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.... I'm pretty sure Lars Wingefors doesn't have any direct ownership of any human rughts violations.

Pretty sure

Interesting that Jaleco2 are working with someone outside of Freemode for this. For the longest time they been pretty exclusive to the house of Clear River (LRG is kept chained in the basement)

@Quick_Man Thank you. I am too American to keep track of SNK lore most of the time.

@PKDuckman That... is avery good question, actually. Every other fighter has a Saudi/UAE rep now, but not any SNK franchise. Maybe that sand guy from KOF is, but his face is never seen, and he's on the bad guy side. Meanwhile, when SNK was owned by China we got Shuei. Without our consent.

It's very odd.

I mean, it's stupid, but at the end of the day Im getting Fatal Fury for the story, not the multiplayer, and i doubt either of these guys will appear in that.

17 was always an awkward starting roater number, so i think this is less an example of replacing Lucky Glauber and Duck King, and more "We proposed 20 characters to start, with the assumption 5 would be saved for DLC, and then the boss gave us extra money to put in his fan-fic OCs."

At the very least, i can respect the call to not have either celebrity voice themselves in either language. I've heard both of them speak now. They suck at it. Plus, Sean Chiplock is a master at arrogant box canoes, so a self absorbed jester of a royal family is the role he was born to play.

So that's why Wade won't say who owns Fight for Life in Atari 50, because not even he's quite sure who owns it, but neither does anyone else

@profkross I'm religiously opposed to the very idea of gaming subscriptions. Im not getting a Super Switch until Xenoblade 4 anyway, and hopefully by then they will have been forced to shift the prices into ambassador mode

...No, it'll still cost almost exactly $520 to play Path of Radiance. Console is $450 and the game is behind a $70 subscription. And then another $70 for the next year.

And the next year

And the next year

I appreciate that Gex is the example. Gives me minor hope that there's an effort to make Square+Enox actually make a 4. One WITHOUT the flaming hoops of LRG, ideally

Oh so THAT'S what that game the North American dorect crashed on was. Yeah I couldn't even find a publisher on few stories reporting on that one

The cause and effect of the human condition is equal parts magical and terrible

@MontyCircus Is Gradius now the Sonic 2 of Konami?

@PopetheRev28 If only you knew how bad things really are

Evercade has directs?

I mean of course it'd be Clear River. Clear River owns Tatsujin and has the preexisting contract on all other City Connection games.

The fact that America gets a 10 month delay on all Clear River games now is karmic punishment for allowing Jeff Grubb to continue talking

@firenze The suffering is eternal

I already knew most of this so I can't really add anything beyond insulting Jeff Grubb again.

So I'll do that

Jeff Grubb is a tiny, smelly man who lives in a tiny box in a smelly town, and he gets no bitches.

While I would normally default to calling Europe a bunch of Cheese eating surrender monkeys on a story like this, my hatred for that self important fart sniffer Jeff Grubb overwrites my normal American instinct to declare "but who gives a *****? People who think Soccer is real?"

The enemy of my enemy is my alibi

Cowards that they are

This seems like something Embracer would fund and support if he asked nice enough. It'd good PR to offset the next LRG and/or DECA scandal

....Oh THAT'S why Richard Epcar took over Aluma in V onwards

@MARl0 Eugene has gone on record that Cruis'N only happened because its partially Nintendo's game (though why GameMill is the distributor, I still have no idea) and because they were desperate to jeep the lights on during the apocalypse.

Their Gen 3(technically 4 if you count the comics) Turtles game was ported probably for reasosn related to the Paramount conspiracy listed above

I'm glad Eugene is getting work to keep the spirit of the American Arcade alive, but O just don't trust Paramount. Them suddenly getting REALLY into video games after beyond their old policy of "cash the THQ license check to get strippers and blow" makes me feel like there's something... duplicitous at play here.

I can feel the pain Jack had when having to type Soccer.

