Thanks for presenting your rational, its well reasoned within the definitions you give.

However the definitions might not be as universality accepted as we might like, for example this presents CRPG as synonymous with “role-playing video game” with ARPGs, TRPGs, MMORPGs, etc as subgenres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_video_game

We’re going back to what made those early Diablo games feel so awesome but taking them in some cool, fresh directions

And also, you should win things by watching!

I’m not sure I agree.

Claiming that Skyrim is not a Computer Role Playing Game requires some supporting reasoning.

Something like the Berlin Interpretation might help but as it is we don’t know which features you use feel qualify/disqualify a title for inclusion.

It feels a bit late…

As of now, it’s unclear if Corden is referring to first-party or third-party games making their way to Microsoft’s consoles.

This is news only when either: a 1st party strategy is confirmed, or 3rd party titles are named.

That 3rd party timed exclusives go multiplatform eventually is just business as usual.

“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”

As an example of this, one of the easiest and most performant methods a nation has of blocking a website is dictating which DNS records its ISPs return for domains.

This has the advantages that it doesn’t require traffic inspection and doesn’t slow traffic at all.

But it has the disadvantages that it has an all-or-none effect on the domain e.g. it can’t be used to bock specific pages.

It can also be bypassed by simply using an international DNS server. There are people bypassing this kind of censorship without even knowing they are doing so.

There’s always some sort of excuse with them. Have to go pick him up from the bus stop, have to go pick him up from school because they got in trouble, dance recital during the middle of the day, always something.

I am a single parent and work the same hours per timesheet and get the same allotment of personal leave per year as everybody else at my employer.

If I happen to use that personal leave to pick up a kid who threw up in their classroom while somebody else uses it to see their optometrist or attend a funeral isn’t really anybody’s business.

I take one early afternoon each week to take my kid to an after school activity, this puts a weekly 2 or 3 hour deficit in my timesheet that I either make up by working a bit longer on the other days or if the sheet doesn’t balance I make up the difference by spending some annual leave. (I try to avoid using AL like this because I would rather save it for holidays but it is occasionally required.)

I don’t telegraph all of this timesheet accounting to my colleagues, they will know which day I’m leaving early that term and the rest isn’t really their business. At the end of the day/month/year I have my schedule OKed by my line manager and work the commitments of my contract.

But when it comes to ordinary normal people who don’t have kids, it feels like there’s a lot more scrutiny. Why do you need a doctor’s appointment in the middle of the day? Why do you need to go pick up a prescription at lunch time, like why can’t you work through lunch?

If your employer / manager is second guessing your leave thats an issue between you and them and shouldn’t have your looking at your peers with resentment.

Branding aside, the GameCube had:

• four controller sockets built into the console
• a media format with much lower capacity than the competition
• a controller with one primary thumbstick and two primary face buttons.

These feel like vestigial N64 features

Edit: and three shoulder/trigger buttons!

While they do like to mix things up on occasion they have there fair share of consoles that feel like iterations on a theme.

• NES>SNES
• N64>GameCube
• GB>GBA
• DS>3DS

With official announcements of a Switch successor including continuing software compatibility it seemed likely that it would keep the general form factor.

similar aesthetics but with a larger screen and Joy-Cons

True, but we don’t use HDD for much anymore.

I still consider a microSD card a must for my portable devices so I can hoard media locally.

But I pay for a cloud backup of anything I produce.

They are not talking about a new platform, but finding a more distinct voice as a publisher

Sega had that kind of style [back then]. Sega’s position was like, ‘If you have attitude, Sega’s the company for you, rather than Nintendo’, because of the games, because of the style, because of coolness or the kind of attitude. We have such beautiful content value in Sega, and some other IPs, so we’re trying to revive it with a little bit of the flavour of hip-hop now.

I’m not sure we need a remake. The ports released in 2017/18 for windows/PS4/XboxOne/Switch work just fine and are compatible with current gen consoles.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-revenues-by-format/

Nothing has been as big as CDs but total revenue has been growing since 2015.

This wasn’t as general as many people think:

1. It applied only to “auxiliary games” so anything using the primary engine was ok e.g. running in the fog for assassins creed or practicing moves in a combat game.
2. It applied only to US and Japan so anywhere else was unrestricted. The entire PAL region was unaffected.

But also:

3. The patent was held by Namco / Bandai Namco, they are a prolific publisher but made very limited use of their ability to use loading screen mini games freely.
4. The patent expired in 2015, despite this very few games have used loading screen mini games since.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5718632

I can only conclude that the industry just wasn’t that interested in the idea.

What’s next, the superhero landing?

A different branch on IP law but for decades Marvel and DC had a shared trademark on “Super Hero”.

If either felt they could argue it was a unique trade identifier they would have claimed it exclusively but instead they claimed shared ownership and used it to lock out competition in the space from 1979 to 2024.

ISO 8601 gets a bit weird with times.

Using T to separate the date and time components looks a but strange but is unambiguous and widely compatible.

Then the : delimiter between the time components is just impractical because, well again we put data in files and files live in filesystems. Any special characters that can’t be used in filenames on all major filesystems is a nonstarter.

/ can’t be used in a filename on most common filesystems so that doesn’t enter the conversation the real question is if you include - as a delimiter at all.

20241212 or 2024-12-12? They are fixed width fields so I skip the delimiter when I’m storing data* but tend to use the delimiter when writing for a general audience.

* Y10k problem right here!

The source the Tweektown article is quoting also says:

Anticipation is so high that some competing game publishers are waiting as long as possible to commit to their release dates for the fall, according to people familiar with their deliberations who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The publishers want to see whether GTA 6 will make its deadline or slip into 2026, these people say, and they’re determined to keep their own games far, far away.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-09/-gta-6-release-date-will-decide-much-of-the-2025-game-calendar

This is probably more interesting, that some upcoming games which don’t have release dates may be waiting for this before they commit to a schedule is somewhat noteworthy.