2025-11-26T21:35:32.592Z BlogFlock Protesilaos Stavrou: News and Announcements, Justin Barclay, Arialdo Martini, BuzzMachine, Irreal, GamingOnLinux Latest Articles, The Emacs Cat, Karthinks, MacAdie Web Blog, Emacs@ Dyerdwelling, Jeff Kreeftmeijer, Xah Lee, Philip KALUDERCIC, Sacha Chua, Bowmansarrow, Take on Rules, Wilfred Hughes::Blog, manuel uberti, Bicycle For Your Mind, LWN.net, Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed, McSweeney’s https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/nier-automatas-2b-remains-in-crossover-prison-this-time-relegated-to-final-fantasy-7-ever-crisis 2025-11-26T20:06:02.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/final-fantasy-7-ever-crisis-nier.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p> Look, ok, I get it Square Enix. I understand why you put 2B in absolutely everything. She is a character with particular qualities that certain audiences found very appealing! But I am begging you&hellip; stop putting her in things. I'm sick to death of seeing her everywhere, her blindfolded eyes somehow still staring directly into my soul, begging me to spend money on endless gacha rolls, but this time in <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/final-fantasy-7-ever-crisis">Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis</a>, the next game she's set to appear in. </p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/nier-automatas-2b-remains-in-crossover-prison-this-time-relegated-to-final-fantasy-7-ever-crisis">Read more</a></p> https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13434 2025-11-26T19:56:49.000Z

<p> As we all know, one of the scourges of our industry is the <a href="https://uslawexplained.com/non-practicing_entity">Non-Practicing Entity</a> (NPE) better known as the patent troll. Given that by definition NPEs don&rsquo;t produce anything except lawsuits, their activities are deeply corrupting of a system that was designed to protect those who do. </p> <p> One of the few effective ways that companies—especially small companies—have of protecting themselves is the <a href="https://www.uspto.gov/patents/ptab/trials/inter-partes-review">Inter Partes Review</a> (IPR) that provides a quicker, cheaper way of challenging bad patents. The patent trolls hate it, of course, and now the Patent Office is proposing to change the rules to make IPRs useless. </p> <p> The EFF has an <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable">excellent post that explains the issues and what you can do to help</a>. What you can do is to file a comment with the Patent Office opposing this rule change. The EFF&rsquo;s post has a sample comment that you can personalize to make your feelings known. The PTO is trying to rush this through for some reason so comments close on 2 December 2025. Therefore, it&rsquo;s important that you act quickly. The EFF post has a link for you to file the comment so the whole thing should take only a minute or two. </p> <p> If you live in the US, please take the time to make your feeling about the ploy known. As I said, it will only take a minute or two.</p> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/elden-ring-nightreign-dlcs-first-new-class-looks-great-for-book-nerds-and-grubby-old-men-lovers 2025-11-26T17:59:58.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/elden-ring-nightreign-scholar.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p> I don't know if I'm allowed to write "dad I'd like to" you know what, even as an acronym, so I won't, but my current prediction for Scholar, the first of two new Nightfarers coming to <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/elden-ring-nightreign">Elden Ring Nightreign</a> as part of its Forsaken Hollows DLC, is that this is what an alarmingly large number of people will refer to him as. I get it! He's a bit grubby looking, but he's smart because he reads books and stuff. There's multitudes there. </p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/elden-ring-nightreign-dlcs-first-new-class-looks-great-for-book-nerds-and-grubby-old-men-lovers">Read more</a></p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/sandbox-from-rust-developer-facepunch-is-now-open-source/ 2025-11-26T17:27:40.000Z

s&box from Rust developer Facepunch is a modern game engine built on Valve's Source 2 and the latest .NET, and now it is open source!<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/439476549id28082gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/sandbox-from-rust-developer-facepunch-is-now-open-source/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/sektori-is-absolutely-one-of-the-best-modern-twin-stick-shooters/ 2025-11-26T17:17:27.000Z

Sektori blasted onto Steam recently and I've been absolutely loving it, this is easily one of the best modern twin-stick shooters and fantastic to play.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/245179776id28090gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/sektori-is-absolutely-one-of-the-best-modern-twin-stick-shooters/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/after-more-than-one-controversy-layoffs-and-a-lengthy-beta-period-splitgate-2-is-set-to-return-next-month 2025-11-26T17:02:11.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Splitgate2_Screenshot1_3840x2160_OzoneFPV.png?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p> To say <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/splitgate-2">Splitgate 2</a> hasn't had an easy go of it would perhaps be a mild understatement, though that's not to say it's entirely undeserved. There was that <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/splitgate-2-boss-admits-the-trumpish-hat-he-wore-at-summer-game-fest-was-a-publicity-stunt-after-it-goes-sour">absolutely silly hat malarky</a> for one, creating a not particularly welcoming vibe, and there was of course some controversy involving the pricing for some of its in-game items. All of that unfortunately led to <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/following-their-hat-and-pricing-controversies-splitgate-2-studio-1047-games-have-laid-off-an-unspecified-number-of-devs">two rounds</a> of <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/splitgate-2-devs-1047-games-lay-off-more-staff-as-the-shooter-heads-back-to-beta-eyeing-a-2026-rerelease">layoffs</a>, and a switch back to a beta version of the game. Now, it looks like it'll be back in action next month. </p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/after-more-than-one-controversy-layoffs-and-a-lengthy-beta-period-splitgate-2-is-set-to-return-next-month">Read more</a></p> https://lwn.net/Articles/1048208/ 2025-11-26T16:49:45.000Z

