Latest 30 Comments

Huh. I'd have assumed that Fortnite was one of those things that was just gonna keep on making All The Money, but I guess not. Really sucks for all those devs; that's a fairly staggering amount of people to be left without a job, into a market which doesn't seem replete with other options. Like other folks here, I'm not especially fond of Epic the company, but as always it's a shame that the people bearing the brunt of stuff like this tends to be the feet-on-the-ground devs.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Ehi, Sweeney, how's like when you piss off with your dismissive remarks and game strategy one of the few demographics still growing in this messed up industry?

-- Linux users

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

One of the things I love about this site is learning about open source projects I didn't even know existed. This is almost as amazing as the open source Cannon Fodder I read about here... Thank you, I <3 Open Source and having some of my favorite games in a timeless, platform-agnostic version always makes me happy.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

the next generation of Epic

What could that even mean?

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I would kindly ask to stop promoting games with "killing nazis" tagline, that's not about actual nazis and more about killing political opponents that extreme left calls nazis. And all of the comments reflect exactly that. We had one such killing in recent times IRL of the man who werent a nazi, but was named as such by his political opponents. If there's a problem in a modern politics - it's this rhetoric. Also I think that this "game" is a lazy shitpost in gaming form and personally, I'm not interested in such content. This rule will also apply to any "sucking off Adolf simulator 5000" or "kill many communists", just in case.

Also I was under the impression that this site's position was somewhat apolitical. But those types of postings (this is second of such case in my memory) generate "political discussion" that I would consider faux pas and maybe even extreme. It's not nice in any way, shape or form.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I feel sorry for the people who lost their job, but otherwise, I can't see anything bad about Epic not doing well...

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I'm amazed Fortnite is still a thing. I don't know anything about that gaming sub-culture (teens mostly right?) but I would have thought its time would have passed by now. But it's multiplayer, and I know absolutely nothing about mutliplayer games whatsoever, so .... shrugs. I'm also amazed occasionally I see some gaming articles about world of warcraft and I have to check the calendar to ensure I know what year it is.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Pay to win game got expansion, hooray!

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Sweeney notes how this round of layoffs is not related to AI noting that "Since it's a thing now, I should note that the layoffs aren't related to AI

Translation:

Totally down to AI usage within the development processes!

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Fortnite can't last forever. The kiddies are growing up and moving on.

Sucks that this is the state of the global economy in most industries though. Layoffs everywhere the past couple of years. The pandemic response really fucked the economy and we're still paying for it directly and indirectly (like politics.)

If their game store didn't go balls deep on exclusivity and kept it simple like Stardock's Impulse did before they sold it off, odds are they would be swimming in money. The masses hate gatekeeping.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Not a huge fan of the EEs seemingly taking priority over regular ol' PST polish, but it's always nice seeing a GemRB update.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Very very interesting, but I am not sure about the multi player bit, rest looks good though

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Good.
Now I just need to wait for Fedora to update their packages.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Given my increasingly failing eyes, old GPU, size and distance (80cm/2m) from my 2K monitor, I am satisfied to play everything at 1280x720 (boooooo). It scales perfectly, and with a bit of old FSR1 I'm quite OK with it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: hardpenguinI am very excited for this as well. I applied for the closed beta some time ago but haven't been accepted yet. Maybe because I am not that active in War Thunder in general

I am an active WT player - also no closed beta invite.

It seems to be influencers first

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Wait, they support Icewind Dale 2 even though Beamdog said they couldn't make an Enhanced Edition for it? Huh!

> Multiplayer is not supported.
Aw, there go my hopes and dreams.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: subHow do I use D7VK with Steam on Linux?

Basic instructions are here:
https://github.com/WinterSnowfall/d7vk/tree/v1.6?tab=readme-ov-file#how-to-use

To launch winecfg, to set the necessary dll overrides, I think protontricks is the preferred way:
Running "protontricks --gui" should let you select the game, the prefix and then give you the option to run winecfg.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Of that list: Prey. All day long Prey. Every time Prey. EVERYONE SHOULD PLAY PREY! It's so damn good.

Some highlights from my wishlist for deep discounts:

• Ruiner - $2 - 90% off - cyberpunk shooter goodness - https://store.steampowered.com/app/464060/RUINER/


• Hammerwatch 2 - $5 - %80 off - arpg dungeon crawler - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1538970/Hammerwatch_II/

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Do not recommend Bloons TD6 with the high system requirements. Highly recommend Into the Breach and Prey.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Huge news. And bound to happen, eventually: 32bit had its (glorious) time, but that time is not now. All the major distro maintainers are celebrating.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: ArehandoroBoy, oh boy...

