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Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases
17 Dec 2025 at 8:11 pm UTC

Quoting: 1xokIt shows that I have played 5 games on Windows, but I don't even own a Windows computer.

https://s.team/y25/qnrhkhv [External Link]
Maybe on some visit? I don't have Windows either, but I played at a relative's.

It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
17 Dec 2025 at 7:10 pm UTC

Quoting: ArtenAnd Mozilla Corporation is owned by Mozilla Foundation,. So, where are shareholders? Corporation has been established for practical reason. All profits go to Foundation. Corporation is completely under controll of foundation. So in practical sense, there is only foundation, no other shareholder trying to make profit.
I can't comment on Firefox, but I know even Debian does something along these lines.

Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases
17 Dec 2025 at 4:55 pm UTC Likes: 2

31% EXAAAPUUUNKSS. And still didn't beat the last bonus levels. Great game.

From Ruins – A Detective Adventure looks worth keeping an eye on
16 Dec 2025 at 12:49 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ArehandoroI got it on my wishlist, but haven't bought it yet. Maybe for the Xmas discounts :)
If you are into point and click, it is the must-have-played of the year, it seems.

Poly Bridge developer’s next game is Poly Bricks - a LEGO-like cozy, creative brick-building game
16 Dec 2025 at 12:47 pm UTC Likes: 6

we do plan on having a build available for Linux (and Mac), we haven't gotten to testing other platforms yet
Not having an automatic daily build of them and testing them at least from time to time does sound like the recipe for "Oops, it didn't work out!"

But, let's see (and stay optimistic)...

From Ruins – A Detective Adventure looks worth keeping an eye on
16 Dec 2025 at 10:57 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ArehandoroI've recently discovered that I'm a sucker for anything neo-noir, pixel art aesthetics and if it has a sax or synth music I'll even fall in love with it... Independently of the actual quality of the product in some cases 😅
I'm not sure what "neo-noir" looks like, but did you take a look at the (excellent) The Drifter?

NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX
16 Dec 2025 at 8:42 am UTC

Quoting: anokasionTherefore I ask, if even raytracing could have been a fad, why not AI too?
Raytracing is making visuals more realistic and will stay. The GPUs need something to do, and they will not become weaker.

It's even more obvious for AI: It does useful things. It will stay. The question is how much of it, if people will trust LLMs (which they shouldn't) and how all this is paid for.

Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews
12 Dec 2025 at 11:19 am UTC Likes: 2

Wow. Like one new game a day when Steam on Linux came out and now it's over fifty games per day!

Talking point - what have you been playing lately?
11 Dec 2025 at 2:28 pm UTC Likes: 1

I just bought Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story because they are going to remove it from Steam, and it was heavily discounted. It's, well, ... more "Lost Phone".

And I played Year Unknown. The demo already is half of the game. There's that one big choice in the end...

I don't regret playing either, but they're no must have played to me.

Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine
11 Dec 2025 at 12:21 pm UTC

Quoting: LoudTechie
Quoting: LestibournesI wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.
It could, but the devs wouldn't trust it, because under the gpl they would be forced to release the source code defeating the security through obscurity kernel anti-cheat relies on.
Couldn't it attach the same way the closed source Nvidia driver does?