I've played a lot of House of Necrosis last month, and some Tokyo Xtreme Racer this month.

Oh, and I've been playtesting the next major update for Project Silverfish.

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I prefer to install from the offline installers myself.

The offline installers are fine-ish, but in some cases, they can lag behind the game versions available in Galaxy (or alternate clients like Heroic, obviously).

For example, as of this writing, the offline installer for I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is still shipping the ScummVM release and not the newer Unity release from 12 days ago.

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IMO, GOG's preservation efforts are kinda lacking. Having games be playable is fine, but having them play *well* is another, and GOG hasn't done much on that front.

Most DOS games still use an old DOSBox version from more than a decade ago instead of DOSBox Staging, GOG doesn't ship things like community fixes that are pretty much *essential* to getting rid of major issues, they completely ignore the Steam Deck and Linux gaming in general (for some time, it was impossible to run their release of the Resident Evil trilogy on Linux, and while it's possible now, it's most likely thanks to the efforts of Wine/Proton contributors), etc...

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If you already own Atelier Ryza games on Steam will there be an upgrade path? Or are we expected to buy the games again?

Seems it'll be the latter. Koei Tecmo moment, I guess.

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I don't remember the details, but they claimed that they were not allowed to finish it.

Yeah. Not only did Atari make Nightdive's job harder by refusing to give access to Blood's source code back then (they have access to it now, though), they even pulled the licence around a year after Fresh Supply's release.

Whut? Why not just update the existing thing instead of making a new release?

Because Atari and/or Warner Bros.

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I'm curious if anyone has played - is it the same kind of game as those washing simulators or house flipping simulators?

No. It's basically some kind of diorama builder.

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For the extraction shooters, I'll suggest Incursion: Red River. It doesn't have any PvP like Tarkov, but it's still an alternative that works on Linux (desktop, at least; I haven't tried on the Deck at all).

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The Index can be used seated but the vast majority of the time it's designed around the assumption that you have room to use it standing.

That's an issue with the games themselves, not the headset or SteamVR. Some *are* designed to accommodate seated play (the VR version of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is perfectly playable seated, for example), or even be designed for it entirely like I Expect You To Die (dunno about the sequels).

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If PayPal had a problem with Steam they probably wouldn't still be handling those six currencies.

They're starting with smaller markets just to test the waters and see how Valve responds.

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I wouldn't be surprised if the reason why some currencies aren't supported anymore came from PayPal rather than the bank itself.

After all, if Mastercard lied about not censoring legal purchases, why wouldn't PayPal also lie ?

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