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It went to Songtradr, who are mostly a music licencing company. So I'm guessing that at least initially things are going to stay the same but that musicians are going to get nagged into letting Songtradr put their stuff up on their big licencing store. And then enshittification, because that's how absolutely everything is going.

Give it a few weeks and it'll be $7.99. Maybe even $5.99 depending on how many sales they got last time it hit $7.99.

They keep it at this price because it allows them to advertise an '80% discount' several times a year, which gives them better visibility in the sales.

Which is a wholly different level of suck. But hey, ho.

It's not entirely against their own self-interest. More accessible engines on the market means more beginner devs who may graduate to Epic in a few years, and more products to sell on the EGS. Also more devs potentially means more asset store customers.

Regardless, it's certainly more helpful to the industry than Unity at the moment.

Honestly, whilst it would be nice for the mysterious ship of destruction to actually reach the central plot someone soon, I'm enjoying the little snapshots into lower deck life on other ships. It's a shame it always inevitably ends with vaporisation.

Depends on whether you're willing to spend $20 to turn your Series S into a devkit, at which point the S can be an utter beast for emulation.

It becomes even more confusing when you think about the fact that the Xbox One is not the Xbox 1, which was just the Xbox. And that the Xbox One X, the souped up version of the Xbox One, can be abbreviated as the XBOX, which again, is not the original Xbox.

No, that's the Xbox One S. This is the Xbox Series S.

I'd argue that Odo fits the traditional role more directly, as his confused and sometimes disdainful fascination with solids has a similarly cold and analytical approach to that of Spock and Data. But then, Quark and Odo are essentially two sides of the same coin.

To be fair, DS9 didn't really have one of those. But DS9's strength was that the entire extended cast including minor characters had interesting stories to tell. Voyager on the other hand has characters like Ensign Harry Kim, a character so underserved and underwritten that at one point he's killed off and replaced with an alternate universe version of himself and the dynamic doesn't change one iota.

If you have a quest marker, you can jump straight there using the quest log, no fiddling around with the map required!

If I remember correctly, it was originally intended to be an episodic game, but plans changed late in development. As a result, the first half of the game is a really good bit of moody character-driven slow burn storytelling, and then suddenly it's like the entire corkboard full of plot ideas gets vomited out at once.

Until reasonably recently, Embracer was known as Nordic Games. Their plan was simple and quite effective; buy old game IP, release remasters, make reasonably-budgeted sequels aimed at niches of the industry being missed by the increasingly laser-focussed AAA publishers.

It worked for a good few years, and they became a Katamari of game development studios. An increasingly unwieldy Katamari. And like any good Katamari they started picking up bigger and bigger things. Suddenly instead of spending a couple of thousand on a struggling legacy developer, they were paying upwards of a billion at a time, swallowing up things like Gearbox, Asmodee, Dark Horse Comics, Middle Earth Enterprises, Square Enix Europe. They lost focus and just kept buying things, including things they couldn't afford to buy. Eventually, a planned deal with the Saudis fell through, and that Katamari just slammed directly into a wall.

Considering that this thing runs great on a Series S (which is CPU-heavy, but with a weak graphics card) that makes so much more sense.

In previous Bethesda games I eventually just started doing calculations in my head constantly about whether the stuff I was grabbing was worth the weight involved. I'm still not quite at that point for Starfield, but I'll get there.

Robert Picardo lobbied so hard for that cameo!

That would be the famously torso-sized PS5, right?

Counterpoint: If not having room for a $70 game because there's a $60 game already on there (which also isn't normally a problem for him because his main gaming system is his $500 gaming console) is an issue, then the article is already being written from a position of privilege.

A shame, but the writing has been on the wall for a long time. Volition was never quite the same after the THQ bankruptcy, and that was still several years before Embracer took over.

Now there's a difficult job!