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There are a few times were "Verified" titles just don't perform well enough, and that does need to be made clear to developers. And, ideally, Valve need to be just a little more strict on that 30FPS performance floor.

Absolutely this.

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPoint

This is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol

But, can't we like the desktop theme without liking the underlying O/S?

After all, the desktop theme is available for Linux.
[Chicago95](https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95)

LoL. The look is a little too outdated for me, though ...

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Quoting: fearnflavio

Quoting: hardpenguinNice look but the interface seems tiny compared to the screen size. Definitely not optimized for ten foot aka big TV screen couch gaming.

Yes, we decided to do this like a MVP first and then gather feedback and improve it over time. We will have some settings for it like to increase the zoom size, skip-update or update before launching, installing and uninstalling games and more. This is just the start. We are hearing all feedback so far.

Sounds great, can't wait to see it evolve.

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One of the coolest things Valve has accomplished with the Deck actually has nothing to do with Linux, it's just getting PC developers to optimize for low end hardware for longer. BG3, Doom, Death Stranding now, I'm sure there are plenty more.

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Quoting: Talon1024

Quoting: CaldathrasNo demo? No thanks.

And yet, there are already reports about the game [on ProtonDB](https://www.protondb.com/app/2679100). 😲

I stand corrected. There apparently was once a "demo" or "playtest" available:
[SteamDB: Witchspire Demo](https://steamdb.info/app/4328010/info/)

To expand on my comment, however. Now that they are going into Early Access, they have removed the demo. They expect players to pay to beta test their game. I'm not going to pay until the game is in final release and I'm not going get the final release without a demo.

Hence, no demo, no thanks.

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Quoting: GerarderloperBe cool if they updated and also made it like some future horror war instead. To give people something truly new rather then just a reskin with better UI....

I don't think anime catgirls versus tentacle monsters belong in every game. But maybe I'm just being weird.

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Quoting: hardpenguinNice look but the interface seems tiny compared to the screen size. Definitely not optimized for ten foot aka big TV screen couch gaming.

Yes, we decided to do this like a MVP first and then gather feedback and improve it over time. We will have some settings for it like to increase the zoom size, skip-update or update before launching, installing and uninstalling games and more. This is just the start. We are hearing all feedback so far.

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Me: I can wait. A well optimized, smooth running game with few bugs is what I prefer.
Also me: GIVE IT TO ME, NOOOOOW!

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I don't remember, did I ever post anything here about how amazing that game is? I may have done it for the last 10 major updates, maybe more? 😁

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Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPoint

This is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol

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For a second, I thought of Witchspire Games, founded by Eron Hennessey, when I saw the title of your article. Witchspire Games was a company that created Madblox! for Linux in 2004, which looked like Tetris, but it was a very different game

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Some kind of remakes/ports of the first SaGa games (aka Final Fantasy Legend) would be great. Really liked their simple but uncommon gameplay

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I think this matches the core appeal of TerraTech, will try the Demo.
Thanks for bringing interesting games like this to our attention!

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Oh, wow, Terra Nova – that's a game I haven't thought abouut in a long time! I remember being thrilled by seeing the texture-mapped terrain and being equally disappointed by how slow the gameplay and the engine were on my 486.

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Quoting: CaldathrasNo demo? No thanks.

And yet, there are already reports about the game [on ProtonDB](https://www.protondb.com/app/2679100). 😲

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The top-down perspective reminds me of the old DOS game [Siege](https://www.mobygames.com/game/5205/siege/) from the early 90s. Good memories! 😊 I still have a CD with it, I think... somewhere...

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I am torn... on the one hand I really enjoy Vampire Survivors, but on the other hand I really dislike card mechanics in computer games. What to do? 😆

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Neat! I like that they are implementing new things and a big picture mode is a good idea.

Quoting: hardpenguinNice look but the interface seems tiny compared to the screen size. Definitely not optimized for ten foot aka big TV screen couch gaming.

That was my first thought, too. I'd say they are barely large enough for a big computer screen. I am hoping for a size slider.

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Quoting: GerarderloperBe cool if they updated and also made it like some future horror war instead. To give people something truly new rather then just a reskin with better UI....

