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    Bossa Games announces their next title 'Lost Skies, an online survival co-op

    I'm worried about the description of "Online". Most survival games don't need to be online. Let me unplug myself from your servers. Also, in the snippet, it doesn't say it's online anywhere, does it? So where did that description come from?
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    Xenoblade Chronicles 3 gets new trailer showing off the world of Aionios

    You know, as someone who played 1, and saw all the marketing around 2, the fact that I came out with the same exact impression about it means that this was very likely the impression they wanted to give. It matters not how the game actually is, they failed at the marketing stage by giving out...
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    U.S. Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision

    This is not the first time, nor is it the last time. I don't have any cases on hand, nor off the top of my head. However, the idea of a court reversing a decision isn't a bad thing. Ideals and interpretations change over time. Having a court flexible enough to account for these...
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    EA reaffirms that Dragon Age 4 will be "single-player focused," more info to come next year

    Press X to doubt.
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    Take-Two Interactive hits indie game It Takes Two with trademark claim

    Failed once. Partially got it right the second time. Failed again. There was never any doubt that the lawsuit was frivolous. But it's only being filed because the US has a fun law that basically says "Don't touch me, no matter what." This is also the reason why Bethesda sued Mojang over...
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    Take-Two Interactive hits indie game It Takes Two with trademark claim

    It's not that I don't hate Take-Two Interactive, but in this scenario, it's not really their fault. The US legal system requires Trademarks to be actively and litigiously defended from anything that could possibly be construed as similar. I hate Take-Two as much as everyone else, but they're...
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    Take-Two cancels unannounced $53 million game in development by Mafia III studio

    Gee boy whizz. I could never have guessed this.
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    GOG removes 'Hitman - Game of the Year Edition' from its storefront following backlash over online requirements

    Spoken by people who don't understand the situation, throwing in their "moral support vote cards". How the internet works these days I guess. The game was entirely playable offline. You could boot the game and complete it, never connecting to the internet. There was never an online...
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    GOG release of 2016 Hitman reignites controversy surrounding online connections for single-player games

    You know, I feel that half of this is overblown. Yeah, it sucks that you aren't going to be getting persistent upgrades due to the profile being tethered to their servers, but that's how the game was originally coded. I don't like DRM as much as the next person, and I'll gladly go sailing on...
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    Free-to-play 'Pokémon Trading Card Game Live' announced

    So it's not a TCG, which means Trading card game, but rather CCG for Collectable card game. Got it. Nice misleading name yo.
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    Sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. sells for $2 mil, breaks last month's record of most expensive game

    I think you've missed the point between my original post of "Thing is biggest" and it's relationship to the news about it being important, and the economic situation under which it is happening, and confused it for a general "why does this thing cost so much!?". I am not confused about the...
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    Sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. sells for $2 mil, breaks last month's record of most expensive game

    Why yes. It's rare, but that doesn't mean there weren't rare things in 2000. In 2040, are we going to see games from now being sold for 5 million, or an equivalent amount of GDP or other metric? Does that mean it's suddenly "the record"? I argue it wouldn't.
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    Sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. sells for $2 mil, breaks last month's record of most expensive game

    I wonder how these will stack up with pricing and inflation. Like, was a video game sold for 1.3 million back in 2000? Because that is technically a higher price when accounting for inflation. Same with the "sold more consoles than", of course they did, market capitalization is increasing as...
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    Blizzard's president is stepping down and leaving the company amidst discrimination lawsuit

    And he walks away with all the money he earned during those years of abetting abuse. Where are his punishments? He should at the very least forfeit all his stock options in the damn company. What a fucking slap on the wrist. Little wonder nothing changes.
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    Tencent has acquired Sumo Group, developers behind Sonic All-Stars Racing, Sackboy, and more

    Yes, treat them as equals, as they now hold billion dollar loans over these countries, own the mineral rights, and send chinese engineers to build their infrastructure. Smells a lot like new age colonization if you ask me. Reminds me a lot of how my friend played too much EU4 and was regaling...
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