only 14% of gaming was "spent by all Steam users in new releases (games released in 2025)

Personally I enjoyed Split fiction and DRG survivor from this year. Tried and refunded a few games, most of them were some combination of buggy, overpriced, uninteresting, unoptimised and so on.

If your time and wallet are finite, you're simply better off buying games a couple years after release.

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Yuk, so we're left with a few webkit reskins and ... lynx?

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Just got the survey yesterday (for the first time in years I believe), +1 fedora user for december :woot:

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Impressed by the number of nominations for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The game that came out of nowhere and went straight to the top. Bonus points for being the only new franchise amongst the GOTY nominees.

Must confess that I haven't play the game, but the track "Lumière" is phenomenal (go watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpNVf8sczqU [External Link] ).

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Bottom's up friends! Time to go back down for another round.

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One question, could we not just sign the linux kernel and other parts, so that the anti cheat program would know that nothing has been altered? I am thinking about something like steam hosting a list of trusted hashes and that any company that is trusted by steam can push new hashes for theier compiled linux kernels there.

If kernel "protection" (or any client side system) is required to ensure people don't cheat, then how come there are so few billionaires ? After all, one can easily access their bank account without installing any rootkit kernel anti-cheat.

Game devs need to stop caring about what the client do and start caring about what their server receives, just like every other online service.

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I hope EU outright ban kernel level anti-cheats (or any other government, EU is just the most likely to have the hooompf).

It would force the devs and publishers to actually do their homework and help linux gaming as a side bonus.

One man can dream.

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Nice, one more reason to try kde on my next install. Already made the switch to a DE-agnostic terminal a while ago for that reason.

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Not that much time for games sadly, so I've been mostly playing "short-ish sessions" titles.

• Drill Core [External Link] - fun mix of management and tower defence with dwarven humour


• GODBREAKERS [External Link] - scratches my risk of rain 2 itch (and actually works unlike ror2)


• Day Of The Shell [External Link] - turn-based puzzle shooter? (disclosure: I know some of the people who worked on it)

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This seems like a false dichotomy. Surely a project can acknowledge that LLM-based tools exist, and then choose not to use them on practical or ideological grounds (or both) - one doesn't really exclude the other.

Indeed, I might have worded that poorly, "handle [LLM tools] appropriately" was not meant to equal allowing their use. A ban or restriction is also an appropriate way to handle the issue.

I like your hammer analogy. And I would still argue that a blanket ban on hammers and forcing people to drive nails with rocks is barking at the wrong tree.

On the other hand, we are definitely seeing a lot of people bashing wood screws in concrete beams with their newfound unethically-made hammers. A scene which doesn't give hammers the best reputation for sure.

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