Modder claims Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection used their work without permission
A modder has claimed that Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection has used some of his work without permission.
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Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection incorporated a modder's work after Aspyr promised it would not: 'This release has been a total mess'
Balance has been restored to the Force. The well-liked Star Wars Dark Forces Remaster was followed by a Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection that's not quite so well-liked. Among the early complaints was the fact the trailer showed a mod had been incorporated without the permission of the modder. Aspyr, the studio behind this remaster, swore the actual release version wouldn't use anyone else's «code or content» without permission. And, while it's since been patched out, that didn't turn out to be true. On both PC and PlayStation, the launch version did indeed incorporate a mod that restored Asajj Ventress as a playable character.
Commonwealth ships sail into World of Warships
It's not often I get the option to field Australian forces in a wargame—apart from Emu War! I guess—but the new Commonwealth tech tree in World of Warships adds Australian ships like the Cerberus alongside cruisers from various Commonwealth nations, including the New Zealand cruiser Auckland and India's Delhi.
Outgoing Battlefield director says he ‘has nothing positive to say about EA’
The former director of a new Battlefield game has criticised EA, after he recently left the company and saw the studio he co-founded closed.
You don’t need the messy Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection to enjoy these classics
Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection should have been a slam dunk.
14 years after Microsoft shut it down, Halo 2 gets new public servers thanks to an unofficial OG Xbox Live replacement
Original Xbox Live servers were shut down in 2010, sadly sunsetting online suites for many classic games, but a replacement service is now reviving arguably the console's premiere multiplayer experience: Halo 2.
Star Wars Outlaws to Support NVIDIA RTX Direct Illumination and RTGI on PC
Yesterday, NVIDIA announced that Star Wars Outlaws, one of the year's most anticipated game releases, would support NVIDIA DLSS 3 and Reflex on PC at launch. The game will also integrate NVIDIA's RTX Direct Illumination alongside ray traced global illumination (RTGI) to offer what is being described as the most detailed Star Wars experience ever seen in a game, thanks to the combination of the Snowdrop Engine and NVIDIA's technologies:
We are once more informing you that the KOTOR remake is probably delayed for at least another year
Knights of the Old Republic is one of Bioware's most beloved RPGs—a game that capitalised on the promise of the Star Wars extended universe in so many inventive ways that it spawned an entire fandom dedicated to that slice of a galaxy far, far away. So when a remake was announced in—god—2021, we were all pretty excited. Then it was consigned to the inferno of development hell.