It's so crazy, because even though I don't really like boaty things in real life (fishing, houseboats, rafting, kayaking, etc etc etc) some of my favorite and most played games on the Deck have been boaty. Dredge, Sail Forth, Dave the Diver, this game .... So strange. Maybe the portable format just leads more to that type of game I guess.

Dave the Diver is absolutely incredible - the perfect Deck game. I couldn't imagine making time to play it on my main PC, but I played hours and hours on the Deck, while on holiday abroad, the year it came out. And the boat theme, on Deck? I'm in same boat (sorry) - I played hours of Dredge on Deck, and also spent a fair bit of time with Ship of Fools.

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Barely played the first, but sank quite a few hours into the second before the red ring of death claimed my Xbox360 and I jumped ship to Sony's consoles forever. So I missed all the later sequels too. They were okay, but relied too heavily on wall-based cover. Fun characters though, despite the many, many cliches.

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The rest of them that the article mention are definitely available now.

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Plasma 6 has been an excellent series - so slick, so much attention to detail. And Wayland has finally unlocked the higher refresh rate of my monitor at 4K, which is lovely.

Just a shame that Wayland doesn't support remembering window positions, which is extra-annoying when Plasma has all these features built into it to do just that... but they don't work at all in Wayland.

So Firefox remembers its position, Steam remembers its position, but none of the KDE apps, like Dolphin will. Unless I move back to X11.

It's a small issue, but it's been bugging me for a while.

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This'll be the first Borderlands game I won't buy. Thanks Denuvo. It helps that Randy Pitchford is a tone-deaf eejit (claiming "real gamers" won't mind the price hike in this latest instalment of his series).

It's a shame he's swallowed Denuvo's marketing BS. And then... doubled down with Symbiote? What the hell.

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I don't see STAR WARS: Rebellion, but I got the others. Edit: looks like some of these games have released already, but others won't be added until 4pm today (as the article notes, doh!).

I'm up to 163 games on GOG now and I think I personally purchased about 3 of those. The rest are Prime freebies. And 251 (admittedly most crap) games on Amazon Games.

Not bad considering my £8/month is actually for free deliveries and Jack Ryan/Reacher on Prime TV. The free Twitch sub doesn't go amiss either.

That said, I'm still keen to disengage with Amazon in the same way I'm slowly migrating away from Google to ProtonMail. The big corps never change. Like today's announcement that they're putting adverts into Whatsapp.

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I did - I don't follow the retro scene that much, and that's what I get for relying on my memory and not Google. Actually, wasn't there an Atari 1020 now that I think about it? Okay, not making that mistake again. Google tells me there was a 1040, not a 1020 (technically the Atari 1020 was a plotter, who knew??). So I'm just confused! :grin:

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the original version is the Amiga version (though the lesser Atari ST version released at the same time)

Your commodore bias is showing! I had both an Atari ST and an Amiga 1020 and somehow ended up with this game on both. The ST version felt much snappier, compared to the Amiga's slightly sluggish controls. I loved both those machines equally. Actually, maybe my bias is showing, because I bought the ST first and only got the Amiga a couple of years later. The Amiga was silky smooth in some games, but I still prefer the crispness of the ST's games in a lot of cases.

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I just hope they don't conflate "big sales" to "must use Denuvo". I'm still disappointed by that. I'd have bought Stellar Blade otherwise though.

I guess I'll just keep playing Clair Obscur, Tainted Grail, Monster Train 2 and Dune:Awakening, eh? It's been an expensive June.

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Pretty crazy that we were just talking about this last week due to Planet of Lana going on sale... and now this pops up!

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/highlight-announcements-from-the-2025-summer-showcases/?comment_id=279642

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