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In early 2019, Annapurna Interactive released Outer Wilds, an action-adventure game about exploring a strange solar system. Months later, Obsidian Entertainment came out with The Outer Worlds, an action RPG about exploring a strange solar system. Both had mechanics that played with time, were released with Epic Games Store exclusivity, were featured on GameSpot’s best games of 2019, and have Wikipedia pages that start with “Not to be confused with [the other game].”

Even their logos had some degree of similarity, though the Game Maker’s Toolkit’s Twitter account has just confused that issue even more with these mind-bendingly flipped logos.

The similarity between the two games was one of last year’s biggest gaming inside jokes, especially as both of them were critically acclaimed and well-recommended. Gaming sites like Polygon even published guides for distinguishing the two games. Outer Wilds narrative designer Kelsey Beachum confused matters even more this year by announcing that she was leaving the Outer Wilds studio for a job with The Outer Worlds’ Obsidian.

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As part of a celebration of Patrick Stewart’s 80th birthday, his long-time friend Sir Ian McKellen has dished some goss on their history together. In an interview with The Guardian, picked up by THR, McKellen confessed that he advised his friend not to take the Star Trek role for the sake of his career.

It was due to Stewart’s “success as a classical actor with the Royal Shakespeare and National Theatre companies” that McKellen warned against the role as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. “He’s long forgiven me my advice not to risk a solid career on the British stage by falling for an uncertain future in Star Trek.”

In hindsight Stewart’s career after Star Trek was anything but uncertain, with Picard becoming a fan-favorite character that Stewart would reprise for seven seasons, four movies and now CBS’s new show Star Trek: Picard.

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