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Sony to no longer bring PlayStation narrative single-player games to PC
19 May 2026 at 2:44 pm UTC Likes: 3
Imagine having to pay upwards of $700 just to register an Epic Games Store account. That's what consoles are to me - gatekeeping games behind a hardware purchase and taking games away from PC.

I can only pray and hope that PC will still get great AAA games, and that PC game developers start listening to their actual customers, AKA gamers or "chuds", again.

Consoles are tightly locked-down computers, so IMHO, consoles are better for online competitive multiplayer titles, where anti-cheat is absolutely essential.
Blender change the Anthropic AI funding deal, with discussions planned for AI Policies
1 May 2026 at 5:19 pm UTC Likes: 10
Good! Glad to see they're prioritizing their users, their reputation, and human creativity over money, and I believe that is of the utmost importance for a major Free/Open Source project like Blender.

If this turns out for the better, Mozilla ought to learn a lesson or two from this.
Anthropic begin funding Blender as a Corporate Patron
29 Apr 2026 at 9:53 am UTC
The Blender Foundation is getting absolutely roasted for accepting this "donation", and rightfully so!

As an open source project, their ultimate goal should be to have a good feedback loop between their users and the developers. It even says, in enormous letters, on the front page of the Blender website:

It's about people.

Accepting this donation, from a company that represents everything wrong with the tech industry over the past 8 years, betrays that goal of having goodwill between the users and developers.

It would be wise for them to return the money, and deny any future donations from them, or any other company whose primary product is an AI or LLM.
Live out your witchy dreams in the open world adventure Witchspire in June
23 Apr 2026 at 9:40 am UTC
Quoting: CaldathrasNo demo? No thanks.
And yet, there are already reports about the game on ProtonDB [External Link]. 😲
Facepunch signed a license with Valve to allow standalone releases from s&box
30 Mar 2026 at 5:18 pm UTC
I hope that s&box and games built on that engine will work well under Steam Linux Runtime or Proton, but you never know... s&box itself currently has a Gold rating on ProtonDB [External Link], so that gives me hope.
Unity announce expanded support for Steam, Native Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
11 Mar 2026 at 11:40 pm UTC Likes: 7
Quoting: tmtvlProprietary games using GNU/Linux APIs are bad. For example, Egosoft's X3 uses a GTK2 application to launch and GTK2 is no longer being updated (it's even been removed from the official Arch repositories). Because it's proprietary software the community can't just take it over and update it to use GTK3 or 4.
I think issues like that can be helped by targeting the Steam Linux Runtime instead of a specific Linux distribution. Steam Linux Runtime may not provide everything, but it is stable, so I think that makes it less likely to cause breakage as the stack of libraries advances.

Quoting: StellaPretty much all existing Linux games suffer from various problems ranging from complete inplayability over control and gameplay/visual issues as well as crashes.
Even the open source Linux games and apps like SuperTuxKart, SuperTux, Veloren, or UZDoom? I would think that, since those games are open source, they would have better support for Linux, since they are open to bug reports and code contributions from anyone who cares.
Portal: Revolution drops Native Linux support to focus on Proton
6 Aug 2025 at 3:57 am UTC Likes: 1
How well does Steam Linux Runtime work for making Linux executables run across all the different distributions and Linux setups, I wonder?

I recently got GZDoom and Raze compiled to run with Steam Linux Runtime using the official distrobox image...
Gears of War: Reloaded first Beta weekend starts tomorrow with SteamOS / Steam Deck support
13 Jun 2025 at 1:04 am UTC
> Sees Gears of War
> Wasn't that developed and/or published by Epic Games? They would never bend the knee and release on Steam.
> Looks at Steam store page
> Developed by "The Coalition", published by Xbox Game Studios
> ....
Junkyard Space Agency is a 'scrappier, multiplayer version' of Kerbal Space Program
5 May 2025 at 9:52 pm UTC Likes: 5
Wishlisted! Because I think gaming needs more studios which embrace open source. :heart:
Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop
19 Apr 2025 at 12:31 am UTC
The last time I tried upgrading my Kubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 using the official release upgrade tool, I was left without a Linux kernel. Then again, I have my root and home folders on separate partitions, and the root partition was rather small (200GB) and I had a lot of system packages installed, so it may have been a disk space issue... I really have no idea. I had to install Kubuntu 24.04 from the DVD, and I had to format my root partition in the process, but at least I didn't lose any of the stuff in my home folder!