It’s definitely making their job harder on the face of it, but it also differentiates them from other ad companies, so I guess they’re betting on that being a draw for potential clients.

Advertising isn’t going anywhere, so investing in/supporting ways to more ethically serve ads without harvesting private data seems like a good thing?

Sounds like you need to play more adventure games! Point & click had it’s heyday in the 90s with outstanding story-based game series like Monkey Island, Broken Sword, and Gabriel Knight, but there’s been a resurgence in recent years through games like Gemini Rue, Machinarium, and Deponia.

If you’re enjoying Syberia, definitely start looking at more point & click games - there’s a ton of variety!

Can they not just send a DMCA takedown notice to the host of that web server?

The Scunthorpe problem rears its ugly head

I think you mean ‘after the GameCube’.

And even then, the GC only sat as a middle-ground between the original Xbox and the PS2. Nintendo hasn’t explicitly tried to make a graphical powerhouse since the N64.

Yeah I wouldn’t use EA Sports as the yardstick here as they keep them coming long after everyone else has given up on a platform. FIFA 14 came out on the PS2 in 2013; the same year the PS4 launched.

No, Yorkshire puddings are made of batter not bread! (But I can see why you might think that going from a photo alone)

I wouldn’t call this a cash in at all - in fact, it’s now easily the best way to play Q2, with impactful (but optional) visual improvements, revamped AI, new accessibility options, both of the original expansion packs, the entire N64-exclusive campaign now available on all platforms for the first time, AND an entirely new campaign created specifically for this remaster.

There are a lot of low-effort ports out there (looking at you, Rockstar), but this ain’t one of them.