I've had a pretty crazy month for games.

Elder Scrolls Online [External Link] - bought in a bundle. Deeply disappointing. Already un-installed.
Monster Train 2 [External Link] - absolutely loving this. It's taken over from Noita right now as my "fill an hour" game.
Biped [External Link] - silly two player co-op where each thumbstick on your gamepad controls your robot's leg. Quite fun. Hard.
Gloomhaven [External Link] - slow-paced adaptation of the tabletop version. Incredibly buggy, but quite fun.
Path of Exile 2 [External Link] - with the new Abyssal League starting last month, I started a new character. Amazing game.
Cataclismo [External Link] - bought it on recommendation from friends, but really isn't my cup of tea. City builder / tower defence.
Abiotic Factor [External Link] - bought in the hope my friends would buy. But didn't recommend it, not their cup of tea. Not sure what the fuss is about on this one.
Unrailed [External Link] - ancient co-op about building a railway through various biomes. Really hard, lots of fun!
Orcs Must Die: Deathtrap [External Link] - basically a remake of Dungeon Defenders. It's great, 4-player co-op. Love it.

I've also got Rage 2 [External Link] and Quake 4 [External Link] waiting in the wings from an earlier bundle I bought. And I managed to spend more time with Moonsigil Atlas Demo [External Link], but not as much as I'd like.

All of this bought on sale, and in bundles, and still spent over £100 this month. Oof.

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Looks like Luxtorpedia has already updated its references/tags to UZDoom too.

https://luxtorpeda-dev.github.io/packages [External Link]

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When I first tried this, I was hoping it would act like a kind of voice-changers. Gimme a "Darth Vader" preset, or a "Chipmunk" preset. Sadly, it's more like a graphic equaliser. It's focus is mainly in bass boosting, or maybe noise-gating your microsphone.

It's cool, but I'm already pretty happy with my mic/speakers, so I never ended up using it. If it ever grants more fun/silly effects, I'll be giving it another go. It certainly seems like it has the potential for that kind of stuff, but doesn't seem to be leaning into that in any way.

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I'd like these to have way more information in a drill-down fashion, yeah. Like maybe mesa is "too much" for the top level, but if I click on my graphics card, it would appear?

Same with block devices - list the total, but click to see the individual drives, then click again to see the partitions, and even the UUIDs.

Why do I want to see the UUID? Well, about the only manual bit of set up I need to do after installing a new O/S on my main PC is allow read/write access to my second drive. It drives me absolutely nuts that every single distro in existence will only mount it read-only, as if a second drive in MY OWN PC is somehow off-limits to me, until I find it's UUID, and enter its details in /etc/fstab. It's a weird relic in Linux that's never seen any kind of enhancement over the years.

Maybe this is one of those cases where I shouldn't be asking for the UUIDs... I shouldn't care about the UUIDs, because Linux should just mount my internal, second drive in a more sane way. That way I don't have to remember the LSBLK command.

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Good grief, the quality on show is incredible! Loving how far Godot has come in just a few years. I understand they have a process for consoles now, too, which is great, hopefully more improvements there over time, to help more developers make the smart choice.

I'm pretty blown away by that demo reel.

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I thought that trailer was quite cool!

I wonder how (if) they're re-imbursing previous purchasers/subscribers??

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Probably the only game I'd play on this is Destiny 2, but it's not worth my money, and I'm not a fan of the concept of cloud gaming, so it's a pass from me.

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Fixed an issue where PlayStation controller light bar settings did not stick when exiting the controller calibration page.

You can change lightbar settings for PS controllers in Steam?!? I had no idea. I've been using dualsensectl for that all this time.

I recently discovered that when you click into bluetooth settings in the notification tray, and disconnect your DualSense controller there, it automatically turns off the controller! That's pretty cool. I wish my bluetooth headphones would do that.

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I enjoyed The Cycle: Frontier for a while, back in 2022, but the constant drag of having to insure your kit for a decent run meant that the grind was a bit crazy.

But it was Dark and Darker that made me realise that extraction shooters weren't my bag. At least ARC is trying to match solos together... Dark and Darker was an absolute shit-fest. I remember, as a newb, I was walking around the waiting lobby, examining players randomly, and I came across a team of three, fully kitted out, and each member had at least (!) 15 healing potions. As a newb, I could afford, perhaps three. Sure enough, they were waiting at extraction. I hope they enjoyed the rusty sword I'd looted, and a couple of arrows. I never did find a bow...

Maybe ARC's community will prove me wrong, but these games almost always skew towards a small group of try-hards with too much time on their hands basically griefing newcomers. Too early to tell right now though.

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The (steam) reviews on TW:WH3 are shocking. I thought this was a well-loved series, and maybe the first two games are in a better place, but jeez - you rarely see "mostly negative" except on absolute stinkers! It's denuvo-encumbered too. Great.

Etrian Odessey is a weird one too - decent reviews, but ultimately a fairly weak remaster of a well-loved series, so it's a nostalgia cash-in... and it's denuvo-encumbered?! Pass.

The rest seem average to decent, but nothing stands out. I remember feeling genuine excitement when I was subbed to Humble Choice a few years ago. It feels like it's really nose-dived since.

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