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State of the industry: MSI offered a chance to win the ability to buy a GPU
16 Jan 2023 at 4:26 pm UTC Likes: 2

This concept is so alien that I had to read the title three times before grasping the message.

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20 years later the open source Colonization game FreeCol hits 1.0
10 Jan 2023 at 3:01 pm UTC

> "Colonization 2 would have been"

Isn't this [External Link] kind of Colonization 2?

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Neon Prime from Valve is reportedly a third-person shooter close to release
19 Dec 2022 at 4:14 pm UTC Likes: 5

It's one thing to give you skins like CS:GO, it's another for people to actually see their own skin while running around — and people who buy their skins love that.

Who wouldn't pay to be able to stare at Gordon Freeman's ass while playing? :tongue:

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Epic Games to pay $520 million for privacy violations and unwanted charges
19 Dec 2022 at 4:10 pm UTC Likes: 1

So, no more free games in 2023? :P

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Paradox Interactive will be increasing game prices across a bunch of currencies
19 Dec 2022 at 4:06 pm UTC

Yeah, I won't be buying any more of their games after naively "collecting" EUIV and CK2 piece by piece. So they can price their games at $1000 for all I care.

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Valve just gave away another bunch of Steam Decks so check your email
16 Dec 2022 at 10:24 am UTC

> over 980,000 of you

good to know, I've been wondering what the odds were

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Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard hits a bump as FTC seeks to block it
12 Dec 2022 at 12:59 pm UTC

I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

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Unciv the open source remake of Civilization V is heading to Steam
8 Dec 2022 at 5:24 pm UTC

Wow, first time I heard of this, but it's not too surprising, since I pretty much stopped following open source game releases after the demise of happypenguin.org a.k.a. The Linux Game Tome. :sad:

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EVERSPACE 2 developer gets a 1.65 million Euro grant from the German federal parliament
8 Dec 2022 at 2:46 pm UTC

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Ok, but why? What's in it for the society/country? Most of the time I don't have an idea what country a given game is made in until Steam puts it on a country-focused sale, nor do I care. From the list, I only ever heard of a few and only because they are sequels. Also what the hell is "codename mashed potato" at #5?