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GOG formally announce their GOG Patrons subscription donation system
15 Dec 2025 at 11:58 pm UTC Likes: 1
A GOG game preservation foundation would certainly be walking the walk. I'm not holding my breath, they're in no condition (basically breaking even, probably cutting costs to keep it this way) or position (they're public) to make that happen.
15 Dec 2025 at 11:58 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: walther von stolzingThey're in the business of selling games, but it so happens that because of their early focus (from before the KFC-like rebrand) a good chunk of their catalogue is old, i.e. the preservation part needs to happen if they want to keep selling functional product. That's not even a knock against them, that's just business.Quoting: CerberonDonate? To a store??Putting this type of work under a dedicated 'game preservation foundation' would've at least looked better, I guess.
A GOG game preservation foundation would certainly be walking the walk. I'm not holding my breath, they're in no condition (basically breaking even, probably cutting costs to keep it this way) or position (they're public) to make that happen.
Aspyr have indefinitely delayed Deus Ex Remastered
13 Dec 2025 at 1:52 pm UTC Likes: 3
Overall, they seem to be the most competent remaster house around, sure, but they've had their share of sloppy work out. Speculation on my part, but it looks like it largely depends on who's looking over their shoulders. Microsoft/Bethesda? You're getting solid work and proper fixes, and community communication, and probably a free upgrade to boot. Atari? Abandon all hope. Disney? Mostly fine, but you'll be paying a premium no matter what happens there.
13 Dec 2025 at 1:52 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: Tethys84I really wish all remasters would be given to Nightdive. No one comes anywhere close to their quality. Aspyr, of all developers, doing remasters is nuts. They were exclusively known for porting games to Mac all the way back to the 1990s. I don't know when they started doing projects like this.Blade Runner: "Enhanced" Edition would have a word with you. That one is a proper disaster. MVG damaged Nightdive's (and his own) reputation singlehandedly there. This is basically THE reason I'm not going in blind with Nightdive. The most recent Blood: Refreshed Supply apparently does Blood's already sloppy prior remaster history justice.
Overall, they seem to be the most competent remaster house around, sure, but they've had their share of sloppy work out. Speculation on my part, but it looks like it largely depends on who's looking over their shoulders. Microsoft/Bethesda? You're getting solid work and proper fixes, and community communication, and probably a free upgrade to boot. Atari? Abandon all hope. Disney? Mostly fine, but you'll be paying a premium no matter what happens there.
Aspyr have indefinitely delayed Deus Ex Remastered
12 Dec 2025 at 12:30 pm UTC
12 Dec 2025 at 12:30 pm UTC
Good decision. Why damage the brand further with this... thing?
The retro FPS DUSK is getting a dungeon crawler with Dungeons of DUSK
10 Dec 2025 at 12:03 pm UTC Likes: 1
10 Dec 2025 at 12:03 pm UTC Likes: 1
Looks very much like those Java DOOM and Wolfenstein rpgs.
Netflix want to acquire Warner Bros. but they have to fight off Paramount
10 Dec 2025 at 12:06 am UTC Likes: 5
10 Dec 2025 at 12:06 am UTC Likes: 5
So, not that long ago Sarandos openly complained the theatrical model is outdated. Then, around the time of the WB bid he softened and started saying it'll be preserved at WB. Right after the confirmation he began threatening that changes to the release model are coming... and after this recent Paramount bid he's back to keeping the theatrical model at WB, because it works.
Needless to say, consolidation is never good, and Netflix isn't a good fit for WB. Possibly the worst there is as they clearly don't get movies, aren't interested in movies - just content and slop to sell subscriptions - and they will run what's left of the studio into the ground.
What's even more concerning to me are the archives and the potential physical releases.
Paramount is perhaps marginally better from this standpoint.
Needless to say, consolidation is never good, and Netflix isn't a good fit for WB. Possibly the worst there is as they clearly don't get movies, aren't interested in movies - just content and slop to sell subscriptions - and they will run what's left of the studio into the ground.
What's even more concerning to me are the archives and the potential physical releases.
Paramount is perhaps marginally better from this standpoint.
Total War: MEDIEVAL III announced by Creative Assembly
9 Dec 2025 at 3:32 pm UTC Likes: 2
9 Dec 2025 at 3:32 pm UTC Likes: 2
It's in pre-pre-production. Terribly exciting. In the current industry climate that leaves at least half a decade of dodging cancellations, and that's assuming Sega doesn't get profoundly sick of CA regardless of how well the Medieval 3 development is going.
This entire announcement reeks of insincerity, desperation and damage control.
This entire announcement reeks of insincerity, desperation and damage control.
Four Total War classics join GOG in their Preservation Program with more on the way
4 Dec 2025 at 6:35 pm UTC Likes: 2
4 Dec 2025 at 6:35 pm UTC Likes: 2
So, I guess we're entering the "we'll be nice from now on, pinky swear" phase of the CA cycle again.
The RAM price and availability situation is going to worsen as Micron pull their Crucial consumer business
4 Dec 2025 at 1:24 am UTC Likes: 6
4 Dec 2025 at 1:24 am UTC Likes: 6
Curious if this leads to better optimisation in video games.
Probably not.
Probably not.
Raspberry Pi prices are rising due to RAM costs, plus a new 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available
1 Dec 2025 at 4:06 pm UTC
1 Dec 2025 at 4:06 pm UTC
Quoting: StellaI fast-tracked my planned upgrade to AM5 (previously 13600K) because of the RAM prices, I got a nice Crucial 6000-36 32GB kit for 177€, but 2 months earlier it was listed at 90. And now it's listed as 269€ on Amazon, WHAT THE F.Same here, though I'm not quite happy about it. Needed to be done, managed to do it before it'd bankrupt me. So, I'm relatively stocked up, but I'm not jumping on those GPUs until enough of them melt due to 12vhpwr issues for that connector to get properly figured out or replaced. Not that AM5 boards toasting those CPUs isn't an issue, but still probably better than buying into the sinking ship that is Intel.
Anyways, I'm very happy I bought the RAM when I did. In half a year I expect 32GB of DDR5 will be a thousand euros/dollars or more.
UZDoom the successor to GZDoom has a first proper release out now
1 Dec 2025 at 3:59 pm UTC Likes: 1
1 Dec 2025 at 3:59 pm UTC Likes: 1
Some of the phrasing and issues addressed. You could add "finally, ffs" to a few of these. Like the security fixes. Maybe it's just me projecting the drama onto these - also possible.