Gaming

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20783261

Arch Linux is entering into a direct collaboration with Valve. Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on the distribution: a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave. By supporting work on a freelance basis for these topics, Valve enables them to work on them without being limited solely by the free time of our volunteers.

Seems to me like this studio never actually closed. Either way, this is at least as funny as Ubisoft's and Sony's dreadful live-service games flopping hard.

The limited-time demo (link for the lazy) has no DRM, so all you need to do to preserve it beyond its expiration date is copy the folder it's installed to somewhere else. This works with most limited-time demos on Steam.

You can also copy the large number of DRM-free games on the platform to other systems or create backups of them using the same method. Here's a (likely ver incomplete) list:

https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

TL;DW:

• Many enhanced games are getting raytracing when they were using simpler lighting solutions previously
• A surprising handful of games are getting 8K modes, though the 8K usually turns off other enhancements like raytracing. They mentioned GT7 and F1 2024 as two examples.
• Most enhanced games are focusing on creating a "Performance Pro" mode, which more-or-less gives you the previous quality mode, but at 60fps. Some devs are planning on adding a "Quality Pro" mode that turns on even more features at the cost of FPS.
• Most enhanced games are using PSSR to upscale from 1080-1440p to 4K.
• PSSR seems to be better than FSR, but still a little worse than DLSS. Oliver noted a few cases of image breakup and ghosting around the edges.
• Horizon: FW is not using PSSR, but somehow it seems to be the best-looking of all the enhanced games (in Oliver's opinion).
• FF7R is dramatically improved image quality wise - previously, performance mode was real fuzzy.
• Dragon's Dogma 2 is getting about ~50 FPS in the troublesome city scenes, but this is with RTGI turned on so that's pretty impressive.

So, my ass just discovered the Tetris watch and I am interested in wrist mounted games as a whole. Anyone know of any?

Game Information

Game Title: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

Platforms:

• Nintendo Switch (Sep 26, 2024)

Trailers:

• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom — Overview Trailer — Nintendo Switch
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom — Into the Still World, a Journey Continued — Nintendo Switch
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – Traversing Hyrule Trailer – Nintendo Switch

Developer: Nintendo

Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 85 average - 88% recommended - 34 reviews

Critic Reviews

CGMagazine - Jordan Biordi - 8 / 10

COGconnected - James Paley - 85 / 100

Cerealkillerz - Steve Brieller - German - 9.3 / 10

Checkpoint Gaming - David McNamara - 9 / 10

Dexerto - James Busby - 5 / 5

Digital Trends - Giovanni Colantonio - 3.5 / 5

Digitec Magazine - Domagoj Belancic - German - 4 / 5

Eurogamer.pt - Vítor Alexandre - Portuguese - 4 / 5

GAMES.CH - Benjamin Braun - German - 86%

GRYOnline.pl - Adam Celarek - Polish - 8.5 / 10

GamePro - Tobias Veltin - German - 88 / 100

God is a Geek - Adam Cook - 9 / 10

Guardian - Keza MacDonald - 3 / 5

Hobby Consolas - Álvaro Alonso - Spanish - 91 / 100

IGN - Tom Marks - 9 / 10

IGN Italy - Andrea Peduzzi - Italian - 9 / 10

IGN Spain - Mario Seijas - Spanish - 9 / 10

Nintendo Life - Alana Hagues - 9 / 10

Nintendo News - 9.5 / 10

Press Start - James Mitchell - 9.5 / 10

SECTOR.sk - Matúš Štrba - Slovak - 9 / 10

Saudi Gamer - Arabic - 7 / 10

Spaziogames - Valentino Cinefra - Italian - 8.7 / 10

Stevivor - Matt Gosper - 9 / 10

The Games Machine - Danilo Dellafrana - Italian - 9.3 / 10

TheGamer - Jade King - 4 / 5

TheSixthAxis - Stefan L - 8 / 10

TrueGaming - Arabic - 9 / 10

TrustedReviews - Thomas Deehan - 4.5 / 5

Twinfinite - Rowan Jones - 3.5 / 5

VGC - Andy Robinson - 3 / 5

Video Chums - Alex Legard - 8 / 10

Wccftech - Nathan Birch - 9 / 10

WellPlayed - Nathan Hennessy - 9 / 10

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22527376

Rockstar Games' servers have been under heavy fire from massive DDoS attacks in recent days, causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online. These attacks come in the wake of Rockstar’s recent implementation of BattlEye, a new anti-cheat system designed to crack down on in-game cheating, sparking backlash from a segment of the player base. Protesters, unhappy with the new system, have resorted to using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to disrupt the servers, escalating tensions between the gaming giant and its community.

This trailer was revealed during the recent State of Play. I really like the look and atmosphere. They clearly had a good look at Death Stranding, but I love that game so this seems right up my alley. What do you guys think?

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2828860/The_Forever_Winter/

The Forever Winter, which has launched in early access today, is a grim dark take on the PvE extraction shooter.

I'm pretty sold on the art style and premise, but will be holding off until a little later to play the game as it looks pretty rough around the edges.

Has anyone played / is planning to play this game?

[alt text: a post on twitter by @Ranting_Trans, posted in June 2022. The text in the post says: "People only ask 'what is a woman' and not 'what is a man', because that question was already answered by the greatest philosopher of our time: Dracula". Below the text is a screenshot from the game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, which shows Dracula saying, "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets."]

Another trailer that was presented at the recent State of Play. The art style and atmosphere look absolutely incredible to me!