2025-12-04T13:25:18.089Z BlogFlock Protesilaos Stavrou: News and Announcements, Justin Barclay, Arialdo Martini, BuzzMachine, Irreal, GamingOnLinux Latest Articles, The Emacs Cat, Sacha Chua, Jeff Kreeftmeijer, Xah Lee, Karthinks, Emacs@ Dyerdwelling, MacAdie Web Blog, Philip KALUDERCIC, Bowmansarrow, Take on Rules, manuel uberti, Wilfred Hughes::Blog, Bicycle For Your Mind, LWN.net, Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed, McSweeney’s https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/get-some-great-raw-fury-games-like-kathy-rain-sable-and-more-in-a-new-humble-bundle/ 2025-12-04T12:50:19.000Z

Another fresh bundle of games to keep you warm with the RAWcember to Remember Humble Bundle.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/416012286id28141gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/get-some-great-raw-fury-games-like-kathy-rain-sable-and-more-in-a-new-humble-bundle/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/fixkin-a-long-way-home-is-a-cozy-rhythmic-narrative-road-trip-in-a-suddenly-upside-down-world/ 2025-12-04T12:34:45.000Z

Sonderland Games (Bella Wants Blood, Landnama) announced FIXKIN: A Long Way Home - a new cozy rhythm-based adventure and there's a demo available.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/584083586id28140gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/fixkin-a-long-way-home-is-a-cozy-rhythmic-narrative-road-trip-in-a-suddenly-upside-down-world/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/guild-wars-reforged-has-arrived-on-steam/ 2025-12-04T12:15:33.000Z

ArenaNet have released Guild Wars Reforged bringing together the Prophecies, Factions, and Nightfall campaigns together along with various improvements.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/1052130176id28139gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/guild-wars-reforged-has-arrived-on-steam/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/hytale-wont-be-on-steam-right-away-as-its-devs-want-to-avoid-overindexing-on-negative-reviews-from-players-who-arent-as-well-informed-yet 2025-12-04T12:05:51.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/hytale-not-on-steam-right-away-01.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Revived <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/minecraft">Minecraft</a>y survivabuilder <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/hytale">Hytale</a> got a fresh <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/hytales-early-access-release-date-set-in-stone-for-january-2026-but-its-devs-admit-the-first-impression-will-be-rough">early access release date of January 13th</a> the other week. However, the team behind it how now confirmed you shouldn't expect to see it hit Steam at that point, with the game's executive director not seeing the need to knock on Valve's pipe-laden door yet and keen to avoid an early access spent drowning in negative reviews.</p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/hytale-wont-be-on-steam-right-away-as-its-devs-want-to-avoid-overindexing-on-negative-reviews-from-players-who-arent-as-well-informed-yet">Read more</a></p> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/one-of-pc-gamings-key-ram-manufacturers-arent-selling-to-regular-humans-anymore-so-they-can-peddle-more-kit-to-ai-companies 2025-12-04T12:00:56.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Crucial-RAM-and-SSDs.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>The ongoing <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/predicting-steam-machine-prices-would-be-a-lot-easier-if-ram-costs-hadnt-gone-horribly-wrong">chaos in RAM production</a>, with mass shortages jacking up street prices to are-you-joking levels, now has a major manufacturer casualty. <a href="https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business">Micron have announced</a> the end of Crucial, their consumer brand for PC memory and SSDs &ndash; and likely a familiar name to gaming PC builders who&rsquo;ve been hooking up their storage drives and slotting in their RAM sticks for decades.</p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/one-of-pc-gamings-key-ram-manufacturers-arent-selling-to-regular-humans-anymore-so-they-can-peddle-more-kit-to-ai-companies">Read more</a></p> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/eclipsium-is-cosmic-horror-at-its-most-fidgety-and-free-wheeling 2025-12-04T11:59:00.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/advent-calendar-2025---Eclipsium.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p> Hold up all your fingers. Count them from right to left. When you get to four, stop. That is today's Advent calender number. You will not need the rest of your fingers. Please dispose of them as you see fit. </p> <p> What game could prompt such a sinister overture? It can only be... <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/eclipsium">Eclipsium</a>! </p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/eclipsium-is-cosmic-horror-at-its-most-fidgety-and-free-wheeling">Read more</a></p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-logitech-g305-lightspeed-wireless-mouse-is-a-great-reasonably-priced-pick/ 2025-12-04T11:29:48.000Z

