1. 🖼️ Someone has to keep the retro spark alive (direct link) (👍974 👎13)

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2. 🖼️ I’m the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We’re now accepting more people to the Closed Beta! (direct link) (👍871 👎27)

from Games ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by schamppu

3. 📰 Linux Scores A Surprising Gaming Victory Against Windows 11 (direct link) (👍489 👎8)

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Linux Scores A Surprising Gaming Victory Against Windows 11

It felt like the perfect opportunity to test how a handful of games ran on Windows 11 and Fedora 40. The Framework 13 running Fedora 40. On Fedora 40, I ran a system update before testing. Let’s kick things off with two games that have native versions for both Windows and Linux. Linux is rocking the Vulkan API, and Windows is utilizing DX12. Indeed, Fedora 40 pulls off 7% higher average framerates. Without FSR scaling enabled, Fedora 40 eeks out a 3% performance advantage. A 7% performance deficit with the overhead of running Proton? 🖊️

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4. 📰 Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux (direct link) (👍442 👎5)

from Linux Gaming ([email protected]) lemmy

Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux

Today marks 6 years since the announcement of Steam Play Proton. Thanks to it, the Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gaming have continued to thrive. There’s 22,002 games reported to work by at least one person, 13,297 by at at least two people and 9,751 that has three or more reports. 🖋️

Posted by Beaver

5. 📰 It only took two days for someone to unlock a developer mode in Baldur’s Gate 3’s modding tools, opening up the possibility of custom levels and campaigns (direct link) (👍360 👎2)

from Gaming ([email protected]) lemmy

It only took two days for someone to unlock a developer mode in Baldur’s Gate 3’s modding tools, opening up the possibility of custom levels and campaigns

I’m reminded of the M4-78 restoration mod for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2. Fully new modules or campaigns though? The deciding factor, I think, will be how easy the tools are to use. Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he’s not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch. Most Popular 🖊️

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6. 📰 Nintendo No Longer Able To Repair ‘New Nintendo 3DS’ Consoles, Effective Immediately | Retro Dodo (direct link) (👍276 👎1)

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Nintendo No Longer Able To Repair ‘New Nintendo 3DS’ Consoles, Effective Immediately

Nintendo’s Japanese customer service centre has announced that they are no longer able to repair 3DS consoles. In a post on X, Nintendo advised 3DS owners that “As we have run out of parts necessary for repairs, we have stopped accepting repairs for the New Nintendo 3DS system [KTR-001] as of August 28, 2024” 🖋️

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7. 📰 A European consumer watchdog wants you to be able to buy exactly as much in-game currency as you need, not fixed chunks (direct link) (👍184 👎1)

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A European consumer watchdog wants you to be able to buy exactly as much in-game currency as you need, not fixed chunks

Companies’ claims that gamers prefer in-game premium currencies are wrong. Data shows that children in Europe are spending on average €39 per month on in-game purchases. €46 billion), representing about one-quarter of revenues in the video game market". They add that of the 50 most-played games on Steam in 2023, 21 featured in-game premium currencies, and of those 21, eight had an age rating of 12 years or lower. In the full 35-page write-up of their investigation and complaint, the BEUC make a series of recommendations. 🖊️

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8. 💬 [Katawa Shoujo] A dating sim about handicapped girls… by 4chan? And it’s good??? (direct link) (👍92 👎5)

from Patient Gamers ([email protected]) lemmy

Since I have time at the moment and in order to put a bit life in this community, I will post some recommendations for older games in the coming days.

This [post here](https://feddit.org/post/237869…

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9. 📰 Black & White (2001) open source game engine sees a first release (direct link) (👍79 👎0)

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Black & White (2001) open source game engine sees a first release

Model rendering and animation. Morphable mesh rendering. Audio support. Early AI state machine. All of this of course will be improved as the project matures. 🖊️

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10. 💬 Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of September 16th, 2024 (direct link) (👍18 👎0)

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11. 💬 anyone started late with gamepads? (direct link) (👍15 👎0)

from Patient Gamers ([email protected]) lemmy

I guess this should be an appropriate community, participants possibly on the older side… so, I only recently got my first gamepad. played with keyboard and mouse up until then.

so, with a couple o…

Posted by dingdongitsabear

12. 💬 [Meta] Is this community still active, or should it be closed? If it’s not active anymore, any suggestions for alternatives? (direct link) (👍9 👎0)

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

Asking as the last post here was 21 days ago. Posted by Blaze

13. 📰 Just released my game, Amata, into early access! The whole campaign is ready to play and there is a free demo! <33 (direct link) (👍15 👎11)

from Indie Gaming ([email protected]) lemmy

Save 20% on Amata on Steam

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access? Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access? An agent should have grace. An agent should seek knowing. An agent should protect their self. An agent should have options. An agent should choose their self. An agent should know what is ended 🖊️

Posted by zxyyr

Inactive communities 👻

These communities have had no posts in the last month:

  • Gyro Gaming lemmy
    • 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.
  • FPGA Gaming mbin
    • A fediverse community dedicated to gaming hardware, clone consoles, flashcarts, and other accessories based on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and similar technology. A place for engineers, developers, and FPGA gaming fans to discuss news, facilitate development, and enjoy a new passionate community!

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

📰 A Cycle-Accurate Sega Genesis with FPGA (direct link), posted in FPGA Gaming (👍3 👎0)

Posted by donuts

The main links are using lemmyverse.link which should redirect to the post on your own instance. If you have not used this before, you may need to go direct to https://lemmyverse.link/ and click on ‘configure instance’. Some apps will open posts correctly when using the direct link.

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