Mystery Science News Thread 3,000

Interplay finally releases the Descent IP from their cold, dead fingers.

They’ve been holding out for a buyer for… 17 years?

On a related note, the former Descent devs are close to releasing the Kickstarted Overload (demo’s in there for the interested):

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well that’s boring. not having to hack a console to run an emulator on it? psh

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that is the most Felix response I could have imagined

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this is big, tbh. web-deployable retroarch greatly expands the scope of web-playable games alongside web-deployable MAME as seen on archive.org

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I will also be interested to see if someone can do something worthwhile with Earthworm Jim (hopefully without dragging Doug Tennapel back into the light)

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Doug Tennapel is a Very Bad Guy who happens to make awesome squishy quirky music (Neverhood soundtrack is like top 10 for real).

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Doug TenNapel was lead concept artist/writer/designer on Earthworm Jim and the lead creator on The Neverhood games. At some point he was/went resentful religious right and said nasty shit about trans/gay people. Even wrote for Breitbart.

http://gameological.com/2013/06/foc-tennapel-armikrog/

He is not Terry Taylor, who did the Neverhood/Skullmonkeys music.

Incidentally, he is also not Tommy Tallarico, who did the EJ 1 & 2 soundtracks (in some form).

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Oh shit. Now I feel real bad for besmirching the good name of Terry Taylor.

So there is a new Genesis game.


Oh wow, you can download a near complete version of this now.

!!!

I’ll let 13 year old me know

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They did it.

They actually went and did it.

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last guardian delayed again

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maybe they’ll move gravity rush up to balance out the release schedule!!!

Dragon Quest VII 3DS is out this Friday!

Also PS4 firmware 4.0 coming tomorrow.


http://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/
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Well, if that’s anything like SpaceChem or TIS-100 or Infinifactory, there goes 30 hours of my time.

Honestly real life has let me down. How do I get a job where programming is fun like in those games and not soul-crushing?

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