Quoting: Leahi84Since ProtonDB is mentioned, can anyone tell me why no games have been added to it since the end of 2023? Was the site put into maintenance mode or something? The last game it says was added was Blue Protocol in December 2023.

Not sure what you mean? SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS is on ProtonDB [External Link], and it was released yesterday.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyChoplifter? Is that a game where you use a combat helicopter to steal things from stores?

Almost!

You use a chopper to airlift hostages to safety. Quite a clever name for the game.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusAs a resident of Hilo, Hawaii I'm not sure why they named a game mode that (the Hawaiian meaning of "to twist, braid" doesn't seem particularly relevant), but okay! :unsure:

I think that should be hi-lo as in high or low. You pick the highest or lowest ranked option. Some sort of poker term I believe?

Also, I had no idea there was a town called Hilo. Obviously I have heard of hilo, the official state soil of Hawaii, rich in volcanic ash with a lovely 5.5 pH. But a town too? Live and learn!

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This is what happens when both parties buy ink by the barrel... :tongue:

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Quoting: PenglingArgonaut owned its own creation, and then after the company went bankrupt 20 years ago, within a week its founder Jez San bought up the rights to the company's games - this was covered by various news organisations at the time. After that, the Croc rights were moved to his mobile games company, which then made a few Croc mobile games. Now Jez San has brought back Argonaut and I presume will bring back other franchises too, the most notable of which is probably Starglider, which was the series that led to Argonaut collaborating with Nintendo to create X (a 3D Game Boy game) in 1992 and then Star Fox (the famous 3D SNES game) in 1993.

In short, the rights to Argonaut's games basically never left the company's founder.

Thanks for clarifying. Good to know Croc is safe! :smile:

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Who actually owns the right to Croc? It goes something like Fox Interactive -> Vivendi -> Activision Blizzard? There's also this little tidbit on Wikipedia:

"As of 2022, most of Fox Interactive's game library, which was copyrighted to 20th Century Fox, is owned by The Walt Disney Company through 20th Century Studios"

Croc a Disney princess now?

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Quoting: PhlebiacGoing by the screenshots, that game has literal butt-face characters.

Careful now, cheeky comments like that is sure to cause a stink! :grin:

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Finally playing Impostor Factory [External Link] so I can move on to the Just a To the Moon Series Beach Episode [External Link] and catch up with the series.

I'll probably check out The Holy Gosh Darn demo but it seems to be a Norwegian production. Is it still mandatory to wear the lusekofte [External Link] when playing? :tongue:

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Quoting: kuhpunktI'd like to see a quote/source for that.

Closest I can find is this post on HN from a supposed former Valve employee:

"One very senior employee even said that Valve would never make another single player game, because they weren't worth the effort. "Portal 2," he explained, had only made $200 million in profit and that kind of chump change just wasn't worth it, when you could make 100s of millions a year selling digital hats and paintjobs for guns"

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20099167 [External Link]

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Quoting: emphyDoes the atari 50 collection come with a link for just the roms at any of the shops?

Not interested in all the hoopla that comes with it and would prefer to bring my own emulator. An 11.7GB download (as stated on gog) seems a bit excessive for my use case.

You should be able to extract the ROMs with the Cowabunga tool [External Link].

Still need to download the file though.

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