<p>KDE's Plasma team has <a href="https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/">announced</a> that KDE Plasma will drop X11 session support with Plasma&#160;6.8:</p> <blockquote class="bq"> <p>The Plasma X11 session will be supported by KDE into early 2027.</p> <p>We cannot provide a specific date, as we're exploring the possibility of shipping some extra bug-fix releases for Plasma 6.7. The exact timing of the last one will only be known when we get closer to its actual release, which we expect will be sometime in early 2027.</p> <strong><p>What if I still really need X11?</p></strong> <p>This is a perfect use case for long term support (LTS) distributions shipping older versions of Plasma. For example, AlmaLinux 9 includes the Plasma X11 session and will be supported until sometime in 2032.</p> </blockquote> <p>See the blog post for information on running X11 applications (still supported), accessibility, gaming, and more.</p> <p></p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/kde-plasma-going-all-in-on-wayland-and-will-drop-the-x11-session-completely/ 2025-11-26T16:15:25.000Z

It was only a matter of time but it's nearly upon us - KDE Plasma with version 6.8 will be entirely dropping the X11 session to go full Wayland.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/tagline_gallery/kde.png" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/kde-plasma-going-all-in-on-wayland-and-will-drop-the-x11-session-completely/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/hooded-horses-latest-strategy-rpg-looks-like-some-final-fantasy-mercs-invaded-the-world-of-battle-brothers 2025-11-26T15:28:43.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/1_7M3G6T9.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p> I've been savouring the <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/im-happy-to-report-that-menace-feels-just-as-deadly-and-uncaring-as-battle-brothers">modest</a> <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/wartales-review">upsurge</a> in turn-based <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-best-strategy-games-on-pc">strategy games</a> about savage and malodorous bands of mercenaries, not least because it accompanies wordlarking <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/topics/battle-prose">as fine as this</a>. Here to join the screaming pile of gushing throats and grazed elbows is <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/pathbreakers-roaming-blades">Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades</a>, the latest from <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/fell-seal-arbiters-mark">Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark</a> developers 6 Eyes Studio. </p> <p> Hooded Horse have just announced that they're publishing it, which is lovely because it means I can write about a horse game this week that hasn't been <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/saturnalia-creators-santa-ragione-will-wind-down-operations-after-valve-ban-horror-game-horses-from-steam">banned from Steam</a> for infringing upon Valve's ever-elastic content policies. There are no scenes of inquity so far in Roaming Blades, just good, wholesome disembowelment and the chance to blow up lingering balls of lightning. Here's the trailer. </p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/hooded-horses-latest-strategy-rpg-looks-like-some-final-fantasy-mercs-invaded-the-world-of-battle-brothers">Read more</a></p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/build-your-own-capcom-all-stars-bundle-and-save-with-fanatical/ 2025-11-26T14:53:19.000Z

Fanatical have another pretty good Capcom bundle here where you can save monies on multiple top titles.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/685684077id28088gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/build-your-own-capcom-all-stars-bundle-and-save-with-fanatical/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://lwn.net/Articles/1048195/ 2025-11-26T14:32:35.000Z

Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (bind, binutils, delve and golang, expat, firefox, haproxy, kernel, libsoup3, libssh, libtiff, openssh, openssl, pam, podman, python-kdcproxy, shadow-utils, squid, thunderbird, vim, xorg-x11-server-Xwayland, and zziplib), <b>Debian</b> (cups-filters, libsdl2, linux-6.1, net-snmp, pdfminer, rails, and tryton-sao), <b>Fedora</b> (chromium, docker-buildkit, docker-buildx, and sudo-rs), <b>Gentoo</b> (librnp), <b>Mageia</b> (webkit2), <b>SUSE</b> (amazon-ssm-agent, buildah, curl, dpdk, fontforge-20251009, kernel, libIex-3_4-33, librnp0, python311, rclone, and sssd), and <b>Ubuntu</b> (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oracle, linux-aws-6.14, linux-oracle-6.14, linux-aws-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-realtime, linux-realtime-6.8, mupdf, openjdk-17, openjdk-8, and openjdk-lts). https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/embracer-sell-neverwinter-and-star-trek-online-devs-cryptic-allowing-them-to-gather-their-party-and-boldly-go-where-saber-went-before 2025-11-26T12:36:24.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Star-Trek-Online-Have-You-Played.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Embracer Group's undoing of their catastrophic multiple-year acquisition spree continues with the sale of Cryptic Studios and Arc Games, respectively the developers and publishers of <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/star-trek-online">Star Trek Online</a> and <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/neverwinter">Neverwinter</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/embracer-sell-neverwinter-and-star-trek-online-devs-cryptic-allowing-them-to-gather-their-party-and-boldly-go-where-saber-went-before">Read more</a></p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/slimbook-launch-the-kdeslimbookvii-with-amd-ryzen-ai-9-365-radeon-880m/ 2025-11-26T12:30:34.000Z

