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Hollow Knight: Silksong price and release time confirmed
1 Sep 2025 at 5:24 pm UTC Likes: 1

Under Official Links, at the bottom of Liam's article.

ChimeraOS dev announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS aimed at recreating a classic console experience
1 Sep 2025 at 5:19 pm UTC

As Julius said, a passion project. My issue is the apparent waste of storage space. The most commonly found SD card sizes are 16GB and up. What a waste of space for an old game that only requires 500MB!

Smaller cards can be found, but they are either overpriced or of very questionable 3rd-party quality and reliability.

I'm with @Linas and @BigRob029 on this. Allow the installation of more than one game on the SD cards and this has more potential.

That being said, Steam, Lutris, Heroic and many other launchers really do offer this experience already, without locking down an entire computer system to a single purpose. @Stella makes a lot of valid points.

ScummVM gets support for the survival horror Penumbra Overture from the Amnesia developers
1 Sep 2025 at 5:04 pm UTC Likes: 4

More power to them. What a long list of older games that they support. Their support of the Ultima series, while incomplete, is amazing so far.

https://www.scummvm.org/compatibility/

LEGO The Lord of the Rings gets updated and it's now Steam Deck Verified
1 Sep 2025 at 4:50 pm UTC Likes: 3

Remasters are okay but I, for one, am happy developers are taking the time to keep the original games running under modern conditions.

Blending classic Disney style animation with horror, Bye Sweet Carole releases in October
30 Aug 2025 at 5:50 pm UTC

Nah. I don't think they can do anything about it. Look at Don Bluth, who produced a whole host of non-Disney animated films such as The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Titan A.E. and Anastasia. The style is very similar and, to my knowledge, Disney never tried to shut him down.

Nexus Mods announce age verification for UK users
26 Aug 2025 at 6:33 pm UTC Likes: 1

It is also really important that the government service is not used directly by the content provider but by the end user, so that the government does not know what the verification is being used for.
I read the Nexus FAQ Post. They are using a third-party service to effectively do just that.

Story-based survival strategy game Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown announced
26 Aug 2025 at 6:26 pm UTC Likes: 2

@hardpenguin
And finally give Kim that promotion.
Poor Harry 🤣

I am incredibly hyped for this game.
They actually poked fun at this in a Lower Decks episode.

@Serious_Table
You know for a fact the moment you give Kim a promotion, the quadrant is going to end.
Somebody watched that Lower Decks episode!

Leaks again hint at Valve doing a proper Steam Machine Console
26 Aug 2025 at 6:19 pm UTC Likes: 1

I'm getting older and my eyes just aren't what they used to be.
That's why I'm still hoping they'll make a "Steambook", with the same hardware specifications as a Steamdeck but in a laptop form-factor and at least a 15" screen.

I don't have a television, so a console would be of little interest to me.

Bottles devs give more info on their funding from NLnet
26 Aug 2025 at 6:09 pm UTC

Tried it. Didn't find the interface terribly intuitive. When I tried to use the prefix backup feature, it filled my entire drive partition to back up a prefix that was only 300MB in size. Uninstalled and never looked at it again.

Must have been early in its development.

Retro x86-based machine emulator 86Box v5.0 brings a new integrated machine manager
26 Aug 2025 at 5:58 pm UTC

@Calinou
Personally, I used it to run the Drakan and 3DMark99 installers as these are 16-bit and are basically impossible to run as-is on modern Windows/Linux.
How odd. I just recently installed Drakan: Order of the Flame via Lutris in a manually created 64-bit prefix (wine-ge-8-26) set to Win10. I had no problems other than needing to launch the installer from setup.exe in a subfolder as the autorun executable wouldn't run. The Community Patch was an absolute must. I needed to enable dgvoodoo2 as well.