The first is well known for its songs, the musical oompa loompas were pretty iconic.

But I think Wonka might have devoted twice as much time to musical numbers.

I refused to buy the NSO upgrade while these were out of stock, then when the stock stabilized I grabbed a couple but ended up not getting the expansion pass anyway.

But they’ve been great for N64 emulation on other platforms.

I was thinking more of “Roy: A Life Well Lived”.

Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we’ve all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

- Randle Monroe (2013)

basking under the Maui sun

This kind of makes sense they have been using the term uncontested for a decade now.

Its surprising they haven’t taken the trademark earlier.

I would propose Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition, its more of a Jurassic Park inspired kill frenzy than a coherent game but I had a lot of fun with it.

Not at random retailers anywhere in the world, but yes, if you get the same quality story for a third of the launch price, that matters.

I was comparing the Australian PSN prices, I assume ratios are probably similar across other regions but couldn’t be bothered checking.

I’m a bargain hunter as much as the next person but I want the annual Narrative award to go to the game with a 9/10 story, not the game with a 8/10 story and 4/10 price.

Last year the nominations for Best Narrative were:

• Alan Wake 2
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
• Final Fantasy XVI
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

On my local digital shop front Phantom Liberty was au$45 while Spider-Man was au$125. Should Phantom Liberty be given an advantage because it is priced at only 36% of its competition? I feel like those commercial value considerations might be appropriate for a review but for an annual Best Narrative award I want it to go to the Narrative that is actually Best.

That said if they added a best value in gaming award I would would be happy for them to consider games or hardware that offer significantly more value than their price would imply.

The Game Awards aims to recognize the best creative and technical work each year, irrespective of the format of that content’s release. Expansion packs, new game seasons, DLCs, remakes and remasters are eligible in all categories, if the jury deems the new creative and technical work to be worthy of a nomination. Factors such as the newness of the content and its price/value should be taken into consideration.

https://thegameawards.com/faq

Its a bit weird but I can understand their starting argument that they are reviewing works on their creative and technical merits (the actual format is incidental) but then they shoot it all down by saying price/value is taken into consideration.

If rockstar and grove street games are distancing from each other the latter probably needs to rebrand.

Middle of the pack

I’m not sure “in a 3D space” qualifies as an “inventive step” these days.

It definitely feels like something a person with ordinary skill in the art to which the invention pertains could easily have made on the basis of an invention or inventions that are already known.

It’s showing if you expose a human to the same content over and over again. It can change their way of thinking in order to like the thing they are exposed to.

See also: top 40 radio

Co-optimous has the best db of co-op features.

For couch co-op they list:

• PS1 - 85 titles
• PS2 - 212 titles
• PS3 - 500 titles
• PS4 - 1207 titles
• PS5 - 393 titles

These numbers place the PS4 couch co-op library as larger than all the preceding PS generations combined. (At the moment you could group PS5 in with them too but that won’t be true for long.)

Edit: thinking about this a bit more the interesting pattern is that each of PS2, PS3, and PS4 more than doubled their preceding generation’s figure. We don’t know how long the PS5 generation will stick around but we are probably half way though and its unlikely it reaches 2400 co-op titles.

Admittedly my understanding of patents is pretty rudimentary but I thought you had to apply before releasing the idea into the world.

If that was right the general concept of a container that you throw at a creature to capture it would be considered unpatentable after Pocket Monsters Red and Green released in February 1997. Of course they could trademark the specific markings of the pokeball but the general mechanic would be fair game.

Physical or digital? If digital what platforms are available?

My fist general purpose console was the Sega Master System. It had a flowchart displayed on the top telling you how to use it.

It might not have been pretty in the traditional sense but I loved it.

Looking back on it the chart was somewhat misleading, the console had two built in games that were only accessible if you didn’t insert a cartridge or card (Hang On, and Safari Hunt), and a third that also needed a controller connected and a few buttons held down when you turned the system on (snail maze).

I would like to play a reimagining with only the two factions and not two many unit types. If they updated with modern QoL but kept the actual mechanics simple it would make a nice casual game.

But what do I know, I think that Anno on Wii is the best Anno.

I this is the most effective search I could find:

https://www.google.com/search?q=“Mozilla’s+Firefox+Send”

Not great for a product that is not Mozilla’s Firefox Send!