The Arcade Goes Live! (Mini August Playback)

Site Updates

We’ll be bringing you mod coverage in the next few days, but before we do there’s something we want to share now before it spreads on its own:

The Arcade is finally here.

Play modifications such as Fantasy Quake, or the legendary Team Fortress. There’s also full versions of X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse there, complete with vispatches, lit files and official bonus maps. They also work on-line. Send anyone* a link and they can find you in the server-browser.

We also tested this with Virtual Reality headsets. So you can go ahead, strap one of those on, use its browser to play the games in VR. Make sure to use the Toggle WebXR button in the main menu for the permissions prompt to appear.

We’ll be editing the pages with updated controls for the various input methods soon. For now you can see how well it works and let us know of any technical issues as we’re rolling this out.

* anyone with a dedicated Internet connection. Mobile modems generally do not work well punching through the NAT.

Other Updates

• Worms 2 backend has been updated (thanks goes to Carlmundo!)
• resident frag-net.com hacker mv had their contribution merged into Luxtorpeda. Ever wanted to use a compatibility tool on Linux to apply important fixes for Windows-only Steam games? It’s here!
• Pages added for Crysis, Crysis 2 as well as Far Cry. We also added Warhead as well as Wars, but have yet to collect all the files we wanted into the archive. We will give them mod love real soon. We love the Crysis community!

Tech News

In short: There isn’t anything interesting to buy right now.

On the Horizon is Valve’s new hybrid hardware (it is very awesome, we’re already preparing for its arrival).

…CPUs? Nope.

…GPUs? Double nope. Don’t even get us started, but if you have to (don’t) shop NVIDIA at least get a 30XX series card that can still do 32-bit PhysX.

Gamers Nexus GPU Black Market Film

This went live in August. This film manages to cover everything going on in the hardware world very well. We have absolutely nothing to add.

You can find a mirror of this film on the Internet Archive