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lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#4777: Mar 4th 2025 at 5:32:33 AM

The newest trailer for the Minecraft movie dropped.

It looks like the movie is solely aimed at kids. One person said her 11-year-old daughter fangirled out after seeing the previous trailer, so all us adults complaining about this movie... we don't matter. Any more than our parents mattered when we watched the stuff that we liked as kids.

seasaltcaramelcookie Since: May, 2023
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#4779: Mar 4th 2025 at 10:16:53 AM

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 launches July 11th

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#4780: Mar 4th 2025 at 12:19:06 PM

I want to play Rule of Rose again. I played it when it first came out and got bored and didn't finish it, but now I think the way it made people vaguely uncomfortable is a rarity in video games that should be appreciated more.

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
king15 Have Faun Since: Mar, 2024
Have Faun
#4781: Mar 4th 2025 at 1:33:37 PM

I've heard of that. Isn't that the game that caused a moral panic over stuff that wasn't actually true, like the Mass Effect sex controversy?

Edited by king15 on Mar 4th 2025 at 9:33:48 AM

omega2900 Jemerald of Brainrot from The Midwest, where everything is MID! (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: In my bunk
Jemerald of Brainrot
#4782: Mar 4th 2025 at 2:34:07 PM

Remember Acclaim? Well they’re back.

Jeff Jarrett being involved is something I was NOT expecting to read.

Get taxed. Idiot.
Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#4783: Mar 4th 2025 at 5:18:55 PM

...I personally wouldn't want to be associated with the Acclaim name, but I guess it's nostalgic to someone out there

Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Face me now, bitch!
#4784: Mar 4th 2025 at 6:25:20 PM

Still better then LJN.

Watch Symphogear
Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#4785: Mar 4th 2025 at 7:16:07 PM

Guess who owned LJN for the last decade of it's life?

RacattackForce (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#4786: Mar 4th 2025 at 8:27:23 PM

Given that most of Acclaim's old properties are currently owned by other companies like Throwback Entertainment, the company is only really back in name only unless they feel like hunting everything back down.

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#4787: Mar 5th 2025 at 6:49:01 AM

It makes me think of how Atari is "back." None of the original people are there, and it's not even headquartered in the same country. It's desperately trying to stay afloat by selling retro plug-and-play consoles with old games in them, and sometimes bringing back old franchises, all developed by external developers of course (like Yars Rising by a US company, and Haunted House by a Brazilian company).

"Acclaim" is probably gonna try to coast by on the name and try to bring back franchises that are nostalgic to a very specific audience (assuming they even can), and giving us almost nothing of note.

Or who knows, they might become like Activision and publish original games made by actually talented companies while using a retro name to appeal to nostalgia.

Edited by BonsaiForest on Mar 5th 2025 at 6:50:24 AM

Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#4788: Mar 5th 2025 at 3:36:17 PM

From the linked article:

In a statement, the publisher says its initial goals are “to support indie developers and reignite classic franchises”, providing funding, marketing and PC support to indie studios.

I don't know how the Acclaim name helps with this, but there you go

Antiyonder (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#4789: Mar 8th 2025 at 3:12:58 PM

Okay, I need input on the best possible trope turn regarding a spoiler in Bravely Second which also spoilers the first game's ending. Posting here as this thread is more active:

Tiz's coma (comalike state) resulted in him missing a lot of time between the two games, as well as barely having time to enjoy the downtime until Providence's defeat. Not to mention caused no end of worry from his friend and made their recent victory feel hollow until he is saved.

Yet if Tiz had not ended up in his condition, he might have remained on Caldisla when Yoko teleported the country away leaving Yew and company shorthanded.

Closest is Accidental Good Outcome. Just wasn't sure if it can count for events that are directly cause by one's actions.

ArsThaumaturgis Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
#4790: Mar 8th 2025 at 11:35:12 PM

[up] I don't see anything on the trope page that would indicate that it doesn't apply to an outcome of one's own actions.

