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Must-have Steam Deck games under £10 in the Steam Spring Sale 2025
18 Mar 2025 at 7:16 pm UTC

Sleeping Dogs has the forced gun sections that I hated on the Deck, but the rest of the game is a good match. Arkham Asylum does not have the gun section problems, but there were some reports of technical issues. I've played through the GOG version through normal Arch wine on the Deck several times.

Dredge is probably the perfect game for the Deck with the way time works: In most situations the time only advances when the player does anything.

Yes to Halls of Torment.

Surprisingly, Valve rated Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced and Rainbow Six Siege as Steam Deck Playable
18 Mar 2025 at 3:52 pm UTC Likes: 1

Perhaps the official meaning of the ratings has changed… if the messages of the parts that make up playable status are to be interpreted literally, all functionality that works without a controller has to work with a controller. That is the case – not working without a controller and also not working with a controller.

Studio Fizbin will be closing after releasing Reignbreaker
4 Mar 2025 at 7:57 pm UTC

No. I would never buy a game if there is no way that a finished product will be delivered with necessary future bug fixes.

Tempopo from the devs of Unpacking and Assault Android Cactus releases in April
25 Feb 2025 at 11:17 am UTC

The name is rather unfortunate if you understand German. :whistle:

Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging
17 Feb 2025 at 10:51 am UTC Likes: 1

The official name changes (ignoring Debian specific issues) are interesting:

First phoenix. I think the name was chosen because it was a light and fast rebirth of Netscape Navigator. The name had to be discontinued because the phoenix BIOS had the name protected for an in-BIOS browser.

Then came Firebird/Thunderbird – keeping phoenix/bird of fire theme for the browser. It seems that Firebird SQL was the issue that time. So the bird had to become a fox.

The Sims and The Sims 2 officially return with a Legacy Collection for each
1 Feb 2025 at 9:54 am UTC Likes: 3

The Sims™ Legacy Collection: https://steamdb.info/depot/3314061/ [External Link]
Size on disk: 3.41 GiB
Compressed size: 1.68 GiB(50.58% saving)

Does not seem that crazy to me.

Warner Bros platform fighter MultiVersus goes offline for good in May
31 Jan 2025 at 6:03 pm UTC Likes: 3

The game does not look like it should have cost that much money. I wonder how they operate…

They had to expect the other failure as well. A developer that is famous for several single player games where you play a certain famous character suddenly making a GaaS game where you kill that character. That sounds like a guarantee for success.

PlayStation Network requirement on PC will now be optional with in-game rewards
31 Jan 2025 at 9:47 am UTC Likes: 1

Some things that I consider important:

During the last years, GOG has done nothing for Linux users. I'm not sure when linuxvangog left, but since then there has been nothing positive. Yes, there are some games where the native Linux version is not missing and even a hidden addition of a previously missing Linux version, but that's it.

GOG has nothing to do with Heroic launcher or other community developed workarounds, so they don't deserve praise for it.

And – last time I checked – the Steam flatpak was community made as well. It does not make sense blaming Valve for issues that are only present if a program is run in a way it is not supposed to be used. That's like saying my car is getting worse and worse because the manufacturer is bad and then revealing that you put nails through the tires. I've had issues with the Steam client as well – e.g. the right click only works when alt is pressed bug on my desktop system and the weird parsing of desktop files.

There are things that GOG does better and there are things that Valve does better.

Get 112 Operator free during Fanatical's Lunar New Year Sale plus a new Fanatical Favorites Bundle
31 Jan 2025 at 5:51 am UTC Likes: 1

They provide keys. You can optionally link your Steam account on Fanatical, but I don't know what that does, since I've never done that.

Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2 now available on GOG - plus GOG Dreamlist replaces Community Wishlist
29 Jan 2025 at 10:33 am UTC Likes: 2

Not a fan of the Dreamlist. Like anything else they do these days, it's too zoomed in to be usable.

I was hoping for Mega Man on GOG…