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Games: Steam News, "The King is Watching", and Amiga Hacking
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Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Off and Deadzone: Rogue - 2025-08-16 Edition
Between 2025-08-09 and 2025-08-16 we selected 9 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. There’s two games that stand out in this week, the remaster of Off (a retro RPG, remastered) and Deadzone: Rogue (a roguelite FPS in space). The official Steam release of “OFF” is a remaster of the original 2008 RPG Maker game. It features a new soundtrack, cleaned-up visuals, rebalanced gameplay, and new bosses. It is a cult classic indie RPG praised for its surreal and haunting atmosphere, unique art style, and unconventional narrative. The turn-based combat can become repetitive quickly, but you could certainly appreciate the story and its pixel art.
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Hackaday ☛ Llama Habitat Continues To Expand, Now Includes The PSP
Organic Llamas have a rather restricted range, in nature: the Andes Mountains, and that’s it. Humans weren’t content to let the fluffy, friend-shaped creatures stay in their natural habitat, however, and they can now be found on every continent except Antarctica. The Llama2 Large Language Model is like that: while it may have started on a GPU somewhere, thanks to enterprising hackers like [Caio Madeira], who has ported Llama2 to the PlayStation Portable (PSP), the fluffiest LLM can be found just about anywhere.
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Boiling Steam ☛ The King is Watching: Review
The King is Watching is exactly about that: you play the King, and your people are only doing actual work when you are watching them! There’s more background and lore, but that’s the key concept at the core of this new indie game.
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Jonathan Dowland ☛ Jonathan Dowland: Amiga redux
This re-awakened my dormant wish to muck around with my childhood Amiga some more. When I last wrote about it (four years ago ☹) I'd upgraded the disk drive emulator with an OLED display and rotary encoder. I'd forgotten to mention I'd also sourced a modern trapdoor RAM expansion which adds 2MiB of RAM. The Amiga can only see 1.5MiB1 of it at the moment, I need perform a mainboard modification to access the final 512kiB2, which means some soldering.