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KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files
26 March 2024 at 4:23 pm UTC Likes: 5

GNOME users had this for ages, but we took the feature for granted and lost the opportunity to brag about it. Well played KDE, well played!

As for Plasma 6. I'm not a .0 kind of person .1 possibly .1.1 more likely.

Founder of Baldur's Gate 3 developer blasts publisher greed
22 March 2024 at 10:47 pm UTC

Quoting: nenoro*flips the table* i got fooled
Turns out they just opened a new branch in Poland so I guess they fooled us all?

They seem to be doing very well. Branches in six different countries now plus the HQ in Belgium.

System76 release upgraded Lemur Pro laptop, plus a desktop sale now on
22 March 2024 at 3:17 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: MohandevirA System76 handheld! Lol!
Nah,they said BIG. Something like this:


You would still be gaming on the couch!

Edit: For clarity. That's a Cray-1 supercomputer, created by Seymour Cray an American designer who crammed supercomputers into the furniture he designed to keep prices up!

Founder of Baldur's Gate 3 developer blasts publisher greed
22 March 2024 at 2:32 pm UTC Likes: 10

Quoting: nenoroBG3 aka Horny game made by horny polish devs.
Belgian actually.

No idea about the state of arousal in that country.

Half-Life remake Black Mesa gets a Beta to fix up crashes and graphics bugs
21 March 2024 at 5:02 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: hardpenguinGlaDoS song aside, Black Mesa hands down. Worthy remake.
I'm so glad someone finally got the joke

(No, I have nothing against Black Mesa, I'm sure it's a fine game!)

Funselektor (art of rally) and Strelka Games (Hell is Others) announce Golden Lap
20 March 2024 at 11:01 pm UTC Likes: 1

Interesting this. I always did think transplanting the golden age of open wheel racing* from Grand Prix Legends (with the Dark Souls like difficulty removed) and adding the art style and third person perspective from art of rally would work supremely well.

I'm less sure about turning in the helmet and driving gloves for a tie and clip board. But I'm willing to give the theme manager bit a go!

* The 1967 season specifically!

GOG team up with Amazon Luna for cloud gaming
19 March 2024 at 4:59 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ShmerlDoes actual Luna server use Linux or Windows? That's the interesting part, not so much the streaming client of which there were a bunch already.
At least when it launched in 2020 it was all Windows and Nvidia:

"Luna will run on a standard version of Amazon’s EC2 G4 server instance running Windows, complete with Nvidia’s T4 GPUs and Intel’s Cascade Lake CPUs. "

Playtron plan to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based system for gaming
18 March 2024 at 9:05 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: PenglingBut do those straight-up work on ARM with no difficulties? (I think that was the question being posed.)
The announcement does mention Box64. How well that works in practice is a big question mark.

They are probably going to need to create their own rating system for the device...

Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars remaster hits over £400k on Kickstarter
18 March 2024 at 4:29 pm UTC Likes: 7

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualThat's good to hear. A track record like that makes them trustworthy and gives that claim weight.
Revolution is my favorite dev. They almost always do the right thing:

Worked together with ScummVM devs for the Broken Sword support.
Made FLOSS releases for older titles (Lure of the Temptress, Beneath a Steel Sky) game data and source code (when it was available. Lure I think was lost?)
Totally cool with fan fiction like the excellent Broken Sword 2.5.
Hired people from the community. (Don't recall if it was from ScummVM or BS2.5?)

Plus of course the Linux ports for their recent'ish games.