1. 🖼️ [aoe2] Sandy Petersen, designer on Age of Empires 2, on the design of the Joan of Arc campaign (direct link) (👍101 👎1)

from Real Time Strategy ([email protected])

I designed the Joan of Arc campaign for Age of Empires II. I wanted to highlight her incredible victories and show that the English ultimately lost the war, counter to popular belief. Each scenario had a purpose, from escort missions to sieges, culminating in the battle of Castillon to end the war on a high note. 🖍🤖

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2. 💬 What niche RPGs are you particularly fond of? Can be a newer game or an older RPG that never became a cult classic. (direct link) (👍41 👎0)

from Computer RPGs ([email protected])

HammerHelm: RPG and city-builder hybrid. UnderRail: Hard post-apocalyptic CRPG inspired by Fallout. Space Wreck: Immersive space RPG with great roleplaying. Consortium: Text-heavy RPG/FPS with a unique world. 🖍🤖

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3. 📰 'I would like to make a different game using this IP': Dave the Diver dev hints at possible spin-off or sequel (direct link) (👍29 👎0)

from Tycoon Games ([email protected])

'I would like to make a different game using this IP': Dave the Diver dev hints at possible spin-off or sequel

A new game set in the same universe as Dave the Diver could be in the works at developer Mintrocket. CEO Jaeho Hwang also clearly hinted at a potential spin-off or sequel. Mintrocket is still finishing the upcoming In the Jungle DLC, which was initially supposed to launch this year. 🖋️🤖

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4. 📰 Antimatter, an expansive sandbox strategy game with planetary colonization, city-building, space station building, spaceship design and galactic exploration, releases a demo on Steam. (direct link) (👍26 👎3)

from Strategy Games♟️| RTS, 4X and Grand Strategy ([email protected])

Antimatter on Steam

AI Generated Content DisclosureThe developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:Use of AI-generated for some backgrounds 🖊️️🤖

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5. 📰 Octopath Traveler 0 Hands-On Preview – Mayor Monster Slayer (direct link) (👍22 👎0)

from World of JRPGs ([email protected])

Octopath Traveler 0 Hands-On Preview – Mayor Monster Slayer

Square Enix has steadily built Octopath Traveler into one of the most recognizable names in modern RPGs, thanks to its striking HD-2D presentation and engaging turn-based battles. With Octopath Traveler 0, the series isn’t just getting a new entry it’s getting a full-fledged prequel that dares to evolve the formula in ways fans might not have expected. Eight Fighters, One BattleOf course, the biggest draw of any Octopath Traveler game is combat, and Octopath Traveler 0 doesn’t disappoint. If the full game builds on the foundation laid here, Octopath Traveler 0 could easily stand out as one of the most rewarding turn-based RPGs in years. Octopath Traveler 0 is set for release on December 4 for the PS4, PS5, Switch, Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S and PC. 🖊️️🤖

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6. 📰 Did you know? A remake of the Rock Raiders Lego game exists (direct link) (👍22 👎1)

from Strategy Games ([email protected])

- YouTube

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7. 📰 Haunted Chocolatier has fishing, books, and a new screenshot so pretty I want to live in it (direct link) (👍18 👎0)

from Life Simulation Games ([email protected])

Haunted Chocolatier has fishing, books, and a new screenshot so pretty I want to live in it

Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone shared the image today and it's lovely. The detail in the pixel art, especially on the surface of that homely looking tree house, is gorgeous. Barone is happily working away on Haunted Chocolatier, which doesn't have a release date yet. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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8. 📰 The Complete History of the Donkey Kong 64 101% World Record [Bismuth] (direct link) (👍12 👎0)

from Speedrun video games ([email protected])

- YouTube

Posted by Die4Ever

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9. 📰 2XKO's 'simple' controls continue to befuddle even veteran fighting game players despite being nearly identical to Marvel Tokon's (direct link) (👍8 👎0)

from Fighting Game Community ([email protected])

2XKO's 'simple' controls continue to befuddle even veteran fighting game players despite being nearly identical to Marvel Tokon's

Despite (or arguably because of) its simple inputs, many fighting game players are continuing to take issue with 2XKO's control scheme. On its surface, 2XKO is a six-button fighting game with light, medium and heavy normals, two special buttons and a team button though it doesn't always feel that way. No matter which way you map out your buttons, at least on pad in my experience, the layout always seems to be unbalanced with the existence of two special buttons. But man this control scheme is not it. So what are your thoughts on 2XKO's control scheme and the lack of motion inputs? 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Supreme

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10. 📰 Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined announced for PC and consoles - KitGuru (direct link) (👍3 👎0)

from JRPG ([email protected])

Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined announced for PC and consoles

Dragon Quest 7 stands out as one of the most interesting games in the franchise, in large part due to its unique structure and worldbuilding. Next year, fans will be able to re-experience the game, with Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined now announced for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. Dragon Quest 7 begins with the player on a lone island, known to its inhabitants as the only known land in the entire world. Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined will release for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 in February 2026. KitGuru Says: Did you play Dragon Quest 7 back in the day? 🖊️️🤖

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Inactive communities 👻

These communities have had no posts in the last month:

• Real Time Strategy, The RTS HQ
  • Welcome back, commander. Good welcome, soldiers.
• Interactive Fiction
  • The community for interactive fiction and text games on Lemmy.
• Turn Based Strategy
  • A place to discuss turn based strategy games. Tactical game discussion also welcome.
• Gamebooks / Choose Your Own Adventure / Fighting Fantasy
  • For gamebooks like Chose Your Own Adventure, Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf, etc. whether that's in book form or apps or other formats of interactive fiction.
• ARPG's: Diablo/PoE/Last Epoch
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• Truck Simulators
  • A community for truck simulators enjoyers.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

📰 Greece - Big Cities (direct link), posted in Truck Simulators (👍7 👎0)

SCS Software's blog: Greece

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1. 📰 [...] Steve Wozniak [75th birthday]: "I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for" (direct link) (👍779 👎13)

from PC Gaming ([email protected])

On his 75th birthday, Apple legend Steve Wozniak pops up in a comment thread about his 'bad decision' to sell his stock in the '80s with a devastatingly zen reply: 'I gave all my Apple wealth away bec

Steve Wozniak has spent the last four decades on philanthropy, public speaking and founding a range of tech companies. Despite decades in the tech business and access to fabulous wealth he by all accounts seems to have remained an almost absurdly chill and normal guy. A few days ago Woz popped into a thread about his ongoing lawsuit against YouTube over internet scammers. 🖋️🤖

Posted by alessandro

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2. 🖼️ Silksong launch instantly crashes steams purchacing servers (direct link) (👍72 👎3)

from PC Gaming ([email protected])

I've never seen the hype so real that it instantly crashes steams purchace processing servers.

You can get it on GOG and Humble Bundle still

Posted by Smokeydope

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3. 📰 Earthworm Jim (direct link) (👍67 👎0)

from MS-DOS gaming ([email protected])

Earthworm Jim (E105)

Earthworm Jim (1994, Shiny Entertainment) is the kind of 2D platformer, with its cartoony graphics and smooth animations, that was becoming commonplace on the consoles of the time. As a product of the 90s it's full of bizarre humour, only elevated by its eclectic soundtrack. There's no doubt this game has a great production quality, but is it fun to play? 🖋️🤖

Posted by rss

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4. 💬 [Discussion] What's something that has improved your Deck experience? (direct link) (👍55 👎0)

from Steam Deck ([email protected])

It's been kinda a slow week as far as Deck news goes, so seems like a good time for a discussion post.

What's something that's significantly improved your deck experience? It can be a hardware accessory, software, decky plugin, etc.

Posted by Fubarberry

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5. 📰 PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for September: Psychonauts 2, Stardew Valley, Viewfinder (direct link) (👍27 👎0)

from PlayStation ([email protected])

PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for September: Psychonauts 2, Stardew Valley, Viewfinder

Play psychic super spy, settle in with a cozy farming sim and reshape the world with a photo with the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup for September. Psychonauts 2, Stardew Valley and Viewfinder will be available to PlayStation Plus members from September 2.PlayStation Plus members have until September 1 to add Lies of P, Day Z and My Hero One’s Justice 2. 🖋️🤖

Posted by slimerancher

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6. 💬 Android emulation in danger? Good for Linux? (direct link) (👍12 👎1)

from SBC Gaming ([email protected])

I'm thrilled Android's changes might make Linux the better choice for high-end handhelds. I prefer it ideologically and for ease of use. My only complaint is battery drain, but more focus on Linux could improve sleep functions. 🖍🤖

Posted by Mynameisallen

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7. 📰 The Settlers 2 Gold Edition for Amiga (direct link) (👍11 👎0)

from Amiga ([email protected])

The Settlers 2 Gold Edition for Amiga

29,90 € – 99,90 €The iconic strategy game is finally coming to the Amiga! In 1993, The Settlers made a major impact on Amiga gaming and created a whole new genre: the city-building strategy game. When the even more ambitious sequel, The Settlers II, was released in 1996, it was a huge success and remains a fan favorite to this day. With an official license from Ubisoft Entertainment, The Settlers II Gold Edition will be available natively for the Amiga on October 18, 2025. Not as a quick port, but as a lovingly optimized version that shows what the Amiga is really capable of. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Twig

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8. 📰 Microsoft hints at ‘more affordable’ Xbox Cloud Gaming plan (direct link) (👍10 👎0)

from Xbox ([email protected])

Microsoft hints at ‘more affordable’ Xbox Cloud Gaming plan

Xbox Cloud Gaming is only part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, meaning you have to pay $19.99 a month to get access to xCloud. Microsoft’s VP of Next Generation, Jason Ronald, has appeared on the official Xbox podcast. Ronald: “I think for us, it really opens up the opportunity to make it much more affordable.” 🖋️🤖

Posted by lazycouchpotato

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9. 💬 Steam Deck OLED | Dual Boot Windows 10 LTSC | How to Enable Secure Boot (direct link) (👍11 👎3)

from Steam Deck ([email protected])

