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Games: Trine 3, Tangledeep, Valve and Google Stadia

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  • Some thoughts on Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power

    To say that I began playing Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power with low expectations would be an understatement. Immediately put off by the 3D viewpoint shown off the in the initial trailers, I nevertheless bought the game soon after it launched to support the developer Frozenbyte only for it to languish in my games library for four years due to it having an OpenGL requirement not supported by my graphics drivers.

    Since then the game acquired such a poor reputation that Frozenbyte went as far as to publicly apologize to quell a significant fan backlash. Its development almost bankrupted the developer, forced them to restructure their company, and make deals with outside publishers that ultimately took them out of the Linux market for good, coming close to killing Trine as franchise.

  • The colourful roguelike Tangledeep goes deeper again with the Dawn of Dragons DLC

    The second full expansion to Tangledeep is out, adding in amongst other things some super powerful boss monsters for you to test your abilities against. Note: DLC provided by GOG.

    If you've not yet tried Tangledeep, you're honestly missing a really good roguelike. It's colourful and inviting, easy enough to understand and yet there's plenty of complexity to it to reward players who stick with it and progress far into it.

  • The big Steam Autumn Sale is now live, time to nominate for the Steam Awards

    Valve have today started the big Autumn Sale with tons of ridiculously good deals. On top of that, the Steam Awards have returned so it's time to make your nominations.

  • Google Stadia on Linux and Destiny 2. Will It Work?

    Some time ago, I bought a Stadia Founders' Edition, having fallen for the promise that this would change gaming forever. In particular, the idea that we could now play our games on almost any device anywhere without having to download and install games seemed almost too good to be true. Now, I run Linux on my notebook computer and I was particularly interested to see how it would work there.

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today's howtos

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