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❗Top Gaming (General) posts of the month❗ (21 Aug 2025)

1. 🖼️ Anyone else guilty of this? (direct link) (👍1244 👎29)

from RetroGaming (!retrogaming@lemmy.world)

2. 📰 GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship (direct link) (👍1123 👎14)

GOG’s Freedom to Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games for Free to Protest Censorship

GOG has launched a new initiative titled Freedom to Buy, aimed at raising awareness around the constantly growing issue of game censorship and delistings. The campaign challenges what GOG describes as a “quiet” form of censorship, where titles vanish not for violating laws, but because of decisions made behind closed doors. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Ninjazzon

3. 🖼️ This happened to me in Roller Coaster Tycoon and The Sims. (direct link) (👍945 👎17)

from Gaming (!gaming@lemmy.world)

Makes sense. An "easy button" gets hard to resist, like when quick workarounds become standard. I burned out on games because cheats made them short-term fun but ruined normal play afterward. 🖍🤖

Posted by The_Picard_Maneuver

4. 📰 Nintendo-owned titles excluded from Japan’s biggest speedrunning event after organizers were told they had to apply for permission for each game (direct link) (👍598 👎3)

from Games (!games@sh.itjust.works)

Nintendo-owned titles excluded from Japan’s biggest speedrunning event after organizers were told they had to apply for permission for each game

RTA in Japan Summer 2025 will not feature any Nintendo games at all. The decision was made in response to a warning from Nintendo. Organizers will be applying for individual usage permission for each title they want to feature in the future. This will affect the guidelines and requirements for nominating games for future competitions. 🖋️🤖

Posted by misk

5. 📰 Battlefield 6 will be a unplayable on Linux systems due to the anti-cheat (direct link) (👍332 👎3)

from Linux Gaming (!linux_gaming@lemmy.world)

Battlefield 6 will be a unplayable on Linux systems due to the anti-cheat

Just in case you were curious - no you will not be able to play Battlefield 6 on any Linux powered system including SteamOS. It will be using EA's newer EA Javelin Anticheat which actively blocks Linux platforms from playing. So our curated anti-cheat page has been updated to now list it. Pictured - Battlefield 6In other related news, one interesting point about Battlefield 6 is its use of open source. Pretty amazing to see such huge developers now using the cross-platform and open source Godot. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by cm0002

6. 📰 GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" (direct link) (👍288 👎2)

from Gaming (!gaming@lemmy.zip)

GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"

Those removals were the result of pressure on the storefronts from payment processors like Mastercard and Visa to remove games featuring sexual content. Payment processors were in turn pressured by a campaign by conservative anti-porn organization Collective Shout, which released an open letter to payment processors on July 11. Players and developers have taken to social media to put pressure of their own on payment processors to push against what they see as censorship. No claims of potential illegality have been made about any games removed from platforms. "For 48 hours, these games are free, because if a game is legal, you should be free to buy it." 🖊️️🤖

Posted by BrikoX

7. 💬 Battlefield 6 requires secure boot to be enabled and active (direct link) (👍144 👎3)

from Linux Gaming (!linux_gaming@lemmy.ml)

Dual boot Win11 for programming. Game blocks Linux. Booted to Win11 but complained secure boot disabled. BIOS showed enabled but inactive. Reset keys to default. Won't buy until EA stops this. Informing others. 🖍🤖

Posted by DonutsRMeh

8. 📰 You'll have to pay for a $20 DLC to unlock two out of six clans in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. (direct link) (👍98 👎2)

from Gaming (!gaming@lemmy.ml)

This sucks: you'll have to pay for two clans in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

The Shadows and Silk add-on pack comes as part of the Premium Edition of the game. It costs £18.69/€21.99/€89.99 for it. If you don't pay, you'll only be able to access the default four: Brujah, Tremere, Banu Haqim and Ventrue. 🖋️🤖

Posted by onlooker

9. 💬 Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (direct link) (👍59 👎1)

from Patient Gamers (!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works)

Posted by BurntWits

10. 🖼️ Openfront.io | Online browser-based RTS game (direct link) (👍22 👎0)

from OpenSourceGames (!opensourcegames@lemmy.ml)

OpenFront.io is a real-time strategy game focused on territorial control, alliance building, and expansion via structures on real-world maps. Fork/rewrite of WarFront.io. Credit: github.com/WarFrontIO. 🖍🤖

Posted by heartbreaker

11. 💬 Monumental praise for Donkey Kong Banaza (direct link) (👍16 👎2)

from Let's Talk About Games (!letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk)

I won’t revisit the game much, but my four-year-old daughter loves Bananza. Previously only interested in Mario Kart (auto-drive) and Bluey, she now requests to watch “the monkey game” at random times. It’s a reward for good behavior—she laughs at banana eyes, cheers for collected bananas, and suggests punch spots. She’s enthralled just watching. May let her play later, but currently adore sharing this with her. 🖍🤖

Posted by Noit

12. 📰 Feedback for my first (mini-) game? (direct link) (👍5 👎1)

from Indie Gaming (!indiegaming@lemmy.world)

ASTRO DOME by SorryforSmelling

This is my first full Game. A short (10-15 min.) take on the Astro Shooter Genre. Everything (except audio) in this Game was made by me in the Godot 4.4 Engine. If you like what you see, and want to keep up with me, consider following me on Instagram @_rapid_access_impulseThanks for playing :) ~ RaiRai 🖊️️🤖

Posted by SorryforSmelling

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Patient Gamers
- A gaming sub free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.
Gyro Gaming
- Welcome to Gyro Gaming subreddit, where people can share their passion for Gyroscopic Controls in Video Games, such as Camera Aiming, Vehicle Steering, Typing, etc.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

🖼️ Heroes of Might and Magic is the best Might and Magic (direct link), posted in Patient Gamers (👍48 👎2)

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32236403

Heroes of Might and Magic is the best Might and Magic
especially 3.

Posted by Subtex

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