Bought Steam Deck OLED to avoid Xbox fees. EA games stopped working, so I dual-booted Windows 10. Now Battlefield 6 beta gives a "Secure Boot not enabled" error. My BIOS is UEFI, TPM is ready, and partition is GPT, but I can't find a Secure Boot option in the BIOS. Is the only way to enable it via this GitHub guide? Any risks or advice? 🖍🤖

Posted by Resonosity

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10. 📰 [Playstation Lifestyle] GameStop Cutting $50 Off PS5 Price If You Trade in Xbox Series X (direct link) (👍6 👎0)

from PlayStation ([email protected])

GameStop Cutting $50 Off PS5 Price If You Trade in Xbox Series X

The company is offering extra $50 credit towards the purchase of a PS5 when trading in older consoles collecting dust, including the Xbox Series X|S. Trade in your old consoles including Xbox Series X and get PS5 for a good price“Trade in any PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series, or Switch [1], and we’ll add an extra $50 in trade credit toward your new PS5,” the offer reads. Xbox Series X|S stands out here because unlike the others, it’s not a last-gen console. As far as we know, there’s no offer of extra credit if folks want to trade in a PS5 for Xbox Series X (not that many would want to). ), they’ll still get the $50 credit. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by ZippyBot

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11. 📰 trying to make use of my ps+ subscription I completed Jedi: survivor and doki doki litterature club and wrote down some thoughts as a review for games you might "own" but haven't played (direct link) (👍3 👎1)

from PlayStation | PS5 ([email protected])

A Long and a Short Game from the PS+ Catalogue, August

A Long and a Short Game from the PS+ Catalogue, August olof jonsson 6 min read · Aug 15, 2025 -- Listen ShareEvery month I go through the PlayStation Plus (PS+) catalogue and find for you a long and a short game that I write about. Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThe big one: Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, played 20h, finished main storyline. Why you will like this:Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a Jedi power-fantasy, Star Wars fandom service, and a peak cinematic adventure all wrapped into one. What I just mentioned are the big strengths of Jedi Survivor and if those entice you I suggest you go and enjoy the adventure. It’s swing and maybe dodge, maybe hit, maybe flinch, maybe start unblockable attack and ignore everything, or just start hitting back. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by jonflipzooza

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Inactive communities 👻

These communities have had no posts in the last month:

• Nintendo 3DS, 2DS and DS
  • Nintendo 3DS, DS, 2DS gaming handhelds, games, accessories, gear, hacks, history and community. Fun, memories and friends associated with them.
• Nintendo Switch
  • Community for stuff around the Nintendo Switch
• DOS Gaming
  • This community covers DOS gaming from all angles - reviews, tips and tricks, new releases, troubleshooting, organizing multiplayer events and, of course, good ole nostalgia posts.
• iOSGaming
  • iOS Gaming News, Discussion and Recommendations.
• Commodore 64
  • A place for people all over the world to discuss the best personal computer of all time - the Commodore 64!
• Atari 8bit
  • Community covering everything Atari 8bit.
• Commodore Plus/4
  • Commodore 16 and Plus/4 community.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

📰 World of tank Blitz reforged vs Nintendo Switch ? (direct link), posted in Nintendo Switch (👍3 👎0)

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Players Can Sign Up Now for Ultra Test to Shape the Future of the Game

January 16th, 2025 – World of Tanks Blitz, the cross-platform, free-to-play tank action game, is about to enter a new chapter with the upcoming Reforged Update — the most significant one in the game’s history.

For over a dec...

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1. 🖼️ Anyone else guilty of this? (direct link) (👍1244 👎29)

from RetroGaming ([email protected])

Posted by The_Picard_Maneuver

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2. 📰 GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship (direct link) (👍1123 👎14)

from Games ([email protected])

GOG’s Freedom to Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games for Free to Protest Censorship

GOG has launched a new initiative titled Freedom to Buy, aimed at raising awareness around the constantly growing issue of game censorship and delistings. The campaign challenges what GOG describes as a “quiet” form of censorship, where titles vanish not for violating laws, but because of decisions made behind closed doors. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Ninjazzon

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3. 🖼️ This happened to me in Roller Coaster Tycoon and The Sims. (direct link) (👍945 👎17)

from Gaming ([email protected])

Makes sense. An "easy button" gets hard to resist, like when quick workarounds become standard. I burned out on games because cheats made them short-term fun but ruined normal play afterward. 🖍🤖

Posted by The_Picard_Maneuver

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4. 📰 Nintendo-owned titles excluded from Japan’s biggest speedrunning event after organizers were told they had to apply for permission for each game (direct link) (👍598 👎3)

from Games ([email protected])

Nintendo-owned titles excluded from Japan’s biggest speedrunning event after organizers were told they had to apply for permission for each game

RTA in Japan Summer 2025 will not feature any Nintendo games at all. The decision was made in response to a warning from Nintendo. Organizers will be applying for individual usage permission for each title they want to feature in the future. This will affect the guidelines and requirements for nominating games for future competitions. 🖋️🤖

Posted by misk

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5. 📰 Battlefield 6 will be a unplayable on Linux systems due to the anti-cheat (direct link) (👍332 👎3)

from Linux Gaming ([email protected])

Battlefield 6 will be a unplayable on Linux systems due to the anti-cheat

Just in case you were curious - no you will not be able to play Battlefield 6 on any Linux powered system including SteamOS. It will be using EA's newer EA Javelin Anticheat which actively blocks Linux platforms from playing. So our curated anti-cheat page has been updated to now list it. Pictured - Battlefield 6In other related news, one interesting point about Battlefield 6 is its use of open source. Pretty amazing to see such huge developers now using the cross-platform and open source Godot. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by cm0002

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6. 📰 GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" (direct link) (👍288 👎2)

from Gaming ([email protected])

GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"

Those removals were the result of pressure on the storefronts from payment processors like Mastercard and Visa to remove games featuring sexual content. Payment processors were in turn pressured by a campaign by conservative anti-porn organization Collective Shout, which released an open letter to payment processors on July 11. Players and developers have taken to social media to put pressure of their own on payment processors to push against what they see as censorship. No claims of potential illegality have been made about any games removed from platforms. "For 48 hours, these games are free, because if a game is legal, you should be free to buy it." 🖊️️🤖

Posted by BrikoX

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7. 💬 Battlefield 6 requires secure boot to be enabled and active (direct link) (👍144 👎3)

from Linux Gaming ([email protected])

Dual boot Win11 for programming. Game blocks Linux. Booted to Win11 but complained secure boot disabled. BIOS showed enabled but inactive. Reset keys to default. Won't buy until EA stops this. Informing others. 🖍🤖

Posted by DonutsRMeh

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8. 📰 You'll have to pay for a $20 DLC to unlock two out of six clans in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. (direct link) (👍98 👎2)

from Gaming ([email protected])

This sucks: you'll have to pay for two clans in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

The Shadows and Silk add-on pack comes as part of the Premium Edition of the game. It costs £18.69/€21.99/€89.99 for it. If you don't pay, you'll only be able to access the default four: Brujah, Tremere, Banu Haqim and Ventrue. 🖋️🤖

Posted by onlooker

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9. 💬 Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (direct link) (👍59 👎1)

from Patient Gamers ([email protected])

Posted by BurntWits

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10. 🖼️ Openfront.io | Online browser-based RTS game (direct link) (👍22 👎0)

from OpenSourceGames ([email protected])

OpenFront.io is a real-time strategy game focused on territorial control, alliance building, and expansion via structures on real-world maps. Fork/rewrite of WarFront.io. Credit: github.com/WarFrontIO. 🖍🤖

Posted by heartbreaker

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11. 💬 Monumental praise for Donkey Kong Banaza (direct link) (👍16 👎2)

from Let's Talk About Games ([email protected])

I won’t revisit the game much, but my four-year-old daughter loves Bananza. Previously only interested in Mario Kart (auto-drive) and Bluey, she now requests to watch “the monkey game” at random times. It’s a reward for good behavior—she laughs at banana eyes, cheers for collected bananas, and suggests punch spots. She’s enthralled just watching. May let her play later, but currently adore sharing this with her. 🖍🤖

Posted by Noit

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12. 📰 Feedback for my first (mini-) game? (direct link) (👍5 👎1)

from Indie Gaming ([email protected])

ASTRO DOME by SorryforSmelling

This is my first full Game. A short (10-15 min.) take on the Astro Shooter Genre. Everything (except audio) in this Game was made by me in the Godot 4.4 Engine. If you like what you see, and want to keep up with me, consider following me on Instagram @_rapid_access_impulseThanks for playing :) ~ RaiRai 🖊️️🤖

Posted by SorryforSmelling

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Inactive communities 👻

These communities have had no posts in the last month:

• Patient Gamers
  • A gaming sub free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.
• Gyro Gaming
  • Welcome to Gyro Gaming subreddit, where people can share their passion for Gyroscopic Controls in Video Games, such as Camera Aiming, Vehicle Steering, Typing, etc.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

🖼️ Heroes of Might and Magic is the best Might and Magic (direct link), posted in Patient Gamers (👍48 👎2)

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32236403

Heroes of Might and Magic is the best Might and Magic

especially 3.

