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Yuzu agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and will entirely shut down (Citra for 3DS too)
5 March 2024 at 9:22 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Purple Library Guyhost it in some place like the EU and have some kind of region lock where they don't allow downloads from places with DMCA-type anti-digital-lock-tampering laws
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but at least here in Austria we have a similar rule. However, typically Austrian, it leaves a loophole, as here it is only illegal to circumvent an "effective copy protection" - and how effective can it be, if it can be circumvented? (IANAL)

The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation
29 February 2024 at 2:21 pm UTC Likes: 10

And the worst part? That's all because of copy protection snake-oil.
In the end it again boils down to the DMCA's weird treatment of copy-protection.

Nintendo goes after Switch emulator yuzu in new lawsuit
28 February 2024 at 11:25 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ElectricPrismcan quietly remove content and dictate to the masses what is and isn't morally acceptable
Sorry for off-topic (is it?), but this immediately made "The Rush - Temples of Syrinx" play in my head.
Quoting: The Rush - Temples of SyrinxWe've taken care of everything
The words you hear, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes

It's one for all and all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why

Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app
26 February 2024 at 10:53 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoteif you have good ideas for them to implement
They could have a dedicated maintainer for each package, who is responsible for building the package from source, and who is accountable in case the package contains malware. They could set up a system like this: https://wiki.debian.org/Maintainers

Oh, wait...

World of Goo 2 launches in May on the Epic Store - but Linux support from their website
22 February 2024 at 8:59 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: dibzInterested, but I'll definitely wait for a store release that supports both Windows and Linux with the same purchase. GOG or Steam probably.
I would expect that the purchase of the DRM-free version includes builds for all platforms:
QuoteWorldOfGoo2.com - right here on this page, for Win / Mac / Linux

Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters (open source Star Control 2) now available on Steam
20 February 2024 at 9:39 pm UTC

Quoting: Jarmer
Quoting: soulsourceIf one doesn't care about Steam additional features (like Steam Input, Remote Play Together), it's probably more convenient to just get it via the distribution's package manager. I only checked Debian and Gentoo, but they both have it in their official repositories, the package name is "uqm".

I'm on Opensuse Tumbleweed and the official repo doesn't have it, and when I search flathub, all I get is a mod? Is that the full game you're talking about?
I have relatively little knowledge about SuSE (last time I used it was more than 20 years ago), so I cannot really help here. It seems though that there is an experimental package for Tumbleweed: https://software.opensuse.org/package/uqm

Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters (open source Star Control 2) now available on Steam
20 February 2024 at 2:21 pm UTC Likes: 8

If one doesn't care about Steam additional features (like Steam Input, Remote Play Together), it's probably more convenient to just get it via the distribution's package manager. I only checked Debian and Gentoo, but they both have it in their official repositories, the package name is "uqm".

Humble Bundle IGN Fan Fest 24 has some good stuff like Loop Hero and Tinykin
20 February 2024 at 1:45 pm UTC Likes: 1

I don't have time.
I really don't have time.

Also, I already spent more money on games this month than I should have.

Buuuuut:
QuoteWobbledogs is a 3D pet simulation where you raise your own personal hive of rapidly mutating dogs, physically simulated all the way down to their guts!

Palworld is getting external anti-cheat but it will be mostly optional
19 February 2024 at 3:43 pm UTC Likes: 1

QuoteThere are so many amazing games out there to play; you don't need to feel guilty about hopping from game to game.
From a (non-Ubisoft, non-EA) game developer's perspective that's actually pretty beneficial. If people play a lot of different games, they pay for a lot of different games after all.

Cultist Simulator gets much improved Steam Deck support
15 February 2024 at 9:13 am UTC

It's really cool if old games still see support.

I hope this also fixes the keyboard scrolling issue, which is really annoying on the Deck. That issue has already been fixed in Book of Hours, so backporting the fix to CS would imho make sense.