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Developers of Party Animals announce an AI video contest - game gets a review bomb
15 May 2026 at 2:08 am UTC Likes: 9

Quoting: ahjolinnaAI isnt going anywhere ...
Neither is chlamydia, and I ain't inviting that in my life either.

Developers of Party Animals announce an AI video contest - game gets a review bomb
14 May 2026 at 2:46 pm UTC Likes: 23

Quoting: SirMCJeager... I wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.
It will when the "ai"-nonsense stops.

Steam Controller more popular than Valve expected - they're working on stock issues
7 May 2026 at 2:11 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Craggles086The cynic in me still thinks it was a small release on purpose, despite all the polite speak about underestimating demand.

Would be happy to be proved wrong.

But now resigned to hopefully pick one up on a later release.
Given its price and, ...um..., unusual aesthetic I don't blame them for being overly cautious.

Heroic Games Launcher gets a slick full-screen console-like mode
25 Apr 2026 at 12:04 pm UTC

Liking the full-screen look. To be (overly) frank, the sidebar is bloating up too much for my taste. Especially as someone who likes to keep spending clearly separate from gaming.

Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client
19 Apr 2026 at 10:27 am UTC

Quoting: walther von stolzing
Thunderbolt is already a thing, a well-known thing in tech.
Yeah, not only that, but my mind went to Mozilla's other (?!) Thunderb*** immediately -- 'are they changing Thunderbird's name? Is this a typo? Is this a chatbot inside Thunderbird? Is Thunderbird going to force-summarize my emails from now on?', etc.
What could be especially worrying for thunderbird users is that "MZLA Technologies Corporation" is precisely the subsidiary that is supposed to be developing said mail client.

Looks to me like the organization inherited mozilla's lack-of-focus disease.

New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages
15 Apr 2026 at 10:57 am UTC Likes: 5

It could go either way with it simply asking for people to enter their date of birth ...
The pro and anti big government politicians in the us seem to have settled on bad government as a compromise.

Silly buggers.

Legendary, the free and open source Epic Games Launcher, has moved to a new organisation
13 Apr 2026 at 9:56 am UTC

Quoting: g000h
Quoting: AndrewDon't fucking use Epic, I had all sorts of games and skins and shit on Epic and there games. But I got hacked and there not FUCKING HELP! I lost everything, Stick with steam at least they will help. Linux will run Steam, Please stay away from Epic!
I feel your pain, but at the same time Epic practically forces you to use OTP (two-factor authentication) to login so I'm curious how you managed to get 'hacked' with this 2FA in place?

Also, hacking generally occurs because the user's PC is compromised, e.g. a Remote Access Trojan stealing your session login cookies, or like the recent CPU-Z exploit - Stealing Chrome Browser credentials after a person has installed malware-infected software.
Otp's get phished just as easily as passwords nowadays. Their only advantage is that they can protect against a simple "(educated) guess the password" attack.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS gets revived as the devs ask for Linux help and feedback
30 Mar 2026 at 1:27 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: TcheyI'm stuck on my 2015 idea, having a hard time to see anything else.

... But all my already little support for the company is gone now.
Gentle reminder that the original company that made those decisions (uber entertainment inc./star theory games) hasn't been involved with planetary annihilation since 2018 and ended its existence in 2020 after its contract to develop kerbal 2 was cancelled.

Infinity Engine open source remake GemRB 0.9.5 gets Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition playable
25 Mar 2026 at 1:54 am UTC Likes: 2

EE-like zoom is now available in all games, just set “Zoom Lock” to 0 in the gem-*.ini file in your game folder.
Single most important feature added here, imo. One of those small quality of life things that make a huge difference.

RTS fans absolutely need to check out D.O.R.F. Real-Time Strategic Conflict
23 Mar 2026 at 11:14 pm UTC

Quoting: KuduzkehpanDidnt DORF Rts pixel art ? ...
Always gathered that it was pre-rendered. That allows them to get in those advanced lighting tricks in spite of the 2d assets.