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1. 📰 'The prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn’t completely gone': despite Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's massive success, its director reckons real-time action games still have an easier time (direct link) (👍89 👎2)

from Computer RPGs ([email protected])

'The prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn’t completely gone': despite Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's massive success, its director reckons real-time action games still have an easier time

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a turn-based RPG with real-time combat. Creative director Guillaume Broche believes this is part of a shift away from JRPGs. The Persona series is an example of a successful JRPG with real time combat. Broche says the inclusion of parry and dodging was not to avoid prejudice. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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2. 🖼️ Pizza Connection / Pizza Tycoon - US Cover Art by Cybernetic Corporation (1994) (direct link) (👍33 👎0)

from Tycoon Games ([email protected])

Pizza Tycoon on Mobygames: https://www.mobygames.com/game/1827/pizza-tycoon/ German cover: German ProMarkt MakroMarkt release: front back Cross-post: https://lemmy.world/post/21174322 🖍🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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3. 🖼️ What's the best jrpg mascot? (direct link) (👍30 👎0)

from World of JRPGs ([email protected])

JRPGs like Persona (Morgana), Final Fantasy (moogles, chocobos), Tales of (owls), and Star Ocean (strange cute monsters) have mascots. Our 2-year-old community is thriving, so let’s regularly update our profile picture. Share your favorite mascot—most upvoted wins temporarily. 🖍🤖

Posted by tamlyn

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4. 📰 Ground of Aces (in development), a WW2 era air base building and management game, released in early access on Steam. (direct link) (👍18 👎0)

from Strategy Games♟️| RTS, 4X and Grand Strategy ([email protected])

Ground of Aces on Steam

Take command of a remote military air base in the Second World War. Plan, build and shape your very own air base. Manage iconic World War II aircraft such as the Hurricane and the Spitfire. The game is built from the ground to look like a living and breathing comic book, bringing the style of these timeless art pieces to life. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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5. 📰 RTA in Japan Summer 2025 will not be featuring any Nintendo games [“the use of Nintendo games by a corporation requires prior permission”] (direct link) (👍16 👎0)

from Speedrun video games ([email protected])

RTA in Japan における任天堂株式会社のゲームの利用に関するお知らせ

RTA in Japan における任天堂株式会社が著作権を有するゲーム（以下「任天堂のゲーム」といいます）の利用と、RTA in Japan Summer 2025で任天堂のゲームを利用していないことについて、そこに至った経緯と今後の対応を説明いたします。RTA in Japanでは、これまで任天堂のゲームを利用していましたが、2025年6月13日に任天堂株式会社から、当法人における任天堂のゲームの利用について、「法人による任天堂のゲームの利用には事前の許諾が必要である」こと、当法人のこれまでの利用に「事前の許諾がなく無許諾利用にあたる」ことの指摘がありました。RTA in Japan としては任天堂のゲームを今後も利用することを希望し、任天堂株式会社と許諾に関する協議を開始しました。現時点での決定事項として、今後はイベント・ゲームごとに個別に任天堂株式会社へ許諾申請をRTA in Japanから出すこととなりますが、RTA in Japan Summer 2025 については、採用ゲーム発表のタイミングでは明確な取り扱いを定めることができなかったため、任天堂のゲームの利用を見送りました。RTA in Japan Summer 2025以降にRTA in Japanで開催するイベントでは、都度事前に任天堂株式会社へ許諾申請を出し、許諾を受けることで任天堂のゲームの利用が可能となる見込みです。なお、この影響でRTA in Japanのゲーム応募ガイドラインや応募要項が変わる想定となっており、こちらは内容が決まりましたら速やかにお知らせいたします。また、RTA in Japan Summer 2025において、特に本件に該当するゲームを応募してくださった方は大変申し訳ございませんでした。RTA in Japan 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Die4Ever

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6. 📰 MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls PS5 Closed Beta Announce Trailer (direct link) (👍12 👎0)

from Fighting Game Community ([email protected])

- YouTube

Posted by sym

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7. 📰 Beloved Age of Empires 2 style strategy game [Stronghold Crusader] is finally back after 23 years [in a Definitive Edition] (direct link) (👍12 👎2)

from Real Time Strategy ([email protected])

23 years later, one beloved Age of Empires 2 rival returns in a big way

Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition is available on Steam right now. It's the latest in one of the best RTS game series of all time. The game has two historical campaigns, eight more units, and four extra AI lords with whom to do battle. Multiple free updates are on the way that will introduce more missions and new maps. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Zagorath

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8. 📰 One of my favorite cozy farming sims is getting a huge upgrade to its NPCs (direct link) (👍8 👎0)

from Life Simulation Games ([email protected])

Fields of Mistria's third major update has arrived including a huge NPC romance upgrade

Fields of Mistria's third big early access update, which is out now, includes a game-changing expansion to the romance system. The update increases the max NPC heart level (your approval meter for the various townsfolk) from six to eight. It also adds new heart and dialogue events for the new max level and even introduces a dating mechanic. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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9. 📰 The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily just released on Steam (direct link) (👍6 👎0)

from Turn Based Strategy ([email protected])

The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily on Steam

Capture enemy generals, turn them into allies, and clear Scarlet’s name as you fight for the duo’s happy ending! Capturing-Turn-Based StrategyVictory is achieved by "capturing" or "executing" enemy generals. Secure only the essential supply line outposts, and carve a path of invasion using your limited forces and the Stream Airship. Freeze enemy advances with , cut off their supply line to the frontlines with the . Capturing Enemy generalsActivating the Capture Stream lets Lily use her skill to take enemy generals alive. 🖊️️🤖

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10. 📰 The Hive, an RTS game with RPG elements about controlling an insectoid hivemind underground, on Steam (direct link) (👍5 👎0)

from Real Time Strategy, The RTS HQ ([email protected])

The Hive on Steam

About This GameThe Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hive mind. Set in a vast, ancient underworld filled with forgotten civilizations, colossal creatures, and untold mysteries, your journey is one of survival, evolution, and uncovering the secrets of a lost world. As your colony grows, so does your understanding of the ruins scattered across New Eden, revealing a tragic history and a glimpse of what lies beyond. In this hostile yet beautiful landscape, danger and discovery go hand in hand, and every choice could shape the fate of your swarm. MAIN FEATURES 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Elevator7009

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11. 📰 Timelake: Time Travel Tactics, a roguelite strategy game with time travel mechanics, has demo on Steam (direct link) (👍3 👎0)

from Strategy Games ([email protected])

Timelake: Time Travel Tactics on Steam

About This GameWade into the ripples of time, where every move counts and the dream may never let you go. Lost in a city adrift in the mist, you find yourself chasing whispers of power and salvation. In this roguelite tactical game, your choices ripple outward, daring you to master the unknown or succumb to it. Echoes of unseen footsteps and whispers of impossible beings accompany your journey, daring you to grasp at the truths the city refuses to reveal. Step into Timelake, where strategy is your only anchor in a world unmoored by time and madness. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Elevator7009

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12. 💬 Setting up Promods on the Steam Deck (direct link) (👍1 👎0)

from Truck Simulators ([email protected])

Installing ProMods on Steam Deck:

1. Install ETS2 via Steam, ensure all DLCs. In Properties, set Proton 7.0-4. Launch once to create folders.

2. Download ProMods (7 files, recommend paid for single download). Transfer files to Deck via SD card/Warpinator.

3. Place files in: /home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/227300/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/Euro Truck Simulator 2/mod (create folder if missing).

4. Relaunch ETS2, enable ProMods in Mod Manager, prioritize top.

Original post by u/DraperyFalls. 🖍🤖

Posted by underline960

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Inactive communities 👻

These communities have had no posts in the last month:

• Adventure / Point-and-Click / Narrative Games
  • A community for fans, devs, and general aficionados of the adventure game genre. This includes IF/parser games, point-and-click games, puzzle games, walking simulators, and whatever else you want to call these. To us, they're simply adventure games.
• JRPG
  • No description
• Interactive Fiction
  • The community for interactive fiction and text games on Lemmy.
• Gamebooks / Choose Your Own Adventure / Fighting Fantasy
  • For gamebooks like Chose Your Own Adventure, Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf, etc. whether that's in book form or apps or other formats of interactive fiction.
• ARPG's: Diablo/PoE/Last Epoch
  • 

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

💬 How are we enjoying Last Epoch ? (direct link), posted in ARPG's: Diablo/PoE/Last Epoch (👍7 👎0)

I recently re evaluated my choice to buy this game and I'm having a blast, I found the game far more generous than PoE 2 (though I like the poe graphics more)

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1. 📰 Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux (direct link) (👍884 👎15)

from PC Gaming ([email protected])

Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux

Steam Hardware & Software Survey results for July 2025 show Linux's market share growing ahead of a potential full SteamOS release for PC.

Posted by inclementimmigrant

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2. 📰 Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter (direct link) (👍96 👎0)

from MS-DOS gaming ([email protected])

Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter

Ars has partnered with GOG.com to create a store page featuring some of our favorites from GOG's catalog. Twice a month, we'll publish a personal retrospective like this one, where we'll feature one of the games from the list. Be sure to check out our first article in the series, Star Trek 25th Anniversary! 🖋️🤖

Posted by DosDude

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3. 💬 [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - August 2025 (direct link) (👍36 👎0)

from Steam Deck ([email protected])

Posted by Fubarberry

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4. 📰 Xbox Is Done Selling Movies And TV Shows (direct link) (👍30 👎1)

from Xbox ([email protected])

Xbox Is Done Selling Movies And TV Shows

Xbox is no longer selling TV shows or movies on its digital storefront. The news came with little fanfare or notice, though some people who regularly check Xbox’s movie and TV section saw a bunch of movies about the end of the world in the featured section right before it all shut down. 🖋️🤖

Posted by AlexanderTheGreat

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5. 📰 New PS5 system update beta previews DualSense wireless controller pairing across multiple devices (direct link) (👍21 👎0)

from PlayStation ([email protected])

New PS5 system update beta previews DualSense wireless controller pairing across multiple devices

Like thisMany PS5 peripherals, including the DualSense wireless controller, are designed to support a variety of devices beyond PS5 including PC, Mac, and mobile devices. Here are the details of each features:Pairing a DualSense wireless controller across multiple devicesUntil now, pairing was required each time you connected a DualSense or DualSense Edge wireless controller to a different device such as PC, Mac, and mobile devices. Press and hold one of the action buttons (triangle, circle, cross, or square) and the PS button for over 5 seconds. Press and hold one of the action buttons and the PS button for about 3 seconds. See here for the list of devices and OS versions that support Bluetooth® connections with DualSense wireless controller and DualSense Edge wireless controller. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by slimerancher

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6. 📰 The Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release in over 30 years — pre-orders start at $299 (direct link) (👍15 👎0)

from Commodore 64 ([email protected])

The Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release in over 30 years — pre-orders start at $299

The Commodore 64 Ultimate will be the first new hardware released under the auspices of the new management. Image 1 of 6 (Image credit: Commodore) (Image credit: Commodore) (Image credit: Commodore) (Image credit: Commodore) (Image credit: Commodore) (Image credit: Commodore)Commodore 64 Ultimate overviewRefocusing on the new hardware launch, we see that there are three new Commodore 64 Ultimate models to choose from, but they only really differ cosmetically. However, C64 stalwarts can also have fun with their collections of “dusty old cartridges, CRT TVs, datasettes, or disk drives,” assures the Commodore 64 Ultimate website. Considerably more expensive, at a touted $499, we find the Commodore 64 Ultimate: Founders Edition. Image 1 of 2 (Image credit: Commodore) (Image credit: Commodore)Crowdfunding details and a reminderThis project is using its crowdfunding platform, not Kickstarter or Indiegogo, to save expenses. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by i_am_not_a_robot

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7. 📰 Interview with Counter-Strike creator Minh Le - Spillhistorie.no (2024) (direct link) (👍14 👎0)

from PC Gaming ([email protected])

We had a chat with one of the original creators of Counter-Strike.

