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Now official: you can buy a refurbished Steam Deck from Valve
8 August 2023 at 8:11 pm UTC Likes: 4

Hmm. 2TB SSD from Amazon (cheapest is around £75) + refurb 64GB Steam Deck for around £350. Tempting? Maybe. Depends on the quality of the refurb by Valve, I guess. But I'm certainly interested in the idea.

Pixel-art Sims styled game Tiny Life hits Early Access on May 3rd
24 April 2023 at 4:31 pm UTC

Wonder how this will hold up against "Life by You".

Atari are acquiring Night Dive Studios
26 March 2023 at 4:15 pm UTC

Hazarding a guess, its assets and IP would probably be more valuable separated from the company.

Atari are acquiring Night Dive Studios
26 March 2023 at 12:41 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: F.Ultra
Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: F.Ultra
Quoting: Mumrik93Where did Atari get the money to buy them? The Atari VCS was a massive failure on so many levels I have issues believing any bank would be inclined to give them a loan.

They received €12.5M from their share holders last year by way of a rights issue and got a €2.4M loan from Irata LLC, according to their latest report they are still not profitable and had a higher loss in 2022-H2 then 2022-H1
Hmmm . . . maybe they said to the banks "Look, we aren't profitable, we have no idea how to start turning a profit, and we already owe you money. Our only chance of paying it back is if we take over someone who can make a profit and use their money. Lend us more so we can do that!"

They might go for it--that's more or less the business model of a lot of private equity firms.

I don't think they have talked to any banks, Irata LLC who they loaned money from looks to be a holding company controlled by the CEO of Atari (Wade Rosen) so it looks like he is for some reason trying to take over the company from the other owners. And it took me until right now before I realied that Irata is atarI spelled backwards...
Also Wade owns 13% of Night Dive. Come to a deal with them to carve up Atari, perhaps?

Fab looking western adventure Rosewater gets a big demo update with voice actors
20 October 2022 at 9:17 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: tuubiI'll skip the demo. Grundislav's past work is enough to guarantee a place on my wishlist.

Same her.

Although... if the demo is not part of the full game, I'd play it. Anybody knows?
Yeah, the demo is essentially the first act of the game.

Two Point Campus from the dev of Two Point Hospital out now
9 August 2022 at 6:56 pm UTC

Looking good, hope it goes on sale soon.

Fech The Ferret is an upcoming vibrant parkour rhythm-platformer
28 June 2022 at 9:37 am UTC

He posts what he's doing with Fech on the Sonic Fan Games HQ, it's been interesting to watch how this game has come on.

Get your country to be the first to the moon in Moonshot - The Great Espionage
4 August 2021 at 10:59 am UTC

Reminds me an awful lot of Trilby: Art of Theft.

Make way for an $80 handheld that runs Ubuntu with the ODROID-Go Super
28 December 2020 at 1:07 pm UTC Likes: 1

Powerful enough to run OpenMW maybe? There was a video of the Retroid Pocket 2 (an Android device) running it, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmzlQtdl64k