I have not played the game (yet), but isn't the whole point of it to mirror what war looks like for those affected by it and not make it some made up fantasy?

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I love everything this update brings though. SteamGridDB integration!

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Nice look but the interface seems tiny compared to the screen size. Definitely not optimized for ten foot aka big TV screen couch gaming.

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This is a marketing stunt.

The "too dangerous too release" and the "access leak" from yesterday is all hidden behind NDAs that everyone who's been given access has to sign. There's no way to verify any of those claims.

The only ones that are pushing this besides anthropic are the corpo hats from mozilla. And even then, if you look at the much hailed release 150 patch log you'll only see a handful of fixes coengineered via AI which is far behind the much touted 250+ fixes figure that is being publicly passed around in press releases.

The whole point of all this fearmongering is to drive anthropic IPO valuation up. And it's working.

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I see a lot of people here who are very sure they're right. In my opinion this is a very complex issue, and if you're sure you're right you're either a massive expert on the subject, or you are failing to realize that you don't understand it, or both. I mean, I have very strong opinions on quite a few subjects around political economy, and am pretty sure I understand them well enough to support those opinions.

But this stuff . . . it's too tangled for me. There's this intersection of a bunch of principles, the major problem that although some regulation is certainly desirable the people responsible for creating it, both the public and private ones, cannot be trusted, and on top of that very complex technical problems which can result in lots of unintended consequences for any attempted solutions. And yet, doing nothing is also a choice which also has consequences, such as having our digital environments controlled by a bunch of Peter Thiels and Elon Musks. I don't know what the answer is on this stuff, and I seriously lack confidence in anyone claiming they do know.

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Nice for undervolters efficient silent systems, too.

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Quoting: TevurJust another, vaguely related thing:

Yeserday, I got an update for Steam Runtime 4.0.
When was that released? What is the difference to Sniper? Who uses it?
Why is it not codenamed, yet? (vote for cannoneer)
Maybe for VR, Fex and the Frame...?

The runtimes are named after TF2 characters. So it's Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Heavy, Demoman, Engineer, Spy, Medic and Sniper.

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Quoting: hardpenguinUsing AI for any kind of recognition is good, actually (and often helps with accessibility).

Using AI for creation is not good.

Yeah, on a related note:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2026/04/22/anthropics-claude-is-pumping-out-vulnerable-code-cyber-experts-warn/

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Mass surveillance and mass control.

Every month we etch closer and closer to a China CCP level of individual control.
One day the world is going to wake up to the social & media engineering(manipulation) going on.

People who advocate for this level of government overreach in everyone's lives deserve the hellscape of their own creation!

I see too many people willing to give up everything for comfort/platitudes/virtue/emotions; handing over all control and rights to governments and corporations...DARK DAYS AHEAD!

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Be cool if they updated and also made it like some future horror war instead. To give people something truly new rather then just a reskin with better UI....

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Quoting: tarmo888

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: GoEsrDoesn't really need to be brought up to "current standards" whatever that means, ...

That's what I was thinking. They could do a completely new take on the game, like a fully 3d game instead of a 2.5D one, but I wouldn't class that as a remake.

Wouldn't that be exactly remake? That wouldn't be remaster, which they said it won't be.

only as much as Two Point Hospital is a remake of Theme Hospital (or even less so, depending on what they call "reimagine")

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So many useless commenters who what to do nothing and expect things to magically change.

Here let me simplify it for you simple minded people...

You can draw hate speech with markers (crayola is NOT responsible)
BUT if you display this hate speech on crayolas website then (crayola IS responsible)

You can type a guide to making explosive suicide vests on MS Word (Microsoft is NOT responsible)
BUT if you publish that guide on the Microsofts forums then (Microsoft IS responsible)

You can make a game about under-age sex (Steam is NOT responsible)
BUT if you publish that on Steam then (Steam IS responsible)

This is about centralized platforms being responsible for the content they host, NOT distributed software in which the USER is responsible. Any online games that are hosted or use the services of said company are responsible for the content of that game as this is publicly available and subject to the same laws regarding content in any public space. This is not the wild west internet anymore, we need rules and punishment for breaking said rules.

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