Finally I can start using "You have a Mac build but not a Linux build even though it has a larger market share" as an argument to convince devs to support Linux

View this comment - View article - View full comments

> you usually only get the survey on one machine.
Not in my experience. I had it on two different desktops one week apart just last spring and I've had it on my laptop as well.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: blindcoderI _want_ to pick one up, but it's _still_ a lot of money for a device I don't really _need_.

Same, I wish I hadn't gotten an SSD for my aging laptop so I could fool myself into considering a Deck as replacement for it. Turns out the old thing can still last me a while :P There's always the next gen I guess!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I only had time to try three demos, but Land Above Sea Below was my favorite by far and a very happy find though it didn't show up in the most popular. A very beautiful "atmospheric building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level." I like how you have limited turns forcing you to think and plan your moves carefully before the tide engulfs your island, but there is no real-life time limit forcing you into rash decisions (unlike another turn-based combat game I tried). Very, very cozy game and one I could see myself returning to to unwind at the end of a long day even though I normally prefer story-based games.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: dpanter'Huge hit' is a substantial understatement, more than 50% of their market value was destroyed in one fell swoop.

Do we know how that happened?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: miroWhat the actual fuq?
Is this for real? You do know that this is designed to kill people, not in a cs-fashion but for real. And all with the currently f'ed up narrative and politics, you are cracking jokes with it.

I can not believe this, what a shame.

It’s not designed to kill people, it’s designed to repel invaders.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Sure, "our game’s services running on Linux" could have been server stuff, and "improving the Snowdrop engine’s support for Linux" could have just been making the devs' tools work better on Linux machines, regardless of the playable platform. But "Linux is an extremely stable and performance-oriented OS, and you’ll be able to make XDefiant really shine there" seems very unambiguous about running the actual game on Linux.

To me, it even sounds like they want to make it run especially well on Linux (i.e. compared to Windows and/or consoles). It could be that they want to push it hard on Steam Deck. Or maybe they're aiming for optimal performance on cloud platforms (Amazon was hiring Proton/Wine devs back in 2021 for Luna, right?).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Give a trash company more money to play games I won’t own? No thanks.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Trivia: The game is made by Simon "Gee" Giraudot, a comic book artist frequently featured by Framasoft, a French FOSS NGO (and probably others) :)
I immediately recognized his style from the video’s thumbnail (the eyes, mainly).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I remember having to fake Korean social security numbers to sign up for Korean MMOs back in the day. I wonder how long we have left until we need our identities verified to join online games because of bots and AI.

View this comment - View article - View full comments