I like the Doom-like atmosphere, it reminds me of Doom 3 which I enjoyed very much.

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Quoting: Quote from stan

Quoting: Quote from SamsaiI've played some Amnesia on my Intel HD Graphics 3000 laptop and it ran perfectly with a decent framerate. I haven't played any Penumbra games on the laptop, but on my main rig Black Plague runs without hitches.

I only have a first gen Intel HD Graphics so Amnesia is a bit slow (even in 1280×800 with everything set to low), but it’s indeed working (see my edit above!). I should have tried it before posting. (I suppose the game wasn’t working at all when I first got it, and the intel drivers matured since then, because I don’t remember seeing even the beginning of the game.)

It looks like it must be the Intel drivers or some software interfering. Indeed, I think their graphical engine is very good and performs very well compared to many other games I've tried on underpowered hardware. I had a great experience playing Amnesia, not a single flaw in the whole game, everything ran perfect. Using Nvidia drivers and going thru an upgrade from Athlon64 to FX8350.

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Quoting: Quote from bubexel@about debian/ubuntu: im pretty happy about their decision. It remove power from canonical to give it to community. It's really nice new.

+1 They might have thought attaching to Canonical was no better than attaching to Microsoft, and that's right.

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No doubt they're still recomending Ubuntu, they fear Shuttleworth's wrath.

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I'm thinking this looks like the netbook's promise. We have the promise of a SteamOS machine, then will come dual-booter machines (I've just read about them), then Valve and Microsoft will fall in love again and the SteamOS will be something taking space in those machines.

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Isn't it weird reading they don't develop for Linux then reading they develop for Android?

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It's them who have to create the market like they do all time and not the other way around. The fact it's they don't want to. Most of the time new markets start by creating a commodity nobody asked for in the first place, but they create it anyway and make it sell. I think they're waiting for others to create that market then jump in to reap the benefits.

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DF games are awesome, it's great they're available on Desura too.

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Stealth tag? Shouldn't it be Steam?

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Certainly, more focused editorials without off-topic rants would be more efficient than asking not to start flames.

The PC term has come to mean nothing but the Wikipedia definition is the closest to what it could mean. Todays computers aren't even compatible anymore with the original IBM PC and they don't even run MS-DOS anymore. Even more funny, those games wouldn't run on anything close to the original IBM PC or any later clone.

Obviously, publishers (and some developers) are using the term PC to refer to Windows. Why? Maybe because they prefer shorter names and that's the best they could make up, I don't know.

The same happens with the term GNU/Linux that journalists prefer as just Linux. It's confusing, it's technically incorrect, but still preferred. Why? Same answer as above maybe.

Usually, journalists don't try to be technically correct, they may even ignore the technical details about what they're reporting or simply prefer to use what's common talk although it's plainly incorrect. Maybe publishers take on that trend.

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