Posted by Retrogamingpappa

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8. 🖼️ [Official Art] Journey Box Art (direct link) (👍13 👎0)

from PlayStation ([email protected])

Posted by Grimm

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9. 📰 OutRun: Amiga Edition by reassembler (direct link) (👍12 👎0)

from Amiga ([email protected])

OutRun: Amiga Edition by reassembler

An optimized port of SEGA's 1986 arcade game OutRun, utilizing the original 68000 assembly code, to mid-spec Commodore Amiga computers. Whilst small compromises have been made to accommodate differences between the arcade hardware and the Amiga - this looks and plays almost identical to the original.

InstallationFull instructions are provided in the bundled readme.txt, but the arcade ROMs (not included) must be converted to a format suitable for the Amiga with the supplied Python script. The folder structure, should then be transferred to a folder on your Amiga. You'll need a small amount of familiarity with the Amiga to get this running. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Twig

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10. 📰 Donkey Kong for the Commodore Plus/4 looks fantastic! (direct link) (👍7 👎0)

from Commodore Plus/4 ([email protected])

Indie Retro News: Donkey Kong for the Commodore Plus

If you've been living in a cave or just too young, you probably wouldn't remember one of the greatest retro games of all time, the 1981 Nintendo game ' Donkey Kong '. A game in which you played as Mario, that must avoid rolling barrels, sometimes with a hammer in hand, to save a damsel in distress from a giant ape called Donkey Kong. If however you do remember the game or just want to experience it on your Commodore Plus/4. One of those releases was none other than Donkey Kong, which has arrived on the Commodore Plus/4. The player controls Jumpman aka Mario as he runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from Donkey Kong. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by i_am_not_a_robot

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11. 💬 Transfer savegames from android/Retroarch to R36S? (direct link) (👍5 👎0)

from SBC Gaming ([email protected])

"Hi, I want to port my RetroArch savegames from Android to R36S/ArkOS. Tried syncing between Android devices but saves weren’t recognized. Any guides or help appreciated!" (300 chars) 🖍🤖

Posted by ratzki

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12. 📰 Atari-legend Nolan Bushnell – I still play games every day - Spillhistorie.no (2024) (direct link) (👍5 👎0)

from Atari 8bit ([email protected])

– I still play games every day

Klikk for å sende en lenke med e-post til en venn(åpnes i en ny fane)E-post 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Retrogamingpappa

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Inactive communities 👻

These communities have had no posts in the last month:

• Steam Deck
  • [email protected]
• PlayStation | PS5
  • The PlayStation 5 community for Lemmy!
• Nintendo 3DS, 2DS and DS
  • Nintendo 3DS, DS, 2DS gaming handhelds, games, accessories, gear, hacks, history and community. Fun, memories and friends associated with them.
• Nintendo Switch
  • Community for stuff around the Nintendo Switch
• DOS Gaming
  • This community covers DOS gaming from all angles - reviews, tips and tricks, new releases, troubleshooting, organizing multiplayer events and, of course, good ole nostalgia posts.
• iOSGaming
  • iOS Gaming News, Discussion and Recommendations.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

📰 Nintendo Runs Out Of Replacement Parts For 2DS Systems And New 3DS LL, Ends Repairs In Japan (direct link), posted in Nintendo 3DS, 2DS and DS (👍53 👎0)

Nintendo Runs Out Of Replacement Parts For 2DS Systems And New 3DS LL, Ends Repairs In Japan

This includes repairs for "Nintendo 2DS systems" and the New Nintendo 3DS LL (known as the XL model here in the West) - mentioning how it's now officially run out of parts necessary to repair these systems in Japan. Here's the full updated notice (via machine translation):Nintendo: "As we have run out of parts necessary for repairs, we have stopped accepting repairs for the New Nintendo 3DS LL and Nintendo 2DS systems. Please note that repairs for the New Nintendo 3DS system have already ended on August 28, 2024. Nintendo also announced it had run out of replacement parts for the Wii U in Japan last July, and ended online play for both the 3DS and Wii U in the same year. Repair services for these systems haven't been available for some time now in many other parts of the world. 🖊️️🤖

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Multicommunity: gaming-platforms.json

1. 🖼️ Now you're playing with power! (direct link) (👍849 👎4)

from RetroGaming ([email protected])

Not mine, but I always enjoy seeing these monstrosities.

Posted by The_Picard_Maneuver

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2. 🖼️ Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M (direct link) (👍809 👎8)

from Games ([email protected])

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

Safe to say the petition was a success! Now we will have to wait and see the EU's response to it.

Posted by simple

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3. 🖼️ PC Gamer taking a jab at the industry (direct link) (👍717 👎8)

from Games ([email protected])

Sauce https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/foolproof-ways-to-get-laid-off-in-the-videogame-industry/

Posted by ICastFist

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4. 🖼️ I have finally gotten rid of Windows (direct link) (👍651 👎12)

from Linux Gaming ([email protected])

So anyway, any beginner tips?

Posted by Gutek8134

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5. 🖼️ Is that a mod on the device that you own? (direct link) (👍634 👎15)

from Gaming ([email protected])

Posted by The_Picard_Maneuver

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6. 🖼️ Reminder that you do not own digital games (direct link) (👍372 👎11)

from Gaming ([email protected])

Hi there, Dark and Darker was removed from sale on March 5 due to a court decision in Korea. It will be removed from libraries on November 1, 2025, and become unplayable. Redstone Shards and Legendary Status upgrades can no longer be purchased, but existing shards can be used until November 1, 2025. Legendary Status upgrades will be refunded to original payment or Epic balance; shards won't be refunded. Contact support if no refund by July 1. The Epic Games Store team. 🖍🤖

Posted by BrikoX

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7. 🖼️ You would think the dinosaurs would have been a greater discovery then the artifact she is chasing (direct link) (👍202 👎0)

from Gaming ([email protected])

Posted by UltraGiGaGigantic

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8. 📰 8BitDo announces its controllers now have Steam (SteamOS) compatibility (direct link) (👍114 👎2)

from Linux Gaming ([email protected])

8BitDo announces its controllers now have Steam (SteamOS) compatibility

8BitDo says its controllers are now compatible with Steam/SteamOS. The announcement specifically mentions three models and advises users to update their controllers and Steam client to the latest version. So far, 8BitDo controllers are compatible with Windows, Android, Switch, and iOS devices. 🖋️🤖

Posted by network_switch

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9. 💬 What are you hoping to buy during Steam summer sale? (direct link) (👍51 👎3)

from Let's Talk About Games ([email protected])

For me, I am hoping to see discounts on:

• Steam Deck OLED
• Expedition 33 (probably worth the full price but I am not sure if the timing based combat is for me)
• Fantasy Life i
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Posted by cloudless

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10. 💬 Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (direct link) (👍45 👎0)

from Patient Gamers ([email protected])

Posted by BurntWits

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11. 📰 OpenMW 0.49.0 Released! (direct link) (👍22 👎0)

from OpenSourceGames ([email protected])

OpenMW 0.49.0 Released!

OpenMW 0.49.0 Released! 2025-07-04 - capoAfter almost 3 years of development, we’re thrilled to release OpenMW version 0.49.0—our largest and most ambitious update yet! As mentioned earlier, 0.49.0 will reject saves made in releases before 0.45.0, released in 2019. Like Morrowind, OpenMW warns you when loading saved games that target a completely different content setup, and 0.49.0 will list what specifically is missing from your current content list. Their game files can be enabled as “mods” for Morrowind or the OpenMW Example Suite in the launcher. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by testman

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12. 🖼️ Milestone: My Puzzle game reached it's 11th positive review! (direct link) (👍17 👎0)

from Indie Gaming ([email protected])

Posted by GulAtiCa

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13. 💬 "My Wish Became True" - native gyro support for select Flydigi and 8BitDo controllers added to Steam, now in beta (direct link) (👍2 👎0)

from Gyro Gaming ([email protected])

youtube.com/watch?v=NTS6m8-w8U…

Posted by csolisr

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Inactive communities 👻

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• Patient Gamers
  • A gaming sub free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

🖼️ Heroes of Might and Magic is the best Might and Magic (direct link), posted in Patient Gamers (👍48 👎2)

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32236403

Heroes of Might and Magic is the best Might and Magic

especially 3.

