Looks like the Disney's copyright of the Mickey character is near the end. Given how Disney is not promoting their mascot as they used too, I imagine they are preparing to give up on him since other companies will be able to use it all they want.

The question remains, who will have the guts to be the first, since Disney may want to scare people to jump into the opportunity, and they have the money to drag other companies to court sitting any legal shenanigans.

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Strange. This smells like they are splitting Ubisoft business to protect some assets from a inevitable bankruptcy.

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Good for them. Escaping the claws of big studios at least allows you to be in charge of your own destiny. It does not guarantee your survival forever, but at least when the parent company is going under, you are not going with them.

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Back in the 2000's, there was this push to improve the physics and AI of games, FEAR being one of the best examples. But suddenly in the 2010's all of that was gone, physics and AI took a backseat, together with innovation.

Some say the culprit was the weak CPUs (AMD "jaguar" cores) of the XBOne and PS4. I think there is more to blame than that.

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Uh-oh, looks like there is already a 2023 movie with this name. Lets see if will let to a change in the name for the game.

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I got the impression they will put ancient Mayan/Incan lore in their setting.

As for the engine, anything but UE5 is good for me. Not only those are problematic, but I don't like a Chromium like monopoly on game engines.

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I had to look at the window and look for flying pigs or if the hell had frozen.

Those games are not my cup of tea, but I'm glad they made 'em opensource.

If you only know EA from their last 10 to 15 years, you would be shocked on how good and innovative they were in the 1990's. They were a studio to be admired. Road Rash, The Need for Speed and Desert Strike were innovative and quality titles, together with those strategy games I don't care about. Their sport games I also never got to play, but I was told were okay.

I really hope they can opensource all those 90's titles. I'm sure the opensource community will take good care of them. And it will help reduce the image damage EA got in the last decade.

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I have a RX 6700 XT standard model, which has a less than ideal cooler design for hot climates. I use LACT to undervolt and to put a power cap of -10W. It does its job very well for me.

While the visual is not as fancy as AMD's control panel on Windows, it is still easy in the eyes and in my opinion, less cluttered and easier to find what you are looking for, which is a big plus.

The only "complication" is to install and config its daemon, so it keeps the settings you configured between sessions, but even that is automated and noob level easy.

I'm glad Linux had a tool like that, and wish its developers earn more recognition from the hardware vendors.

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No One Lives Forever 1 and 2. Oh boy, do I miss those. I remember GoG trying to bring them to their store, just to get uninterested responses from the IP owners.

They were told that "no one knows for sure who owns the IP". Someone joked that they should bring it to the store anyway, since it would be a guaranteed way to start a fire under the asses of the IP owners and sort things out.

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In one side, I think is good devs can work on things they are interested. On the other side, I really wanted they released a second Android Assault Cactus. It is my favorite twin stick shooter, and I see potential for more games on that IP.

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