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Sea of Stars
Sea of Stars (2023)
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Originally, YouTuber Jirard Khalil (most famous for his webseries "The Completionist") made a cameo in Sea of Stars as an NPC named "Jirard the Constructionist", who you could donate building plans to to help construct new buildings in the town of Mirth as part of the "Home Neat Home" achievement. This cameo came after Khalil had previously featured unique builds of Sea of Stars, including one featuring Jirard the Constructionist, during his annual indie game spotlight charity event "IndieLand", which was run by his official charity organization, the Open Hand Foundation. In November 2023, a few months after the game's release, Khalil was accused of committing charity fraud through the organization, spawning a controversy that prompted the game's developers to release a patch for the game that removed his cameo, and replacing him with a generic NPC named Bob. Considering Bob is a builder, this new character may be a reference to the children's animated series "Bob the Builder".
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Artwork/Illustration, Bonus Content, Cameo, Character Design, Charity, Complaint, General, Legal Affairs, Real Life, Reference, Update Difference
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month December 16, 2023
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Inverse Ninjas vs. The Public Domain
Inverse Ninjas vs. The Public Domain (2023)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mickey Mouse (Franchise)
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Copyright, Crossover, Mistake, Release Date, Tribute, Update Difference
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Ultrakill
Ultrakill (2020)
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Bonus Content, Controls, Development, Meme, Technology, Update Difference
person VinchVolt calendar_month December 23, 2023
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Terraria
Terraria (2011)
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Name Change, Update Difference
person BlueStaggo calendar_month October 28, 2023
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Gameplay with Zombie Eskimo name:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQbJyOwhBzs

Supplementary Terraria wiki info:
https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Frozen_Zombie
Roblox
Roblox (2006)
subdirectory_arrow_right Friday Night Funkin' (Game), Sonic The Hedgehog (Franchise)
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Attachment When Sonic Prime was released on Netflix, GameFam Studios, the development team behind Sonic Speed Simulator, inserted officially-licensed Sonic Prime product placement into their other games on Roblox - however, this included the unauthorized Friday Night Funkin' fangame Funky Friday, which they would not legally be allowed to make paid content or promotions in.

Friday Night Funkin' creator ninja_muffin99 has expressed interest in taking legal action against GameFam and Sega, though later specified that it would not be through a lawsuit. It is unknown if any legal action has or will be taken.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Complaint, Fan Works, Plagiarism, Update Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 9, 2023
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Jingle Brawl
Jingle Brawl (2009)
subdirectory_arrow_right Planet Sheen (Franchise)
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In Super Fall Brawl, one of the many reskins of Jingle Brawl, the new character was intended to be Sheen Estevez from Jimmy Neutron, in promotion for his then-new spin-off series Planet Sheen. However, Sheen was not coded correctly, making him near-impossible to beat in a fight. The game's second update would remove Sheen and his stage completely, and he would never be added back in, making Fall Brawl the only Super Brawl game without any new combatants. Sheen would return in Super Brawl 2, though the House of Pain stage, based on the first episode of Planet Sheen, would be swapped for a Zeenu stage generally based on Planet Sheen instead of a single episode.
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Cameo, Competitive, Glitch, Meme, Removed Feature, Unused Audio, Unused Character, Unused Code, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Update Difference, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 27, 2023
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
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Attachment In the release version of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, the stage Royal Woods Cemetery from The Loud House contained a hazard where tombstones would pop out of the ground, sending any character beneath them flying and remaining as a wall for a short while afterwards. In version 1.5.0, the update that added Rocko as a playable character, this hazard was removed from the game completely, making the stage into a flat floor, similar to Final Destination from the Super Smash Bros. series. The reasoning for this change is because the stage that was intended to serve as a Final Destination parallel, Harmonic Convergence from The Legend of Korra, was considered too long for use in competitive play, and was removed from this distinction in the same update.
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Removed Feature, Update Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 4, 2023
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)
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If a fighter tries to footstool Piranha Plant while the plant is crouching, the footstooler will be met with a biting attack that takes 4% damage. This happens automatically every time even when the Piranha Plant player presses nothing during the footstool. This highly situational attack however can be easily dodged and countered by the attacked player making it useless in high-level play.
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General, Update Difference, Version Difference
person PirateGoofy calendar_month February 24, 2023
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020)
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Attachment Shortly after the game's release in 2020, the government of China ordered gray market online storefronts to stop selling the game. While no official reason was given for the ban, fans and analysts speculated that it was due to players in Hong Kong using the game's customization features and online connectivity to broadcast messages in support of protests that were occurring at the time against changes to the region's extradition laws. Around the same time, the game was also used by Joe Biden's campaign team to advertise his candidacy in the 2020 United States presidential election by creating a dedicated island and customizable items.

