I also think disconnecting the concepts of “pocket computer” and “always-on two way radio with location tracking and internet connectivity” are things you could put in different physical devices.

Did it fail? I hate headlines like this. Just because it isn’t popular now, doesn’t mean it didn’t make progress in its space.

The more people play and buy porn games, the better porn games will get, same as any other genre.

“Epic Games Unreal Fest News”

• No news about games called Unreal

Mortal Kombat (2021) opened with a great “feudal China with elemental magic” clan story that could have been an amazing movie, but then they jumped forward in time and everything after that was a let down.

Torvalds wrote git for the Linux kernel, and then GitHub popped up because most other projects couldn’t handle the decentralization. Interestingly to OP’s frustration, they were using a proprietary VCS before that, and people were just as frustrated about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#History

I hope it doesn’t Rust

Hey thanks for describing this hypothetical situation, I pay Steam for a lot of game licenses so I’ve lost touch with the current philosophy of hypothetical alternatives.

Eventually the line comes back in from the top.

Upvote for calling out the ambiguity in the title:

• “Doom popularized some mechanics still used today” - this is not that.
• “FPS engines descend from ideas in the Doom source code” - this is not that.
• “id named their engines with ‘Tech’” - this isn’t that, Doom was before that.
• “Modern descendants of the original Doom engine can informally be called ‘tech’” - this is what the title means.

Best adventure game ever