Absolutely. I bought two kits (first VR, then variety) just to see what the deal was with them. It was a while after release, got them for a bit cheaper. I didn’t expect it to be that smart, to be honest. For a curious 10-12 year old or so, it’s fantastic.

Just the piano toy touches stuff like optics and IR, waveforms, frequency, and of course there’s the satisfaction of building that thing with all those moving parts.

I’ve seen so many people missing the point completely and calling it “expensive cardboard”. It’s like seeing one of these kits for kids letting them assemble a simple radio, with instructions and an introduction to electronics, and complaining that you could buy an actual radio for a quarter of the price.

Labo was not the success you’re making it to be. Anyway, the cardboard is only a small part of it.

Go see what the software is about, it’s very well done. You’ve got interactive cutout views of what the kit is doing, and explanations go into surprising details into the inner workings of infrared cameras, gyroscopes, generating sound, etc… while keeping it accessible to kids.

Also it includes a simple, visual programming language to do your own stuff.

Nintendo fans are so rabbid

No, that’s Ubisoft.

You see, Ubisoft’s studios are mounted on hot air balloons, sometimes they need to let go of some weight to catch the right current.

So they did plan more than that originally, that explains why I was confused about it.

It’s a shame though, a reboot would have been interesting. It’s not like you can’t play the original games anymore.

For once Konami gets credit for basic decency I guess. Wooo.

Reminds me of the assholes at Capcom who once removed a big part of Okami’s ending because “it was a movie with Clover’s logo on it, and we had no right to use that logo on a game they didn’t directly work on”.

Clover, the studio that they’d close up for financial reasons a few years before and who made the full fucking game to begin with. But you know, they didn’t work on the mostly straight port.

Wonder what a Morrowind speedrun looks like nowadays. I saw one a long time ago that was basically Icarian flight scrolls and lots of drugs that make you better at making drugs.

French public services tend to switch between FOSS and proprietary software, depending on the politics of the time.

In my little corner of it, they’re leaning toward proprietary right now, especially since a big Microsoft ecosystem deal was kind of forced on us and we’re supposed to go all in. Who knows how long it’ll last though.

I didn’t expect it to be that close to the original.

The way they’d presented the project I was expecting something more of a reimagining. This looks like the exact same game with revamped graphics.

Gameloft iself is controlled by the Bolloré family. I have little love for the House of Mouse, but believe me, there’s far worse. Not much worse than Bolloré though.

Those are almost completely self-imposed. Style is important, not hyperrealism, and almost nobody would complain about lack of realism if the result has good artistic direction.

Those who do complain may be vocal, but they’re a tiny, tiny minority. Realism is a coat of paint that may impress for a couple minutes before you start caring about what the game is really worth.

Hey, I backed that Kickstarter a long time ago!

Time to revisit it I guess.

Still think those people should have gotten a playdate instead, it’s more fun and certainly not less useful (which is, not at all).

(When I first heard about the r1 I immediately thought it was weird how the 2 devices looked alike, I’ve since learned they shared the same designers).

Not Fable games, just Fable, the one running through backward compatibility. I had no problem with Fable 2 and 3, or any other actual 360 game.

They even messed up the emulation on their PS Classic, despite being based on a simpler console and having full control of the hardware and software.

In my experience Xbox to 360 was not that good. Fable stuttered a lot.

PS2 to PS5 though, yeah, I know Sony’s architectures have been all over the place, but come on.

The article made that joke too, and… Yeah it’s spot on.

force everyone’s data into their OneDrive account. OneDrive now at capacity, you must upgrade to ensure all your data is backed up and retained.

If it’s made without any agreement from the user (hundred pages long EULA doesn’t count), time to GRPD the fuck out of them.

Game doesn’t exist anymore where I live, but the last thing I bought from a similar store (down to overpriced games and being mostly about merch) was a 8bitdo controller several years ago. I was there, price was not excessive, and it was slightly more convenient than having one delivered.

Beyond that… I went a couple times just to pick up a free event pokémon on 3DS, and nothing else, and I think the last actual game I got from them must have been Order of Ecclesia on the DS.

The French branch filed bankruptcy 10 years ago.

Some of the stores became Micromania-Zing (owned by gamestop) which amazingly enough still exists.

Yeah, those have been primarily funko pop stores for years too. Their new games are like 20% more expensive than everyone else, and their second hand games priced like everyone else’s new.