Fans have been asking what the hell happened to it, and it makes sense, as 2020 marked not only the game’s 20th anniversary but also the 10th anniversary of the time they should have released a goddamn HD remaster. Even Night Dive, a competent crew responsible for bringing old games to Steam and GOG, asked for the chance to simply re-release the original version. So far, it’s been a no-go. Who could possibly be this toe-dragging against the thought of making money these days?
Welp, that would be FOX, Warner Bros., and Activision, who the NOLF’s rights happen to be split between. Yes, their official response is that they don’t really know who exactly owns what, or if they even do at all, so they’re all just washing their hands of trying to figure out a way to re-publish the game.
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Daikatana‘s Offices Were Just Too Baller To Function
The times leading up to the release of Daikatana were the stuff of legends. From the game’s suicidal promotional campaign that hyped reporters into asking companies working on small titles such as Half-Life how they’ll keep up with such an unstoppable juggernaut to the disappointing final product failure was plentiful. And most of it could be blamed on one of the most hilarious culprits imaginable. As it turns out, the sheer pimpness of the building they rented to work on the game prevented the team from doing their best work.
Yeah, developer Ion Storm decided to rent a penthouse to serve as their office without making sure its skylights wouldn’t make coding a living hell. We kind of get it, as they were probably the first developers to ever code at a penthouse, but their new large-ass windows allowed so much sunlight to hit the computer screens that they rendered the office unusable for most of the day.
However, a cool silver lining is that the devs made up for the time not making a game by doing some vampire LARPing, as they were forced to set up black curtains that turned their supposedly awesome cubicles into caves.
We tend to give the developers of this one a hard time, but ask yourself, how many times do you expect working with Microsoft Windows to be less of a hassle than working with the actual windows of your office?
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