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Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive split with Cities: Skylines going to a new developer
17 Nov 2025 at 1:37 pm UTC Likes: 5

Yeah, moving games to a new developer always turns out great. That's how we got the fantastic, Kerbal Space Program 2! Right?

SteamVR 2.13 brings a whole lot of bug fixes
13 Nov 2025 at 10:32 am UTC Likes: 1

Note that the problems with newer nvidia drivers apply to both SteamVR and Monado. Downgrading to a 550 driver also means you'll have to downgrade your kernel as its modules won't compile on newer kernels. On Kubuntu 25.10 (kernel 6.17), I couldn't install 550 due to an endless list of errors (seems like the module build system changed). Going back to kernel 6.14 only leaves one compilation error that needs to be fixed (you need to comment out one line from one of the source files). But after that, everything is smooth again.

Halls of Torment is still probably the best survivor-like with The Boglands DLC and free update out now
11 Nov 2025 at 12:04 am UTC Likes: 1

.. And a VERY HARD level, where surviving would be really challenging out of combining the right items and magic.
You mean something like The Vault?

Luanti (formerly Minetest) joins up with Open Collective Europe for funding
7 Nov 2025 at 9:13 am UTC

I did a quick try of VoxeLibre and I don't think it will be replacing minecraft any time soon. In my short try I saw two major issues:

1. New player experience is pretty bad. If you don't know what you're doing, you're going to have a hard time.

2. World generation. This can be split into how it looks and how appropriate it is. I'm not a fan of how it looks. It feels too unnatural. But I suppose this is subjective. The practical aspects are a much bigger issue. First try: I got spawned on the slope of a giant mountain sticking out of the water with a few patches of ice around. Traversing it was a pain, so I quit and generated a new one. Now I got spawned in what looked like a desert. I need wood. Trees? No trees. Started running and found a town. A partially destroyed town because the world generator decided to generate a crevice right through it. Still no trees. Run further. After a while I find a second town. Also partially destroyed. After that town I finally saw the first tree. By then it was night of course.

As long as stuff like that happens, the majority of people will not be taking it seriously.

Embark Studios confirm rollout of Denuvo Anti-Cheat for THE FINALS
23 Oct 2025 at 4:08 pm UTC Likes: 3

Denuvo means Linux players will be locked out of their game cycling through Proton versions whenever a new update comes out and momentarily borkes the game.
That is Denuvo anti-tamper. This is about Denuvo anti-cheat.

Gaijin Entertainment announced EdenSpark, an open source "AI-assisted" platform for making games
21 Oct 2025 at 12:40 pm UTC Likes: 5

Of course this isn't going to make gamers happy. This is meant to make investors happy.

Get some classic Bethesda games in the latest Fanatical bundle
9 Oct 2025 at 2:22 pm UTC

Most of those have been given away for free at some point. I guess most people will just never check what they have in other libraries.

Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' is out now
9 Oct 2025 at 2:14 pm UTC

Wait? Wasn't the last release like two months ago? Right?

Confirmed - Electronic Arts (EA) sold off to investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund
30 Sep 2025 at 10:27 am UTC Likes: 3

In theory private ownership could go either way. But with $36B in investments and $20B in debt, I imagine that monetization is going to get insane.

Maybe the UK (and the world) should start looking into what all these predatory monetization schemes are doing to the brains of their precious children instead of trying to police public forums and pushing the real problems further out of reach.