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Total Annihilation was probably my one true RTS love. I put the most hours into that one, loved the metal maps. Ah what joy that was. Then onto Spring RTS that turned it all 3D.

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I do remember enjoying Command & Conquer back in 1995, but I don't think I got truly hooked on the genre until Total Annihilation launched in 1997, and the graphics in this feel very "early C&C" to me.

Then, the marvellous RTS pinnacle, Battle Zone, arrived in 1998. That was an incredible period in my life, as I'd just started at the firm I still work at today, 30 years later! Good memories playing these games, along with Doom, Quake, Descent and Crusader: No Remorse!

It was a special moment in Battle Zone to finally create your first massive Walker unit and hearing the pilot rumble "For God and Country" as it stopped off to demolish whatever poor target you'd highlighted!

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Ah dang, haven't completed the VR version yet. Nice to see they also give the opportunity to play this game for non VR players and even (Linux powered) PC gaming handheld gamers.
I'm thinking about re-buying it even... I'd appreciate if they would give a discount for owners of the VR version though.

edit: I did

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Wow, the animations in this are top-drawer, really impressive. I have fond memories of Alien:Fireteam, and while this is single-player, I'm still sold. It's been ages since a good Alien-franchise game landed!

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did they fix the chinese translation already?

i expected them to take a while to finish that, but at least keep mentioning the progress on that front until done

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I like me some stale 90s RTS, but that's sort of my issue here: I'm not seeing anything that stands out, it's just about the fetish. I wouldn't mind more of these, but is there enough of a market? Fingers crossed!

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Base building? Check! Resource gathering? Check! FMV cut-scenes? Heck yeah gimme that! Super weapons? Looks like it ticks that box and all.

Give me all of that (well maybe not the super weapons) but set in a fantasy world with modern graphics and storytelling and then I'll agree that the golden age of RTS has returned.

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like tabs on top, where one needs to use extensions or make manual modifications that often break on version update. Let's see which way this will go...

I got so much no idea why they've done this. I mean, the tab "heading" obviously has such a close relationship to the tab contents - and none to the search bar, the favorites, ...

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..so how long until the bully in chief will start saying things like "Gemini is saying unkind things about me, they're not allowed to do that"?
We're moving a bit too fast to the necessity of a Butlerian Jihad.

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I'm sticking with Firefox, been using it for about 3 or 4 years now. I think the AI features arrived in 135, and I'm on 142 now, and other than a pop up asking me if I wanted AI engines added to my search bar (I didn't), I don't see any hints of AI elsewhere. Provided I can turn that absolutely shitfuckery off, I'm happy to stay on Firefox.

I've been testing out ProtonMail to replace Gmail and ProtonCalendar to replace Google Calendar. I'm already using Firefox instead of Chrome, and I've also updated my home screen and search bar to use DuckDuckGo. But I still use Android, and particularly rely on Google Maps, so there's still work to be done.

Goddamit. I used to love Google products. I still feel sore about Reader and that was 2013! What the hell happened to this company??

Edit to add: Just have to share this video of Meta's AI in action. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0Ee8IYGKjTQ

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@AnthemV of course the toggleability of features is the redeeming factor here. If I can turn off ai "features", like I do for address bar suggestions, then it's a mild annoyance (about it being a default and having to do it). But there are also "features" that are non-optional, like tabs on top, where one needs to use extensions or make manual modifications that often break on version update. Let's see which way this will go...

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Oh boy, the poor devs that will have to deal with all the nonsense this feature will no doubt produce.

But just think of the memes! It will be glorious!

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I'm using Zen myself, but was an avid Firefox user for years beforehand. I have no problem with them adding AI features, so long as you can turn them off (which, to my understanding, you can).

Open source fans love their software having options... up until the point where someone else uses an option they don't like.

I get having a problem with "full agentic AI mode redefining blah blah blah," like Google is seemingly pulling, but if it's togglable like any other feature, what's the issue?

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If that's another "feature" that firefox devs mindlessly copy from chrome, I'm going back to Konqueror.

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I am glad this movement got some mainstream visibility. The discussion about digital product ownership, the right to repair etc. should be loud and ongoing.

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Meanwhile Chrome and all Chromium based browsers have *just* had a major exploitable bug revealed, to do with the Javascript optimiser. All versions of Chromium based browsers are vulnerable, up to yesterday (and that includes Edge and Brave).

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vivaldi
Still clean of AI and they wrote a blogpost on their site about it
"Why Vivaldi won’t follow the current AI trend?"

even firefox added all the AI slop with 141.. so yeah every major browser on the planet has this crap.

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To be honest... This will come. It will be used. And it even will be practical, to some amount.

The question is how they're making you pay for it.

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Surprising nobody, the company that removed the motto "Don't be evil" has progressively gotten more evil. And also incompetent.

If anyone is still using Chrome in 2025, they deserve what they get. I'm still using Vivaldi. Not because it's great but because it's the least awful one I've seen, which is a good description for just about every other aspect of modern life.

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At this point I'm gonna just start using Netsurf and become a hermit.

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That is just sad.

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I don't like the pushing of constant AI features myself, but I plan to stay on Firefox. Firefox is FOSS, while Vivaldi is proprietary. I prefer to use FOSS whenever possible.

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Yiiiiiiiiiikes

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I loved CrossCode! It's a shame that it doesn't get any attention these days, but I'm hoping that Alabaster Dawn brings Radical Fish the love they deserve.

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Fingers crossed, lads!

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Currently it sadly doesn't work on Linux because the local server emulator cannot start on port 443. Fingers crossed the devs will manage to fix this.

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In the past I've made sure to WIRE up the gamepad to the Plasma KDE system which has a gamepad section in settings, and THEN all games detected just fine. If you rely on proton to do it all for you, then perhaps that's the issue.

Maybe you are right, but will this work in Gamescope on Steam Deck?

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NVIDIA have been wanting to do some proper CPUs

It would have been a lot more interesting if they bought VIA, improved on their designs, and released a proper x86 (or more precisely - amd64) competitor.

I won't trust Nvidia to play well with Linux and they'll poison any efforts Intel have there

Historically, Intel has been very open source friendly. But they have been shedding all that stuff in droves the last couple months. AMD went through a similar phase when they were hurting financially. Would Nvidia's "clutch all the toys" culture infect Intel? Probably not that much, but you never know.

I do wonder what's gonna happen with the whole Intel ARC graphics

Rumors of its demise have been swirling for a while. Which is unfortunate; competition is good for the consumer. Unfortunately, it's taking Intel a bit too long to get competitive.

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Nvidia and Intel will clash super hard

Nvidia tends to not play well with others (there's a reason AMD is the GPU of choice in most custom projects, including consoles), so it will be interesting to see how this pans out. Intel has tried the GPU chiplet thing before, with AMD graphics chips. That didn't seem to last long, but I don't think they ever said why...

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The thought of a Linux gaming device with Nvidia GPU sounds like wild goose..

Times change. First Steam Machines were using Nvidia GPUs since AMD graphics were crap back then, in 10 years from now, who knows?

As for the deal, I do wonder what's gonna happen with the whole Intel ARC graphics efforts.

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