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Nightdive Studios confirm Linux and macOS ports of System Shock are cancelled
23 May 2024 at 6:38 am UTC

Quoting: scaineThis encompasses perfectly why I gave up on Kickstarter years ago. Particularly disappointing given how much I advocated for it in its early days. Absolutely zero accountability from KS.
Completely agree about the lack of shits given by Kickstarter. I've slowed down on backing myself, but there are still projects that follow through; a couple recent ones:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1751680/A_Twisted_Tale/ [External Link]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1159090/Zoria_Age_of_Shattering/ [External Link]

Kickstarter will now allow late-pledges for finished campaigns
23 May 2024 at 6:30 am UTC

From a user perspective, I can't say I have complaints about BackerKit, but - it sure took them long enough! "Slacker backer" has been a thing forever...

NVIDIA 555.42.02 Beta driver out bringing Wayland explicit sync
23 May 2024 at 6:19 am UTC

FWIW, 555.42.02 is in the fedora-multimedia repo. Haven't really messed with it much (I'm still on 39; need to upgrade to 40 for explicit sync support), but I do see that nvidia-settings is still quite limited on Wayland... not that I really use it for anything, but it's an indicator that Wayland isn't quite a first class citizen yet.

Get a bunch of Nightdive FPS Remasters in this Humble Bundle
23 May 2024 at 6:09 am UTC Likes: 2

I already had half of the games in the bundle, but I like supporting NightDive remasters (and GOL!), even if they have been blowing it on Linux versions lately. Plus, the full bundle is still cheaper than the lowest ever price on Turok 3.

Never heard of PO'ed before, but it certainly looks like it's from the era of bad Doom clones. The 10% discount isn't exactly enticing. :-D

Athenian Rhapsody is a rather unhinged Undertale-like and stupidly funny
17 May 2024 at 5:09 am UTC Likes: 1

Here you just end up talking to everyone possible, which you probably wouldn't do in other similar RPGs.
Apparently we play our games quite differently. :grin:

Caves of Qud gets a huge new Beta released with the big UI redesign
16 May 2024 at 5:38 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: Chrisznixa 2d DF-like game
Over the last few years I have been gradually acquiring a pet peeve about the use of acronyms for this kind of thing. The assumption that everyone will get it is generally not accurate (e.g. I have no idea what DF is here).
I assume it refers to Dwarf Fortress; that seems to be a "big name" in the genre.

Valheim: Ashlands is out now with a supremely cool animated trailer
15 May 2024 at 4:57 am UTC

I agree that the animated trailer looks cool, but I'm not sure what the point of it is? The gameplay trailer is more representative of the actual game, right? Are there animation sequences similar to the animated trailer in the game at all?

Zelda: Majora's Mask gets a PC port with a new open source tool for Nintendo 64 games
15 May 2024 at 4:23 am UTC

Quoting: Mountain Man
It of course doesn't supply the assets needed to play the game, you need to buy a copy of Majora's Mask yourself.
Right, "buy". ((nudge nudge wink wink))
Looks like it's actually available to buy on Amazon, but at "collectible" pricing. Not exactly suitable for casual interest. Wouldn't it be grand if Nintendo officially cooperated with these projects, and sold digital ROM images? They probably think "that makes it easy to pirate" but there's plenty of evidence that piracy becomes largely irrelevant once there is a good, legal service available (Steam, Netflix, Spotify, etc.).

With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2
9 May 2024 at 5:05 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: R3BiRtHthe seemingly intented purpose for the device to be the standard "lowest common denominator" target for developers to make sure their games are ready to be supported for handheld gaming PC's.
Does anyone actually view it that way? It sure seems superior in many ways to most of the competition.