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Joker from Persona 5 is joining the latest Super Smash Brothers as DLC. Now add Chie you cowards.

Developers receive 88% of revenue. There are no tiers or thresholds. Epic takes 12%. And if you’re using Unreal Engine, Epic will cover the 5% engine royalty for sales on the Epic Games store, out of Epic’s 12%.

The timing of this is interesting, coming just days after Stream’s new tiered pricing favoring larger titles.

A cute little CSS framework that tries to copy the look and feel of the NES.

Via twitter:

As of November 28 at 2pm PST, the North American and European WildStar game service has closed. Thank you to everyone who joined us on this grand adventure across Nexus!

I never played the game, but it’s always sad to see an MMO close up shop.

I love this. I never thought to use Typeform this way. It’s still not as open as something like Ink [https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/] or Twine [http://twinery.org/], but it’s always great to see services being used for strange new things.

The zero-day patch is sitting at 54 GB. Between this and the news that the next Overwatch patch will require you to reinstall the entire game [https://kotaku.com/overwatchs-next-big-patch-will-require-a-full-reinstall-1830345320] , maybe studios should start refocusing on optimizations to code.

The studio behind Wallace and Gromit will be handing over 75% ownership to it’s workers, assuring the team won’t be in danger of a big company buyout.

A great little essay Stan Lee wrote for The Atlantic in 2007, that’s just as important today as it was then.

The New York Times has a fitting tribute by Brian Michael Bendis, Bill Walko and Howie Noel.

Good. Employers should be able to fire employees based on their political beliefs, no matter what they are. Political beliefs are a chosen ideology, unlike race or gender.  If your beliefs do not align with a company you work for, go somewhere else.

Back in high school, around freshman year, I had really stared getting into programing. I started out making mods and items for Diablo, one of Blizzards first games. Eventually I moved on to chat bots, then to stupid, probably illegal schemes of stealing accounts for fun and profit, and so on.

During that time I some how made friends with what I guess you would call a hacker group. I use the term loosely, but I’m not sure what else you would call it. We just liked to make cool dumb shit for Bli

Seismic Games is best known for mobile game Marvel Strike Force, (something I had to do a bit of searching around to learn). Having a group of industry veterans with experience working on IP based games will hopefully provide a strong boost for Niantic’s upcoming Harry Potter game as well as Pokemon Go.