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MonoGame plan to create a non-profit foundation to support development
22 Sep 2023 at 7:20 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: GeamanduraI'm a bit sad MonoGame didn't get a little bit of that huge cash drop from Re-logic that the other projects did, I understand it's somewhat of a sibling of FNA and they also carry a lot of indie gaming weight, and it feels a bit sad, but fair play to the others though, free money is free money and can only be grateful to Re-logic.

I just have a bad feeling some devs of MonoGame might just be forced to go where the money is now (FNA).
Re-logic plans on supporting monogame at the same level once the foundation has been set up.

Source: announced by the terraria_logic account on twitter.

Get 3D platformer Crumble free from Fanatical for a limited time
14 Sep 2023 at 12:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

  • Surprise mechanics

I like their sense of humour.

Unity attempt to clarify new install fees as developers revolt
14 Sep 2023 at 12:40 pm UTC Likes: 5

Innersloth, developer of Among Us, mentioned they would "delay content and features our players actually want to port our game elsewhere"
I dispute the implication that we, as players, won't appreciate it when unity is removed from our games.

For one, I'd prefer devs of said games to have a sustainable business model. For the other I'd prefer that the games I install on my system not be weighed down by potential malware. I firmly believe that we as gamers will also be targeted by unity's monetisation schemes, sooner rather than later.

Heroic Games Launcher 2.9.2 Hotfix #2 is live
14 Sep 2023 at 5:18 am UTC

Offtopic: seeing dark reign in the screenshot, never got that game working in linux.

Unity introduces new fees for game devs based on revenue and game installs
13 Sep 2023 at 3:17 am UTC Likes: 1

Now waiting for the other shoe to drop...

because I can guarantee you that over at unity they're also looking for ways to monetise directly from the people who play the games.

No Man’s Sky has a teaser for the 'Echoes' update to celebrate 7 years
19 Aug 2023 at 8:00 am UTC Likes: 1

True, they seem to have come a looooong way from the harmonica.

Baldur's Gate 3 out now and works on Steam Deck and desktop Linux
4 Aug 2023 at 1:32 am UTC Likes: 1

Any word on how the gog version is doing on linux?

ΔV: Rings of Saturn is a game for real space nerds - out now
22 Jul 2023 at 2:58 am UTC

Not a fan of the dlc-spamming. Especially at release (and even during the early access?).

Still interested, but going to wait for a lower sales price.

Dolphin Emulator devs give up on Steam release
20 Jul 2023 at 10:05 am UTC Likes: 5

And to all the armchair lawyers out there, the letter to Valve did not make any claims that we were violating a US copyright by including the Wii Common Key, as a short string of entirely random letters and numbers generated by a machine is not copyrightable under current US copyright law. I
Well, as an armchair lawyer myself I can tell you that it's not any alleged copyright on the key that is the legal problem, it's that one can use the key to circumvent digital restrictions.

For the same reason, most linux distro's don't ship with decryption libraries for dvd's or bluray disks.

Pick up some absolute classic in the GOG 'Make Classics Last Forever Sale'
19 Jul 2023 at 4:23 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: redman
Quoting: neffoWhoa, Dark Reign - criminally underrated game.
The GOG page has some reviews that playing with WINE is broken, have you had play this version on Linux? I'm intrigued by this game
Doesn't work for me on mint xfce with heroic launcher (tried many different wine/proton versions). Get a division by zero error message when attempting to run it.

I've given up on running it in a wine-alike and installed it on a vm that I prefer to use for similarly obscure old windows titles.