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In memory of Lode Runner (Gaming Thread 9/14/14)In sad news, Doug Smith, creator of Lode Runner passed away. It is with great sadness that we learned today of the passing of our friend and colleague, Douglas Smith, the creator of the iconic game, Lode Runner. Our hearts and prayers are with Doug's family during this difficult time. In Doug's honor, we call on the legions of Lode Runner fans everywhere to take a private moment to reflect on your own personal memories of Lode Runner. What a contribution Doug made to the video game industry. Have a lot of fond memories playing the stripped down "lite" C64 port, most of them amount to me almost breaking the console with my abuse to the keyboard. My dad was a huge fan of the series, I remember him having to hide his copy of Championship Lode Runner. And then of course Japan ended up turning the series on it's head in the 90's and it really bloomed over there (same with the Wizardry series). Out of all of this, I'm surprised that the rumors say that Notch is the one that initiated the talks. He had a throw away joke tweet that his price would be $2 billion and it looks like he might get more than that. Bunch of people thinking the price is coming from the cash that Microsoft has floating out there out of the country (estimated to be bout $80 billion) and frankly that's a good assumption. Is it worth it on the other hand? Eh, that's a bit murky because it is Microsoft. I mean as is, with licensing and game sales, you're looking at about $500m a year ($350m in merch licensing). If they're smart, they don't do much on the surface level outside of getting it off the hellspawn that is Java and have Azure and Bing running the back-end tasks while selling it on every platform known to man. It does raise the question on who is going to caretake the IP. Do they try to keep Mojang together or do they give it to Team Dakota (Project Spark)? And if you're going to go down this rate, I'd see if Squad was up for sale as well to pick up Kerbal Space Program. Have a whole new Edutainment sector right there with those two. Of course if I had that money, I'd buy Take Two (keep Rockstar, Firaxas, Visual Concepts and then gut everything else), Capcom (their library is very nice) and probably a cup of coffee for about the same price. Of course business wise, buying the Minecraft IP is a better move but that's what I would do. Best thing to come from Destiny's launch is Jeff Gerstmann's Destiny Drinking Game
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