Let's Play Factorio E08 - no talk - more iron and copper (diode.zone)
We’re finally approaching some harder sciences and we have robots building stuff!!
Sony confirms more PC ports are coming, because it's making a ton of money (www.pcgamer.com)
Sell popular games on more platforms...
UK CMA blocks the Microsoft takeover of Activision (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Konami Employee Tried to Murder His Former Boss (www.siliconera.com)
Konami’s return into AAA gaming seems to go well, especially work culture has evolved after Hideo Kojima’s departure :D
Nintendo wants to subpoena Discord to find out who leaked its Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom art book (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Interceptor: Introducing Update 4.2 - No Man's Sky (www.nomanssky.com)
Nvidia’s GameStream is dead. Sunshine and Moonlight are great replacements. (arstechnica.com)
Chris Avellone secures 7-figure settlement from his accusers who now say “he deserves a full return to the industry” (gameworldobserver.com)
French Government Employees No Longer Allowed To Play Candy Crush (www.thegamer.com)
Burnout and Need for Speed studio loses boss and four co-founders (www.eurogamer.net)
System Shock gets May 30 PC release date. (arstechnica.com)
Fond memories of the original. Happy to see it might be finally out there.
Dota 2 removes OpenGL support, new hero Muerta now live, big update due in April (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Presidential Election Game - run for office. Might be foss (newcampaigntrail.github.io)
Valve used secret memory access “honeypot” to detect 40K Dota 2 cheaters (arstechnica.com)
Introducing Ambient 0.1 - Multiplayer First Engine (www.ambient.run)
Sega says Sonic Frontiers sales ‘greatly exceeded’ its expectations | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
American judge dismisses Switch Joy-Con drift lawsuit (www.eurogamer.net)
Interview: Llamasoft's Jeff Minter Discusses His New Game Akka Arrh And Working With Atari (www.timeextension.com)
Via Jeff minters acc @llamasoft_ox
Run by Streamer | Brotato (steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net)
True engineering run: you build the thing and leave it to nature to devoure...
Trackmania heads to Steam and the devs say it's playable on Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Google, Nvidia Express Concerns to FTC About Microsoft’s Activision Deal (www.bloomberg.com)
Senator Asks Gabe Newell Why Steam Hosts So Much Neo-Nazi Content (www.vice.com)
Which is IMHO a reasonable question, no matter how you think about Steam otherwise.
Qwantify: Self-Hosted and Open Source Project for Gaming Online with Friends (hackaday.com)
One of the best parts of gaming is gaming with friends, but often this requires everyone involved to have the same expensive piece of hardware. Almost everyone has a computer with a browser already, though, so if you’d like to play online with friends who don’t have the same gaming machine as you, they can play along now...