It amuses me greatly

Well that's a much needed reassurance that The System isn't failing ALL the children. Just most of them.

@ElkinFencer10 That sentence with that profile pic os a riller coaster from start to finish

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Acclaim's few original IP (somewhere between 70 and 80 when I last counted them I believe) scattered to the winds, ending up mostly at Billionsoft along with Accolade, or at Throwback in Canada. Notably, Throwback has two Acclaim games on NSO: Extreme-G and Iggy's Wreckin BALLS.

I haven't heard any whispers of Throwback selling any part of their war chest, so I'm left to assume it's some or all of Billionsoft's section they got back, if anything.

Knowing the way these things work via precedent set by Atari and Piko it will be some time before we get any answers.

Before the demons will let me sleep again.

same as it ever was

@slider1983 You just said the Crash game isn't real, therefore who's to say these ads were even made by Activision/Microsoft in the first place? Facebook doesn't exactly do background checks on ads.

@slider1983 Well now I just have further questions. Namely, are we sure this is even actually Activision?

Wait, I thought Kadokawa had full ownership of Elden and Dark Souls now?

There's a new Crash mobile game?

@Steel76 As great-granma used to say "Tales one to know one"

I will still always be mad about never getting my Golf Story refund, and the pettiness. They had Clear River block me because I kept pointing out all the delays America has to put up with that Europe doesn't because they get sent from the main GOE hub like every other Embracer release from evey other company in the tree. It's only America that has to put up with the slip-slidding dates, despite the fact that Clear River does all the manufacturing AHEAD of pre-orders going live for BOTH regions.

I will go to bat for SuperDeluxe. They've proven to be less corrupt, more honest, and easier to work with than their American parent. Or even their European uncle that has taken on some of said American's bad habits: like kicking and ignoring anyone with any criticism of American company.

Never meet your heroes kids.

How many ways are there to buy 98 now? Is it more than Sonic 2?

Achktucahally; Pang was never owned by Capcom. They were just international publishers. Pang was and still is owned by the Mirchell Corporation... or whatever holding company of it still exists on paper

@avcrypt Well yeah, that all makes sense. It's them admitting to it all is what threw me for a loop. I guess Freemode is okay them randomly delaying retail street dates in the Americas by 2 months to 2 years at a time with 0 warning ir explanation, but the second they start breaking NES' thats the bridge too far.

In all my research of obscure Japanese IP that only Hamster or City Connection would care about, i have found that there are more horny majong games than there are pictures of Sonic's feet.

I have stared into the void and seen the face of God. And he was weeping

Really whats most surprising is LRG owning up to their mistakes

Visco working with someone other than Hamster? Now that's different

Marvelous needs money

I'm concerned that the number of private, home fax machines is still in the 7 figure count

https://youtu.be/W13hGnYCAGw?si=W6U66zYVSeqLeEiB

I mean it makes sense. All the Bit Trip games are obstesebly Breakout but also a rhythm game. Even the Bubsy one, which by the way, I've been pointing this out on every other posting of this story but it's stupid yet on brand that the former Gaijan Entertainment would become the second AA Contract Studio (as I refuse to use any version of "indie" in anything related to a company as big as Atari) to work on two Atari IP in it's current form, but only in theost backwards amd legally retroactive way possible. The only one that could beat it would be THQNordic lending them back Black Forest to make Bentley Bear Goes to Nam

I wonder how it was decided that this would get a full translation while the two in Super Tecnos World would just be included there as straight "You figure it out" dumps

Tiddy all day every day

And these are the guys that got the contract to remake Donkey Kong Country 9 in the Unity engine

@KGRAMR From my experience with Atari 50 it's a game that NEEDS original hardware to make sense

I wouldn't be surprised if Wade announced Atari Karts 2 this year... though that's probably suicide considering Mario Kart 10: The Death of Captain Falcon Again comes out this year

I am the City Connection sycophant and even I'm confused how JALECO are doing more for Saturn reselling than Sega has ever attempted