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WipeOut was Sony’s initial first-party exclusive for the original PlayStation when it launched back in 1995. The anti-gravity racing game was phenomenal. Now it’s abandoned. So one dedicated programmer took it upon himself to excavate the game’s leaked source code and make it playable for free in any web browser.

“Either let it be, or shut this thing down and get a real remaster going,” he told Sony...

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[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Games should be public domain after 25 years, everything else at 50.

[–] infotainment@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Why not everything? Honestly even 25 years seems too long, make it 10.

[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

some book series take longer than that to finish

[–] Sendbeer@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might give George Martin some incentive to finish Winds of Winter though.

[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think he even knows how to finish it

[–] Sendbeer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah I agree. It's got to be a challenge to bring all his characters and plot lines together. Sadly, I think the show is the only ending we are going to get.

[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I think it is the Lost problem. He's got all these hints and foreshadowing going and no idea where they're actually going. Disappointing and evidence of lazy writing, so I've stopped reading his works overall

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