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  • The game prints enough money that they could afford to have a writing staff and illustration team. I think the idea is that building character depth will make a subset of players more connected to them. This keeps them playing and also increases the odds of them buying a skin for the character.

    It's similar to the Meet The ______ videos from TF2 and the comics that built on them.

  • "You can't take American taxpayers who paid for roads and block them out and say you can't access this unless you pay additional money," Duffy said in the administration's defense.

    Has this jabroni never heard of a toll road?

  • Mario AI

    One of the things Notch (of Minecraft fame) was known for before MC was a Mario remake that infinitely generated levels and had API hooks for quantifying progress. This was used in AI competitions.

    Similarly, one of the old Trackmania games has been modified to output position and track info around the player along with fitness measures, allowing someone to train AIs.

  • The handheld PC market is still small. Nobody else in the digital space has taken it seriously yet.

    If you look at iOS, you'll see what I'm talking about. It's effectively two products, a piece of hardware and a digital store. To beat it, you have to beat both the hardware and the store at the same time. It took the entire mobile hardware industry forming an alliance with one of the largest software companies in the world to even try to compete with it.

  • If SteamOS comes to dominate the handheld market, I could see them being forced to make an API so that other stores like Epic and GOG can have the same quality of integration in the non-desktop interface.

    If you have two products that are both the best at their respective thing and you tightly integrate them, it makes it incredibly difficult for a competitor to match you. That is abusing a monopoly in each space to benefit the other.