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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction arrives April 28
27 Feb 2026 at 3:54 pm UTC Likes: 1

It's GoldenAxe with He-Mann..... and yeah, I'm gonna buy it.

DOOM: The Dark Ages needs workarounds on Linux with AMD GPUs, a fix has been merged into Mesa
17 May 2025 at 3:19 am UTC

Considering that it appears this installment of DOOM doubles down on all the things I didn't really like from Eternal while slowing you down and forcing a defensive playstyle, I'm really feeling better and better about making this one into a Steam Summer Sale kinda purchase. In like, five years.

Still running a 5900X/RX6800XT combo on a 4K screen. AMD claims they don't plan to do a XX80 or XX90 series GPU with RDNA4 but I frankly don't believe it. At the very least we'll get a tweaked version of the XX70 series sometime next year.

Until then I'm still slogging through Eternal's DLC and honestly it's more of a chore than it is enjoyable.

Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store
3 May 2025 at 4:38 pm UTC Likes: 3

"Announced in a blog post on May 1st, Epic will take a 0% store fee for the first $1 million revenue developers make per app per year."

In other words, Valve is still winning.

Linux Mint 22.1 'Xia' is out now with improved Wayland support
28 Jan 2025 at 3:07 am UTC

"I haven't seen this problem on Mint Xfce machines I administer, for what that's worth. Is this a fresh install or did you upgrade from an older Mint?"

Upgrade. I was on Fedora for more than five years, then Debian, then Mint for like the last two years. OpenMandriva seems to do a lot of Red Hat things without being tainted by IBM, so going there next. But Mint is great distro and if things go bad I'll be right back.

Linux Mint 22.1 'Xia' is out now with improved Wayland support
27 Jan 2025 at 12:26 am UTC

Mint XFCE. I have this weird bug where the network icon in the panel just sort of disappears and won't come back. Looking to hop to OpenMandriva. Maybe next weekend.

DOOM: The Dark Ages launches May 15 with a new trailer and developer video
25 Jan 2025 at 2:25 am UTC

Well...... I already wasn't planning on buying this right away, and since it's gonna require a new GPU I might be even longer. I'm running a 6800XT @4K, so what are the odds that it will run well with anything less than whatever AMD has coming this spring in the $700 or more price bracket?

Half-Life 2 free to keep until November 18th, Episodes One & Two now included with a huge update
19 Nov 2024 at 4:32 am UTC

Wow, twenty years. I bought HL2 and Vampire the Masquerade BLOODLINES the same week at Best Buy in Lynchburg, Va. I couldn't get HL2 to run because of Steam so I ended up pirating it and playing the RAZOR1911 version with the Steam emulator. I didn't log into Steam again until I bought another AMD GPU years later and got The Black Box, which was The Orange Box except missing Ep1. I was amazed that Steam finally worked.

The really funny thing, I wasn't impressed with HL2 until Ep2. I LOVED Ep2 and finally connected with it.

Absolutely LOVED VTMB and still do to this day. Finding out that they ruined the new one was a major let down.

TRON: Catalyst announced from Bithell Games and Big Fan Games
18 Oct 2024 at 4:17 pm UTC

[sigh]

They could have continued and finished the storyline from TRON: Uprising giving Boxlietner another go at the role, but just like the upcoming TRON3- NOW WITH MORE JARED LETO we're getting TRON Without TRON. Gameplay looks interesting, obviously they copied TRON: Legacy's visuals, with a few hints that the music will call back to it as well.

Seriously, is it too much to ask that while Boxlietner is still alive to do the acting that we get Alan Bradley being digitized into the grid to interact with TRON? Apparently.

Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare come to PC on October 29
13 Oct 2024 at 12:38 am UTC

This is one of those games that I missed because obviously I'm a member of the GLorious PC Gaming Master Race and have been since 1996. Been meaning to emulate it for like ten years, even have a PS3 copy that I never fired up. Glad to have this one coming to Steam finally. It's in the wishlist.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora now on Steam, broken for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux
21 Jun 2024 at 5:37 am UTC

The only good thing to come out of AVATAR is Mr. Plinkett's review of AVATAR:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJarz7BYnHA [External Link]