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reverttosaved.com
| | www.chrisritchie.org
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| | pixelpoppers.com
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| | So like, I love Nintendo and everything, but this is also the company that decides there is One True Way to play their games to justify forcing you to unlock all characters in an otherwise tournament-ready game one by one, or selling you an expensive controller and then not letting you use it while destroying accessibility by unnecessarily requiring motion controls, or preventing you from backing up your own saves, selling you a save backup service, and then not letting you use it, or requiring an online connection to experience certain content even if playing alone on a portable console. I've heard a lot of talk about entitled gamers, but none about entitled developers. I don't know what else to call it when a developer feels like they can decide for you how you get to enjoy the games and services you've purchased from them and hobbles those games and services in ways that cause real problems for communities, accessibility, and preservation all to stop players from having fun in an unapproved way. See also: Atlus pretending Fair Use doesn't exist and dictating terms for using gameplay footage and screenshots (perplexing after their previous backpedaling on the subject), many developers tracking player activity even outside of their game, and on and on.
| | blog.iconfactory.com
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| | Relive fond memories of your favorite classic arcade or electronic handheld games with Ollie's Arcade - a fun collection of retro-styled mini games that are challenging and simple to play. All of us here at the Iconfactory love the classic video games we played in our youth. Many hours were spent in front of titles [...]
| | reverttosaved.com
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| Candid commentary on technology, retro games, Macs and other things, written by Craig Grannell.