Indeed, at least one of the listed sub-tropes—Serendipitous Survival—is indicated to be about a mistake causing something positive (survival) for oneself.

(In fact, your example is similar to Serendipitous Survival, in that it's about being away and thus avoiding something resulting in something advantageous—save that the advantage is being on hand to help, not surviving.)

My Games and Asset Packs
Antiyonder (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
jormis29 Since: Mar, 2012
#4792: Mar 10th 2025 at 6:31:18 PM

The reveal trailer for Unexpected Cry Of The Wild might have the worst voice acting you will have heard in quite a while

Edited by jormis29 on Mar 10th 2025 at 6:33:45 AM

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#4793: Mar 10th 2025 at 7:43:06 PM

Wow. This looks amazingly hilarious.

I wondered where it was made, and I went to their website. While all the socials on their site link to Wix, a website development company, and the links up to lead to nowhere, they do have a phone number. The country code on the phone number is the country code of India.

CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from a place where folks put cream cheese on hot dogs (Oldest One in the Book)
Am I a weirdo?
#4794: Mar 10th 2025 at 9:01:35 PM

That looks like a beautiful catastrophe. Between the yacht and the terrible dialogue at the beginning, I half expected a poisonous cat to show up.

Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
jormis29 Since: Mar, 2012
#4795: Mar 11th 2025 at 5:02:36 PM

[up][up] It does feel like asset flip, couldn't even put a proper sound effect for the monster smashing something in the first 5 seconds

RacattackForce (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#4796: Mar 12th 2025 at 8:38:53 AM

Pokémon Go developer Niantic to sell gaming business to Saudi group

Niantic Labs has announced that it’s selling its video game division to Saudi Arabia-owned mobile developer Scopely for $3.5 billion after struggling to replicate the success of Pokémon GO across its other AR games. The newly inked agreement includes Niantic’s Pokémon Go, Monster Hunter Now, and Pikmin Bloom.

The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval and other closing conditions. Should the deal go through, it will also bring Niantic’s social companion apps for Pokémon GoCampfire and Wayfarer — under Scopely ownership. Scopely says it will gain “Niantic’s entire team of exceptional gamemakers and category-leading games.” However, the Peridot and Ingress AR gaming titles, the latter of which is also supported by the Wayfarer mapping app, will remain under the ownership and development of Niantic Spatial.

Today’s announcement is Saudi Arabia’s latest attempt to muscle its way into the gaming industry, having used its Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) to acquire stakes in Nintendo, Activision Blizzard, and EA. The PIF was also used to establish Esports and gaming company Savvy Games Group in 2021, which later acquired Monopoly Go! developer Scopely for $4.9 billion in 2023.

Edited by RacattackForce on Mar 12th 2025 at 12:25:27 PM

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#4797: Mar 17th 2025 at 8:50:20 PM

A full version of the previously considered "lost media" Xenosaga: Pied Piper mobile game has been found with a full fan translation in the works.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#4798: Mar 17th 2025 at 9:17:46 PM

[up] Holy crap, that's a Holy Grail right there! I hope they can find FF: Before Crisis and the SMT Devil's Colosseum duology too!

AzureSeas Since: Jan, 2011
#4799: Mar 19th 2025 at 4:32:53 PM

Game Informer put out a video teasing something. It shows a monitor on the page with the infamous closure announcement, before glitching and showing a line about continuing, along with a date, March 25. You may be legitimately worried that Gamestop is reanimating its corpse, but a couple of former staff at GI, like Brian Shea, Matt Miller, and Kyle Hilliard, have posted continue-themed teasers as well.

If they managed to take GI back, good on them :o

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#4800: Mar 22nd 2025 at 10:03:13 AM

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing will be coming to Steam sometime in the second quarter of this year (April -June). Not joking.

I actually hope people will mod the game to make it actually worth it.

Edited by tclittle on Mar 22nd 2025 at 12:05:17 PM

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."

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