Posted by Subtex

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Multicommunity: gaming-general.json

1. 📰 'They told me to destroy' my backups, Fallout creator Tim Cain says: 'People high up at companies take authority but no responsibility' for game preservation (direct link) (👍121 👎1)

from Computer RPGs ([email protected])

'They told me to destroy' my backups, Fallout creator Tim Cain says: 'People high up at companies take authority but no responsibility' for game preservation

They (and all the sprites in the original Fallout) represent a milestone for the CRPG—and as far as Fallout co-creator Tim Cain knows, their source art assets might just be gone for good. "Those source art files were huge … they were backed up to DAT tape, but I don't know what happened to that DAT tape and it doesn't last that long. So, I think that source art is all gone." "I've lost stuff, and I think I take an active effort to keep a lot of things, so I can see why companies have lost stuff. "A few months ago, I did a video on game preservation," Cain said in his video. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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2. 📰 Final Fantasy Tactics writer says its political message is still relevant because the world hasn’t improved in 30 years [VGC] (direct link) (👍72 👎0)

from World of JRPG's ([email protected])

Final Fantasy Tactics writer says its political message is still relevant because the world hasn’t improved in 30 years

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is set to arrive on September 30 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4 and PC. The tactical RPG was originally released on the PlayStation back in 1997, but is getting a modern remaster on PC and consoles. Yasumi Matsuno, the original script writer, scenario writer and editor for the game, pointed out that its central themes remain applicable today. 🖋️🤖

Posted by tamlyn

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3. 📰 Academics critique Farming Simulator's portrayal of 'good farming' and praise modders for agro-ecology add-ons (direct link) (👍57 👎1)

from Tycoon Games ([email protected])

Academics critique Farming Simulator's portrayal of 'good farming' and praise modders for agro-ecology add-ons

A recent paper in the Journal of Rural Studies is about a game that's a phenomenon in its own right: Farming Simulator 22. In the paper "Agricultural videogames and 'good farming,'" authors Simon Foureaux and Thomas Daum of the University of Gothenburg outline how they think Farming Simulator encourages an overall harmful view of the farmer's job. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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4. 📰 You can now play both campaigns of the original Command & Conquer in 2-player co-op, thanks to one of its best mods (direct link) (👍37 👎0)

from Real Time Strategy ([email protected])

You can now play both campaigns of the original Command & Conquer in 2-player co-op, thanks to one of its best mods

Dawn of the Tiberium Age is Command & Conquer modding royalty. Built in a customised version of Tiberian Sun's engine, it lets players battle together in any of the games' four multiplayer maps. Features a wide array of original single-player missions, including a whole new campaign. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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5. 📰 Mount & Blade 2's naval expansion will have complex sailing with wind, currents, and respect for a boat's draft (direct link) (👍33 👎0)

from Strategy Games♟️| RTS, 4X and Grand Strategy ([email protected])

Mount & Blade 2's naval expansion will have complex sailing with wind, currents, and respect for a boat's draft

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord will be the first major expansion for the game. The War Sails expansion will take your medieval fantasy adventures to the high seas. It will also add the Nord civilization and expand the map of Calradia to include their icy northern and eastern homelands. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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6. 📰 The Sims' latest patch has caused a pregnancy epidemic, even if they've never had 'woo-hoo' (direct link) (👍18 👎0)

from Life Simulation Games ([email protected])

The Sims' latest patch has caused a pregnancy epidemic, even if they've never had 'woo-hoo'

The Sims 4's latest expansion, Enchanted By Nature, has stayed true-to-form by messing up unrelated parts of the game. The bug isn't affecting every player but is widespread, and looking into the various places Sims players discuss such things introduced me to an entire weird world of pregnancy questions. When Sims are being erroneously marked as pregnant they are, oddly enough, unable to take a pregnancy test. Vampires aren't allowed to feed off pregnant Sims, you see, so a world full of them is like a buffet under lock-and-key. The Sims team continues to work on "resolutions for pregnant Sims." 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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7. 📰 Final Fantasy Creator Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Departure Led to Square’s “Collapse”, Series Composer Says (direct link) (👍17 👎1)

from JRPG ([email protected])

Final Fantasy Creator Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Departure Led to Square’s “Collapse”, Series Composer Says

Final Fantasy series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi left Square back in 2003, and his departure impacted more than the popular role-playing game series, as Square reportedly "collapsed" after he left. As reported by Automaton, the creator of the Final Fantasy series recently spoke on the NOBIYO To Isshoni podcast hosted by longtime series composer Nobuo Uematsu about their time together at the Japanese publisher. At the time, Square did not have a proper corporate organization, Uematsu-san recalled during the show, but everybody listened to Sakaguchi-san, whom he described as a leader. Although Hironobu Sakaguchi left Square over 20 years ago, the legendary game developer recently collaborated with the publisher again on FANTASIAN: Neo Dimension, the PC and console port of the JRPG originally released on the Apple Arcade service a few years back. Sakaguchi-san's touch is unmistakable in the game, so much so that it feels like a proper entry in the Final Fantasy series, as I highlighted in my review. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by network_switch

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8. 💬 Summer Games Done Quick 2025 is live now! (July 6 to 12) (direct link) (👍12 👎0)

from Speedrun video games ([email protected])

Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

Schedule: https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule/56

Non-English:
ES: https://www.twitch.tv/speedrunsespanol
FR: https://www.twitch.tv/lefrenchrestream
JP: https://www.twitch.tv/japanese_restream
DE: https://www.twitch.tv/germench
RU: https://www.twitch.tv/r_u_s_c
PT: https://www.twitch.tv/speedrunsbrasil

VODs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz8YL4HVC87UOYTcO8Bo_6YlBwLXOJ7Zc 🖍🤖

Posted by Die4Ever

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9. 📰 No wonder it took so long to rerelease Final Fantasy Tactics—the source code was lost: 'Keeping that kind of data wasn't a normal thing to do at the time' (direct link) (👍11 👎0)

from Turn Based Strategy ([email protected])

No wonder it took so long to rerelease Final Fantasy Tactics—the source code was lost: 'Keeping that kind of data wasn't a normal thing to do at the time'

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles will be out on September 30 via Steam. It will come with a new UI, full voice-acting, added dialogue by original writer and director Yasumi Matsuno, autosaves, adjustable battle speed, and a host of other changes. If you want something closer to the original experience, it'll come with the old school graphics and many of the other changes and additions. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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10. 📰 Islets Defense, a turn-based tower defense game (direct link) (👍7 👎0)

from Strategy Games ([email protected])

Islets Defense on Steam

About This GameIslets Defense is a turn-based tower defense game focused on resource management in which you build a small and efficient village to support your towers and secure victory. Allocate your towers in strategic positions, sustain them with food, upgrade them with wood and stone, and ensure a strong defense against the slimes. Chests and stage modifiers will offer new strategic opportunities, with unique towers and various upgrades to explore. Build the most efficient village by making smart decisions that synergize with your positioning strategy! Islets Defense is the game for those looking for a classic tower defense experience mixed with the chilling vibes of a resource management game, all wrapped up in easy-to-understand mechanics filled with creative possibilities. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Elevator7009

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11. 🎦 My "problem" with Old Skies and Rosewater | A Fair & Balanced Rant (direct link) (👍2 👎0)

from Adventure / Point-and-Click / Narrative Games ([email protected])

My "problem" with Old Skies and Rosewater | A Fair & Balanced Rant

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Inactive communities 👻

These communities have had no posts in the last month:

• Fighting Game Community
  • All things Fighting Games - with a focus on its community!
• Interactive Fiction
  • The community for interactive fiction and text games on Lemmy.
• Real Time Strategy, The RTS HQ
  • Welcome back, commander. Good welcome, soldiers.
• Gamebooks / Choose Your Own Adventure / Fighting Fantasy
  • For gamebooks like Chose Your Own Adventure, Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf, etc. whether that's in book form or apps or other formats of interactive fiction.
• ARPG's: Diablo/PoE/Last Epoch
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• Truck Simulators
  • A community for truck simulators enjoyers.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

📰 American Truck Simulator 1.51 Update Release (direct link), posted in Truck Simulators (👍15 👎0)

SCS Software's blog: American Truck Simulator 1.51 Update Release

Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License 🖊️️🤖

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1. 📰 Gamers Are Reportedly Skipping GPU Upgrades Due to Soaring Prices — Paying Bills Takes Priority Over Chasing NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 (direct link) (👍649 👎3)

from PC Gaming ([email protected])

Gamers Are Reportedly Skipping GPU Upgrades Due to Soaring Prices — Paying Bills Takes Priority Over Chasing NVIDIA’s RTX 5090

Gamers Aren't Interested In The New AMD/NVIDIA Gaming GPUs, As Rising Prices Have Made Them Basically Non-Accessible. Over 57% of PC gamers have been prevented from buying a new GPU due to the supply chain situation, and with President Trump's tariffs, they have become even more out of reach. 🖋️🤖

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2. 📰 Microsoft Lays Off Thousands Of Employees, Cancels Perfect Dark, Everwild, And More Xbox Games (direct link) (👍135 👎0)

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Microsoft Lays Off Thousands Of Employees, Cancels Perfect Dark, Everwild, And More Xbox Games

This represents the fourth time in 18 months that Microsoft Gaming has laid off workers. However, Variety and several other outlets obtained a memo to Xbox employees from Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer. HR is working directly with impacted employees to provide severance plan benefits (aligned with local laws), including pay, healthcare coverage, and job placement resources to support their transition. Microsoft has laid off thousands upon thousands of workers over the last 18 months, including 1,900 employees in January 2024. According to the report, the number of impacted Blizzard employees could reach as high as 100, with the Overwatch team appearing to escape unscathed this time around. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by AlexanderTheGreat

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3. 📰 [Discussion] Steam Summer Sale has started, what are you buying to play on your Deck? (direct link) (👍71 👎0)

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Welcome to Steam

We're out of personalized recommendations for you right nowWe can recommend some different titles once you've played more games. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Fubarberry

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4. 🖼️ Satisfactory 1.1 Update (direct link) (👍62 👎3)

from PC Gaming ([email protected])

The update for Satisfactory is out. You can build elevators! https://youtu.be/G-EkOyjRSHk