I decided to upgrade my mouse from a cheap unbranded USB wired to the Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless, so here's my thoughts on it.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/734616835id28138gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-logitech-g305-lightspeed-wireless-mouse-is-a-great-reasonably-priced-pick/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/russia-bans-roblox-with-state-censor-accusing-it-of-spreading-lgbt-propaganda-and-justifying-terrorism 2025-12-04T11:02:28.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/roblox-facial-age-estimation-technology-adult-minor-measures-01.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>Access to Roblox has been blocked in Russia, with federal censorship and media oversight agency Roskomnadzor accusing the platform of distributing content "justifying terrorism" and spreading "LGBT propaganda". According to Russian media reports, the state body said Roblox has become rife with content that can "negatively impact the spiritual and moral development of children".</p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/russia-bans-roblox-with-state-censor-accusing-it-of-spreading-lgbt-propaganda-and-justifying-terrorism">Read more</a></p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/check-out-the-demo-for-chipmatic-an-upcoming-mining-and-automation-game/ 2025-12-04T10:42:35.000Z

A mining incremental inspired by Motherload, Dome Keeper and Super Mining Mechs with some added automation - Chipmatic looks like one to keep an eye on.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/857565417id28137gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/check-out-the-demo-for-chipmatic-an-upcoming-mining-and-automation-game/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/unreal-tournament-2004-is-getting-revived-by-oldunreal-with-approval-from-epic-games/ 2025-12-04T10:20:09.000Z

Just like Epic Games did for the original Unreal Tournament, they're giving full approval to OldUnreal to revive Unreal Tournament 2004 and keep it updated.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/articles/tagline_images/32498601id28136gol.jpg" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/unreal-tournament-2004-is-getting-revived-by-oldunreal-with-approval-from-epic-games/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/mesa-25-2-8-and-mesa-25-3-1-released-for-open-source-linux-graphics-drivers/ 2025-12-04T10:08:58.000Z

After being delayed, both Mesa 25.2.8 and Mesa 25.3.1 have been released with an assortment of bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers.<p><img src="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/tagline_gallery/mesa.png" alt />.</p><p>Read the full article on <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/mesa-25-2-8-and-mesa-25-3-1-released-for-open-source-linux-graphics-drivers/">GamingOnLinux</a>.</p> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/hi-fi-rush-is-ditching-denuvo-in-january-and-itll-become-unplayable-if-you-dont-grab-the-latest-patch 2025-12-04T09:47:03.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/hi-fi-rush-gang.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/hi-fi-rush">Hi-Fi Rush</a> is ditching its Denuvo anti-tamper software as part of developers' Tango Gameworks transition to <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/pubg-owner-krafton-have-acquired-tango-gameworks-and-the-hi-fi-rush-ip">working under new owners Krafton</a>. A fresh patch has been released swapping logos to reflect that switch in management, and you'll need to install it before mid-January if you want the game to stay playable.</p> <p>Krafton, of course, bought up Tango after the studio's former parent company Microsoft <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/microsoft-are-shutting-down-the-studios-that-made-redfall-and-hi-fi-rush">announced plans to shut it down</a> back in May, alongside <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/redfall">Redfall</a> developers Arkane Austin and Mighty Doom creators Alpha Dog Games.</p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/hi-fi-rush-is-ditching-denuvo-in-january-and-itll-become-unplayable-if-you-dont-grab-the-latest-patch">Read more</a></p> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/element-bending-rpg-the-god-slayer-has-decent-fight-scenes-but-systemic-smarts-could-elevate-it 2025-12-04T07:35:58.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/The-God-Slayer-preview-3.png?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p>I'll forgive you if you've not clocked The God Slayer. While it's always been vaguely curious in an Inside Baseball sort of way, its action-RPGness being a stark departure for <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/my-time-at-sandrock">My Time at Sandrock</a>/<a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/my-time-at-portia">My Time at Portia</a> lifesim devs Pathea Games, the project's been in hiding since its 2023 reveal as an apparent PS5 exclusive. Yet it&rsquo;s still in the works, release date TBD but with a PC version confirmed, and has successfully caught my eye after a hands-off preview session last week &ndash; even with said preview being shy about its most intriguing, immsim-influenced openness.</p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/element-bending-rpg-the-god-slayer-has-decent-fight-scenes-but-systemic-smarts-could-elevate-it">Read more</a></p> https://takeonrules.com/2025/12/03/musing-about-dolmenwood/ 2025-12-04T02:42:35.000Z

