I really hope Peter Weller is playing a villain in Star Trek 2. His turn as the main baddie on 24 gave us some of that series’ last great moments. Then again, he also lent a badass robotic edge to hero Alex Murphy in RoboCop, so I’m sure he’s perfectly capable of doing almost any role justice in the Star Trek canon.
I love hearing about this kind of horror story from successful past projects- especially from a company as legendary as Pixar. Just goes to show that even the best of us make terrible, terrible mistakes once in a while (not counting Cars 2).
Both THQ and Ubisoft have now learned a valuable lesson: The casual market may be good for a quick infusion of cash and a high initial ROI on a product, but in the long run it's the core gamers who will be carrying your bottom line across console generations.
So Nvidia looks to make cloud gaming more viable as an alternative to local-based gaming through future products. I guess the question then becomes: are they going to license this technology out to third parties to run the cloud game services, or will they try and plant a flag in the market themselves?
That Live subscription is gonna end up being more valuable than my Bachelor's degree….