It's 2024. This shouldn't be happening, and it feels just as naive as Ubuntu allowing any old random to publish to the Snap Store.

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Quoting: nenoroInstant wishlisted

Konami gets a lot of flack from people, but I'm actually impressed by how they've committed to continuing the Bomberman series instead of just leaning on nostalgia like some other companies do. :grin:

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Quoting: TheRiddickYou know what they should do, add like 2 or 3 player coop, or 4 maybe?

They added that back in August [External Link]. :smile:

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Quoting: thelimeydragonCurrys, Lidl, Argos all had them last time I looked in December.

Quoting: PenglingThanks very much - I'll take a look the next time I'm by any of those! :smile: I certainly wouldn't've thought to check Lidl, though I suppose who could argue with a fresh pretzel and a Steam card? :grin:

I just wanted to post a quick follow-up to this: Thanks so much, thelimeydragon! I had a chance to look around, and they are indeed found in Lidl, of all places! :shock:

Thankyou again! :grin:

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Quoting: ElectricPrismBefore Halo 1 was owned by Microsoft Studios it was available on MacOS/OSX -- and after Microsoft bought it they pulled the plug on that.

A small correction if I may. :smile: The original Mac version of Halo was never released. Microsoft bought Halo and its developer Bungie entirely to prevent the Macintosh platform from ever getting a gaming killer-app - which is totally in line with Microsoft's modus operandi. The Halo FPS that was eventually released (and which did later get a Mac OS X port) isn't the same as the third-person successor to Marathon that was revealed and made such waves originally.

Quoting: ElectricPrismWe could probably discuss whether or not that is presently true of Microsoft. Come to think of it when they bought Minecraft I don't remember seeing a non-windows version.

To be absolutely fair, they kept almost all of the non-Microsoft versions of Minecraft available (I believe the exception was the Raspberry Pi Edition, which they pinched the idea for and then ran off to make Education Edition which I believe is only for Windows), and kept making more of them, too.

That said, Microsoft bought Minecraft after its creator talked about releasing it under an open license, and of course, as with preventing the Mac from getting a killer app, they had to prevent open platforms from getting one, too, so nothing has really changed about what they're doing.

Relevant article [External Link], also. :sad:

Quoting: whizseOfficial Valve Proton t-shirt when?

Quoting: MinuxOh man, I'd buy one for sure. :grin:

Same here - I wish they'd bring back the official Valve merchandise store! :sad:

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Quoting: elmapulif only we had an publisher that made alternative games to nintendo games, capable of outputing the same ammount of games as then, with games that are different enough to no count as plagiarism, but similliar enough to compete for the same audience while at the same time, they could make better games than nintendo, as well as make high quality original games instead of just imitations, if we had all of this with an company that was actually ethical...
nintendo would be forced to improve.

Well, I don't have an alternate company, but I do have this list of games that I've been jotting down for the last couple of years that fulfill my own personal criteria for the general vibe that I sought out on Nintendo's consoles (it's not always direct equivalents, but very often it is).

Maybe I should finally do something with it and start a thread on the forum? Will you guys join in if I do? :grin:

Quoting: NozoEveryone should keep in mind this, if Nintendo wins this case it would set a pretty serious precedent and not only for the emulation scene, it would also affect even compatibility layers like Wine, imagine Microsoft taking down Xenia and Wine claiming to "defend their intellectual property" and without anyone being able to do nothing about it, killing any vestige of competition for desktop operating systems in the process as well as getting rid of the Steam Deck (something Nintendo will be pretty happy about too).

Nintendo has been extremely and excessively buddy-buddy with Microsoft for the last several years (to the point that I would say Nintendo has made some business decisions that undermine themselves and may bite them later). What you just pointed out paints that in a very worrying light indeed. :shock:

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It's about time! I like it. :grin:

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Quoting: whizseRobot butler

There was this fella [External Link] back in 1985. :tongue:

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Quoting: neon_soaked_chryssalidSomehow nobody that I know IRL can understand why I will not purchase any products from them.

Nintendo fans will even run other fans out of town for daring to hold the company accountable for their mistakes and poor decisions*, so I'm not surprised somehow. :huh: (Yeah, I never fit in with them even when I was a fan.)

*Gotta love excuses like "You should be grateful!" and "At least they tried.". No way, they're a huge company demanding a lot of money for their products - they're not doing stuff out of the goodness of their hearts!

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Quoting: MohandevirWorst thing is to think that, before this nonsense, I was willing to pay Nintendo if they ever decided to provide roms of their older consoles, so that I may legally run them on my emulators.

I would've been, too, to be honest. But knowing them, even if Satan were to ice-skate to work while some pigs soar overhead one fine morning and Nintendo did do something like this, it would be saddled with Denuvo or some other similar rootkit, anyway. :tongue:

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