Nometet.com: The Eidos axe fell particularly hard on Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics, losing thirty members of their team following a 'disappointing' fiscal return from Tomb Raider Underworld in the USA, leaving their parent company 500,000 sales short and £20 million shy of expectations. In the wake of the staff cuts Chief Financial Officer for Eidos, Robert Brent, hinted to The Times that a more family or female friendly Lara might be on the cards, citing the Nolan-directed Batman movies as an example of a successful reboot of a popular franchise. The one thing that has struck me about this situation is the parallels to six years ago. Think about it: Tomb Raider failing to meet expectations and then aiming to have a fresh start? Eidos banking on a Tomb Raider to solve financial difficulty? Déjà vu anyone? Cue cheap, wavy visual effects, because we're going to take you on a journey to 2003 then back again to look at how Lara's latest sticky predicament could have been avoided.
Who doesn't love a good challenge? If everything was easy, there would be no joy in getting it done. In the realm of video games, the late 1980s and 1990s were the perfect era of "get good" gaming with multiple big-named titles that put a player's skills to the test. The Super Nintendo, one of
Sure did I can only assume the article is talking about old-school games in general
Also the thumbnail used in the article for super Mario bros the lost levels is a screenshots of the Famicom game
In a major crackdown, Italy's financial police have dismantled a ring trafficking counterfeit vintage video game consoles, highlighting a severe issue within the gaming industry. The operation underscores the industry's failure to preserve classic games, driving gamers toward illegal alternatives as legitimate options remain scarce and prohibitively expensive.
Even if they do crack down all a person needs is an Everdrive and a regular old school machine. Or modify a disc based console that has a dead laser to boot off an SD card. Some of those illegal devices look neat and some of them are just plain crap.
What a stupid thing to be wasting time, money and effort. Aren't these guys literally drowning right now? Maybe y'all should focus more on that instead trying to stop people from playing old games no longer being sold.
Pretty sure I've read and seen parts of Italy experiences/ing pretty bad floodings. Id argue that's more important than trying to prevent the sale of emulation devices.
Fallout content creator The Storyteller has passed away after a year-long battle with cancer, reveals daughter.
