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Selaco is getting some big upgrades with Chapter 2
4 Sep 2025 at 11:07 am UTC

I’ve been waiting this whole time for Selaco to come to gog and still nothing.

Humble Choice for March 2025 has Pacific Drive
6 Mar 2025 at 12:33 pm UTC

I haven’t been able to get Pacific Drive to work, some error about missing Microsoft redistributables. I’m sure I could get it working with proton tricks or something, but I have many other games to play.

1997 classic adventure The Space Bar upgraded with ScummVM and Linux support
4 Feb 2025 at 7:28 am UTC Likes: 2

I have the boxed version in my office somewhere. It has 6 or 8 discs or something silly like that.

Linux Mint 22.1 Beta released with Cinnamon 6.4 desktop and lots of Wayland improvements
17 Dec 2024 at 1:26 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: legluondunetFor the DE I suggest a light one to keep your resources for gaming, like XFCE.
If this is a legitimate concern you’ve had to deal with, if suggest you need to caveat it with what kind of machine you’re making the recommendation for.

If I was using an old thinkpad or the junk machine I have over in the back of my office with a 6300 and 4gb memory - absolutely XFCE or a window manager like Openbox.

In any modern setup, this isn’t making as noticeable difference in performance. If also suggest you may actually lose out on good stuff that comes with a wayland DE (if your gaming/workflow benefits from any of it).

Theme park builder Parkitect gets a campaign editor and a new DLC is on the way
30 Nov 2024 at 8:54 am UTC

I loved playing Theme Park on dos, but going back to it is not so good. The charm of the game holds up, but the business sim aspects are goddamn awful and do not hold up nicely.

Any Theme Park fans played this and can recommend it?

Steam Deck OLED wins Best Gaming Hardware in the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
23 Nov 2024 at 6:10 pm UTC

Ben Starr absolutely killed it as host. Good show.

Cross-platform Nexus Mods app expands Baldur's Gate 3 support plus further UI improvements
9 Nov 2024 at 9:56 pm UTC

I still wonder why Skyrim wasn’t the first in line for this. Isn’t it pretty much the most modded game in history?

And if you search for “Skyrim steam deck” almost guaranteed every result is along the lines of how to mod Skyrim (the answer given usually being to mod on a windows machine and then copy/paste)

Steam Deck officially comes to Australia in November
12 Oct 2024 at 10:15 am UTC

Quoting: LoudTechieI'm still curious what took them so long.
It's not chip restrictions, it's not copyright law, it probably isn't wiretapping law and it isn't the market.
Does Australia have some product safety law it failed to meet, such as "all gaming consoles should have minimally EAL5 rated hardware."
Could it be Chinese import/export restrictions.
The closest I get is that it's according to the american government [External Link] a "small competitive market", but that applies to a lot of their already released countries.
:huh:
I didn’t see a proper response.. I might have missed it though. We have strong consumer protections here, and Valve doesn’t always see eye to eye with how our laws work. That’s been the prevailing theory.

Descent 3: Piccu Engine is a new open source build focused on quality-of-life improvements
9 Oct 2024 at 9:00 am UTC

I played the hell out of Descent 1 and 2 from shareware and demo discs. But never decent 3. Is it as good?

Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) gets a first official release
5 Oct 2024 at 2:07 am UTC Likes: 1

Seeing comments about this elsewhere, people asking for screenshots, why should they switch to this one from Lutris, how many more launchers do we need and so on.

People are not really getting what this is. And annoyingly most of those posts linked back to this one too, so they’re obviously not reading what Liam has spelled out.