Quoting: eggrole

Is it really extremist to want to stop immigration and deport some of the current immigrants?

1. Yes, it is.

If so, can I argue that importing them is at the other end of extreme?

No one is "importing" anyone. Please stop referring to people like they were goods.

P.S: There's so much I'd like to say, but I don't too much time right now, and I also promised myself to be more civil.

Arehandoro, it's "funny", I wanted to say exactly the same thing you said! Perfect.
Also the obligatory expected Purple Library Guy comment. ❤️
It's a good way/reminder to see that the majority of people here are not on the eggrole's side and I'm really happy about it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Ummm..... I still need to finish both of the "new" SystemShocks, before I delve myself into another sci-fi horror... 😬

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I am very excited for this as well. I applied for the closed beta some time ago but haven't been accepted yet. Maybe because I am not that active in War Thunder in general

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I'm really happy to see this project is still in healthy development, even though the number of FM has been decaying recently. It's really a pitty because this is the closest thing we have to Thief remake.

If only there was a magic way of porting all T1 and T2 FM to the Dark Mod...

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: tuubiI never really got into FMV games or interactive movies or whatever you want to call them, but this looks like it might have a better balance of gameplay vs cut scene. And real actors inside a rendered game world? In my opinion that worked pretty well in Cyan's classics and of course the wonderful Tex Murphy adventures.

Yeah, I don't really think you can put this into the FMV games category. FMV was just an aspect of what they could do at the time. The rooms and transitions were pre-rendered and just loaded as images/movies. They couldn't render and animate convincing people in those days, so they used FMV overlays for those. For a remake it's good to do it like that again to stay true to the original.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Boy, oh boy...

Quoting: eggroleHas anyone ever stopped to ask those voting this way WHY? I don't follow European politics closely so I could be wrong about this, but from what I can tell the major voting point is immigration and the downstream effects (like increased housing prices as one example).

Increased housing prices don't happen because of immigration. It happens because of the de-regularisation of the housing market (Which it should never be a fucking market) and allowing the likes of Airbnb to take over or giving new builds to multi-millionaires en-mass to do money laundering and put directly into the rental market.

Add to this, people calling them Nazis for wanting something different than you might want will only exclude them and dig them into their positions. If you are an open-borders proponent (or whatever the issue might be), you won't change any minds calling people names and telling them they are wrong/dumb.

It is true that the words nazi/fascist are sometimes overused, diluting their real meaning. However, it is the right that started using it so they can deflect the conversation to that topic, instead of their policies and actions. When Musk did the nazi salute, he was very aware of this.

But let's not forget either; if it looks like nazi, behaves like a nazi, and says things a nazi would, it is definitely a fucking nazi.

Is it really extremist to want to stop immigration and deport some of the current immigrants?

1. Yes, it is.
2. Are they/you really against immigration and pro deporting, or do they only ask of this for people that aren't white and are economically worse than them/you? If the latter, they/you are racist and waging class war. Edit: Actually, if the former, also applies to being racist and waging class war nonetheless.
3. I'm going to assume you are a white person in the US, so you don't belong in that continent... Or this only applies to "now"?

If so, can I argue that importing them is at the other end of extreme?

No one is "importing" anyone. Please stop referring to people like they were goods.

P.S: There's so much I'd like to say, but I don't have too much time right now, and I also promised myself to be more civil.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

How do I use D7VK with Steam on Linux?

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: eggroleAdd to this, people calling them Nazis for wanting something different than you might want will only exclude them and dig them into their positions.

So like being transgender (nonbinary), these people want me imprisoned or dead for that reason alone. They think suicidal ideation among us is a big joke. They think because they are cis and I am not I should be a in prison for the rest of my life or a corpse. Yes, they are nazis this is what the nazis did. And of course, electing a guy who talks like a nazi because trans people exist does also make them at the very least complicit in nazism and accepting of it. Oh sure, debating someone else's right to life is just an opinion to you because it doesn't directly affect you. Given the rest of that comment I can already see the "is life in prison really that extreme, you're still alive" yes it is extremist. I should not be in prison for existing and using a goddamn bathroom.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I chose 4k, because when I had a weak GPU, I could just run stuff in 1080p at exactly double the pixels in both dimensions.

But it turned out, resolution really matters, and if I could run something at 4k while lowering shadow quality and such (but not textures) it always looked better.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

new block sets of cinnabar and sulfur

They should add a few more while they're at it: lead, cadmium, beryllium, thallium, uranium… 😁

Jokes aside, it does look like some interesting stuff.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment