a space station sim inspired by Dwarf Fortress

I'm so confused though, the trailer was mostly a bunch of pictures and none of the ASCII seemed to be related to the gameplay at all! :S: :P

Seriously, it looks quite interesting. Reminds me more of RimWorld than DF with the space-faring aesthetic, though of course RimWorld is inspired by DF as well. I'll most likely throw a few bucks towards the Kickstarter, but I'm still trying to decide if it's sufficiently different from DF/RW for me to pledge enough for a copy…

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Well, it's on the wishlist anyway so I can take another look when it comes out. :)

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I know what CPU and GPU stand for, but what does the A in APU stand for? "All-in-one?" :S:

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Never heard of Holiday Island, but this looks interesting. Especially the multiplayer, as the art style rather reminds me of OpenTTT, another game a friend of mine and like to play now and then.

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Think I remember hearing about this game, was this the one Lauren Faust developed original character designs for after Hasbro shut down the original use of MLP characters? I have no interest in fighting games myself, but from what I've heard it's supposed to be pretty well-done.

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It's going to be interesting to see how well they pull off the new missions system, seeing as it's essentially the national focus trees from HoI IV. Except that in HoI IV you could get away with focus trees for the seven major nations and everyone else getting a generic one at launch, whereas here you've got dozens of nations of roughly equal importance in 1444 that people are going to be clamoring for unique missions for. I guess it'll be somewhat easier in that a lot of these unique missions already exist for nations so it's mostly just translating them over to the new system, though I wonder if "unique missions for all the minor nations" is going to be the new "unique ideas for all the minor nations".

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Quoting: KimyrielleWhich is why I don't understand why the rumors that MS is looking to buy Valve were dismissed so quickly by us.

Because the rumor was "Microsoft wants to buy Valve", not "Valve is considering selling to Microsoft." Big difference. :) I will bet you dollars to donuts that Microsoft has wanted to buy Valve since, ohh, soon after Steam came out. (If not before.) It's not like this is anything new, and I don't understand why people seem so surprised about it. Of course Microsoft wants to buy the infinite-money-printing machine, they'd be fools not to, the question is whether or not they can.

Gabe Newell already owns a never-ending stream of money, probably a majority share of Valve, and dislikes Microsoft. I'm not saying it could never happen, just that it's so far outside the ream of probability that I'm not going to be losing any sleep over it.

Also: https://hothardware.com/news/gabe-newell-responds-to-outrageous-rumors-that-microsoft-is-buying-valve [External Link]

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I was going to start out this comment by saying that I didn't use mods as much anymore as I used to, then I went down the list again and realized that every game on there that I've played I've used mods with: Cities: Skylines, Dwarf Fortress, Knights of the Old Republic II, most of the Paradox games I have (EU IV, CK II, and HoI IV, and I keep meaning to check out the selection for Stellaris, though they're all cosmetic and music mods that don't disable achievements), Portal 2, and XCOM 2. Phew! :) Come to think of it the only games I really used a lot of mods with before getting a Steam account and the ease of access of the Steam Workshop were Dwarf Fortress and Civilization III (though I was pretty heavily into modding it myself), so it's actually probably true to say that I use more mods now than I've ever done before! :D

(Though oddly enough, when it comes to Dwarf Fortress mods I've never used a graphics pack; I started out without one and learned the interface that way, and now find graphics packs to be incomprehensible and ugly. I'm like Cypher from The Matrix, I don't see the code anymore, just little dorfs, running around…oh look, a goblin ambush…how did that magma get there‽ :huh:)

Another game with an incredible modding scene worth mentioning here is Rimworld. There's a mod that lets you play it like Dwarf Fortress and design your starting people down to the last detail instead of picking randomly-generated ones if you like, there are a ton of content mods, and a very long list of starting scenarios that dictate how you start off and what creative restrictions you have.

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Oh, I know that one from that one Far Side strip! The answer is "duck". :)

They definitely make some pretty fun games, I've played Drawful and Fibbage at a friend's house and watched people play several other of their games.

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Microsoft wants to buy the money-printer that is Valve? Well, color me surprised! (Not!) :P

I'm sure Microsoft is pretty desperate to get Valve to stop funding improvements to gaming on Linux (not GamingOnLinux ;)), and they'd love to have access to the money fountain that is Steam, and I'm pretty sure they've felt this way for years now. But given that Valve already have the money-machine, I'm willing to bet that they're not short-sighted enough to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs for a one-time buyout. I'm not gonna be losing any sleep over this.

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