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Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
31 Oct 2024 at 6:53 am UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: PyrateGreat news. Hopefully this starts a similar "game contains Denuvo" sentiment from Steam users (on Linux or otherwise), so that it slowly builds more disliking to the concept on a wide scale, not just Linux players.
You can follow this curator to mostly get that:
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26095454-Denuvo-Games/ [External Link]

COVEN is a fresh 'hyper-violent' retro FPS now in Early Access
31 Oct 2024 at 6:43 am UTC

Quoting: officernice"Fresh". Same tired aesthetic as the rest of them.
I've also noticed a lot of "boomer shooters" lately are using what *I* would call ugly graphics - uglier than the classics.

COVEN is a fresh 'hyper-violent' retro FPS now in Early Access
31 Oct 2024 at 6:41 am UTC Likes: 4

wrongly accused of witchcraft... resurrected by an unknown force and seeks revenge
... using witchcraft. Maybe not so wrongly accused? :-D

Fedora 41 is out now with plenty of enhancements like easier NVIDIA driver installs
31 Oct 2024 at 6:10 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: wvstolzingas packages eventually get built with the newer version of rpm, the warnings should go away.
Sounds like they need to build the packages with an old version of rpm, or update the spec files to use the newer RPM functions. Annoying that they didn't get that properly sorted before release.

Quoting: dziadulewiczthis thing called RPMFusion (that you have to manually enable
If you use Nvidia drivers, I recommend this repo instead:
https://negativo17.org/multimedia/ [External Link]

As noted on that page: None of these packages can be distributed inside the main Fedora repositories as they are presented here due to patent and licensing issues or simply because they are coupled with non open source software.

Steam Beta adds plenty of Game Recording improvements plus a Steam Play update
31 Oct 2024 at 5:56 am UTC Likes: 1

They recently made Steam launch the compatibility tools during startup; it was most obvious with Luxtorpeda, which popped up some UI. There was an update to Luxtorpeda to work around it (now notes on the console it's bailing due to bogus launch), but you can see errors for other tools (Boxtron, Roberta, etc.) in the console output.

Not sure if that was an intentional change Valve made to work around some other Steam Play (Proton or "native runtime"?) issues, or if it's just a stupid bug.

Assassin's Creed Mirage gets improved Steam Deck support and now rated Playable
30 Oct 2024 at 6:14 am UTC

Even though Ubisoft release their games on Steam now, and will be going back to same-day releases
And yet they try to undercut it by selling for half the price on their own service. At least it gives Valve lawyers a nice example to argue with in the Epic lawsuit. :-D

90s horror adventure game Clock Tower: Rewind released outside Japan for the first time
30 Oct 2024 at 5:42 am UTC

The anime, pixel art, and manga make for a bit of a weird combo. The pixelated dwarf running around with giant scissors looks more comedic than psychotic; doesn't give the same vibe as the manga. Still looks like it could be fun, though.

Get lots of mystery adventures from Microids in this latest Humble Bundle
25 Oct 2024 at 5:41 am UTC

This would be a great deal, *if* I didn't already own most of the games. As it is, I only need/want the top game, and I don't want to pay $20 for just that (even if it is half the "full" price).

cheeky of them not to even link to ProtonDB at all
They don't even link to the Steam pages any more, which I could have sworn they used to do. Or maybe I am just thinking of old Greasemonkey scripts that used to add that (but broke long ago).

NVIDIA detail new GPU driver vulnerabilities in their October 2024 Security Bulletin
25 Oct 2024 at 5:13 am UTC

Quoting: tarcisiosurdiI’m currently waiting for Fedora to ship 565 beta on rawhide so I can test it out…
Strictly speaking, Fedora doesn't ship Nvidia drivers, as far as I am aware? They are available via third-party repos, such as rpmfusion and negativo17. For what it's worth, the negativo17 repo is at least testing it now:
https://github.com/negativo17/nvidia-driver/commit/2e4a03115222302029eb0976265bcfe03f092059 [External Link]