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Games: Shroom and Gloom, The Crust 1.0, Rootkits ('Anti-cheat') in Linux "Normalised"
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Shroom and Gloom is a double deck-builder with some impeccable artwork | GamingOnLinux
Shroom and Gloom from Team Lazerbeam and Devolver Digital has arrived in Early Access - one of the most interesting looking dungeon-crawling deck-builders ever. Disclosure: a key was provided to GamingOnLinux.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Story-driven third-person sci-fi shooter - The Wandering Earth: The Last Full Moon announced | GamingOnLinux
Adapted from Liu Cixin's The Wandering Earth, Studio Surgical Scalpels and publisher Starry Dome revealed The Wandering Earth: The Last Full Moon. They said not only is it based on it, Liu Cixin is also supervising the production too.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ The classic Westwood / EA game Nox joins the GOG Preservation Program with new fixes | GamingOnLinux
After their special Patron supporters voted, GOG have placed the classic Nox into their Preservation Program with a fresh set of fixes. This comes shortly after GOG announced they're beginning to provide box art to make your own fancier backups.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Orc Incremental review - an incremental auto battler inspired by classic Warcraft | GamingOnLinux
Orc Incremental is a fresh release from developer Nice Ride and publisher Playsaurus that sets you on a path of orcs versus humans with auto-battling. Disclosure: a key was provided to GamingOnLinux.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Lunar colony-building automation sim The Crust 1.0 arrives with Linux and macOS support | GamingOnLinux
The Crust is an automation-driven city builder and colony simulation set on the Moon. It just hit the big 1.0 release and now has Linux and macOS support too. In the age of Proton, it's still nice to see some developers trying out direct-support for the platform. Worth highlighting.
[...] From what they said in a press email to GamingOnLinux the single-player story experience should take around 30 hours to complete. There's multiple endings to it and the 1.0 release added quite a number of big new features to it. -
GamingOnLinux ☛ Core Keeper - Riders of the Underground brings rideable mounts on September 21 | GamingOnLinux
I'm really going to need to set aside some time to play through lots more of Core Keeper - because they keep rolling out some excellent updates to it.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Active Matter developers put up an incredibly distasteful AI notice on Steam | GamingOnLinux
Active Matter from Gaijin Network Ltd looks like a lot of fun for fans of first-person shooters, but they soured it with a truly distasteful AI notice.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ SteamVR 2.17 arrives - ready to go for the Steam Frame | GamingOnLinux
With a whole lot of new features, improvements and fixes - Valve rolled out SteamVR 2.17 and it's looking ready for the Steam Frame release. Any day now right? Right?
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Make Use Of ☛ Kernel-level anti-cheat has gotten way too invasive and we somehow normalized it
Kernel-level anti-cheat isn't new; it's been around for quite some time. While earlier iterations mostly relied on server-side detection, modern versions run in Ring 0 of the operating system, which means they have access to nearly everything.
Handing a program Ring 0 access is a massive security red flag and far from something that should be normalized.
Unfortunately, most live-service games use this solution extensively, and it’s just something that doesn’t sit right with me. Not to mention, it also gates Linux users.