Category: video games
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Into The Breach Announced
The FTL developers, Subset Games, are working on a single player turn-based-strategy game that looks a bit like Advance Wars. Into The Breach has no release date yet, but it will be out (not simultaneously) on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Here’s their description: The remnants of human civilization are threatened by gigantic creatures breeding beneath…
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Steam Has Over 3000 Linux Games
Liam Dawe: Steam has hit another milestone for Linux games. We now have over 3,000 Linux games to fill our time with. The exact count for me right now is 3,008! An impressive number of games with Linux support. I wonder how many are native ports versus Windows pretendulation. My search comes up with 3164 for…
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Goodbye Greenlight, Hello Direct
Valve is replacing Steam Greenlight. Alden Kroll: The next step in these improvements is to establish a new direct sign-up system for developers to put their games on Steam. This new path, which we’re calling “Steam Direct,” is targeted for Spring 2017 and will replace Steam Greenlight. We will ask new developers to complete a…
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Reddit & 4Chan Meet Discord
Bryan Menegus: Some of these servers, especially the Discord chat spun out of 4chan’s far-right stomping ground /pol/, use their room to coordinate “raids” on other servers with ease and impunity. Trolls acquire invite links to other servers and post them in a room called “Raids” (formerly “Raids Defense”), encouraging the chat’s 1000+ members to…
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Building a 386 with Modern Parts
It’s been a long time since I thought about putting together a 386. PhilsComputerLab has clearly been putting some work into the process. In the video above he’s got some wack-a-doo modern dinguses (dingii?) to emulate storage drives hooked up to this ancient hardware and amazing old sound hardware. That Roland MT-32 must have been expensive.