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The Yellow King, an indie dark horror MMO is now on Linux
19 May 2020 at 4:00 pm UTC

stranger still, is lost Carcosa...

Seriously scary game Alien: Isolation hits an all-time low price for Alien Day
27 Apr 2020 at 11:02 am UTC Likes: 4

Thanks for the heads up, got the game!

(Also, I seriously can't believe Alien Day came and went and I didn't get a single card or carnation!)

How-to: upscale old games on Linux
12 Apr 2020 at 9:54 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Dunc(I'm seriously considering going back to a CRT.
Yuck! Don't get me started on CRT's.

I used to lug around a 19" behemoth for LAN parties during my teenage years in the late 1990's. It was terrible, after a few months I actually started to develop muscles.

God what an embarrassment that was. Jocks asked where I worked out. Girls started to notice me. My D&D group refused to speak to me.

I had to lie prostrate for weeks doing absolutely nothing to get back to my sleek spaghetti like physique and nerd cred.

Praise $DEITY for lightweight electronic equipment that's measured in grams.

Struggling with regular expressions? Then visit 'Regex Crossword', a site to learn them through a Sudoku-like game
1 Apr 2020 at 7:48 pm UTC Likes: 2

Or, as jwz so eloquently put it:

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. "

Stylish top-down rally game 'art of rally' has a demo up now for you to grind some dirt
30 Mar 2020 at 5:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

This has been on the top of my wishlist for a while. I only tried two runs, but so far it shows a lot of promise. Also, just look how cute those bite-sized rally cars are! <3

Wonder if it will support custom cars so I can create a little Baas 99 Turbo and beat Stig Bloomist?

Fast-paced arcade combat-racing with RC cars 'PocketCars' adds Linux support
19 Mar 2020 at 12:53 pm UTC Likes: 7

Very much inspired by the classic Re-Volt* presumably.

* Native port available!

The GOG Spring Sale is on - giving away the 'Witcher Goodies Collection' for 48 hours
16 Mar 2020 at 3:12 pm UTC Likes: 2

I had DK2 sitting in the shopping basket, didn't pull the trigger on it yesterday. It's on sale today.

Procrastination does pay off! Wonder what else I can put off for profit?

Get ready to live a Life of Crime with Kingpin: Reloaded announced by 3D Realms - will be coming to Linux
24 Feb 2020 at 1:37 pm UTC

Patching the game to the latest version might help, but maybe you already tried that?
http://download.kingpin.info/index.php?dir=kingpin/patches/official/ [External Link]

To get around the hard lock, try using software rendering with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1