<p>Related Links :: <span class="label">Tags:</span> <span role="list" aria-label="Tags for “Musing about Dolmenwood”"> <span role="listitem" aria-label="&ldquo;rpgs&rdquo; tag navigation"><a href="https://takeonrules.com/2025/03/19/the-travels-of-duinhir-tailwind-session-13/" aria-label="Previous post tagged with &ldquo;rpgs&rdquo; is &ldquo;The Travels of Duinhir Tailwind: Session 13&rdquo;" title="Older post tagged with &ldquo;rpgs&rdquo; is &ldquo;The Travels of Duinhir Tailwind: Session 13&rdquo;"><small>&lt;</small></a> <a href="https://takeonrules.com/tags/rpgs/" class="p-category" aria-label="All posts tagged with &ldquo;rpgs&rdquo;" title="All posts tagged with &ldquo;rpgs&rdquo;">rpgs</a> <small aria-hidden="true">&gt;</small> </span></span> </p/><p><strong>Summary: </strong> Looking at recently arrived books and feeling a sense of exploration and desire to play. </p> <p>Back in high school, when I didn’t access to such ubiquitous personal electronic computing, one of my time sinks was rolling up AD&amp;D 2nd Edition characters. To this day, I can look at three six-sided pipped dice and immediately know the sum. I can also do so with 4d6, dropping the lowest roll.</p> <p>This past week, I received <a href="https://necroticgnome.com/products/welcome-to-dolmenwood">Dolmenwood</a> source books. And I felt the call to roll up a character. There are online character generators for this game, but I have felt that these cheapen the character generation experience.</p> <p>There’s something about engaging with the tables in an open book that gets me thinking. Perhaps it is rolling on a table for names or features and seeing other possibilities; that is absorbing just a bit more of the world lore. It is why I love <cite><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/194344/Apocalypse-World-2nd-Ed?affiliate_id=318171">Apocalypse World</a></cite> <small><a class="ref" rel="tag opener" aria-label="Other site-wide references of “Apocalypse World”" title="Other site-wide references of “Apocalypse World”" href="https://takeonrules.com/site-map/glossary/#abbr-dfn-GLOSSARY-AW">&#128214;</a></small> playbooks—the custom moves and abilities create a flavor of where this game might go. But it is not the only flavor, as game play also creates the melange that is the experience.</p> <p>One thing I have wondered about Dolmenwood is if the rules are a suitable representation of the campaign world? For it is the campaign world that I find intriguing. I know that the chassis of the game is robust; but is Faerie something that can be suitably modeled in the system. Does it matter? Because the rules are but one aspect of the experience and overall enjoyment.</p> <p>The published adventures are another facet. And reading through <cite>Winter’s Daughter</cite>, the ambiance and encounters track toward Faerie. And being of a particular rules set, it means many many adventures are readily available for dropping into the game.</p> <p>I do miss playing table-top role-playing games. I’ve tried the online play, but having known the other options, I much prefer face to face. At this point given the option of playing online or not playing, it is clear that I’d rather not play. As I live in a very rural corner of Southwest Michigan, the preference for face to face is a barrier.</p> <p>Which has me considering solo-play. At present, I’m finding lots of enjoyment in reading. Both my partner and I are participating in a reading challenge; and we’re finding common literary interests, which is an unexpected and pleasant surprise for this challenge. Which means that I think—again at present—that I’m more interested in reading a book that both she and I might like versus playing a game.</p> <p>Which, if Dolmenwood is helping nudge me towards play, I’ll take that as a net positive.</p> <p><a class="reply-by-email" href="mailto:reply-to@takeonrules.com?subject=RE:Musing%20about%20Dolmenwood">Reply by Email</a></p> https://lwn.net/Articles/1049158/ 2025-12-04T00:44:38.000Z

