They might be actively blocking Linux on their anticheat, but I recently discovered that I'm actively blocking myself from buying anything made by EA.

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This isn't about genres. And it's not about free software either. This is brand protection. As I said earlier, if you make a mario-clone, that's fine - plenty of them around.

But if you make a game with assets, storyline, art style and marketing so close to an existing brand that people will likely become confused about your brand, then that's when lawyers will get involved.

There is absolutely no mistaking the intent here. Tencent are trying to cash in on HZD's success, and they're clumsily copying every aspect of the game to do so. I don't particularly love Sony, but they should win this. Easily.

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@Bach: did you delete the PFX folder and give Proton 10 a fresh stab at it?

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Intellectual property theft is standard business practice for Chinese companies.

The word "Chinese" can be safely removed.

But this is absolutely blatant and should be a simple win for Sony who won't care about the money they win - they'll want this blocked from sale on all markets, as it devalues their Horizon "brand" / IP.

Disagree with the Astrobot comparison. Yeah, it's a mario-clone. But there simply no way you could look at a screenshot of it and say so. They didn't make Astrobot an Italian plumber. Whereas here, a screenshot is all you need to see what it's (obviously) copying.

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Big Brand Too Lazy To Support Linux So Sole Dev Creates Incredible Open Source Project Instead is pretty much the most metal headline ever. You missed a trick there Liam!

But why is it always Corsair?? I stopped buying their stuff (along with Elgato) because they made it so clear a long time ago just exactly how lazy they actually are.

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Minor rant, but "auto-detecting disappearing top-bar" is one of my most-hated features in any app, or any web page. Especially on touch, the detection is usually crap, and it'll pop up even while I'm scrolling down. And, since it vanishes mostly on scroll-down, I forget it's there, and when I need it, I have to move the page to make it re-appear.

It's a shit design choice, and the only reason it exists is from the early days of mobile. Now, Valve are reviving it for the Deck. <sigh>

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This is a good bundle for me - I went for the three-game option. Some brilliant gems in this list!

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The organisation behind this isn't really the payment processors, it's an Australian feminist anti-porn movement called Collective Shout. They've been around for a while and have the backing of various world wide (often religious and pro-life because of course they fucking are) anti-porn groups.

They're pretty disingenuous with how they portray the games they attack on Steam however. And to all the comments saying that this is a slippery slope and wait until GTA6 comes out? Well, yep, they went after GTA5 back in 2014, so you can bet your bottom dollar that GTA6 will be in their cross-hairs.

https://www.collectiveshout.org/prostitution_survivors_call_on_target_to_withdraw_gta_v_for_extreme_violence_against_women [External Link]

That campaign actually did result in Target Australia removing the game from shelves.

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Weird trailer, with all those repeated sections...

Looks like a nice refinement on Death Road Canada though. That game felt a bit overwhelming at times, so hopefully this scales the difficulty/swarms a little nicer.

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@Purple: I remember reading about Radio Commander when it launched and I thought it sounded a bit suss. It came out in 2019 and we didn't have great voice recognition back then. Sure enough, Phasmaphobia launched the following year, and the voice recognition was still jank. I'm not sure about Radio Commander, but Phasmaphobia used Microsoft Cortana online voice recognition, which meant it didn't work on Linux. But that's okay because it barely worked on Windows anyway. I watched quite a few streams where the voice stuff just didn't trigger at all.

Not sure if Radio Commander is any better now, but Phasmaphobia did get better, probably because it relies on the online service which would have continuously gotten better over the 5 years since release. Or at least, I'd hope so. You never can tell with Microsoft shit.

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