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- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 1 week ago:
There were three steam games posted in !freegames@feddit.uk yesterday!
- Comment on Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit 1 week ago:
Seems a bit mad that with all their money and a game already made they couldn’t be bothered to file off the serial numbers a bit more. I imagine this happens all the time with licencing deals, I know for instance Warcraft was originally written to be a Warhammer game.
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 2 weeks ago:
Depending on the system it can be really easy to dump/rip your own discs. Hacking a Wii for homebrew requires jumping through a few hoops but then you can dump Wii, GameCube, and even Gameboy games. You can dump WiiU games by inserting an SD card and going to a single web page in the browser!
- Comment on My PS1 died today 3 weeks ago:
So the ps3 is running an emulator? I thought console backwards compatibility usually came from having the original console’s CPU available (as a sound processor or similar)
- Comment on My PS1 died today 3 weeks ago:
Ooo didn’t know the ps3 could run ps1 games
- Comment on My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help. 4 weeks ago:
Haha it’s nowhere near as bad as it was playing the original Mario Party on the N64
- Comment on Timesplitters Remake 4 weeks ago:
Excellent news!
- Comment on My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help. 4 weeks ago:
Same thing happened to my 3DS analogue thingy (it’s not really a stick), I just use the jaggy plastic bit and stop playing when it hurts my thumb too much!
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 4 weeks ago:
The 360 era was the only time I remember xbox being ahead. I knew nobody who bought a ps3, but spent plenty of time playing halo on various friends’ machines.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Why no link to the actual game?
- Comment on Timesplitters Remake 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been hurt by every TimeSplitters announcement I’ve seen for the last 20 years, do I dare to believe that it’s once again time to split‽
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
This is the key thing that everyone comparing it directly to consoles seems to be completely missing. Even if you’re only buying new steam games the costs are going to be way lower, but you could buy this and just play free giveaways or emulate your own old console games, and suddenly it’s a bargain (like any PC).
- Comment on Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard 5 weeks ago:
Did we really need an article saying “I think this other bit of text might be written by a robot”? Of all the things you criticise Microsoft for, that’s the one to go for? Or perhaps it’s the other side of the coin, Microsoft unusually did something quite nice so the author had to find something about it to criticise?
- Comment on The story of a crazy Half-Life 2 bug, as told by former Valve dev Tom Forsyth (Mastodon thread) 5 weeks ago:
This is actually an incredible coincidence; I love reading these stories but it’s usually in the context of a speedrunner exploiting them rather than a poor dev asking “how did this ever work!?”
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 5 weeks ago:
I recently played the original via Primehack, a fork of Dolphin Emulator which (among other things) modernises the controls
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 1 month ago:
Don’t go for a whole guide, pick something smaller like all the recipes or a map of Dry Dry Desert (two things I remember printing off back in the day!)
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider (SteamDeck) 1 month ago:
Well if you add the games to steam then you can launch them all from game mode
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider (SteamDeck) 1 month ago:
The official itch launcher works on Linux too!
- Comment on egg time 2 months ago:
The pope approves
- Comment on Can i get the top day feed of my subscriptions to put on feeder (or other rss readers?) 2 months ago:
That’s cool, could be useful if you wanted to limit your usage or something like that. Instead of constantly opening an app and scrolling to see what’s new just set the RSS reader to poll every 24 hours and only look at what it presents you with.
- Comment on Can i get the top day feed of my subscriptions to put on feeder (or other rss readers?) 2 months ago:
Ooo interesting, I use this for specific communities but I hadn’t thought about using it for a whole feed. How does it fare for something like Top Day, does it just update once a day? And how does it even know about what I’m subscribed to?
- Comment on Were you blessed to experience this masterpiece? 😼 2 months ago:
Did you have the special controller through?
- Comment on Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
It says “alternative app store”, not “alternative iOS app store”, “alternative to Apple’s App Store” or even “alternative App Store”. The term “app store” is used pretty generally nowadays, there’s no implication in the title that it’s even talking about mobile apps!
- Comment on Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
This article vaguely hints but doesn’t actually say anywhere that this is for iOS apps
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 2 months ago:
I played Metroid Prime for the first time recently and Samus Aran is an absolute badass. She crash lands on a planet and kills every single thing she encounters. If you read the logs of the space pirates you find scattered around they basically say “oh fuck the hunter is here, she’s coming for us next”.
The atmosphere is almost a little survival-horror-esque, but the experience is more like doom: you’re not locked in here with all these monsters, all these monsters are locked in here with you.
- Comment on Snake Pass, unique and charming platformer 2 months ago:
I picked this up for free a few years ago and was pleasantly surprised, a lovely unique little platform/puzzle
- Comment on Being a noob in heist games 2 months ago:
I loved that game. It’s been a while since I played but I remember the only way I could reliably do the max-difficulty missions quickly was by using the brick spaceship to smash directly into the room where the target was or something insane like that!
- Comment on Fun yet unknown gameplay MECHANICS? (POLL) 2 months ago:
“Dodo cheat”, at least according to the little cheat book I had back in the day. It gave cars the same mechanics as the dodo (which I think was the little sea plane). Using the tank like a rocket and aiming for a ramp was the best.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’m not really that fussed about story, it’s a nice bonus but the gameplay is what keeps me hooked. Sounds like Inscryption is the one to play first; Slay the Spire sounds more like the Binding of Isaac, something I’ve probably put a thousand hours into already!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Keep at it, the mirror unlocks really help (plus you just get better at dodging etc)
