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Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2 now available on GOG - plus GOG Dreamlist replaces Community Wishlist
29 Jan 2025 at 9:47 am UTC Likes: 10

Only the "Games" section of the community wishlist is being replaced by the Dreamlist. The top 4 GOG Galaxy wishes are all "make it available for Linux", and those will still be around.

Not that it's coming.

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH broken on Linux with NVIDIA GPUs but works with AMD GPUs like Steam Deck
24 Jan 2025 at 10:50 am UTC

The Final Fantasy VII non-remake also refused to start on my laptop because I didn't have an internet connection (I did).

Linux 'fascinates and terrifies' the dev of DEAD LETTER DEPT. but they're supporting it anyway
23 Jan 2025 at 11:20 pm UTC Likes: 1

An unusual typing game that revolves around you taking a temp job while you get situated in a new city, being tasked with the data-entry work of typing up various words and addresses written on the mail & letters that were not able to be successfully delivered- due to bad handwriting or other reasons unknown. As the days pass on, strange stories begin to emerge from the mail you review.
This reminds me of that ghastly job typing up that almost-unreadable typewriter manuscript from the '70s. Longest manuscript I've been responsible for. For all its length, it was really the content of the prose that weighed me down. I did not feel right for a week after that...

Certainly sounds like the game for me. I love me a good typing game. Typing of the Dead: Overkill was too easy, and Epistory was too long, but maybe this will be the one I remember for years to come.

Palworld developer Pocketpair launches Pocketpair Publishing
23 Jan 2025 at 10:50 pm UTC

I don't like that Pocketpair is tied up with the mercenaries at Sony, but that Nintendo patent suit is a joke.

This is interesting news. I wouldn't have expected them to become a publisher.

The devs of Celeste have cancelled their follow-up game Earthblade
23 Jan 2025 at 11:12 am UTC Likes: 1

That's a shame. It would be extremely difficult to top my favorite game, Celeste.

SDL 3 officially released for game devs plus an SDL 2 to SDL 3 compatibility layer
22 Jan 2025 at 10:38 pm UTC

I believe SDL3 is defaulting to Wayland because the requisite protocols have been merged, but it would be nice to have confirmation.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 10.0 out now bringing Wayland and ARM64EC support, new FFmpeg multimedia back-end
22 Jan 2025 at 10:34 pm UTC

The FFMPEG backend is promising.

Would that mean Proton 10 could also move to native Wayland? And would that bring a performance bonus?
I'd be interested in whether it brings a performance bonus, but I'd use it anyway so I don't need to see blurry games because I need fractional scaling.

NVIDIA release new GPU driver updates for Linux and Windows after announcing security issues
16 Jan 2025 at 10:50 pm UTC

This will be a thing: Nvidia's official closed source drivers not needed as the reverse engineering turns to forward engineering
I don't think CUDA is ever going to be available in the free software drivers.

Intel and NVIDIA drivers holding back a public SteamOS release, Valve not trying to compete with Windows
16 Jan 2025 at 2:40 am UTC

lack of HDR
For the other issues, I believe you, but they aren't my areas of expertise. For HDR, I think it would be prudent to wait until the CM&HDR protocol is actually merged before NVIDIA's lack of support for it is highlighted as an issue. It'd be nice if DisplayCAL could work on Wayland too, but I guess that's a whole different issue...