across very differently in British English, unfortunately 😂

Sounds like you need to play more adventure games! Point & click had it’s heyday in the 90s with outstanding story-based game series like Monkey Island, Broken Sword, and Gabriel Knight, but there’s been a resurgence in recent years through games like Gemini Rue, Machinarium, and Deponia.

If you’re enjoying Syberia, definitely start looking at more point & click games - there’s a ton of variety!

Can they not just send a DMCA takedown notice to the host of that web server?

Article doesn’t mention this affecting anywhere other than the US. Why is this in world news?

As mentioned in the article, these are all union VAs and their new agreement explicitly protects them from AI being used without their permission.

If it turns out they really did use AI to rework some of the voice lines, there could be a major lawsuit coming…

I still remember the first time I saw the demo video where they flip a window around and write a note on the back of it. Blew my mind.

A lot of the old Trek games are available on GOG, but sadly A Final Unity isn’t one of them. I assume there’s some kind of licensing problem holding it up?

Starfield

As a dev who has worked on mobile games:

1. The stores have a serious problem with discovery which makes it unreasonably difficult to find the good original games in the sea of shovelware, but the good stuff IS out there.

2. People say they hate free-to-play and that they’d happily pay once for access like a normal game, but the stats say otherwise. Almost no one pays for premium mobile games, and that’s why no one bothers making them.

3. People who use ‘mobile game’ as an insult are usually wilfully ignorant about the platform and just have an axe to grind.

There’s no such thing as a zero-effort port

Not to suggest that Disney is innocent or couldn’t have done more to avoid this, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that the marketing art materials were outsourced to a dedicated studio who decided to use AI (possibly even without telling Disney).

Lots of outsource-focused art studios overpromise and overstretch to win their contracts, and then the artists end up having to cut corners to meet the crazy deadlines they’ve been given.

Yeah I wouldn’t use EA Sports as the yardstick here as they keep them coming long after everyone else has given up on a platform. FIFA 14 came out on the PS2 in 2013; the same year the PS4 launched.

You didn’t answer the question. I’ll answer for you: no, there’s no mention at all in the article of chores being required before check-out.

It’s a valid discussion about airbnb in general, I guess, but it’s otherwise irrelevant to this specific news story.

No, Yorkshire puddings are made of batter not bread! (But I can see why you might think that going from a photo alone)

I really enjoy my work, but it’s mentally tiring, so i end up in this bizarre back-and-forth where during the week I look forward to the weekend, and at the weekend I look forward to going back to work.

The lack of structure at the weekend is frustrating.