I immediately thought it was that scene when I saw the screenshot, such a bittersweet moment.

Unfortunately multiple sources seem to agree Dong Nguyen has no involvement, which is consistent with the way he originally shut down Flappy Bird due to people spending too much time on it :(

“The Flappy Bird Foundation said it has acquired the official Flappy Bird trademark from Gametech Holdings LLC, a U.S. company that appears to have wrestled the trademark from Nguyen, as well as the rights for the original game and character from Piou Piou vs. Cactus, the mobile game that supposedly originally inspired the Flappy Bird character.”

https://www.ign.com/articles/10-years-after-it-was-pulled-offline-viral-mobile-game-flappy-bird-is-coming-back

And the trademarks were sleazily grabbed from the original creator :/

It’s almost baffling to think we still have mysteries like this so long after the game’s (apparently aborted) release, but it’s really cool to read along with the investigation!

Ah understood!

I think this news only affects Humble Games but not Humble Bundle, confusingly they are separate but semi-related businesses these days.

Google’s dream of hijacking an open standard (on Android at least) is achieved :/

It sounds like you’re referring to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party of WWII infamy. People are probably going to assume something else, FYI.

No, the article plainly states what’s going on.

How many Indies have partnered with Sony Music? Is that common?

I suspect you weren’t the only one to be surprised by that!

Now I miss my Nokia N9 :(

Google unfortunately locks down the RCS api’s in Android so that only the system messaging app (basically just Google Messages these days) can use them, so I don’t think any independent messaging apps can integrate RCS at all :/

I get those two confused all the time too

Unfortunately I haven’t run across any either :/ Handwriting detection for even a single language/script can be very complicated to implement so I understand why it’s rare in open-source keyboard options, but I’ll keep an eye out just in case I find one.

Who was on MTV Cribs* no less!

*Note: was not on MTV Cribs

I think that one would have to come from Bandai.

As long as they can get away with it

Oh man, you just inspired me to dig through multiple boxes and dust off my Caanoo (and it’s older brother the GP32).

Ughhh. I don’t want the GeForce Experience bloatware anywhere near my machine so this does not bode well.

It’s never a good sign when you have to say something like that…

Blundering around completely lost resulted in some of my best times playing Skyrim, it was a real bummer Starfield didn’t have that kind of experience.

Nerrrrrrd.

…I would say “What about SECAMworld?”, but that definitely sounds like a nsfw cam models site.

Twitter (sorry, X.com) is also privately held now so it’s not always a happy story :/

Powerful imagery

I never thought I would see a year where Zenimax managed to crank out both an Arkane and a Bethesda release but still got no real traction.

They bought Bungie specifically to help them launch Live Service games, but now Bungie’s own game is cratering. Understandable why they wouldn’t have a ton of confidence launching a bunch of them now, but I can’t really say I’m sad about it.

I don’t recall them mentioning anything about efficiency or battery life improvements in the presentation, and you know they know they would’ve made a big deal about it if they had any progress to show :(