<p> Loris Cro has published <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY2Zxu7kngc"> a detailed YouTube video</a> talking about the terminology used to discuss asynchronicity, concurrency, and parallelism in <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1046084/">our recent article</a> about Zig's new <tt>Io</tt> interface. Our article is not completely clear because it uses the term "asynchronous <span style="white-space:nowrap;">I/O</span>" to refer to what should really be called "non-blocking <span style="white-space:nowrap;">I/O</span>", and sometimes confuses asynchronicity for concurrency, among other errors of terminology, he says. Readers interested in precise details about Zig's approach and some of the motivation behind the design may find Cro's video interesting. </p> https://lwn.net/Articles/1047221/ 2025-12-04T00:10:23.000Z

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: <p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1047221/">Front</a>: Rust in Debian; Python comprehensions; asynchronous Zig; BPF and io_uring; C safety; 6.18 statistics; just. <li> <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1047223/">Briefs</a>: Landlock; Let's Encrypt lifetimes; Last 5.4 kernel; TAB election; AlmaLinux 10.1; FreeBSD 15.0; NixOS 25.11; Django 6.0; Home Assistant 2025.12; PHP 8.5.0; Racket 9.0; Quotes; ... <li> <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1047224/">Announcements</a>: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. </ul> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/playerunknown-wants-to-listen-to-your-prologue-go-wayback-feedback-just-not-all-of-it 2025-12-03T22:56:32.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/prologue-go-wayback_KBSoguq.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p> There are two Brendan Greene's (or PlayerUnknown's, however you prefer to refer to the game dev). There is the Brendan Greene who wants to listen to the feedback offered up by those partaking in the early access period of his current game, <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/prologue-go-wayback">Prologue: Go Wayback</a>. And there is the Brendan Greene who doesn't, for quite reasonable reasons. Both of these are still him, and both show up in a recent interview. </p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/playerunknown-wants-to-listen-to-your-prologue-go-wayback-feedback-just-not-all-of-it">Read more</a></p> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/chill-cyberpunk-city-builder-dystopikas-b-sides-dlc-offers-up-polished-experiments-for-you-to-play-with 2025-12-03T21:35:01.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dystopika.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p> I think games are generally quite bad at acknowledging that they are things that are made by people. These people tend to have conversations about ideas, which turn into implementing those ideas, and sometimes these ideas are abandoned. We've all enjoyed a deleted scene in the extras of a DVD, yet the cutting room floor does not seem to be a thing for most games, at least not publicly. Which is why the new B-Sides DLC for <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/dystopika">Dystopika</a>, a chill cyberpunk <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-best-building-games-on-pc">city builder</a> <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/make-the-night-city-of-your-dreams-with-this-cyberpunk-city-sandbox-builder">quite liked</a> by some <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/in-dystopika-you-are-the-chill-landscaper-of-a-vast-cyberpunk-city-and-it-is-exactly-my-cup-of-noodles">former RPSers</a>. </p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/chill-cyberpunk-city-builder-dystopikas-b-sides-dlc-offers-up-polished-experiments-for-you-to-play-with">Read more</a></p> https://lwn.net/Articles/1049142/ 2025-12-03T19:44:36.000Z

<a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/12/03/release-202512/">Version 2025.12</a> of the Home Assistant home-automation system has been released. <p> <blockquote class="bq"> This month, we're unveiling Home Assistant Labs, a brand-new space where you can preview features before they go mainstream. And what better way to kick it off than with Winter mode? ❄️ Enable it and watch snowflakes drift across your dashboard. It's completely unnecessary, utterly delightful, and exactly the kind of thing we love to build. ❄️ <p> But that's just the beginning. We've been working on making automations more intuitive over the past releases, and this release finally delivers purpose-specific triggers and conditions. Instead of thinking in (numeric) states, you can now simply say "When a light turns on" or "If the climate is heating". It's automation building the way our mind works, as it should be. </blockquote> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-wonderfully-titled-schattenjager-is-a-bite-sized-take-on-castlevania-where-you-can-see-the-whole-level-at-once 2025-12-03T19:08:52.000Z

<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Schattenjager.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p> Truth be told, I have never played a Castlevania game. Just haven't gotten round to one of 'em yet! Symphony of the Night is probably more my speed over the original games, but I do see their importance too of course. However, what I have played, at least a little bit of, is a game that is very derivative of OG <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-best-platform-games-on-pc">platformer</a> except for the fact you can see the entire, 8-bit level at once: Schattenj&auml;ger. </p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-wonderfully-titled-schattenjager-is-a-bite-sized-take-on-castlevania-where-you-can-see-the-whole-level-at-once">Read more</a></p>