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zeogold: On Steam, for example, there's no umlaut to be seen on the title, yet it's included in the game description.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/225260/Brutal_Legend/
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Leroux: Just a thought, but on Steam the reason for that might be that it's easier to find the title if you don't have to type in "ü" which most users probably won't even find on their keyboard?

Apart from that, your theory sounds reasonable though.
(I know I'm mad late on this, but I just now got the notification for the reply.)
While this is true, there are other games with weird symbols in the titles on Steam. Although this is a really bizarre example, see Ohr:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/376480/Ohr/
Or NPPD Rush:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/270090/NPPD_RUSH_The_milk_of_Ultraviolet/
Not to mention that the search algorithm is usually smart enough to bring you the right game regardless of the special symbols.
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ZFR: Was it stylized as SiN originally back when it came out (in contemporary materials like reviews, promotional materials and so on). It seems like it's spelt SiN in modern (today's) materials, like its wikipedia, mobygames and GOG entries.
Like you I remember the game on original release - I remember the original promo materials and magazine ads (Elexis Sinclair! ;) ). I'm almost 100% positive on release it was always stylized as SiN . As to the why, I can't answer. But like I said I'm almost certain it's not a later iteration of the title. It was always meant to be SiN. Something to do with "SiN Corp" that originally sold the drug or whatever.

If you're super curious I can probably dig up the old PC Gamer mags that had the ads. But that'd take a bit of effort on my part ;)
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Ixamyakxim: Like you I remember the game on original release - I remember the original promo materials and magazine ads (Elexis Sinclair! ;) ). I'm almost 100% positive on release it was always stylized as SiN . As to the why, I can't answer. But like I said I'm almost certain it's not a later iteration of the title. It was always meant to be SiN. Something to do with "SiN Corp" that originally sold the drug or whatever.
Hey, thanks for your reply.

I'm not really interested in the why. The thread title meant "why now, when it wasn't so before?"

The corporation is SinTek, not SiN Corp. According to Judicat0r everything on the box, except one form, show it as Sin or sin/SIN. In-game there isn't a single case of SiN; it's always Sin or sin/SIN.

However some old reviews (roughly one third of them) from mobygames linked in his post, do show it as SiN, and that had to come from somewhere. So it makes sense when you say you remember promotional materials showing it as such. (interestingly SiN is more prevalent in foreign reviews and you mention German magazines, but this could be a coincidence).

Anyway, I got what I want, so thanks but if it's not something readily available I don't need you to check your magazines. Unless one day you're very very bored and can do so easily, but this will be just to satisfy my idle curiosity.

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Ixamyakxim: If you're super curious I can probably dig up the old PC Gamer mags that had the ads. But that'd take a bit of effort on my part ;)
EDIT: Actually, I'll be visiting my grandparents myself and my magazines should be in their attic somewhere. Let me see if I can dig them up.
Post edited December 08, 2018 by ZFR
SiN = Selfies in Nude maybe? just my 2 cents.. :-/
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zeogold: While this is true, there are other games with weird symbols in the titles on Steam. Although this is a really bizarre example, see Ohr:
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Or NPPD Rush:
Yeah, but those symbols aren't part of a word that the users are most likely to type in, they would just type in Ohr or NPPD Rush. I'm not sure if the algorithms are smart enough to deal with wrong letters, for example when I type in "Brtal" or "Brotal", "Brütal Legend" isn't found.
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ZFR: Was it stylized as SiN originally back when it came out (in contemporary materials like reviews, promotional materials and so on). It seems like it's spelt SiN in modern (today's) materials, like its wikipedia, mobygames and GOG entries.
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Ixamyakxim: Like you I remember the game on original release - I remember the original promo materials and magazine ads (Elexis Sinclair! ;) ). I'm almost 100% positive on release it was always stylized as SiN . As to the why, I can't answer. But like I said I'm almost certain it's not a later iteration of the title. It was always meant to be SiN. Something to do with "SiN Corp" that originally sold the drug or whatever.

If you're super curious I can probably dig up the old PC Gamer mags that had the ads. But that'd take a bit of effort on my part ;)
Hey, so I went and dug up my old PC mags (incidentally, what memories!). The two that had a review both spelled it as "Sin". (One used SIN in the review but it spells all games names in all caps; it used "Sin" elsewhere). I vaguely remember having one with a centrefold of Ms Sinclaire, but I couldn't find it. Eitherway, not a single mention of SiN.

Now I'm a bit interested where that SiN came from...
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Where is SiN Episodes already? :P (I know, legal problems...)