The Electronic Wireless Show S2 Episode 31: we all own The Wolf Among Us now (no we don't)
Also announcing my new game: Legally Distinct Large Wolf Man
A lot of stuff happened over the past couple of weeks, so in this week's Electronic Wireless Show podcast we briefly round up some of the Unity nonsense, and some of the more interesting and/or funny bits of the Microsoft leak that happened at the start of the week. But what we really want to talk about is intellectual property rights! Bill Willingham, the man who came up with Fables (the IP that brought you The Wolf Among Us) declared via. blog post that he's making Fables a public domain property. What does that mean? Can we all just make Fables video games now? And what can we do with Sherlock holmes?
Plus: James broke the Lenovo Legion Go, I've been playing lots of games that aren't Starfield, and James recommends more music!
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We recorded this on Wednesday so some things may have changed when you listen to this.
- Unity have partially seen the error of their ways, to the extent that they'll apologise for the pricing but won't roll back their stupid monetisation idea. That said, leave individual unity employees alone, fgs.
- Leak-o-rama! Microsoft want to buy Nintendo (and Valve); basically every game ZeniThesda were planning as of 2020
- Microsoft might be planning a weird new hybrid cloud/AI platform; they also might be planning a fancy weird new controller;
- Phil 'Mr. Games' Spencer thinks AAA companies are relying on old franchises.
- Unrelated: if Bethesda are remastering Oblivion and Fallout 3, why not Morrowind?
- And finally, Bill Willingham says we own Fables now. Which. Do we?
- The Wolf Among Us 2 is, we assume, unaffected by this - although it was previously delayed to avoid crunch.
- James broke the Lenovo Legion Go
We've been playing Titanfall 2, in which something is or may be afoot, comedy music RPG Deathbulge: Battle Of The Bands, cute fantasy-ish life sim Fae Farm, and a little bit Payday 3.
Recommendations this week are chiptune musician Chipzel (who did the music in Superhexagon and Dicey Dungeons) and the new series of Takeshi's Castle.