PC Gaming

The graphics look at bit odd up close, but arguably strategy is a genre where gameplay takes precedence of over visual quality (and the overall aesthetic direction is fine:).

Steam page

If you have an account and a VR headset I encourage you to jump into and appreciate the sense of scale.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54840451

Kitten Space Agency is an in-development spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program from RocketWerkz that you can try right now for free.

Oh dear. Goonswarm Games are shutting down after Running With Scissors cancelled POSTAL: Bullet Paradise due to the use of generative AI. It’s a bit of a saga this one.

I have 200+ hours in the original Planetbase and 100% achievements, so I am pretty biased, but I love the relative simplicity (by the standard of most city-builders) combined with the sci-fi themes and survival mechanics (albeit starting from the mid-game, the survival mechanics are not that important) of the original game.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/technology/p/377579/wtf-just-happened-the-corrupt-memory-industry-micron

As RAM prices explode and availability becomes an issue thanks to AI companies, Micron announced their Crucial consumer business is no longer a thing.

More fall out from the AI bullshit

It’s going to be such a hack job with this takeover.

We are happy to report that, thanks to our partners at Nixxes, we have reached that goal much sooner than expected. By completely de-duplicating our data, we were able to reduce the PC installation size from ~154GB to ~23GB, for a total saving of ~131GB (~85%).

I’m not comfortable having a unitary absolute monarchy sticking their fingers in my hobby.

After Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine living room box earlier this month, some analysts suggested to Ars that Valve could and should aggressively subsidize that hardware with “loss leader” pricing that leads to more revenue from improved Steam software sales. In a new interview with YouTube channel Skill Up, though, Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais ruled out that kind of console-style pricing model, saying that the Steam Machine will be “more in line with what you might expect from the current PC market.”