Games: Steam Debacle (Free Software Uploaded and Sold), Epic, Transport Fever 2, and More
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My game was illegally uploaded on Steam
Quick post for this time.
Seems my game, Penance has been uploaded on Steam by someone who I don’t know, completely without my permission. They’re selling my free game and of course I’m not gonna get any money from their sales.
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Prepare to see a lot more of Epic Online Services, with Epic's new self-publishing
While the Epic Games Store doesn't support Linux or Steam Deck officially, this industry news is something we should all know about with Epic now opening up self-publishing along with some new rules for their store.
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Transport Fever 2 has a big free upgrade, plus Steam Deck support
Transport Fever 2 is going strong since the release in 2019. They just launched a console version, and upgraded the PC release with some massive improvements too.
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FOSS strategy game OpenHV gets a release two years in the making
Do any of you remember OpenHV? Back in 2020, it was announced as an OpenRA-based free and open source RTS, based on designs from Daniel Cook that never made it into a game planned to be called Hard Vacuum but now it's here and it has a massive upgrade.
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Free and open source party game Starship Olympics hits Alpha
Need a fresh party game with simple controls and plenty of mini-games to play? Starship Olympics is free, open source and worth a go. They recently released the first Alpha build, which comes with a whole bunch of improvements and overhauls compared to their earlier releases I covered here some time ago. It was originally called SuperStarfighter.
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Atari's 1981 classic revamp Caverns of Mars: Recharged is out now
Atari teamed up with SneakyBox to revamp another classic, with Caverns of Mars: Recharged officially out now with Native Linux support.