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News - Ubuntu 26.04 ('Resolute Raccoon') LTS is out now
By kernelkid, 24 Apr 2026 at 1:10 pm UTC

I'll give it about a week then upgrade. Just making sure no major bugs like last time, when they had to temp pull upgrade.

News - Get some big games in the Fanatical Legendary Bundle like The Alters and Frostpunk 2
By tmtvl, 24 Apr 2026 at 12:57 pm UTC

Might be worth noting about Rogue Trader: the Deluxe version doesn't include the season pass, you'll want the Voidfarer edition for that.

News - Classic 90s platformer Moon Child gets the source code released and a modern port
By helloCLD, 24 Apr 2026 at 12:16 pm UTC

I've seen this floating around for a bit now, but this is the first I've heard of the source port on itch. Will have to give this a go later.

News - Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting a free Endless Mode, optimizations and a big expansion
By UltraViolet, 24 Apr 2026 at 12:02 pm UTC

An excellent game, which I've played on Steam and XBox for over a 100 hours and still have lots to do in it

News - Australia targets Steam, Roblox and others in new legal push against extremists and predators
By benstor214, 24 Apr 2026 at 10:38 am UTC

Quoting: VardyComparing MS Paint to online platforms makes no sense. This isn't about how you use software, it's about how you regulate online platforms. Roblox, Minecraft and Steam are not "games" per se (unless you stick to single player Minecraft). Just thought you should be made aware of a very simple difference. Grooming, for example, has been widely reported on Roblox.
Also, you can use your printer to print whatever you like. You shouldn't be able to parade around promoting your hate speech and using your printed hate symbol in public. It's a serious debate, and sadly it seems a bunch of people commenting here don't even seem to understand the nature of the subject itself. I personally believe in banning n*z1s and groomers everywhere possible (by the same argument hardpenguin stated), but I don't know, that's my non-n*z1 non groomer perspective.
I am pretty sure the only thing I compared to any platform was Australia Post. You were definitely not reading carefully there.
Now, I doubt you will deny that Australia Post is a communication platform…

News - MMO space shooter Star Conflict is shutting down
By bufalo1973, 24 Apr 2026 at 10:33 am UTC

They could give at least the server protocol just in case someone wants to create a FOSS server.

News - Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced officially announced with Steam Deck support
By benstor214, 24 Apr 2026 at 10:07 am UTC

It certainly won’t run in offline mode. That really should be a requirement to be 'verified'. The Steam Deck is a portable device after all.
And the software being restrained by anti-tamper provisions and being leashed to a spyware account is a strong determent, too.
Especially the anti-tamper corset completely runs against proton compatibility.
Though I am sure it will sell well anyway…

News - Australia targets Steam, Roblox and others in new legal push against extremists and predators
By chr, 24 Apr 2026 at 9:58 am UTC

I'll chime in with others here to "diagnose" some of us with some issue 😀:

I feel as if many of us here are quite upset and stressed. Likely about this particular topic as well as many other worrying changes going on in our shared and personal worlds. I'd be happy if more us can find it in themselves to trust that it is quite unlikely for any of us to be intentionally shilling, trolling or otherwise furthering some malicious agenda. Most peoples' agenda is quite simply to express their perspective and feelings. So please let's not call each other idiots. "Ignorant/uninformed/shortsighted on the subject" is welcome 😌. The further our culture on GoL moves on the spectrum of interpersonal attacks (and such toxicity), the less I want to partake in these discussions. I need not be here, but be mindful of what you select for in an ecosystem.

(My actual personal political views on this topic are most similar to HyperRealisticRock and Purple Library Guy - wild west time is over; not doing anything is a costly choice; doing anything new means likely mistakes; we can't have our cake and eat it too. On the other hand, more discussion on *how* to implement any changes is imperative - I just don't subscribe to "no change".)

News - Heroic Games Launcher gets a slick full-screen console-like mode
By shimmy, 24 Apr 2026 at 9:16 am UTC

This is awesome. Quality of life improvement when streaming to Moolight.
Current options so far (for me) was to either:
1. use mouse emulation to point to the game to run
2. add the game to Steam and open via Steam when streaming.

News - Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced officially announced with Steam Deck support
By Ehvis, 24 Apr 2026 at 9:08 am UTC

Looks pretty good. Prices are surprisingly ok. But account+denuvNo seals the deal. I'm not relying on Stop Killing Games to take care of my consumer rights.

News - Ubuntu 26.04 ('Resolute Raccoon') LTS is out now
By Fester_Mudd, 24 Apr 2026 at 9:05 am UTC

Likely the best Ubuntu release ever! All so fresh yet very sturdy. This is also the first time when Ubuntu has a newer Linux kernel than Arch.

News - Ubuntu 26.04 ('Resolute Raccoon') LTS is out now
By Brokatt, 24 Apr 2026 at 9:04 am UTC

Nice! Kubuntu 26.04 LTS with Plasma 6.6 and Linux kernel 7.0 will benefit a lot of Linux gamers :)

News - Valve make steps to improve Steam Deck Verification, giving developers more performance data
By Brokatt, 24 Apr 2026 at 8:56 am UTC

Valve's strength have never been to get things right the first time, but by improving slowly over time (Valve Time if you will). These are great improvements, hopefully Valve will add Steam Machine and Steam Frame when they launch.

News - Deep survival game Vintage Story gets Fishing, Mechanisms, Metalworking and more
By hardpenguin, 24 Apr 2026 at 8:28 am UTC

I keep forgetting this game exists because it is not on Steam and doesn't run discounts 😭

News - Build up your strategy collection in the Your Move Humble Bundle
By hardpenguin, 24 Apr 2026 at 8:26 am UTC

Fanatical just dropped an amazing "Legendary" bundle too. Multiple high quality games.

News - Heroic Games Launcher gets a slick full-screen console-like mode
By hardpenguin, 24 Apr 2026 at 8:22 am UTC

Quoting: fearnflavio
Quoting: hardpenguinNice look but the interface seems tiny compared to the screen size. Definitely not optimized for ten foot aka big TV screen couch gaming.
Yes, we decided to do this like a MVP first and then gather feedback and improve it over time. We will have some settings for it like to increase the zoom size, skip-update or update before launching, installing and uninstalling games and more. This is just the start. We are hearing all feedback so far.
Great stuff, keep up the good work!

Adjusting the size automatically to the screen or window size would be cool, and a slider perhaps as well. Similarly to what Steam Big Picture does.

News - Deep survival game Vintage Story gets Fishing, Mechanisms, Metalworking and more
By Tchey, 24 Apr 2026 at 7:04 am UTC

I think it's my most played game of the decade, got it in 2017 or 2018. I replay it every 2 or 3 updates, with 100+ mods. I usually start from zero in vanilla, or with a few big ones such as landscape formations, etc, and add and add and add until i need a new game to trigger that new mod, then i WorldEdit to take my home to a new world, and play even more...

News - Vampire Survivors deck-builder spin-off Vampire Crawlers is out now
By neolith, 24 Apr 2026 at 6:11 am UTC

Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: neolithI am torn... on the one hand I really enjoy Vampire Survivors, but on the other hand I really dislike card mechanics in computer games. What to do? 😆
. . . Go play Vampire Survivors again?
I still haven't gotten all the achievements. 😭

I'll return to it once I've kicked all the Mongols off of Tsushima. 😄

News - More Square Enix titles arrive on GOG with multiple titles from the SaGa series
By ToddL, 24 Apr 2026 at 4:28 am UTC

Quoting: TevurSome kind of remakes/ports of the first SaGa games (aka Final Fantasy Legend) would be great. Really liked their simple but uncommon gameplay
Good luck getting Square Enix to remake the first SaGa game when they rather just sell you something like COLLECTION of SaGa FINAL FANTASY LEGEND instead.

News - Heroic Games Launcher gets a slick full-screen console-like mode
By chickenb00, 24 Apr 2026 at 12:15 am UTC

I checked it out in desktop mode and I like that it instantly switches to that view. I did have some trouble getting the tabs (All, GOG, Epic) to be selected with my joystick and dpad. The mouse can select it. Joystick can't always get "up there".
I'm a little disappointed the only functionality is Play or Cancel.
It's early days though and as this grows and expands it'll be much nicer especially in Game mode on my deck.

