Ooof.

I did expect something like this to happen. There are an ego or 2 involved that just don't seem to want to share any spotlight (or credit) at all.

They don't even need to do that. They are hung up on there having to be a "lore" behind the character. There doesn't. There literally wasn't any "lore" that made any kind of sense until the Daniel Craig films. Casino Royale hit the "reset" button for Bond. The new film just has to do the same.

Yeah, he was really laying on the "I lost my job, I'm poor, why are you so mean for wanting me to ask permission" very thickly.

it wasn't in English (which I'm assuming most of the originals he ripped off were), that he would get away with it, and then probably (certainly) reprint it and make some more money.

I just translated your exchange with the guy behind this. He doesn't come across well. He didn't do it for profit, but he did it because he was made redundant and needed the money... so which is it? It was "too difficult" to ask permission from the original artists? Realistically, he thought as /1

I've said for years only licensed pyrotechnicians should be able to buy fireworks and set them off. They are literally explosive devices, and used incorrectly can (and do) main & kill people.

This is the only generation of consoles that I've been glad I got in during the first year.

AI fanboys gonna AI fanboy. For whatever reason, they take any and all criticism of their previous GenAI very personally.

I think it's because they are incapable of being creative themselves and the new GenAI allows them to cosplay being "artists".

100%.

It would be very... Apt if one of the major US track & field stars failed the World Athletics "gender" test, wouldn't it?

Streets of Rage 2, stage 1 boss fight against Barbon in the rain soaked alley behind the bar. Iconic game, iconic boss fight.

It's a touch on the high side for sure, but they are pretty consistently the "number 3" team in La Liga, perennial CL/Europa League entrants, so...

I'd add House On Haunted Hill (1959) to that list.

I'm guessing this is because they are being pressured by Trumps Government re: the LA Olympics. Wouldn't surprise me if Trump and his cronies have indicated they would prevent them from taking place unless the IOC capitulated and did this.