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* Matayan has released exclusive characters for ''[[Kinnikuman: Muscle Fight]]'' that are available only to those the developer trusts. Basically, these characters are hard to find on the Internet.
* Matayan has released exclusive characters for ''[[Kinnikuman: Muscle Fight]]'' that are available only to those the developer trusts. Basically, these characters are hard to find on the Internet.
* Due to an issue with its shadow mapping system (which was ported straight off the Xbox release and thus no longer works properly on newer hardware as well as those running on ATI/AMD GPUs), the Windows release of ''[[Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell|Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow]]'' remains the only ''Splinter Cell'' game to be pulled out of circulation. As ''Splinter Cell''{{'}}s extensive use of light and shadow is integral to its gameplay, the shadow mapping issue makes ''Pandora Tomorrow'' extremely difficult if not impossible to play on modern hardware.
* Due to an issue with its shadow mapping system (which was ported straight off the Xbox release and thus no longer works properly on newer hardware as well as those running on ATI/AMD GPUs), the Windows release of ''[[Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell|Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow]]'' remains the only ''Splinter Cell'' game to be pulled out of circulation. As ''Splinter Cell''{{'}}s extensive use of light and shadow is integral to its gameplay, the shadow mapping issue makes ''Pandora Tomorrow'' extremely difficult if not impossible to play on modern hardware.
* The spy-adventure parody game ''[[No One Lives Forever]]'' remains in copyright limbo for the foreseeable future due to the convoluted rights situation it got caught up in -- a situation so complicated that [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/123151-No-One-Lives-Forever-Rights-Vanish-Into-The-Night ''no one actually knows who owns the rights to it anymore'']. [[Nightdive Studios]] tried to sort out the rights situation in 2015, but 20th Century Fox (who originally published the first game and was later acquired by Disney), Activision (who inherited the Fox Interactive assets through a series of mergers) and Monolith's parent company Warner Bros. Interactive all sent a letter to Nightdive saying they think they do have the rights but they couldn't be bothered to go through the effort of sorting it out, leading Nightdive to abandon their plans to re-release the game.<!-- MOD: The phrasing is obscure -- did they jointly send a single letter, or did they each send a separate letter with the same basic claim?-->
* The spy-adventure parody game ''[[No One Lives Forever]]'' remains in copyright limbo for the foreseeable future due to the convoluted rights situation it got caught up in -- a situation so complicated that [https://web.archive.org/web/20181202010348/https://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/123151-No-One-Lives-Forever-Rights-Vanish-Into-The-Night ''no one actually knows who owns the rights to it anymore'']. [[Nightdive Studios]] tried to sort out the rights situation in 2015, but 20th Century Fox (who originally published the first game and was later acquired by Disney), Activision (who inherited the Fox Interactive assets through a series of mergers) and Monolith's parent company Warner Bros. Interactive all sent a letter to Nightdive saying they think they do have the rights but they couldn't be bothered to go through the effort of sorting it out, leading Nightdive to abandon their plans to re-release the game.<!-- MOD: The phrasing is obscure -- did they jointly send a single letter, or did they each send a separate letter with the same basic claim?-->


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