They are incredibly useful, especially with PC games that require lots of inputs. You can create menus for the track pads. Great for weapon or item selections or various shortcuts in simulation games.

And a simpler thing I did with them on the Steam Deck was to put mouse input on both so that I could play point and click adventures one-handed with either hand.

I hope that the Frame controllers will be sold separately. Of course they don’t have trackpads either.

It’s a shame that split controllers haven’t caught on. Gaming is so much more relaxed when you aren’t forced to have your hands together. I loved that since the Wii. But I haven’t seen a split controller that I really like.

Just add the GOG games to Steam. When you give them the same names as in Steam you can even use community layouts. That way even games that aren’t on Steam have community layouts.

Supposedly the new Steam Controller will work similar to the Steam Deck. By default it acts as mouse + keyboard. On Linux the Steam Deck Controller can act as a gamepad when holding down the start button. Hopefully the new Controller uses the same driver.

But so far there is no Windows driver so they are stuck in keyboard+mouse mode.

So the Empress has fallen?

Glad the author mentioned Oddworld. A great cinematic platformer that definitely was released between Prince of Persia and Replaced.

Blizzard’s Blackthorne is another great entry in the genre.

Nice! It’s basically a Mad TV remake.

Reminds me of that magical moment when a colleague and me found out that video chat just works™ via XMPP on our Nokia N900s.

Ackshually there have been a few Steam Machines sold back when they were introduced. They should be horribly outdated by now.

• AMD Ryzen 5 - 6 CPU cores, 65 W TDP
• AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
• 16 GB DDR4-3600 RAM single-channel
• 512 GB M.2 SSD with spare M.2 2280 slot
• 600 W PSU
• 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless

$1,139

I haven’t kept up with hardware prices but this seems fair to me.

In Jedi Outcast and Academy having your saber off meant that you were currently chatting or AFK. In good servers you’d get banned for killing someone who had their saber off.

The classic Lucas Arts adventures. Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, Grim Fandango.

I’ve been gaming since C64 days. We had the problem of too many games already back then. Hundreds of pirated games on disks and most of them weren’t even good.

The other day I felt the urge to play a new game from the “dead” point & click adventure genre. Filtered my Steam games and even found a relatively recent one with full Steam Deck support that was given away for free.

And I think I can do that with basically any genre.

Great indy titles get released all the time. Emulation gives me the ability to play almost everything from the entire history of gaming. Or just play one of my favourites. I just have to reach out and play. 2023 was an amazing year for gaming. 2025 wasn’t bad either.

Sure, bad games get made as well. But when I feel down I can just stop playing those and play Diarrhea 4 instead.

Picked up The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav. So far it seems to be a nice little German point & click adventures.

Not exactly a manual but I got stuck in Day of the Tentacle. Finally I caved and ordered the official hint book. Back then that meant sending them a letter. No idea how payment worked. My parents probably helped me with that.

It took an eternity to arrive. A few weeks at least. In the meantime I tried to progress the game. The day before the book arrived I managed to do it (use physics book with horse). And once I was past that I managed to beat the rest of the game.

But it wasn’t in vain. The book contained the story of the game written like an essay by Bernard (basically the game’s main character). It was pretty funny. So I didn’t regret ordering it.

Home Alone for the Game Boy. It was just a generic jump and run. It was just super boring.

Maybe the Gabecube will launch with a “console price” after all.

Yeah, but at the same time they stopped making new games except for one. Thousand people (yes, many of them probably wouldn’t have been game devs) could have made at least ten new games. It probably wouldn’t have been bad for their engine either to have multiple internal teams trying to make multiple kinds of games.

Who could have foreseen that putting all your eggs into one basket was risky? Not this Epic leadership.

Funny how Baldur’s Gate 3 managed to do the same thing without any additional payment.

Depends on the game now, doesn’t it? I did 100 % of all content on Spider-Man. For some reason I didn’t finish Spider-Man: Miles Morales and I didn’t even start Spider-Man 2.

Hmm, maybe I should at least try Spider-Man 2. But I’d have to finish Miles Morales first to get the full story. Spider-Man 1 was so good, maybe I’ll play that again. Spider-Man

What were we talking about?

There’s a free benchmark version of the game available on Steam. So you can test yourself whether it will run smoothly enough.

Technically DLSS 5 only modified lighting. The light emitted by your monitor.

Such a brave thing to say!

I still don’t know why they sell one Uncharted game on Steam under the name “Uncharted Collection”. It’s just one game and some DLC.

A corporate indie event somehow sounds wrong. Hope they didn’t have to pay much to be included.

Oh, so you missed the time when Epic gave GTA V away for free? Bummer.

Though with all the launcher-hassle I actually prefer the pirated version.

Still waiting for Microsoft Flightsimulator 2020 to fall to a price that’s worth it for the amount of time I would be playing with it.

And I’m still salty for the time they accidentally discounted it by 85 % and removed it from my shopping cart just as I was about to pay.

Oh my, haven’t played Fallout Shelter in ages. I think I played until I hit the “pay or take ages” stage. I guess they removed that by now?

I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Current Blizzard wouldn’t have cancelled Ghost.

At least for me the email did come eventually. It was just 30 or 60 minutes late.

Hell yeah, I remember playing the demo of the first one dozens of times because of the great graphics. I never managed to get anything done.

Baldur’s Gate 3

I’m so glad he still does those even though they aren’t as popular as his usual stuff. Can’t wait for the cradle episode.

Weren’t they forced by the EU to allow non-Webkit browsers?

Although by now it’s probably to late. Making a app on another engine is basically a totally new project.

What I loved about Duke Nukem, especially in contrast to Doom, was the interactivity and that all the places actually looked like places. Doom’s levels just looked like video game levels. In Duke Nukem 3D you were in real cities with real shops. And the cinema worked, the billiard table worked, he’d comment when you tried to use the arcade machines, the toilets worked, electrical outlets gave you a shock, etc.

Isn’t Cachy a more general distribution?

But luckily everything they do is in the open and can be utilised by everyone.

They can’t stop winning.