lots of growth during covid that could not be sustained => many, many layoffs to prop up earning statistics in the following years.

the 1983 crash was mostly a home console crash, which was a bigger market in the US than in europe, but i guess it really sucked for console devs there, and the famicom took two years to be released outside of japan as the NES.

e: [youtube] tim cain has a video on his channel where he talks about his perspective as a developer during the time

the difference is that wotc won’t give you anything for your magic cards, but you can directly sell skins on steam and actually buy something with it, which from my understanding gives the skins direct, and sometimes really high value, which might make this actual gambling, simmiliar to how you exchange your chetons in a casino.

wotc and other simmiliar companies skirt around that by not acknowledging that a second marekt exists and not participating in it.

but i am not a lawyer obviously.

it’s the only difference i see to other loot boxes or trading card games.

thats my understanding of it and if valve loses this, they’ll introduce gabe bucks to buy boxes and keys with and nothing meaningful will change.

only on a secondary market in which those companies don’t participate. it’s a paper thin line which keeps trading card game booster packs from beeing gambling in a legal sense

valve has a way to transfer money in your steam wallet into something with real world value: hardware.

you can not trade pokemon cards with nintendo for game cartridges or money, that is the whole distinction, no secondary market required.

https://github.com/Facepunch/sbox-public/blob/master/LICENSE.md

MIT-Licensed, third party components might be licensed different.

perfect dark released earlier in 2000 and offered dual analog controls, but required two controllers for that.

i think alien was longer in development though, so that might boil down to your definition of “did it first” and “did it first on a dual analog controller”, either way it’s definitely one of the firsts.

https://github.com/Alia5/SISR

UWP games should work with this.