16 days after the election in November, Nintendo updated the game's Usage Guidelines for Businesses and Organizations, significantly narrowing how they could use the game for advertising. This included a rule requesting that offensive content be refrained from being created in-game, along with a statement asking to "refrain from bringing politics into the Game." However, this rule does not clarify what "politics" specifically Nintendo wanted to keep out of the game, and it appears to be in effect for any content created after the update, as it seems that none of the Hong Kong protest content or the Biden campaign's promotional content were taken down.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Censorship, Corporate Affairs, Legal Affairs, Politics, Real Life, Update Difference
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Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (2019)
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Censorship, Name Change, Race, Update Difference, Version Difference
person VinchVolt calendar_month February 26, 2024
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Hi-Fi Rush
Hi-Fi Rush (2023)
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Attachment The January 2024 update celebrating Hi-Fi Rush's one year anniversary includes new t-shirts that players can wear in-game. Some of these t-shirts are exclusive to their own platform (Xbox, Steam, and Epic Game Store):

• Xbox owners get a green shirt saying “shadow dropped”, a reference to the game’s surprise release.
• Epic Games Store owners get a shirt saying “this is simply unreal epic”, obviously a reference to Epic Games and the Unreal engine and series.
• Steam owners get a shirt saying “Be Positive (Overwhelmingly)”, an obvious reference to Steam’s user review system.

However, two more additional exclusive shirts have recently been discovered through datamining that seem to curiously pertain to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5, two competitor platforms to Xbox.

• The red shirt seemingly for Switch says "rock out anywhere", obviously referencing the Switch's portable nature.
• The blue shirt seemingly for PS5 says "I'm here baby", possibly a reference to the game finally arriving on PS5 after a year of being exclusive to Xbox platforms.

In early 2024, Hi-Fi Rush was the subject of various rumors claiming that Microsoft planned on porting it and possibly other first party Xbox titles to its competitor platforms, those specifically being PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch. In response to these rumors, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer announced in an Xbox Business Update on February 16, 2024 that four of their previously Xbox exclusive titles were being brought over to rival platforms. On February 21, 2024, it was announced that Hi-Fi Rush, along with Rare's Sea of Thieves and Obsidian's Grounded and Pentiment, were all being released on PlayStation 5 (and Nintendo Switch as well as PlayStation 4 for the latter two games), fully confirming the rumors.
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Bonus Content, Console Difference, Customization, Rumor, Suggested, Theory, Unused Graphic, Update Difference
person Dinoman96 calendar_month February 4, 2024
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Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden (2004)
subdirectory_arrow_right Ninja Gaiden Black (Game)
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In the DLC update, Ninja Gaiden Black, Ayane's kunai messages featured fully voiced dialogue, which was not a feature in the original version. In Ninja Gaiden Sigma, the text and dialogue that explained the controls were changed to reference both PlayStation 3 controls and altered mechanics.
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Controls, Downloadable Content (DLC), General, Remake, Update Difference, Voice Acting
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month January 20, 2024
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The Callisto Protocol
The Callisto Protocol (2022)
subdirectory_arrow_right Striking Distance Studios (Company)
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On January 9, 2023, a report was released by GamesIndustry.biz revealing that over 20 developers who worked on The Callisto Protocol were not included in the game's end credits, including multiple full-time developers and other key contributors. The decision to leave out these developers was described as "egregious" by one unnamed employee, while another accused the game’s developer, Striking Distance, of "playing favorites" and only crediting those that "they liked or had some sort of relationship with". The report also highlighted the intense work culture at Striking Distance with a controversy involving the studio's director Glen Schofield in September 2022, where he made a tweet about his employees working "six-seven days a week" for "12-15 hour days". At the time before the report's release, this tweet about the crunch culture at the studio was roundly criticized; it was later deleted and Schofield issued an apology, stating that the studio valued "passion and creativity, not long hours." In June 2023, an update was released for the game that added the names of over 50 previously uncredited developers to the credits, a notably higher head count than the numbers in the original report. These credits were added to the "Miscellaneous" group, which originally had only 18 names, and was also now renamed to "Additional Development".
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Apology, Complaint, Credits, Crunch/Overwork, Development, Difficulty, General, Real Life, Social Media, Update Difference
person ProtoSnake calendar_month January 13, 2024
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Callisto Protocol developers left out of credits:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/callisto-protocol-developers-left-out-of-credits

Glen Schofield back pedals Callisto Protocol crunch comments:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/glen-schofield-back-pedals-callisto-protocol-crunch-comments

The Callisto Protocol Reportedly Left Around 20 Devs Out Of The Credits:
https://www.thegamer.com/the-callisto-protocol-left-20-devs-out-of-credits/

Developers left out of The Callisto Protocol credits accuse Striking Distance of "playing favourites":
https://www.eurogamer.net/developers-left-out-of-the-callisto-protocol-credits-accuse-striking-distance-of-playing-favourites

Callisto Protocol update restores omitted developers to credits:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/callisto-protocol-update-restores-omitted-developers-to-credits/
River City Girls
River City Girls (2019)
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In the original release of the game, the hidden ending that follows the optional final boss battle against Hasebe and Mami reveals that Spoiler:Kyoko and Misako are not actually Kunio and Riki's girlfriends, but rather are simply delusional stalkers, with Hasebe and Mami being the boys' real partners; Kyoko and Misako then angrily punch Kunio and Riki into the sky after being reminded of this. This was written as an inside joke regarding the Kunio-kun franchise's convoluted localization history, specifically the fact that River City Girls Zero (the only prior game where Spoiler:Kunio and Riki actually dated Kyoko and Misako) had not yet received an English localization at the time of this game's release. As River City Girls was developed with Western audiences in mind, the joke was thus meant to be that Spoiler:Kunio and Riki have no memory of a title that wasn't officially available for this game's target audience.

