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Check out the new demo for Aurora: The Lost Medallion - The Cave
27 July 2023 at 5:06 pm UTC Likes: 1

Hmm... pretty sure I played this demo a few years ago. I guess they have been on hiatus?

Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Pathfinder and more in this bundle
27 July 2023 at 4:37 am UTC Likes: 1

Nice bundle, but I already have all the games - except for MythForce, obviously. And I don't see that listed at all on the bundle page; was that only there briefly? Or is it a regional thing?

Also, Beamdog has been a great supporter of Linux for their games; I wonder why there's no Linux build of MythForce? The publisher (Aspyr) has historically been supportive as well, although it's been a while for them...

Devs of Superior: Vengeance detail their Steam Deck support
26 July 2023 at 4:48 am UTC

Quoting: benstor214Between the requirement of always having to be online and having to manually invoke the keyboard, I would say the developers are overly optimistic regarding the outcome of the verification process.

Maybe they just want to be officially listed as Playable? That certainly looks better than Untested or Unsupported.

Watched the trailer, and my first thought was: if all the superheroes turned into monsters, and now you are taking their powers, what's to stop you from turning into monsters also?

Heroic Games Launcher 2.9 out now with Amazon Games support
26 July 2023 at 4:28 am UTC

QuoteEpic Games accounts will no longer get logged out when launching Heroic sometimes

It was logged out when I first launched the new version. Maybe that will be the last time? :-D

QuoteProtonDB & Steam Deck compatibility on game page

Pretty slick, but at first I thought it didn't work. Maybe it doesn't show for games that have a native Linux version, or maybe the game name ">observer_" breaks the code because it's not escaped (I have it from both Epic and Amazon, and it's sorted to the top because of the name, so of course it's the first one I tried). Checking... yep, works fine for the Amnesia games, so probably lack of escaping the funky characters in the title.

Would be cool if the Steam Deck compatibility could show the popup info that shows on the Steam website; i.e. "have to manually open on-screen keyboard sometimes" and "uses wrong controller glyphs" type of notes.

QuoteAmazon Games Support

I let my Prime subscription lapse a couple years ago, but nice to see all the stuff I mindlessly claimed in the past is all still there! 206 games, surprisingly. Having this support makes it slightly more likely I will pay for Prime again.

QuoteLibre engines are planned too.

Something akin to Luxtorpeda, I hope! Roberta and Boxtron are nice too; the biggest issue with these in Steam is that you have to know what games are supported, and explicitly set them to be used. If Heroic automatically gave the option because it could match up the games, that would be very nice.

Quoteyou can now run streaming services like Netflix, AppleTV, and Crunchyroll

By way of browsing to them in the built-in browser, or is there some other feature I'm missing? Edit: I guess that's the "Add Game" / "side loading" feature added in the prior version. Question: is there any advantage over loading in a normal browser?

The Wandering Village gets a big Ocean Update and you can win a key
21 July 2023 at 3:17 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Minuxstop trading pencils for games!

Eh? This was the best I found: https://www.bgdf.com/blog/battle-pencils-pitch-project-2020

The Wandering Village gets a big Ocean Update and you can win a key
21 July 2023 at 12:40 am UTC Likes: 1

Looks like fun! And always nice to see all the lurkers sign up for accounts when there is a giveaway - that's what got me to finally do it, way back when!

Portal: Prelude gets an NVIDIA RTX remaster, plus NVIDIA announced RTX IO
20 July 2023 at 4:18 am UTC

Steam reviews don't seem to be very favorable; some of it seems to be "ray tracing makes it too slow" but others seem to be complaining about the puzzles / gameplay, which seems odd if the original mod was so highly rated?

Valve adds ability to see Steam Deck verification in desktop Steam
20 July 2023 at 4:05 am UTC Likes: 2

Long overdue, but for a long time there has also been support for Steam Deck compatibility in the Dynamic Collections feature. I've long had a "Deck Compatible" dynamic collection, which automatically includes all games that are Verified or Playable on Steam Deck, and it gets shown in the top right of the game banner when a game is selected in the library. That's more visible than having to expand the info section.

The Khronos Group seeking paid devs to work on OpenXR runtime Monado
12 July 2023 at 6:29 am UTC

Wasn't Collabora working on it already/before? Maybe Khronos thinks they are taking too long / need more help?

Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 thanks to Zink
6 July 2023 at 5:39 pm UTC

Quoting: jordicomaI want imagination to make PowerVR gpus for computers like before.

They tried with the Kyro series a couple decades ago, but it was a bit of a flop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series3_%28STMicro%29