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5. 📰 The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer - YouTube (direct link) (👍45 👎1)

from PlayStation ([email protected])

- YouTube

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6. 📰 Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company' (direct link) (👍30 👎0)

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Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company'

Retro tech tuber Perifractic has released an intriguing video dubbed Can We Save Commodore? My Biggest Project Yet! During the video, we hear that he is attempting to buy Commodore, and thus bring it back into the hands of its fans. Ultimately, this will mean a whole host of new Commodore branded and ‘chicken head’ logo-bearing products. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Hanrahan

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7. 📰 Loom (direct link) (👍25 👎1)

from MS-DOS gaming ([email protected])

DOS GAME CLUB

First of all returning veteran DGC member Esko ("Firefyte"), who has been speedrunning Loom for many years. Joining the podcast for the first time is DGC member Eino ("Evil Taco"), we love it when we get new people on! And last but not least we are joined by Mads from the Retro Asylum Podcast, who did a podcast on Loom themselves a few years ago. On top of all this, DGC members Watchful, Juan ("Reidrac") and Christian ("stdevel") sent in a voice message. And thanks to DGC member Console for editing the episode, you're a lifesaver! 🖊️️🤖

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8. 🖼️ Review for Retroid Pocket Mini V2 (direct link) (👍14 👎0)

from SBC Gaming ([email protected])

Received Retroid Pocket Mini's new OLED screen. The black shell blends well, making letterboxing invisible. Replacement was easy, though their guide isn't optimal. SNES/NES look perfect at native aspect. Love its battery life, ergonomics, and power, but ABXY buttons feel awful. Prefer the Flip 2. 🖍🤖

Posted by Shatur

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9. 📰 [Playstation Lifestyle] Xbox Layoffs Confirmed as Former Exec Says Console Is Dead (direct link) (👍11 👎0)

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Xbox Layoffs Confirmed as Former Exec Says Console Is Dead

Microsoft is cutting 9,000 jobs across the company today, with its Xbox gaming division being affected. This will be the fourth mass layoff the company has undergone in the past 18 months. King, the makers of Candy Crush, is eliminating 10% of its employees. Other studios like ZeniMax have also been impacted, while more are expected to be announced. 🖋️🤖

Posted by ZippyBot

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10. 📰 Nigel Mansell World Championship (C64) - 1993 Gremlin - GTW64 (direct link) (👍8 👎0)

from Commodore 64 ([email protected])

Nigel Mansell World Championship (C64)

Status: Preview, Findability: 3/5Keeping with all the hype of the ex-world champion, Gremlin bought the rights to produce a game based on the famous British Formula One driver, with Nigel Mansell’s World Championship. As a result, the game became one of the holy grail titles for the C64, one which many had been looking forward to including myself. Martin Piper for instance found a hidden talking head for Nigel Mansell – likely to have been used for the training segment. Warren Pilkington ripped the tunes as a SID (see downloads) and found 5 unused bits of SFX as well. So at long last – check out something of a Nigel Mansell game on your C64 for yourself as we close the case on a title that has haunted Games That Weren’t for 26 years and C64 users for much longer. 🖊️️🤖

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Inactive communities 👻

These communities have had no posts in the last month:

• Steam Deck
  • [email protected]
• PlayStation | PS5
  • The PlayStation 5 community for Lemmy!
• Nintendo 3DS, 2DS and DS
  • Nintendo 3DS, DS, 2DS gaming handhelds, games, accessories, gear, hacks, history and community. Fun, memories and friends associated with them.
• Nintendo Switch
  • Community for stuff around the Nintendo Switch
• DOS Gaming
  • This community covers DOS gaming from all angles - reviews, tips and tricks, new releases, troubleshooting, organizing multiplayer events and, of course, good ole nostalgia posts.
• iOSGaming
  • iOS Gaming News, Discussion and Recommendations.
• Atari 8bit
  • Community covering everything Atari 8bit.
• Commodore Plus/4
  • Commodore 16 and Plus/4 community.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

📰 Nintendo Runs Out Of Replacement Parts For 2DS Systems And New 3DS LL, Ends Repairs In Japan (direct link), posted in Nintendo 3DS, 2DS and DS (👍53 👎0)

Nintendo Runs Out Of Replacement Parts For 2DS Systems And New 3DS LL, Ends Repairs In Japan

This includes repairs for "Nintendo 2DS systems" and the New Nintendo 3DS LL (known as the XL model here in the West) - mentioning how it's now officially run out of parts necessary to repair these systems in Japan. Here's the full updated notice (via machine translation):Nintendo: "As we have run out of parts necessary for repairs, we have stopped accepting repairs for the New Nintendo 3DS LL and Nintendo 2DS systems. Please note that repairs for the New Nintendo 3DS system have already ended on August 28, 2024. Nintendo also announced it had run out of replacement parts for the Wii U in Japan last July, and ended online play for both the 3DS and Wii U in the same year. Repair services for these systems haven't been available for some time now in many other parts of the world. 🖊️️🤖

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1. 🖼️ Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025 (direct link) (👍846 👎8)

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https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

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2. 🖼️ If you hear Latin, you're in trouble. (direct link) (👍712 👎12)

from Gaming ([email protected])

Posted by The_Picard_Maneuver

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3. 🖼️ Holy shit I got Retro Achievements working on my Pi Gameboy! Lmao this is so cool. I get to achievement hunt in my favorite game, earthbound after 30 years. Amazing (direct link) (👍328 👎4)

from RetroGaming ([email protected])

Posted by shiroininja

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4. 📰 70% of games with online requirements are doomed, according to Stop Killing Games survey (direct link) (👍289 👎4)

from Games ([email protected])

70% of games with online requirements are doomed, according to Stop Killing Games survey

Stop Killing Games survey of 738 games with online requirements. Of those, 70% are apparently no longer playable or destined to become that way. 110 of the games surveyed have been preserved by industrious players, while just 16 had been salvaged by the developers. A few members of the Stop Killing Games team hope to set up a wiki of online games that face extinction. 🖋️🤖

Posted by excel24

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5. 📰 Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' (direct link) (👍188 👎0)

from Gaming ([email protected])

Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game'

Activision quietly put adverts inside loadouts for Black Ops 6 and Warzone. Adverts for weapon bundles can be seen in the build and weapon menus. These are unavoidable for players as they tinker with their loadouts. Activision has added bundle and Battle Pass advertisements to the Events tab. 🖋️🤖

Posted by BrikoX

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6. 📰 Upcoming MMO 'BitCraft Online' will be open source (direct link) (👍167 👎1)

from Linux Gaming ([email protected])

Upcoming MMO 'BitCraft Online' will be open source

The upcoming MMO BitCraft Online is doing something very unusual for the genre, it's going to be open source. It's entering Early Access on June 20th, with support for Windows and macOS. There doesn't seem to be anti-cheat mentioned for it yet, so it will likely work on Linux systems with Proton. 🖋️🤖

Posted by commander

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7. 💬 [Announcement] The community and its future (direct link) (👍157 👎5)

from Games ([email protected])

Hi everyone. The old mod team mostly vanished, leaving me as the only active mod. Welcome new temp mods u/JonsJava and u/fxomt. PM me to apply as a mod. Sidebar updated with new sections: "Authorized Regular Threads" and "Related Communities." Community input is encouraged—we'll discuss, amend, and vote on rules collectively. Feedback welcome. - u/Dremor 🖍🤖

Posted by Dremor

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8. 🖼️ (SPOILERS) Bethesda is shit - Fallout 4 (2015) Impressions (direct link) (👍53 👎7)

from Gaming ([email protected])

Played 40h, finished main quest on PC Game Pass. Excited at first, but disappointed by abrupt story end and repetitive, infinite quests. Liked shooting but hated dialogue wheel. 6/10, felt shallow without mods. Ready to move on to indie games. 🖍🤖

Posted by Legendsofanus

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9. 💬 Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (direct link) (👍38 👎0)

from Patient Gamers ([email protected])

Posted by BurntWits

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10. 📰 Thrive now on mac (direct link) (👍27 👎0)

from OpenSourceGames ([email protected])

Progress Update 5/31/2025

Some graphical improvements have been finished this week, as well as an important fix to the auto-evo. Thrive is also now available for Mac users!Starting this upcoming week, our paid programmer will be taking their vacation from Thrive until the 7th of July. Progress will appear to slow down in this period, as code review and implementation will be reduced. 🖋️🤖

Posted by heartbreaker

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11. 💬 Let's Talk About Game Reviews (direct link) (👍12 👎0)

from Let's Talk About Games ([email protected])

I love game reviews but hate loud music, lengthy story details, and tutorial-heavy reviews. Prefer brief story themes, mechanics overview, game quality, genre comparisons, and music. Like TheKisekiNut, JohnRiggs, MortismalGaming, davidvinc, gameranx, ircha. Recommend other retro gaming channels? 🖍🤖

Posted by cloudless

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12. 📰 We Love Fish Tanks (direct link) (👍7 👎0)

from Indie Gaming ([email protected])

We Love Fish Tanks on Steam

We Love Fish Tanks lets you build the aquarium of your dreams. Create, grow, and collect at your own pace with no stress, no consequences, no manipulative game mechanics. Choose from a variety of backgrounds, wall styles, water colors, and lighting options to design up to 9 fish tanks that are uniquely yours. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Fiivemacs

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13. 📰 F2P Roleplay Enforced Open Source MMORPG | Illarion (direct link) (👍1 👎1)

from Patient Gamers ([email protected])

Illarion • The Free Online Roleplaying Game

Illarion - Carve yourself a new life llarion is an online game where genuine roleplay is enforced. All the player characters you will encounter during your time here are living, breathing inhabitants of the mysterious world of Illarion. Always dexterity for crafts and constitution for gathering, but the second one varies from skill to skill. Seafaring should no longer bug out and leave you stranded on the ship if you choose to flee and fail to. The Illarion Character Database now links the profiles of characters if they have one, as it used to in the past. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Seger

