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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Goddam, what a trailer! But but but 2026?! That's so far away! At least it'll be out before Silksong. :grin:

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Absolute monster of a review, great work, thanks so much! I'll probably pick this up, but I have an equally monstrous backlog now, especially after buying that IGN Humble Bundle!!

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Mad respect for the people who throw themselves into this world and make these features possible. Without them, Microsoft would have yet another monopolised hook into developers with DirectX.

I find it laughable that they're subtlety trying to reinvent PC gaming on their recent marketing by advertising games for "XBOX PC". They'll never change.

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This is a pretty sweet bundle. I got it for Medium, which I've been meaning to try for quite a while, but I've also had my eye on Black Book and Potion Craft, so this was an easy purchase. I might even try Wartales - I saw 2dKiri streaming that a few months back and it looked pretty good, even if it's not really my bag.

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