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Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy from the ATOM RPG team has a demo and Kickstarter live
28 Mar 2024 at 7:53 pm UTC

Quoting: JarmerI downloaded the demo, and unfortunately the linux version had just a black screen (missing into cinematic I guess) and no audio at all (but that's not this game, that's a system wide issue for me for whatever reason).
For me demo also started with a black screen, but a single Esc key was enough to proceed. Both intro and the game itself played fine after this.

I liked ATOM RPG very much in the past and Swordhaven demo wasn't bad either, so I decided to give them some support on Kickstarter... :).

GOG revives Alpha Protocol along with a Spring Sale
22 Mar 2024 at 6:29 pm UTC

Quoting: ToddLI wonder if they'll ever put this version up on Steam in the future because I'm sure there will be enough people that want to buy this game for those that missed out on it before the delisting.
Quoting: CyborgZetaI wish it was on Steam. I basically quit buying games from GOG a couple years ago because it was easier just playing games in Steam. Still, I'm glad to see GOG do this, and I'm willing to buy it.
It was on Steam [External Link] previously. And you can still find keys on some third party resellers, but they cost like 90 euros now. Which is probably too much for a simple convenience...

GE-Proton 9-2 released, ULWGL gets renamed to umu (Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher)
21 Mar 2024 at 1:51 pm UTC Likes: 3

I don't think a lot of people would know about Māori earth oven internal structure, but quite a few can remember this word from Anime. :).

Spoiler, click me

umu

It's an archaic Japanese interjection meaning 'yea', 'uh huh'. In modern Japanese fiction it's used similar to いい (ii) in that it can be used as an affirmative or positive ("Yes, that's good"), noncommittally or resignedly ("fine, alright") or dismissively ("Enough!")
"Do you want to play shougi"?
"Umu, I sure do! Where shall we play?"

GE-Proton 9-1 brings a whole lot of fixes for Linux / Steam Deck gaming
11 Mar 2024 at 6:33 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: benstor214What's the news's picture from?
Quoting: ToddL
Quoting: benstor214What's the news's picture from?
It looks like Far Cry Primal since it seems to be mentioned in the release notes.
Alt text for this picture also says "Far Cry Primal", so yes, it's probably is. :).

Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters (open source Star Control 2) now available on Steam
20 Feb 2024 at 9:22 pm UTC

Curious game. Tried to install it from different sources, and looks like native uqm from Linux Mint's repository has version 0.6.2 and Windows version from Steam has version 0.8.0. It's more up to date, and at first glance it at least is supporting bigger resolution (max is 1280x960 instead of 1024x768). And probably other things also. So you might prefer Steam version just because of this.

Wine 9.2 brings Mono updates, system tray fixes and more
10 Feb 2024 at 3:01 pm UTC Likes: 6

Not sure when it happened, but looks like wineHQ updated their site a little?

...Anyway, if anyone is wondering whats new in Mono engine 9.0.0 - you can find it here [External Link]. :).

Spoiler, click me

Changes since 8.1.0:

  • macOS-related updates:

    • Fixed Mono using direct GS access to read the win32 "last error" value, which does not work in 64-bit Wine on macOS.

    • Mono now ignores the TMPDIR environment variable, which is not normally set on Windows, but in Wine on macOS it's inherited from the host environment. This had caused errors creating temporary files.

    • The test suite now has macOS-specific and Linux-specific expected results, and I have verified that the tests pass on macOS with this release. (Full CI for macOS coming soon, I hope.)

  • Many System.Configuration improvements, with much of Mono's code replaced with code from referencesource.

  • Assemblies installed in the GAC can now use SkipVerification. Mono didn't allow this for reasons that were unclear, and it's hard to test whether .NET Framework matches. This had caused "invalid IL code" errors in 8.0.0 with assemblies installed to the Windows GAC, because that was the first version to inform Mono that those assemblies were in the GAC. Those regressions should be fixed now.

  • Added Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility.dll.

  • Fixed the PDB filenames embedded in PE dll's.

  • FNA now uses D3D11 by default instead of OpenGL. This should fix hangs in some games that use multiple threads with XNA.

  • Changed the List<T>.Sort(Comparison<T>) method to not count as a modification. This is a bug in .NET Framework that Shenzhen I/O depends on.

  • Updated the registry information with a new .NET Framework Release number, which helps the XSplit Broadcaster Installer (but XSplit still doesn't work).

  • GC invocations and traced methods are now logged to WINE_FTRACE_FILE if it is set in the environment.

  • The DriveInfo.VolumeLabel property has been imported from referencesource.

  • Upstream updates:

    • Mono to main branch as of 2024-01-26

    • FNA to 24.01

    • FNA.NetStub to master branch as of 2023-10-27

    • llvm-mingw to 20231128

    • SDL to 2.28.5



Okay boomers, you get a shooter category on Steam now
8 Jan 2024 at 3:53 pm UTC Likes: 1

O. K, thanks everyone.

Okay boomers, you get a shooter category on Steam now
8 Jan 2024 at 2:43 pm UTC Likes: 2

Anybody else confused about whats happening? What's the difference between "boomer" shooters and normal(?) shooters?

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall remake Daggerfall Unity 1.0 out now
4 Jan 2024 at 5:07 pm UTC

Luxtorpeda is a strange bit of software. Claims to be compiled for Steam Runtime Sniper environment but tries to download Steam Runtime Scout during installation...