News - WWII real-time tactics game Sudden Strike 5 is out now and Steam Deck Verified
By Koopa, 24 Apr 2026 at 12:01 am UTC

I loved Sudden Strike 4, I would buy it... if it would be cheaper.. at least for me in Argentina its not following the new regional price guidelines... its just marginally cheaper.

News - Live out your witchy dreams in the open world adventure Witchspire in June
By Dana Souly, 23 Apr 2026 at 11:57 pm UTC

Cute, hopefully it doesn't get in the way of Witchbrook.
And the devs of Nivalis said, the release date will be announced in April. (they have always written blogposts at the end of the month, so I'd say next Wednesday or Thursday)

News - Deep survival game Vintage Story gets Fishing, Mechanisms, Metalworking and more
By hummer010, 23 Apr 2026 at 8:56 pm UTC

I don't have a lot of gaming time these days, so I pretty well only play two games: Vintage Story and BeamNG. Vintage Story is awesome.

News - Valve make steps to improve Steam Deck Verification, giving developers more performance data
By ScottCarammell, 23 Apr 2026 at 8:41 pm UTC

I've talked about how much I dislike how Valve's handled the verification system before so it makes me happy to see they're taking steps to improve it. you love to see it, really

News - Australia targets Steam, Roblox and others in new legal push against extremists and predators
By Linux_Rocks, 23 Apr 2026 at 8:35 pm UTC

Quoting: HyperRealisticRockSo many useless commenters who what to do nothing and expect things to magically change.

Here let me simplify it for you simple minded people...

You can draw hate speech with markers (crayola is NOT responsible)
BUT if you display this hate speech on crayolas website then (crayola IS responsible)

You can type a guide to making explosive suicide vests on MS Word (Microsoft is NOT responsible)
BUT if you publish that guide on the Microsofts forums then (Microsoft IS responsible)

You can make a game about under-age sex (Steam is NOT responsible)
BUT if you publish that on Steam then (Steam IS responsible)

This is about centralized platforms being responsible for the content they host, NOT distributed software in which the USER is responsible. Any online games that are hosted or use the services of said company are responsible for the content of that game as this is publicly available and subject to the same laws regarding content in any public space. This is not the wild west internet anymore, we need rules and punishment for breaking said rules.
I totally get and understand what you're saying, but being elitist about it just makes things worse and opens up things to toxicity.

It's like the China fear mongering above. All that does is possibly open the door to anti-Chinese sentiment.

News - Factory 95 is a clever automation sim inspired by Windows 95 and PowerPoint out now
By Cley_Faye, 23 Apr 2026 at 8:22 pm UTC

Oh nice. The demo was interesting, but I'm curious to see how it goes. It having a native linux version is great too; the windows demo had some issue with weird characters…

News - Valve make steps to improve Steam Deck Verification, giving developers more performance data
By Stella, 23 Apr 2026 at 7:36 pm UTC

This is a step in the right direction. there are some games where the performance just isn't good enough to be Verified so this should help imo.

News - The classic Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri from 1996 has a surprise update from Nightdive Studios
By shadow1w2, 23 Apr 2026 at 7:30 pm UTC

Oh hey I forgot I had that on Steam.
GoG sale is down to a buck nice.
Half expected to be charged for it but I guess if it's still in dosbox they don't cobaider it a significant change to charge for.
Glad they remembered and gave it a little quality of life update.

Guess it might be easier to play on Steam Deck if I remember what keys to vind again heh.
Good time to try it again.

News - Valve make steps to improve Steam Deck Verification, giving developers more performance data
By WMan22, 23 Apr 2026 at 7:20 pm UTC

I'm concerned about how this handles differing graphics settings/performance mods like Eclipse mods, or how it distinguishes between people who are and are not using lsfg-vk.

News - Vampire Survivors deck-builder spin-off Vampire Crawlers is out now
By Purple Library Guy, 23 Apr 2026 at 6:51 pm UTC

Quoting: neolithI am torn... on the one hand I really enjoy Vampire Survivors, but on the other hand I really dislike card mechanics in computer games. What to do? 😆
. . . Go play Vampire Survivors again?