However, the esoteric nature of the gag and the plot holes it opened regarding the game's premise resulted in it generating backlash from players who were not in on it. Because of this, the game was updated on January 18, 2020, changing the secret ending so that Spoiler:Kunio and Riki go out for food with Kyoko and Misako, implying that the latter two actually are their partners.
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Complaint, Ending, In-Joke, Update Difference, Version Difference
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Mario Bros.
Mario Bros. (1983)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario Bros. Classic Serie (Game)
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In 1993, an enhanced version of the NES Mario Bros. was released exclusively in Italy and Germany, under the "Classic Serie" label, which reimplements the enemy introduction cutscenes and icicle hazard from the arcade version, and allows Mario to turn in the middle of jumping.
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Regional Difference, Update Difference, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 26, 2023
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Mario Forever
Mario Forever (2003)
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Attachment Mario Forever, between versions 3.5 and 4.4, used an audio track that was a "fart version" of the Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island castle theme as the Hardcore World 1-4 music. Prior to its addition, some versions of the game had an unused version of the fart castle theme with Luigi impressions by developer Michał Gdaniec non-melodically interspersed.
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Music, Unused Audio, Unused Content, Update Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 25, 2023
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Super Smash Bros. Crusade
Super Smash Bros. Crusade (2014)
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In early versions of Super Smash Bros. Crusade, one of the playable characters was "Weegee", a parodic version of Luigi originating from the DOS version of Mario is Missing! whose moveset was a composite of different memes from "YouTube Poop" videos. Weegee was removed in version 9.2 in 2018 as the development team did not want to "be the meme game". They believed the game's reputation was becoming overcentralized on the presence of Weegee, and that the character was not of a high enough quality standard to keep around. This decision sparked major backlash from Crusade fans, and ultimately Weegee was reinstated in 2021's version 9.4, with a new moveset comprising of more modern memes.
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Complaint, Meme, Moveset, Removed Feature, Unused Character, Update Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 23, 2023
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Reddit thread about Weegee's removal:
https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/9ji0py/super_smash_bros_crusade_will_be_removing_weegee/

Below is a comment from a deleted account in the thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/9ji0py/comment/e6rvif7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

"I'm the lead Spriter of the project since about halfway through 0.9.1's development (Shantae and Pikachu being my first major projects).

The reasoning behind removing Weegee is because we don't want to be the meme game. We're working hard to make an enjoyable experience, and are working to really up the quality lately. However, this does not mean that we're not open to slightly less orthodox roster decisions. We just don't want a literal meme character is all.

To those who are following the project, we have been working on redoing older content to bring it to a higher quality standard. This does not mean that the game is done expanding. It just means that we have some catching up to do before we can really push forward."

Weegee re-instatement reveal trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXhGn5fuBpc
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration (2022)
subdirectory_arrow_right Warbirds (Game)
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Attachment Warbirds was intended to be included in the base version Atari 50, but was cut at the last second - physical Switch releases of the compilation include Warbirds on the cartridge, but a day one update removed the game. Warbirds has since been reinstated.
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Emulation, Removed Feature, Unused Content, Update Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 10, 2023
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SkiFree
SkiFree (1991)
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Attachment A "2.0" version of SkiFree was in development in 1993, which would've had online multiplayer; improved physics; AI opponents; and sound, however the physics ended up being corrupted and the source code was lost, so it could not be finished. SkiFree creator Chris Pirih's website has voice clips of the game's sasquatch that may have originated from this version.
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Cancelled Release, Mistake, Online Play, Source Code, Unreleased Content, Unused Audio, Update Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 31, 2023
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992)
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The Game Gear version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has a reputation as one of the hardest installments in the Sonic franchise due to making minimal changes to already-challenging level layouts designed for the Master System's larger aspect ratio on the notoriously small Game Gear screen.

Because Sega prefers to release the Game Gear version of the game on newer hardware, and the original Master System version only being released in the Master System's most successful regions (Europe, Australia, and Brazil), most players are only familiar with the version generally considered inferior.
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Balancing, Complaint, Console Difference, Mistake, Regional Difference, Release Difference, Remake, Update Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 8, 2023
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Article that explains the Game Gear version's reputation:
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-8-bit/

Level layout comparisons:
https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_2_(8-bit)/Comparisons
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