Destructoid writes: "Just like our lead toys in North America, the UK has found that Chinese mobile chargers have the propensity to maim individuals. According to the BBC, a specific charger with the code marking DE62347066 has the same electric ability as a ticked off Pikachu. Once trading officers found the problem, they issued a specific warning for the platform with the most prominent usage of the chargers, the Nintendo DS and DS Lite.
Chris Holden, senior trading standards officer had this to say about the amount of these chargers available in the UK:
'The UK appears to be flooded with them. It probably runs into hundreds of thousands or even millions.'
The good thing is, these chargers don't look to be a legitimate product. They appear to be some sort of bargain basement deal that people buy when they don't realize that cheap electronics have the ability to overheat. Whatever happened to the glory of the Nintendo stamp of approval? I still refuse to go outside of that comfort zone."
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
Space opera fans deserve a chance to experience the vastness of Infinite Space, and Sega needs to make up for its mistake.
I still go back to Infinite Space from time to time. Probably the most underrated game I ever played.
Pac-Pix launched in 2005 as a Nintendo DS exclusive, and deserves to make a comeback on modern touchscreen devices.
How professional