Why Games Are So Expensive To Make, Retraining Your Tastebuds and How Harrison Ford Got Blade Runner

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AAA games are getting so expensive to make that companies have started marketing them as AAAA games. Despite this, games haven't really increased in price. But who's responsible for spending so much money?

You can retrain your tastebuds to like a food that you hate. Will this finally end the war over pineapple on pizza?

Harrison Ford wasn't always the first choice to play Deckard in Blade Runner. Initially financiers had no idea who he was, and wanted someone else despite his roles in other unknown films like Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

The cost in making a game

- Why So Many Video Games Cost So Much to Make - Bloomberg

How to retrain your taste buds

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-15/how-you-can-retrain-your-tastebuds-to-like-foods-you-detest/104796852

How Harrison Ford got his groove back

- 'Blade Runner' Financiers Asked Ridley Scott: 'Who Is Harrison Ford?'

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