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- Undefiant
Defiant Development, the studio behind
Hand of Fate, has announced it will no
longer be working on new video games.
Its development team is currently looking
for new roles as a result. What remains
of the studio will continue in a caretaker
role, taking... care of the studio’s existing
releases, dealing with low-level support,
and that kind of thing.
A statement from the studio read: “The
Defiant model has always focused on
creating games nobody else would... That
is a risky way to make games, and we
knew that. When it succeeds, it delivers
things you could never have considered
possible. When it fails, it leaves you
without a safety net. The games market
has changed in ways both big and small
in the nine years we’ve been in business.
We have not been able to change quickly
enough to continue with them.”
- Egg hunt
The very first gaming Easter egg may
well have been discovered, with Spitfire
on the Fairchild Channel F revealed to
have been hosting a hidden credit to its
creator since its release 42 years ago.
Discovered by user RT-55J on the
SelectButton forums, the credit is
accessed by inputting a very long series
of numerical inputs on the title’s game
select screen, resulting in a page flashing
up saying ‘Done By Michael K Glass.’
Adventure, the Atari 2600 game from
1979, was home to the former earliest-
known Easter egg, before being pipped
by the 2017 discovery of another hidden
screen in Atari’s 1977 release Starship 1.
After a bit of digging – and a newspaper
ad confirming things – forum-goers
were able to clarify that Spitfire did
indeed release some four months prior
to Starship 1, in or around April 1977.
Thus, as far as we know right now, it is
indeed the earliest Easter egg ever seen
in a video game.
You can read more – and you should,
because there’s plenty more to it – here:
wfmag.cc/first-to-the-egg.- Mega delay
Sega’s Mega Drive Mini has been
delayed in Europe, the company has
announced, owing to ‘unavoidable
logistical challenges’. Originally set to
launch in September, the tiny chunk of
nostalgic plastic will now hit UK retail on
4 October, still for the not-that-bad price
of £69.99.
“We are committed to a successful
launch for consumers in all territories,
and this step will ensure we can meet
demand and fulfil all the individual pre-
orders and retail orders in Europe and
the Middle East at the same time,” said a
statement from Sega.
There’s been no mention of a delay in
the US, nor has there been mention of
Sega correcting the name of the console
for the territory – there appears to be a
misprint where the device is referred to
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