Tag: thief
Journeying into The Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows
Moment father who murdered a thief with the help of son says ‘oh, come on!’ to police during arrest
Pokémon card heist goes terribly wrong… for the thief
What actually happened when stolen Fusion Strike cards ended up at a Texas card shop
Truck Thief Gunned Down by Owner After AirTag Gives Away Location
San Antonio police received a stolen vehicle report at around 1 pm from a Braesview home. However, before police could recover the stolen truck, the owners of the vehicle decided to perform their own investigation, using an AirTag left in the truck to do so. The unnamed owners tracked the truck to a shopping center in Southeast Military Drive, reports KSAT. However, rather than wait for police to arrive, the truck owners decided to approach the vehicle and confront the suspect.
While it is unknown exactly what happened, Police say it seems the suspected thief may have pulled out their own firearm. The vehicle owner responded by shooting and killing the suspect while they were inside the truck. It is unclear whether the vehicle owner will face charges over the matter, and an investigation is ongoing into whether the suspect actually had a weapon in the first place.
The San Antonio police department’s public information officer offered these remarks (in a video from KSAT):
“Most importantly is, to the public, SAPD is urging you if you are to get your vehicle stolen: I know that it’s frustrating, but please do not take matters into your own hands like this. Our police department has plenty of resources that could go into finding your vehicle, i.e. our drone system, trackers ourselves, very good patrolmen that look for these kind of things. It’s never safe to take matters into your own hands, as you can see today by this incident…. That’s why I urge the public, wait for police in this matter. Let us go with you. We have the training. We know exactly how to determine what’s going to happen, these kind of factors and situations, and we know how to handle them.”
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Thief developer Randy Smith says “immersion is totally incompatible with ego”
Some developers spend their careers inching towards their dream job, leapfrogging between roles in a grand strategy game of their own making. Others, like Randy Smith, simply show up on their first day and find they’re exactly where they’re meant to be.
“The approach that Looking Glass had to creating games was pretty unique,” he says now. “Even to this day, there are few studios who have that same ideology and mindfulness in how videogames are made.”
Thief: The Dark Project had a great director, in the form of Greg LePiccolo, who later became a pioneer in the world of music games with Guitar Hero and Rock Band. And before him, Ken Levine had laid down the cobbles of Thief’s setting, defining its noir-ish tone before heading off to work on System Shock 2. Yet Looking Glass games weren’t driven by a singular 90s auteur. In fact, the very absence of ego in the studio’s culture meant its many “bright stars” were happy to adhere to a shared vision.
Criminally oversized Skyrim mod expands the Thieves Guild, lets you romance a thief
Stealth is everywhere in games, but the innovations of Thief have been forgotten
Distract guards by flushing toilets in this free little Thief homage
Cute, free little thief homage Li’l Taffer starts you off in front of a door to a big manor, along with five instances of an ability called ‘knock’. Reader, I am telling you this so that you don’t waste all of them pointlessly knocking on the door like I did, as you are in fact supposed to use them to knock out guards.
It’s a procedurally generated game made for 7dfps 2022, a game jam that challenges folks to make an fps game in seven days. Your manor will be different to mine, but the toilets will probably still be silly.