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Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged releases September 19
20 Aug 2024 at 12:16 am UTC Likes: 1

One of the first games that I bought! And it was called Circle of Blood, I have to save for a year to been able to buy it the original cd. Really fond memories, I still prefer playing on scummvm :grin:

GOG confirm Resident Evil 2 re-release date for August
20 Aug 2024 at 12:03 am UTC

I had installed duckstation emulator because I wanted to play RE1, I got derailed playing NWN 2, Metal Gear Solid and Monkey Island but for sure I now have to add the second part! I'm playing RE4 on the Wii, I believe that I'm at half on the game so it will take me another four years to finish and take the other two!

FNA gets Direct3D 11 support on Linux thanks to DXVK
3 Aug 2024 at 2:17 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: ShmerlI don't get why they need to go around translating DX11 into Vulkan, can't they use Vulkan directly?

And if they want a lighter abstraction, why not use other layers on top of Vulkan like wgpu or something like that? DX11 doesn't sound like the best option.
I think that was included because you can build a xna game with fna docs [External Link] so, if your older setup use DX11 you don't have to do anything else.

But I didn't went to the documentation in full, perhaps there is something more.

Microsoft's new Recall AI will take screenshots of everything you do - freaky
24 May 2024 at 3:27 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: phil995511It is prohibited for an employer to spy on its employees in any way. This type of function is therefore formally prohibited in the professional field.
Depends where you are. Lots of companies in lots of countries already keep tabs on what employees are doing and looking at.
I believe that in all South America when your employee gives you a computer all the content of the computer is property of your employee (At least I know that happens in 8 of 11 countries), the first thing in what I thought is this going to be the panacea of the middle manager and number crunching bosses. Almost all the companies uses Windows, if they don't have a contract as partner, is all the people now how to use (Including IT guys), so deploying this in all machine they will now what are you doing all day, or if you are not doing something for the company all the hours they are paying you.

More troublesome is the public offices that you have to give your information, they will also take screenshot of that ? Make me glad that my country on a very controversial situation some public offices start using Linux to not pay the licenses fees of all the machines, so at least some data will not reach them so easily.

EA opens up more patents for increasing Accessibility in gaming
4 Dec 2023 at 10:38 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: BlackBloodRumEA doing something to benefit the gaming industry and gamers as a whole?

Can someone go check hell please? I'm concerned that it might have frozen over. :unsure:
On 2020 they made accebility a main thing,news link [External Link]

The video of Karen was really mind blowing the first time I saw it, and made me think how many people can also play games with all this thing on place.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf being delisted so grab it quick in this bundle
3 Oct 2023 at 12:37 am UTC

Quoting: Phlebiac
Quoting: redmanthe whole Netflix and Marvel fiasco comes to mind. Daredevil never got the finish it deserve and the episodes are not available....
FWIW, they made it available again, on Disney+.
I search for it and will be pass by the Disney grinding machine... A new season without two main characters, more PG approve, more episodes... Good for the actors I think, bad for the rest...

Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf being delisted so grab it quick in this bundle
29 Sep 2023 at 8:56 pm UTC

Quoting: ObsidianBlkThe way licensing is handled in video games bothers me greatly. To build a product that you want people to enjoy and play but using a license that can either expire (putting a timer on your product) or be pulled on a whim... why do this? It's one thing if the developers, themselves, choose to withdraw their product, but for the IP holder to have the power to do this seems absurd. You either let developers create their game with your IP, and then, there it is, or you don't.

This doesn't happen with movies! If a movie is made by a studio using some other company's IP, you don't see those movies suddenly disappearing from distribution once some license expires. If this happened, I'm sure that Super Mario Brothers movie from the 90s would have disappeared a long time ago, but it didn't. All those Uwe Boll movies, that butcher the IPs they used, are still available.

Why do video games get abused this way by IP holders? This bothers me greatly.
Not only videogames suffer from this, the whole Netflix and Marvel fiasco comes to mind. Daredevil never got the finish it deserve and the episodes are not available....

Nightdive Studios announce Turok 3 and Star Wars: Dark Forces remasters
23 Aug 2023 at 1:37 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Klaas
Quoting: subThough, he doesn't complain and sees other benefits.
Yes. It's baffling. I've worked for them for free and got one hint about a bug. I'm so happy
Is not about the free work, not about the money, he was doing the work anyhow, is about his passion about doing it and how now he can contribute to something more about the game. That is the thing that he is gaining.

Quake II Remastered shadow dropped, Playable on Steam Deck
11 Aug 2023 at 10:17 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Plintslîcho
Quoting: redmanNow I have to wait the Remastered to be on GOG.
It's already available at GOG.com as well. It's only just called Quake II [External Link] .
My wallet dread this knowledge... I have a new game now :grin: thanks for the info!

Quake II Remastered shadow dropped, Playable on Steam Deck
11 Aug 2023 at 5:05 pm UTC Likes: 1

The first thing that I thought was: Will Yamagi Quake II [External Link] will be improved by this ?

My second thought was: Where is my Quake II CD ?

My third thought was: Why Yamagi is not installed on my machine?

My fourth thought was a couple of hours later: Crap, now I remember why I remove it....

Now I have to wait the Remastered to be on GOG.