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Less "unnecessary" online games. To give you one tame example: Age of Empires 2 released in 1999 and is fully playable offline either as a single or multiplayer game via LAN. It ha…

Which one exactly? I saw one speech and that was decent.

The technical reality is: - that singel player games don't need a persistent online connection - that it is not that complicated if you develop your game with offline playability i…

I travel to Cologne about 5 times a year. 2h ride, usually 25 minutes late in each direction. Just go to the board bistro right away, order some food (if available), grab a beer or…

I respect the hustle but I hate the idea.

The blacklist is easy to circumvent by offering apps with randomly generated package IDs and probably also with randomly generated signing keys per user. This is of course more eff…

What's your market? Android being financially irrelevant seems very US-centric.

I played a prototype version of it at gamescom. It's pretty good. The graphics look good enough to emulate the original display technology.

Yes, ritual is the right word. I used to do it quite a lot during COVID with cassettes and CDs while working. Helped me to more consciously get into work mode.

I host monthly retro gaming meetups and we use CRT TVs that we store at the local library. Luckily, more than enough are still given away for free here. Right now we have around 25…

Yeah, that is strange, especially since we now have the technology to actually play full blown PC versions via abstraction layers on Android phones. A steam store with existing gam…

I haven't found the docs for the Dutch version but this article shows the content of the MRZ of a French drivers license. They seem to match the Dutch ones as well. https://trustdo…

It's rather sad for this generation. We still host retro LAN parties regularly to play games we love. Flatout 2, Age of Empires 2, Warcraft 3, Half Life Deathmatch. Those games are…

I am hearing about Google developing a desktop mode for probably 10 years now. I'll just stick to Dex which has been available since forever until Google finally figures their shit…

It looks like this is still a closed platform, isn't it? Is there a way to just browse the chat of a public server without signing up? I would like to have a more open, low frictio…

I recently complained to my local cities transportation office that their mobile app for bus tickets was only available for German Google users. The actually changed it now.

We also have two friends with dedicated LAN party basements. But it's way more casual. They have 10 old office PCs each that were available for pretty much free. We meet around eve…

December is a great time to take a vacation to somewhere warm if you don't like the winter. I like to travel to the Canary Islands from end of December to January. Last time we had…

I am an android dev who works with an M1 Pro 14" on some client and private projects and I also use an M3 Pro 16" provided by one client for a specific project. I can't tell the pe…

The video is made in the style of 2000s instruction videos for downloading games for free. But it only shows how to get to the Steam page of the dev's game to download the demo. Yo…

And the retro games on PSN are very dissapointing. I would love to have Tekken 3 on the PS 5 just because it is convenient. Instead they only offer Tekken 2, which is only availabl…

I have the same use case but with Xbox 360s since they are cheaper and easier to get here in Germany. Haven't found a better "easy LAN party" setup than this. A PC gaming LAN setup…

This. If it's end of life, let me install a community made Linux distro on it.

I've been at the Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition release event in Berlin. It was held at a Microsoft store with German YouTubers. Head of European Marketing for Xbox was there …