In the market for a new powerful laptop ready for the holiday season? Perhaps give a look to the new KDE Slimbook VII.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/836619518id28087gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/slimbook-launch-the-kdeslimbookvii-with-amd-ryzen-ai-9-365-radeon-880m/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/fedora-proposal-put-forward-to-improve-production-stability-and-incident-management/ 2025-11-26T12:11:48.000Z

After a string of annoying incidents after updates causing stability problems on Fedora, there's a new proposal put forward to help improve things.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/1673207429id28086gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/fedora-proposal-put-forward-to-improve-production-stability-and-incident-management/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-action-rpg-soulframe-from-the-devs-of-warframe-gets-a-steam-page-and-early-access-for-founders/ 2025-11-26T11:56:23.000Z

It's not officially out yet, but you can now jump in early to Soulframe, the in-development action RPG from the developers of the popular Warframe.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/111679850id28085gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-action-rpg-soulframe-from-the-devs-of-warframe-gets-a-steam-page-and-early-access-for-founders/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/heck-yeah-the-next-helldivers-2-warbond-finally-brings-a-minigun/ 2025-11-26T11:38:45.000Z

HELLDIVERS 2 is still one of the best online co-op action games around, and we're finally going to be able to get a minigun to really tear through enemies.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/982617id28084gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/heck-yeah-the-next-helldivers-2-warbond-finally-brings-a-minigun/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/you-can-now-buy-dark-fantasy-action-rpg-soulframe-rather-than-begging-for-a-code-and-it-has-a-steam-page 2025-11-26T11:32:57.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Soulframe-founders.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p> <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/warframe">Warframe</a> devs Digital Extremes have launched <a href="https://www.soulframe.com/en/shop/founders">a Founders program</a> for their faded dark fantasy action-<a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/best-rpgs">RPG</a> <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/soulframe">Soulframe</a>. This means that you can now pay to get access to the work-in-progress game, rather than signing up for a chance of a free code. What&rsquo;s more, you can now <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/4095380/Soulframe/">wishlist it on Steam</a> ahead of the eventual final release, inasmuch as a steadily updated gameworld like this ever reaches completion. There are always more layers to the setting, and more rad shoulderpads to unearth from the depths. </p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/you-can-now-buy-dark-fantasy-action-rpg-soulframe-rather-than-begging-for-a-code-and-it-has-a-steam-page">Read more</a></p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/if-youre-starving-for-more-advance-wars-styled-games-check-out-apes-warfare/ 2025-11-26T11:18:39.000Z

More turn-based strategy goodness inspired by Advance Wars? Yes please. Apes Warfare gives us another spin on the classic genre out now in Early Access.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/650722229id28083gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/if-youre-starving-for-more-advance-wars-styled-games-check-out-apes-warfare/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/embracer-group-selling-off-arc-games-and-cryptic-studios/ 2025-11-26T10:40:43.000Z

Embracer Group have announced they're once again shrinking, after previously going on a crazy spending spree and then having to make lots of cuts.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/451022369id28081gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/embracer-group-selling-off-arc-games-and-cryptic-studios/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/death-stranding-2-on-the-beach-pc-release-confirmed-by-esrb-ratings-board 2025-11-26T10:01:13.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/death-stranding-2-crop.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/death-stranding-2">Death Stranding 2</a>: On The Beach has been listed for PC, bringing closer the moment in which you and I can learn why exactly Troy Baker is a glam rocker, why <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/mad-max">Mad Max</a> director George Miller (it's not actually him) has a cat demon, and why Turkish-German screenwriter Fatih Akin has become a living doll. Sony have yet to announce the PC version of Hideo Kojima's <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-best-open-world-games">open world</a> courier fantasy or give it a release date, but the Entertainment Software Rating Board have <a href="https://www.esrb.org/ratings/41057/death-stranding-2-on-the-beach/">a page up now</a>. Go on, Sony - call them liar liar, pants on fire. </p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/death-stranding-2-on-the-beach-pc-release-confirmed-by-esrb-ratings-board">Read more</a></p>