Ever played XCOM?

Key quote:

Microsoft is looking at combining Xbox and Windows experiences together — and that we should see changes this very year, rather than needing to wait for an Xbox handheld that might still be years away

So there probably will be an xbox handheld, but don’t hold your breath. In the meantime they actually are a little worried about how much SteamOS is showing Windows up.

The ones on Lemmy are pretty good!

Running x64 Windows games on x64 Linux with Proton is way easier than running x64 binaries on arm. That said, Apple have managed it so maybe one day!

Brilliant game, and remember: the only reason to play normal mode is to unlock extreme mode!

It’s crazy how many full games you can play for free nowadays, I claim them way faster than I can play them!

If your friend is new to PC gaming then they might not be aware of how much they can get for free. I just wrote a post (stickied in [email protected]) summarising all the places you can regularly get freebies, could be a good way for them to try out a lot of different things.

Oh yeah, definitely looks shit, that doesn’t mean it’s not interesting though!

I like setting what people can throw together out of weird bits and bobs like an architecture I’d never even heard of

Geopolitics aside, this is at least quite interesting

FYI that one was a bit quiet so I started [email protected]

Wow, what a great community, the moderator must be very cool and handsome!

Look at the link at the top of this comment thread, great read and tells you how small the teams were back then

Yep, David Doak gave us GoldenEye, TimeSplitters, and apparently this lost relic too!

Nintendo learned the wrong lesson from the Wii and Switch

What, you mean their two best-selling home consoles?

I create them in advance so they appear in game ready-named after my friends so it really hurts when they die

Gungeon is not casual though, one of the hardest games I’ve played!

Seems to have been fixed some time in the last hour

Sticking on a streamer who you can just listen to chat while they happen to be playing a game is just a newer version of having the TV or radio on in the background while you do other stuff. Sometimes we just want to chill and not have to focus!

You don’t have to exclusively play new big-budget games with high spec requirements, an old laptop will play decades of old PC games as well as plenty of newer indies, or you can just go on eBay and buy someone’s last-generation console along with all their controllers and games for the cost of a brand-new game or two!

This actually looks pretty fun, f1 meets micro machines or original GTA. I vaguely remember playing something like it on a Windows 9X machine called something like F2000.

All games are like this

Speak for yourself, this is the first game I’ve played since PoGo came out that even has microtransactions in it!

Repentance was such a huge expansion. And it’s getting updated again shortly!

That’s the case for most creative projects, right? Make it because you want to make it, not because you expect to get big and make money. Music, film, craft, games, they’re all insanely competitive fields and if you’re not doing it because you love doing it then you’re going to have a bad time!

Is this a new paid DLC or just a big update? I assumed the latter but the name “Repentance+” sounds like a new expansion.

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What are your combos of choice? I remember having a few good ones committed to memory at the time.

I enjoyed it solo, though it did become impossibly hard at one point. I don’t know if you need to have friends to help or if I just needed to be better at the game!

This was going to be my recommendation. Probably not what OP wants, but definitely what they asked for!

There’s loads of Worms games now though they’re all the same sort of thing. I think they just announced an “anniversary edition” of Armageddon, which looks basically the same as the Steam version but ported to modern consoles. Still a banger 25 years on!

The one thing about patent law I know is that you can’t patent something that already exists in the wild (“prior art”), so surely that can’t be the case, and if it is then it’s open-and-shut, right?

I am pretty sure I picked up the Android version for free a few years ago and it had The Offspring but I installed it just now and it’s gone. It’s also now talking about ads and data collection so I assume the original build has been unavailable for a while.

The WiiU could run the entire Wii OS, so that’s pretty good for backwards compatibility

This is the most [email protected] headline I’ve ever read

That’s mental

What exactly does that mean? I thought you had anti-monopoly laws?

Wait, so does a single company own all the cabling or something!? We have a despised-for-their-incompetence company called Openreach in Britain but the cables they manage cover almost the entire county and any ISP can use them.

I keep seeing comcast mentioned, why do you guys across the pond pay for a broadband service with a maximum download amount like it’s a 3G phone?

Hopefully not a public one. It would be perfect if it was a direct message (or even better, built in to your client) but all those request comments and responses from the bot were basically spam to everyone else!

I think their point is that you said “but I am overall against these practices, since they are just illegal”, as in you’re against something because it’s illegal not because it’s immoral