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Become a Scottish agent in the Goldeneye inspired Pinkeye
27 June 2020 at 12:10 pm UTC Likes: 2

It is sad that some of technical advancements in Goldeneye aren't found in today's AAA shooters. Take for example the hitboxes. In GoldenEye, if you hit someone's head, shoulders, crouch, ass, hands, foot, torso, there will be a different reaction of the character. Most modern games only differentiate the read from the rest. You could even knock out hats and (if I'm not mistaken) guns from the enemies.

Another thing is AI behavior. We should had awesome AI by now, because every single CPU out there has more than one core to make it happen, but no. After F.E.A.R, things got downhill, for no good reason. Today's AI is dumber than it once was.

Incredible emulator 3dSen PC converts classics into 3D and it's out now
20 June 2020 at 2:00 pm UTC

You know what would be awesome? Porting this to the mini NES Classic.

The Plasma 5.19 desktop from KDE has released
9 June 2020 at 8:23 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestJust got the update on Arch Linux. As a long time Plasma Wayland user this is one of the most important releases for me as finally the subsurface clipping and the Firefox Wayland copy & paste issues have been fixed :-)

Plus there are many nice new features!

AFAIK, that is for Plasma 5.20 and will not be backported, since the patches to correct this are numerous.

Bloody and difficult action platformer They Bleed Pixels is now on itch.io
9 June 2020 at 8:09 pm UTC

And just to not discourage you of buying it, there is a easy mode, so finishing it is not that big of a deal. BUT, the true finish is only on the hard mode, so...

Bloody and difficult action platformer They Bleed Pixels is now on itch.io
9 June 2020 at 1:24 pm UTC Likes: 1

I have this game and it makes Battletoads of the NES a child's game in comparison (difficulty wise).

A world of advice, tough, is that the pacing of the game is tied to your screen refresh rate. If you play it in anything above 60Hz the game will become very fast and almost unplayable.

So if you are not a rage quitter and like a challenge, is definitely a must on any Linux gamer library.

Valve adds a 'Play Next' shelf in Steam to remind you of all those games you've never played
8 May 2020 at 11:44 am UTC

Well, I have over 200 games on my library and never played most of them, so maybe this reminds me to try some stuff I bought and had forgotten.

AMD detail future plans for socket AM4 and Zen 3 compatibility, no Zen 3 for older chipsets
7 May 2020 at 8:42 pm UTC Likes: 1

Fine by me. I see no reason to support more than 2 generations of CPUs on the same motherboard. Look at how troublesome Ryzen 3000 support was at launch, with a scramble to update BIOSes on old boards that ended loosing support for older processors.

I want to buy a motherboard without too much research to know if what I'm buying have the necessary update for the CPU I chose.

Streets of Rage 4 to be playable on Linux at release with Steam Play Proton
30 April 2020 at 2:37 pm UTC

Quoting: brokeassben
Quoting: M@GOidThe price of this game is very high here in Brazil. How much it is in the US?
Currently $22.49 on Steam with a 10% discount, but there's no price listed on Humble yet. Google says that equates to 122.34 in Brazilian real. I'm ashamed to admit I didn't know that's what your currency is called.

No need to be ashamed. I for one have no idea what is the currency of the majority of Brazil's neighbors...

Brazil is one of those countries where Valve do a price reduction relatively to the US Dollar conversion, because selling games at full price would drive people to piracy.

I asked because I thought the price was higher than what this type of game generally cost around here. It didn't help that our currency dropped in value more than 30% since the world pandemic started.

Streets of Rage 4 to be playable on Linux at release with Steam Play Proton
30 April 2020 at 1:06 pm UTC Likes: 1

The price of this game is very high here in Brazil. How much it is in the US?

Xbox One controller wireless on Linux gets better with 'xow' release 0.4
20 March 2020 at 4:52 pm UTC

I have a Xbone S controller and the bluetooth dongle I use sucks, the ultra common "0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio", sold in a variety of models. While the DS4 connects more or less okay, the MS controller only connect fast on the pairing configuration. Later it takes all the time of the world to connect, when it does it. Funny enough, when the DS4 is also connected, the Xbone controller connects faster, go figure...

I noticed that the Intel bluetooth adapter from my laptop works flawless with it and the DS4, but I play on a desktop. Also I want a USB dongle.

Does anyone here have the TP-Link UB400/UB4A USB Bluetooth dongle? What is the output of the "lsusb" command in the terminal for it?