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Inactive communities 👻

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• Gyro Gaming
  • Welcome to Gyro Gaming subreddit, where people can share their passion for Gyroscopic Controls in Video Games, such as Camera Aiming, Vehicle Steering, Typing, etc.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

📰 The Brief History of Motion Sensor Aiming in Video Games (direct link), posted in Gyro Gaming (👍12 👎1)

The Brief History of Motion Sensor Aiming in Video Games

In this mode, you can look around from Link's perspective, and motion aiming is back. Motion Aiming is used, but unlike Nintendo’s implementation of Motion Aiming in the Wii era and Ocarina of Time 3D, you can finally use the Right Stick to move the camera. Here comes the recycled paragraph…and it also heavily relies on Motion Controls due to the focus on 360-degree flight. It is playable without Motion Aiming and you can turn it off in the settings, but you practically need Motion Aiming for traversal. (ironically, Wii U Gamepad works better there than handhelds)Unlike Intu-Aiming (which uses ADS for Motion Aiming), Splatoon opts for "Always-On" Motion Aiming. 🖊️️🤖

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Multicommunity: gaming-general.json

1. 📰 Morrowind modders continue to astound, add object physics with 'pure lua' to a 23-year old game (direct link) (👍439 👎3)

from PC Gaming ([email protected])

Morrowind modders continue to astound, add object physics with 'pure lua' to a 23-year old game

OpenMWLuaPhysics is a "simple and naive physics engine in pure lua" that produces "Half-Life 1 level of physics, maybe a bit better" Seeing bottles clink around in Vvardenfell is enough to make me feel like I've been hucked into another universe where Bethesda figured out its famous physics shenanigans a few years early. 🖋️🤖

Posted by alessandro

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2. 📰 GeForce NOW Native App for Steam Deck Is Here (direct link) (👍122 👎2)

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RTX on Deck: The GeForce NOW Native App for Steam Deck Is Here

GeForce NOW is supercharging Valve’s Steam Deck with a new native app. It delivers the high-quality GeForce RTX-powered gameplay members are used to on a portable handheld device. Plus, members can run these games at settings and performance levels that aren’t possible natively on the Steam Deck. 🖋️🤖

Posted by mr_MADAFAKA

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3. 📰 The greatest DOS games that defined the golden generation of DOS gaming (direct link) (👍53 👎2)

from MS-DOS gaming ([email protected])

Posted by Die4Ever

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4. 💬 So, I just finished the Last of Us.... can anyone recommend more games with a mature/adult narrative? (direct link) (👍50 👎1)

from PC Gaming ([email protected])

It was refreshing to experience a game that had a mature, complex and multifaceted story that seemed to understand its audience was adults. Are there any more games like this?

Posted by Madbrad200

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5. 🖼️ My Retroid Pocket Flip 2 finally arrived! (direct link) (👍50 👎1)

from SBC Gaming ([email protected])

My Retroid Pocket Flip 2 arrived! Bigger screen than RP Mini, more pocketable. Mini screen upgrade coming; will compare. Screen drama article: https://retrohandhelds.gg/the-retroid-pocket-mini-v2-has-arrived-but-dont-wait-too-long-to-order-one/ @sbcgaming #retrogaming #handheld #retroid 🖍🤖

Posted by Shatur

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6. 📰 Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' - IGN (direct link) (👍35 👎0)

from Xbox ([email protected])

Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game'

Activision quietly put adverts inside loadouts for Black Ops 6 and Warzone. Adverts for weapon bundles can be seen in the build and weapon menus. These are unavoidable for players as they tinker with their loadouts. Activision has added bundle and Battle Pass advertisements to the Events tab. 🖋️🤖

Posted by AlexanderTheGreat

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7. 📰 Decky Loader - SimpleDeckyTDP (direct link) (👍15 👎0)

from Steam Deck ([email protected])

Posted by Vertelleus

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8. 📰 MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls (direct link) (👍15 👎0)

from PlayStation ([email protected])

- YouTube

Posted by CosmicSploogeDrizzle

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9. 📰 Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (Gremlin Graphics, 1990) (direct link) (👍14 👎0)

from Amiga ([email protected])

Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (Gremlin Graphics, 1990)

Developed by Magnetic Fields for the Commodore Amiga: code and music by Shaun Southern, with graphics by Andrew Morris. Converted for t...

Posted by Twig

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10. 📰 Sony Killing Half-Baked PlayStation Stars Loyalty Program Less Than Three Years Later (direct link) (👍8 👎0)

from PlayStation ([email protected])

Sony Killing Half-Baked PlayStation Stars Loyalty Program Less Than Three Years Later

PlayStation Stars was Sony’s bizarre overhaul of its existing loyalty program. It was a neat idea implemented in the worst way possible, and now Sony is killing it. As of May 21, 2025, PlayStation Stars won’t accept any new members. The program will formally end on November 2, 2026, at which point any remaining points fans have will be wiped out. 🖋️🤖

Posted by cm0002

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11. 🖼️ Interview with someone trying to revive Compute's Gazette (direct link) (👍7 👎0)

from Commodore 64 ([email protected])

"Interview with James Nagle on Floppy Days podcast. He revived Compute's Gazette, a top type-in program magazine, planning a retro-computing mag but not Compute itself." (298 chars) 🖍🤖

Posted by rodneylives

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Inactive communities 👻

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• PlayStation | PS5
  • The PlayStation 5 community for Lemmy!
• Nintendo 3DS, 2DS and DS
  • Nintendo 3DS, DS, 2DS gaming handhelds, games, accessories, gear, hacks, history and community. Fun, memories and friends associated with them.
• Nintendo Switch
  • Community for stuff around the Nintendo Switch
• DOS Gaming
  • This community covers DOS gaming from all angles - reviews, tips and tricks, new releases, troubleshooting, organizing multiplayer events and, of course, good ole nostalgia posts.
• iOSGaming
  • iOS Gaming News, Discussion and Recommendations.
• Atari 8bit
  • Community covering everything Atari 8bit.
• Commodore Plus/4
  • Commodore 16 and Plus/4 community.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

💬 Will I really lose all the points I earned on Playstation Stars at the end of the year? (direct link), posted in PlayStation | PS5 (👍20 👎3)

So I hear that Playstation Stars will be shutting down at the end of 2024 which sucked because it was like the one thing that at least felt like I could make free money through PlayStation. So does this really mean I'll lose any coins I make?

Posted by turnerpike20

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1. 📰 Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit (direct link) (👍961 👎20)

from Games ([email protected])

Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit

Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair in Japan last year, alleging that Palworld infringes on three patents that are related to monster catching gameplay. On Thursday, Pocketpair confirmed it had previously patched out the ability to summon Pals via ‘Pal Spheres’ due to the legal action. 🖋️🤖

Posted by simple

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2. 🖼️ Can confirm... (direct link) (👍783 👎8)

from Gaming ([email protected])

Posted by The_Picard_Maneuver

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3. 🖼️ The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. (direct link) (👍761 👎22)

from RetroGaming ([email protected])

I suppose this is what getting older feels like.

Posted by The_Picard_Maneuver

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4. 📰 Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store (direct link) (👍619 👎24)

from Games ([email protected])

Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store

Epic will take a 0% store fee for the first $1 million revenue developers make per app per year. After that, it goes back to their normal 88%/12% split. "Webshops" to release in June 2025 that enables developers to "launch their own webshops hosted by the Epic Games Store" 🖋️🤖

Posted by RmDebArc_5

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5. 📰 End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending (direct link) (👍537 👎5)

from Gaming ([email protected])

End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending

The End of 10 campaign has stepped in to get events sorted, and to help more people get into Linux. They list some pretty standard reasons for trying Linux like it being cheaper, there's no adverts, you having more control and so on. And hey, with Fedora 42 out now that has KDE Plasma being promoted to a flagship edition status, it's never been a better time to try it out. 🖋️🤖

Posted by ZippyBot

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6. 📰 The SteamOS era is imminent: Valve adds a new compatibility rating for games that’ll run on ‘any device that’s not a Steam Deck’ (direct link) (👍536 👎4)

from Linux Gaming ([email protected])

The SteamOS era is imminent: Valve adds a new compatibility rating for games that’ll run on ‘any device that’s not a Steam Deck’

Valve will start rating games on their compatibility with third-party devices. The rating system will serve the same purpose as the compatibility details on iOS and Android app store pages. Valve expects to give the stamp of approval to over 18,000 Steam games to start with, and will include this rating on all the games it checks for Steam Deck compatibility going forward. 🖋️🤖

Posted by cm0002

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7. 🖼️ Final clockstasy (direct link) (👍208 👎5)

from Gaming ([email protected])

Posted by StarvingMartist

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8. 📰 Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux (direct link) (👍142 👎1)

from Linux Gaming ([email protected])

Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux

Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0. Proton is the downstream version of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux. The newly-enabled Windows games include Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, Black Ink, Factorio, Ignited Entry, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. 🖋️🤖

Posted by commander

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9. 📰 Colony building sim Mountaincore is now free to play and open source (direct link) (👍48 👎0)

from OpenSourceGames ([email protected])

Colony building sim Mountaincore is now free to play and open source

A complicated history for this one, with the developer Rocket Jump Technology no longer existing as a business. The previous iteration of the game named King under the Mountain went open source back in January 2024, and now what was to be the big revamp is also open source. The publisher eventually backed out, but allowed the developer to continue with the funded work and still release it. Having both versions of the game now open source is a great outcome though, another big project for people to learn from and perhaps continue elsewhere. Mountaincore | Release Date: 18th May 2023 Official links: Steam 🖊️️🤖

Posted by RmDebArc_5

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10. 💬 Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (direct link) (👍43 👎0)

from Patient Gamers ([email protected])

Posted by BurntWits

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11. 📰 I'm working on a Sci-fi Point and Click adventure called Hope: A Sky Full of Ghosts. A demo is coming in a few weeks, and I would love a wishlist if the game sounds like your jam. (direct link) (👍16 👎0)

from Indie Gaming ([email protected])

