I’m convinced that old games feel “hard” because modern emulators have like 30 layers of abstraction between the input and the screen. Today you’ve got controllers going through bluetooth driver stacks, on general purpose operating systems, with all sorts of thread coordination, GPU APIs, not to mention display latency… Much easier for the brain to learn when the original hardware is extremely deterministic!

🚨 Diablo has arrived on openfpgaOS! The legendary dungeon crawler is now playable in your Analogue Pocket. Hack, slash, and loot your way through the depths.

One is to get comfortable with repetitive, monotonous, unrewarding tasks. But the more important lesson is that you need to learn how to work, to prepare, to have respect for the tools and the processes, because it’s very difficult to get good at or master skills when you do not.

Valve has been hit by yet another class action lawsuit in the Netherlands, this time from Consumer Competition Claims (CCC). The CCC claims that Valve holds a dominant position in the market, estimated at around 85%, and is breaching competition law through so-called "Most Favoured Nation" clauses. They argue that Valve’s 30 percent cut on all game sales is too high and reflects monopolistic behaviour. Dutch consumers have suffered total damages of more than €220 million. Source: GameClaim

Rejoice, Sinners! Blasphemous II is 75% OFF in the Team17 Steam Publisher Sale. Penance awaits: store.steampowered.com/app/2…