Quoting: PhiladelphusWhat does "requires manual removal" in the second screenshot mean?

Might be wrong, but I think some of these tools install outside of the game itself, adding themselves to the "add/remove software" tool in Windows, or whatever that's called these days.

So you install the game, it installs the kernel-based rootkit/spyware, you later uninstall the game, but the rootkit/spyware is still there, potentially still running at startup, until you remove it.

We Linux users have it lucky in that regard. We might still install the "rootkit/spyware" element in some cases, but because it's tied to Proton emulating (shut up pedants!) the Windows environment, when we stop the game, we also stop all the anti-cheat crap. In our cases, it only gets to run when the game is running.

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Quoting: AltefierThat which costs money – ain't free

Yeah, it's "free if you already have Prime". It's still worth calling out though, because a fair few of my friends had no idea that Prime Gaming was even a thing. I only found out about it myself when I linked my Amazon account to Twitch and all these notifications popped up. It's weird that they don't advertise it more aggressively.

Like Amazon send me a near-weekly email complaining that I have an "used Prime benefit" because I use Spotify and have never signed up for Amazon Music. But I didn't ever get any such reminders about Prime Gaming. Like I say, it's just weird.

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I'm blown away by how few of these games I've played! Eight! Just 8 games in that whole list!!

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Quoting: PikoloMonster Train is definitely the highlight - I've had that on my wishlist for a while!

Absolutely superb game. If you have a couple of mates to play with, I also recommend the dev's second game, Inkbound, too. I have nearly as many hours in Monster Train as I do Slay the Spire (although they're very different games, of course), but triple the time in Inkbound!

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A 40-second video that can be summed up in four words: "Ayaneo 3, coming soon". Bizarre marketing. Ultimately, it's not going to be running Linux, so I have zero interest in it.

Edit: I've just read the press release. Good lord. Absolute word soup.

They are, apparently, "Teconstructing Imagination" (sic), with a "technological leap", a "completely new concept" and an "evolution in thinking", changing the "way we interact with games", enabling an "unprecedented level of immersion anytime, anywhere". It represents a "reconstruction" of handheld gaming to become your "gaming universe". This will "carry deeper emotions" and remove the "boundaries of gaming devices". Ananeo 3 is apparently a "new starting point", creating a "brand new space for free experience".

Wow.

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I don't think I've ever seen such a Nintendo-themed title that isn't actually Nintendo! The music in particular!

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I'd never even HEARD of "Mura" before. This Reddit post [External Link] is an excellent explainer though.

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Wild that Proton now often plays Windows versions better than a native build. Also slightly depressing, tbh. SDL should have fixed that years ago...

Love the look of this, and I think it's right on the edge of what I can tolerate in terms of horror. And I agree I think the slight retro look works really well for this, evoking the nostalgia of playing the very Resident Evil for the first time.

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Been playing a load of Starship Troopers: Extermination [External Link] - janky but awesome fun, with nice progression across multiple classes. But I can only play THAT because I finally finished the absolutely stunning Tactical Breach Wizards [External Link], a game that I suspect will live in my "Top 10 Games of All Time" list for many years to come.

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I'd be willing to try Ubi games again if they ditched the launcher and Denuvo. They won't, but that's okay. Saves me some money.

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