Hope: A Sky Full of Ghosts on Steam

About This GameHope: A Sky Full of Ghosts is a sci-fi point-and-click adventure about hopelessness and the people you think you know. You are Agatha Hope, captain of a disjointed crew aboard a stolen spaceship. Your decisions and wits will decide the course of the mission, your relationship with the crew and whether you survive or not. It blends the spirit of old-school point-and-click games with a deep narrative full of character and secrets. You will get to know your crew through dialogue options, fix the prototype ship through puzzles and minigames and discover its secrets while revealing your crew's motivations. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Azrael

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12. 💬 Playing multiplayer titles is the best way to involuntarily become a Patient Gamer (direct link) (👍9 👎4)

from Patient Gamers ([email protected])

From 2008-2025, I mostly played multiplayer games like Tibia, Runescape, CS, etc. Barely touched GTA1,2,4,5 (finished 3/SA). Played 30 mins in Skyrim, 2-3h in Witcher 3 (1/2 unfinished). HalfLife waits. Many singleplayer classics remain untouched—multiplayer games "help" in this regard. 🖍🤖

Posted by xelar

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Inactive communities 👻

These communities have had no posts in the last month:

• Let's Talk About Games
  • Where Am I?
• Gyro Gaming
  • Welcome to Gyro Gaming subreddit, where people can share their passion for Gyroscopic Controls in Video Games, such as Camera Aiming, Vehicle Steering, Typing, etc.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

📰 Pushing Buttons: Is there even any point in making more powerful games consoles? (direct link), posted in Let's Talk About Games (👍64 👎3)

Pushing Buttons: Is there even any point in making more powerful games consoles?

Last week, my favoured gaming news site, VGC, asked former US PlayStation boss Shawn Layden whether he thought the pursuit of more powerful consoles was still the way to go for the video games industry. I am the least technically minded games journalist I know, and have often felt as if I was in the minority. To me, games started looking pretty great about 15 years ago and most of the improvement I’ve seen since then has felt incremental. The chief technological innovation of the last 15 years in games has been VR, and that turned out to have niche appeal. Also, I hear the Guardian has a very good online games section – you should check it out some time. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Emperor

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1. 🖼️ Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura promotional poster (2001) (direct link) (👍64 👎0)

from Computer RPGs ([email protected])

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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2. 🖼️ I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream US Box Cover Art by The Dreamers Guild (1995) (direct link) (👍48 👎0)

from Adventure / Point-and-Click / Narrative Games ([email protected])

GOG re-release cover (2013). "I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream" first edition cover by Leo & Diane Dillon (1967). 🖍🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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3. 🖼️ Lines of Battle: A deeply tactical browser game (direct link) (👍38 👎2)

from Turn Based Strategy ([email protected])

"Lines of Battle" is a free, simultaneous turn-based Napoleonic war game with ranked matchmaking, custom matches, bots, map maker, clans, and an Android beta. It’s deep yet approachable, perfect for tabletop fans. Try it! 🖍🤖

Posted by Hominine

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4. 🖼️ Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge concept art by TJ Frame for Westwood (2001) (direct link) (👍34 👎2)

from Strategy Games♟️| RTS, 4X and Grand Strategy ([email protected])

"Final" barrack concept art by TJ Frame:

Large gallery of Yuri's Revenge concept art:

https://cncnz.com/gallery/yuris-revenge-concept-art/

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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5. 📰 'Mars Attracts' Sees You Creating Exhibits in a Human Zoo (direct link) (👍29 👎0)

from Tycoon Games ([email protected])

‘Mars Attracts’ Sees You Creating Exhibits in a Human Zoo

Mars Attracts combines the Mars Attacks IP with Rollercoaster Tycoon to create a very strange and captivating zoo management game. Aliens want to capture people from different time periods and put them into a zoo for other aliens to look at. To make this more of a fulfilling attraction, aliens also can do experiments on the humans to see if they would make good rides. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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6. 📰 Classic JRPG Remake Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter Confirms New Script That 'Honors the Original Japanese Text' (direct link) (👍27 👎1)

from World of JRPG's ([email protected])

Classic JRPG Remake Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter Confirms New Script That 'Honors the Original Japanese Text'

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter looks like a ridiculously cool remake based on everything we've seen of it so far — but some fans have long wondered whether the game will simply reuse the old localisation from when Trails in the Sky was originally brought overseas by publisher Xseed Games. As it turns out, 1st Chapter will feature a newly localised script, as per the official pre-order information from remake publisher GungHo Online Entertainment. The thing is, the old game's English script has, at times, been accused of being an inaccurate representation of the original Japanese writing. It's not what we'd call a popular complaint — we happen to think the Sky games have a largely charming localisation — but it'll be interesting to see how this reworked script compares. Indeed, GungHo specifically states: "Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter features a new localization, ensuring an authentic and engaging experience that honors the original Japanese text." 🖊️️🤖

Posted by tamlyn

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7. 📰 Tempest Rising accidentally launched a week early on Steam, and the publisher has decided to just go with it (direct link) (👍22 👎0)

from Real Time Strategy ([email protected])

Tempest Rising accidentally launched a week early on Steam, and the publisher has decided to just go with it

Tempest Rising released on Steam on April 17 instead of April 24. The mistake had something to do with a seven-day early unlock period that was meant to start yesterday. Only those who pre-purchased the Deluxe Edition were supposed to be granted access, while others would have to wait for the full launch. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Elevator7009

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8. 🖼️ Made two digital gamebooks (direct link) (👍21 👎0)

from Gamebooks / Choose Your Own Adventure / Fighting Fantasy ([email protected])

Grew up with Fighting Fantasy & Lone Wolf, loved their compact worlds. Felt more agency than in big RPGs. Modern games often feel mechanical; 80s/90s gamebooks had elegant, hand-written choices. Created Greymarsh & Bloodwood Dungeon as love letters to them. Would love feedback—free keys for honest reviews!

Links:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2367690/Greymarsh/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2929130/Bloodwood_Dungeon/ 🖍🤖

Posted by AlphOns

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9. 📰 This upcoming life sim features co-op survival, farming, factory automation, time-travel romance, ghost hunting and mechs, which is probably why it doubled its Kickstarter goal in its first 24 hours (direct link) (👍21 👎1)

from Life Simulation Games ([email protected])

This upcoming life sim features co-op survival, farming, factory automation, time-travel romance, ghost hunting and mechs, which is probably why it doubled its Kickstarter goal in its first 24 hours

Autonomica is an open world survival game playable solo or in co-op. The basic premise puts you in the role of a logistics engineer involved in a plane crash, awakening to find themselves stuck in a world where time is broken. It features both farming and factory automation, letting you raise animals and grow over 100 variations of crops. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Agent_Karyo

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10. 📰 Unciv, an open-source 4X game inspired by the Civilization series (direct link) (👍14 👎0)

from Strategy Games ([email protected])

Unciv by yairm210

An open-source reimplementation of the most famous civilization-building game ever - fast, small, no ads, free forever! Build your civilization, research technologies, expand your cities and defeat your foes! Todo list for the application is https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv/issues - every small help is welcome! Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/bjrB4Xw ;)The world awaits! Will you build your civilization into an empire that will stand the test of time? 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Elevator7009

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11. 📰 [WR] Final Fantasy 7 (1997) All Bosses No Slots in 8:29:08 by Zheal (direct link) (👍13 👎0)

from Speedrun video games ([email protected])

- YouTube

Posted by Die4Ever

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12. 📰 Tempest Rising accidentally launched a week early on Steam, and the publisher has decided to just go with it (direct link) (👍11 👎0)

from Real Time Strategy, The RTS HQ ([email protected])

Tempest Rising accidentally launched a week early on Steam, and the publisher has decided to just go with it

Tempest Rising released on Steam on April 17 instead of April 24. The mistake had something to do with a seven-day early unlock period that was meant to start yesterday. Only those who pre-purchased the Deluxe Edition were supposed to be granted access, while others would have to wait for the full launch. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Elevator7009

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13. 📰 Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves review: one last show in South Town (direct link) (👍7 👎0)

from Fighting Game Community ([email protected])

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves review: one last show in South Town

Uninvited guestsFatal Fury: City of the Wolves is the so-long-awaited-we-basically-gave-up-hope-of-ever-getting-it sequel to the legendary Garou: Mark of the Wolves. Garou was something of an experiment akin to Street Fighter III, taking place 10 years after Real Bout Fatal Fury (but crucially not Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers). Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves’ menus look like they were made in Microsoft Paint, so I knew it would be a banger from the moment I first launched it. Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is a game I’ve been waiting for for a long, long time. Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves was tested on PC. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by missingno

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14. 💬 How are we enjoying Last Epoch ? (direct link) (👍5 👎0)

from ARPG's: Diablo/PoE/Last Epoch ([email protected])

I recently re evaluated my choice to buy this game and I'm having a blast, I found the game far more generous than PoE 2 (though I like the poe graphics more)

Posted by Sylvartas

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15. 📰 Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter's Japanese PS5 and Switch versions will not include English language support | RPG Site (direct link) (👍4 👎0)

from JRPG ([email protected])

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter's Japanese PS5 and Switch versions will not include English language support

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter launches worldwide on September 19 for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC (Steam) Falcom has confirmed that the PS5 and Switch versions in Japan will not include English language support. The Steam version will go live for purchase at 16:00 JST which is midnight PDT. 🖋️🤖

Posted by network_switch

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Inactive communities 👻

These communities have had no posts in the last month:

• Interactive Fiction
  • The community for interactive fiction and text games on Lemmy.
• Truck Simulators
  • A community for truck simulators enjoyers.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

📰 American Truck Simulator 1.51 Update Release (direct link), posted in Truck Simulators (👍15 👎0)

SCS Software's blog: American Truck Simulator 1.51 Update Release

Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License 🖊️️🤖

Posted by scs_news_bot

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