I was more of an X-Wing fan myself but its a great series!

Puyo Puyo - lots of ports

Reskinned as:

• Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine - Mega drive, Master System, Game Gear
• Kirby’s Avalanche - SNES

If made today this could be “premium” DLC but it was an amazing product given the constraints of a 15 month development window and a need to use existing assets and engine features as much as possible.

Master of Orion - MS DOS, Mac OS

Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap - Master System

aka:

• Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap - Game Gear
• Dragon’s Curse - TurboGrafx-16

Digger - IBM PC

Title is accurate!

Nintendo has a lot of active “super mario” trademarks with the USPTO, 79259975 includes the following:

G & S: IC 030: Tea; tea-based beverages; coffee; coffee-based beverages; cocoa; cocoa-based beverages; pastries; candy; ice cream; cookies; chocolate; popcorn; chewing gum; bread; buns; sandwiches; pizzas; pies; cakes; frozen yogurt confections; pancakes; crackers; mints for breath freshening; seasonings; ketchup; dressings for salad; cereal bars; oatmeal; corn flakes; noodles; pasta sauce.

https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search

This would limit the supermarket from carrying their own store brand product lines for these product types.

Off the top of my head I can confirm my supermarket stocks their own brand of :

Tea; coffee; cocoa; pastries; candy; ice cream; cookies; chocolate; bread; buns; pies; cakes; seasonings; dressings for salad; cereal bars; oatmeal; corn flakes; pasta sauce.

Admittedly my local is part of a large chain so this may not be typical but even independent supermarkets in my area tend to repackage bulk candies and chocolate under their own label.

An account for PlayStation Network will become optional for these titles on PC.

https://blog.playstation.com/2025/01/29/new-in-game-content-incentives-coming-to-playstation-games-on-pc/

This is very explicitly not making any promises beyond these 4 titles. :\

I’ve lost track, is Helldiver’s 2 still PSN optional but still unavailable in non-PSN regions?

Not really, my reading is that they want it to bypass the battery when docked.

Their take is that the battery power is irrelevant once it has an external power supply.

For “family” devices its a feature that many parents would be happy to use.

I enable the battery health options on my kid’s tablets, I’m happy to sacrifice a little bit of operating time in year one if it means I still have “near new” operating time in year two and on.

You’d have to sacrifice too much of a capacity to prevent it so it’s easier to just try no to go below 20% of charge.

But that’s the thing, you are sacrificing the capacity its just that you are being asked to make that decision manually each and every time. They know how the drain/recharge cycles effect the battery so they could set the min/max cutoffs to optimum values.

For SSDs we expect them to over provision the storage and consider the increased longevity a measurable benefit. I don’t see why batteries should be any different.

if you go that far you’re damaging it.

If that’s true to any significant degree that’s an even bigger problem.

The device should be switching off with something to 5% charge remaining to prevent battery damage.

I think Sims 1 was physical only.

As a digital product EA halted distribution of the Sims 2 with very little notice:

On July 16, 2014, Electronic Arts announced the end of support for The Sims 2. As a response, The Sims 2: Ultimate Collection was released at the same time as a limited time offer. The game became available for free download from Origin exclusively following an announcement by EA that they would no longer be supporting the game. This offer ended at 10:00 PDT July 31, 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sim_2

Oddly it looks like Mac got a version via another distributor not long after ?!

Lots of adventure games available via scummvm.

This claims a $4404 box office?

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Truth-About-Emanuel-The

For film I thought “box office gross” was the amount paid for tickets at the cinema. Is the article using a different definition of “gross”?

1. Copyright violation ✅

*cough*

https://aqua-teen-hunger-force.fandom.com/wiki/Jiggle_Billy

It looks like Rolling Stone included Baulders Gate 3.

That game is recent enough that it hasn’t qualified for Wikipedia’s List of video games considered the best yet.

Wikipedia’s list requires an entry feature on 6 different publications’ “best of” lists so that implies RS may have applied some and haven’t just cribbed directly.

Edit:

For anyone else interested it looks like RS was the 6th list including these three titles so they have now been added over on Wikipedia:

• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
• Celeste
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons

I’m a little shocked THPS wasn’t already there.