Games

“Friction is nice. Makes things more meaningful.” So says Lady Love Dies, the protagonist of Kaizen Game Works’ cult indie-hit Paradise Killer, to an inquisitive AI-bot of a vending machine. This quote has coiled into my thinking regarding game design that apes early net art and user interfaces. How faithful should one be to the textures of historical technology and its representational qualities? How speculative can one be when games and technological preservation in general have become so fraught? The idiosyncratic friction of user experience is often an underestimated identifier for specific periods of digital history. Even when we’re seeking to subvert corporate interests to jealously guard IPs, or convince the more open and communicative organizations to adapt or invent new methods of sustainable and accessible archives, human memory and its malleability are the missing link. I mean this last point both literally and figuratively.

If you've not heard of projects like Winlator, GameHub and GameNative, they've been working on bringing what once kinda seemed like the impossible, to being pretty easy and effective: playing full PC games on Android phones and handhelds.

Today's game is Max Payne 2. I discovered the -developerkeys flag so you know i had some fun with that while playing. I did this shot of Max diving over a landing which i really like. My steam keeps doing this weird bug where it crashes and reopens so i only got this shot and one of him nearly hitting the ground, but i still like how it came out. It's accurate too because every time i hit this staircase i do the Dive. Is it a bad move? Yes. Does it look sick? Definitely.

Video of DevGAMM Awards 2025 ceremony Lisbon (2025-11-07, YouTube)

A YouTuber has managed to bring a cut-down version of the PlayStation 5’s hardware to life on a custom AMD BC250 board bought from China. Running Linux, the unit surprisingly booted and delivered playable performance across several modern games, effectively turning PS5 silicon into a working gaming PC.

Valve released a new Proton Experimental update for November 7th with a nice batch of game fixes for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck gamers.

XP: https://piefed.social/c/games/p/1453808/undertale-gbc-continued-development-after-ruins-by-aki

Today's game is Phasmophobia. I meant to get back to Max Payne 2, but i wanted to spend some time with my friends today. Yknow, enjoy a nice start to the weekend and all that. So we kicked back with this. The first few missions were pretty easy. We play on professional now and go through them quick. All of this is to get us hyped up for the upcoming level they're adding (the diner).

Rockstar Games has been accused of "Union Busting," and apparently, this was confirmed by someone inside the company.

In light of the recent criticism that Rockstar Games has been facing for its firing of over 30 employees, one employee from the studio has taken to the GTA Forums to talk about the company’s actions. Under request of anonymity, and having been verified as a real Rockstar Games employee by an admin, the person – using the name Organize – has further criticised the Grand Theft Auto developers, calling the company out for union busting.

It has elements from both deep rock and helldivers, with an open map and scattered objectives throughout. You play as a robot cowboy spellcaster fighting undead criptids. They say it's pre-alpha but it's wayyyy to polished for me to believe that, it almost feels like it's ready to ship

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Team Cherry have released Patch 4 for Hollow Knight: Silksong bringing with it more bug fixes, along with a big change to how controllers are handled. More fixes were added since the Beta, and it's live for everyone now.

Now this looks like a cool mix, Lexispell brings some roguelike strategy flavour to word games with physics and the trailer easily sold me.

Morrowind just got even better with the new OpenMW 0.50.0 release, as the free and open source game engine reimplementation has some big fancy new features.

Today's game is R.E.P.O. Me and some friends have been playing the latest update. We saw there were some changes made along with some QOL features added at the suggestion of the community which we were excited for. It's kind of nice to see a developer as active within the community as they are. I feel like all the stories i hear about developers this active in the community i miss the bus for.

I'm actually planning to put together a video review, so I'm in the process of organizing my thoughts. This thread is just a spur of the moment thing.

The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster is now available bringing a massive upgrade to the action-adventure game, but Linux gamers will now need to use Proton.

Are you tired of new games coming out broken? Well now is your chance to criticize someone else's game for free! hah I just finished the first playable version of my game and really need unbiased people to try it and give me their opinions and advice. As for the game - it's called The Milgram Experiment. Leave a comment or DM me so we can set something up!

At this rate, the PS6 will be out by the time this game is ready.

An interesting and important look at the development of Factorio's Linux-native port from an actual developer: the platform in general, Wayland, GNOME's bullshit, and dependencies.

UltraStar Deluxe is a free open source karaoke game for your PC. The gameplay experience is similar to that of the commercial product SingStar™ by Sony Computer Entertainment, which is exclusively available for the Playstation®.

Today's game is some more Max Payne 2. I was kind of dreading doing the Construction Site again, as last time it was a struggle. Surprisingly though it was a easy time. I guess my experience from my first play through carried over and made this a cake walk. I found this room full of explosives and a pile of chairs. I let myself have a little fun and detonated it and watched the chairs fly away. I took some damage from it but it was well worth it.

I love the Steamdeck. I've never had a gaming computer & I love this so much. Best $140 I've spent on gaming.

Today's game is Project Zomboid. Me and my friends got back on the Milk Store save, we had a friend joining us later though so we had to make the drive home to pick him up. At the start of our trip we found this taxi. One of my friend's adore collecting these things, and i enjoy collecting cars in this game. I am absolutely not a car guy IRL, but something about having vast collections of these things in the game is fun. I think if i had the space i'd collect all the cars in Kentucky.

Well, I took some time to jot down some thoughts on the one handheld that everyone seems to agree was the bee's knees: the Nintendo 3DS (and all its various iterations thereafter!)