Jon Bois of SB Nation has this great video up talking about the 1987 Eagles and the way the players handled the NFL Players Association strike that year. Here is what I took away from it:
- Fuck the Cowboys
- Fuck Anti-Union Assholes
- Fuck the Cowboys
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Fortnite vs PUBG
Epic MegaGames has been in development on a game called Fornite for a long time, but just released it for free with a surprise PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds + crafting game mode called Fortnite: Battle Royale. This wouldn’t be a big deal, except for the fact that Epic is the licensor to Bluehole for the engine behind PUBG. So the licensor is undercutting their licensee with a free game that is very similar, and they didn’t even speak with Bluehole before announcing and releasing it.
Christopher Livingston at Windows Gamer interviewed Bluehole’s Changhan Kim:
Changhan Kim: There are a lot of different issues but everyone else that released a battle royale game mode made their own thing, but it was Epic Games that made this game that is similar to us that has similar elements, and that’s the concern, that it was Epic Games.
We use Unreal Engine to develop PUBG, and we pay a large amount of royalties based on the size of our success to Epic Games, and Epic Games always promoted their licensing models [saying] “We want to support the success indie developers”, and [Bluehole is] this indie developer that has been the most successful one using the Unreal Engine this year, and that’s the problem that I see.
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Heat Signature Out on Steam
Tom Francis, the former game journalist, has been developing games for what is now a surprisingly long time. His team’s first big (in indie terms) game launch was a stealth puzzle side-scroller called Gunpoint. It was universally praised and it was also pretty funny.
Francis and co are back with Heat Signature (this URL is very good) which, if you can click the play button above, looks pretty good if you’re interested in being a space pirate bandit ship infiltrator. The sad part is that Alex Ashby of Something True won’t be narrating every time you play. Oh well.
Heat Signature is already available on Steam for Windows at the price of $13.50 during the launch sale after which it goes up to the regular $15.00.
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Cloth Map Tours Chernobyl & Goes to Eurovision
After visiting a Ukrainian nuclear missile base, Drew Scanlon of the Cloth Map travel documentary series, has visited the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Chernobyl.
If you’d like something more uplifting after watching that, take a look at Scanlon’s trip to Eurovision:
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iOS 11 Out Today; Here’s How to Check If You Have Any Apps That Won’t Run
iOS 11 is going to be available today. If you’ve been reading Nuclear Monster for a while you already know that some apps won’t be compatible with iOS 11 as Apple drops the 32bit software layer. Developers have been expecting this change for a long time, and it’s unfortunate that some haven’t been able to update their apps, but here is how you check to see if any of the apps you use haven’t been updated for iOS 11 yet.
- Open Settings and tap General
- Within General Settings, Tap on About
- Tap on Applications:
- You should be presented with a list of applications that won’t be compatible with iOS 11:
Hopefully these developers will update their apps, but if there’s anything critical to you in this list without an update available you might want to consider holding off on an upgrade to iOS 11.
- Open Settings and tap General