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News - Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people
By Kimyrielle, 24 Mar 2026 at 4:20 pm UTC

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

News - Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people
By Jarmer, 24 Mar 2026 at 4:05 pm UTC

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.

News - War Thunder Infantry gets a new trailer and test event
By dimko, 24 Mar 2026 at 3:59 pm UTC

Pay to win game got expansion, hooray!

News - Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people
By pete910, 24 Mar 2026 at 3:58 pm UTC

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!

News - Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people
By JesTech, 24 Mar 2026 at 3:55 pm UTC

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.

News - Infinity Engine open source remake GemRB 0.9.5 gets Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition playable
By such, 24 Mar 2026 at 3:39 pm UTC

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

News - Sci-fi horror adventure Directive 8020 from Supermassive Games arrives in May
By Bumadar, 24 Mar 2026 at 3:13 pm UTC

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

News - NVIDIA driver 595.58.03 released as the big new recommended stable driver for Linux
By Sakuretsu, 24 Mar 2026 at 3:10 pm UTC

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

News - AMD FSR SDK 2.2 released with FSR Upscaling 4.1 and FSR Ray Regeneration 1.1
By dubigrasu, 24 Mar 2026 at 2:52 pm UTC

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.

News - War Thunder Infantry gets a new trailer and test event
By plain_text, 24 Mar 2026 at 2:50 pm UTC

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

News - Infinity Engine open source remake GemRB 0.9.5 gets Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition playable
By Salvatos, 24 Mar 2026 at 2:42 pm UTC

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.

News - D7VK version 1.6 gets improved vertex processing and VSync handling
By whizse, 24 Mar 2026 at 2:32 pm UTC

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.

News - Some top games under £5 in the Steam Spring Sale 2026
By Jarmer, 24 Mar 2026 at 1:28 pm UTC

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/

News - Some top games under £5 in the Steam Spring Sale 2026
By Pyretic, 24 Mar 2026 at 1:26 pm UTC

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

News - New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit
By syylk, 24 Mar 2026 at 1:01 pm UTC

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.

News - Give fascists the finger and a few bullets in Too Many F*cking Nazis
By Cyril, 24 Mar 2026 at 12:53 pm UTC

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.

News - Sci-fi horror adventure Directive 8020 from Supermassive Games arrives in May
By Boldos, 24 Mar 2026 at 12:47 pm UTC

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

News - War Thunder Infantry gets a new trailer and test event
By hardpenguin, 24 Mar 2026 at 12:23 pm UTC

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

News - Thief-like open source game project The Dark Mod 2.14 released
By eldarion, 24 Mar 2026 at 11:03 am UTC

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...

News - Classic haunted mansion puzzle adventure The 7th Guest is getting a full remake
By Ehvis, 24 Mar 2026 at 10:24 am UTC

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.

News - Give fascists the finger and a few bullets in Too Many F*cking Nazis
By Arehandoro, 24 Mar 2026 at 9:55 am UTC

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.

News - Give fascists the finger and a few bullets in Too Many F*cking Nazis
By BladePupper, 24 Mar 2026 at 7:01 am UTC

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.

News - AMD FSR SDK 2.2 released with FSR Upscaling 4.1 and FSR Ray Regeneration 1.1
By Seegras, 24 Mar 2026 at 6:00 am UTC

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.

News - Chaos Cubed announced as another big update for Minecraft with a unique new mob
By Philadelphus, 24 Mar 2026 at 5:17 am UTC

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.

News - Classic haunted mansion puzzle adventure The 7th Guest is getting a full remake
By Craggles086, 24 Mar 2026 at 2:40 am UTC

Learnt to play the game Attax on 7th guest. Other then that I don’t remember much of game itself. Could be interesting

News - EndeavourOS Titan released, devs comment on age verification laws
By HendrinMckay, 24 Mar 2026 at 1:35 am UTC

Well, I'll just move to distros that don't support these ill advised age verification legislation, if needed. Already started moving over to other socials slowly but surely, even started using https://hey.cafe/ which is kind of facebook, but without all the garbage and ads. Still small, but at least fairly open and not based in the US. :)

News - Wine 11.5 released with support for Syscall User Dispatch on Linux
By Cybolic, 24 Mar 2026 at 1:03 am UTC

Quoting: mrdeathjr​This wine version use more space than 11.4, 11.5 once stay compiled use 4.1gb (around 32400 files) meanwhile 11.4 use 3.5gb (around 30100 files) in my case

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Lovely choice of game! I wouldn't mind a Nightdive treatment of Clive Barker's Undying, I'm sure there's some nice archive material that could be included.

News - AMD FSR SDK 2.2 released with FSR Upscaling 4.1 and FSR Ray Regeneration 1.1
By Cloversheen, 24 Mar 2026 at 12:35 am UTC

I'd be fine giving up the extra screenspace I have at 1440p for the crisper fontrendering from 4k@200% rendering (1080 effective resolution). But I don't really feel any need to actually render my games in 4k... 1080p rendering and then integer scale that 2x2 and I'm good.

News - GNOME 50 released with much improved Parental Controls and lots more
By JohnLambrechts, 24 Mar 2026 at 12:17 am UTC

Quoting: WorMzyEw. I love Tokyo, it's a wonderful place to visit. Gnome, on the other hand... No.
Gnome is great, if you like a Mac OS like feel.

KDE and Plasma handle my HDR screen better though, I wonder if Gnome 50 is better