Games: Depth of Extinction Scandal, BATTLETECH, Das Geisterschiff, Entangled, Red Embrace: Hollywood, Rogue Bit and Lutris

• Game developer revokes a user's Steam key after negative review

  Here's a case of how to definitely not deal with getting negative feedback. A developer of Depth of Extinction revoked a user's key after a negative review.

• ‘Depth Of Extinction’ Developers Revoke Steam Key Following Negative User Review

• A statement from HOF Studios about the Depth of Extinction Steam key removal, plus thoughts

  After writing about how the developer of Depth of Extinction revoked a user’s externally purchased Steam key after leaving a negative review, the developer reached out to give a statement.

• BATTLETECH for Linux to leave beta on November 27th, along with the Flashpoint expansion

  The day will soon arrive for BATTLETECH to leave beta for Linux as an officially supported game, along with the Flashpoint expansion. Replying to us on Twitter, they confirmed "The Linux version will leave Beta on November 27th.". As for Flashpoint, it will feature branching multi-mission contracts that will draw players into the machinations and feuds of the Great Houses along with new ‘Mechs, a new mission type, a new tropical biome and more.

• Das Geisterschiff, a turn-based cyberpunk adventure and dungeon crawler with wireframe-like graphics

  For those who love to check out something a little different, Das Geisterschiff might be your cup. A turn-based cyberpunk adventure and dungeon crawler inspired by older Japanese games.

• Entangled is a surprisingly good physics puzzle game with an interesting grapple gun mechanic

  I'm always keen to try out new games that feature some form of grapple gun and Entangled makes some rather great use of it for this physics puzzler. Note: Key provided by the developer.

• Red Embrace: Hollywood is a Visual Novel that will take you through life as a Vampire

  While not usually a fan of many Visual Novels, Red Embrace: Hollywood really does sound quite interesting. Set in 1996 in Los Angeles, you are a newly created Vampire who has to find their place in the world. Currently on Kickstarter, they've managed to hit quite a bit over their initial goal which is great to see. Showing demand for interesting Visual Novels is still very much there.

• Puzzle game 'Rogue Bit' has you become sentient bit of computer memory

  Here's an interesting little puzzle game, Rogue Bit from the developer of Son of a Witch is a puzzle game where you take control of a sentient bit of computer memory. It released earlier this month with same-day Linux support, looks like it could be a bit of fun for those who like their programming puzzlers.

• Lutris 0.4.21 is out to help you manage all your gaming needs on Linux

  Lutris [Official Site], the 'open gaming platform' that acts as a front-end to help you manage various games on Linux has a fresh release out. With Lutris 0.4.21 released yesterday it features an array of improvements, feature adjustments and bug fixes to make it a more pleasent experience overall. For those using Lutris to help with Wine and DXVK, they fixed an issue where DXVK versions didn't get updated if DXVK directory wasn't present and they also added an error message if requested DXVK version does not exist to prevent some confusion.

DistroWatch Weekly and For The Record Look at elementary OS 5.0

• Review: elementary OS 5.0

  I found a lot to like about Juno. The release announcement is detailed and shows lots of examples and screen shots. The operating system is easy to install, thanks to Ubuntu's Ubiquity installer and there is a nice collection of default software that will likely appeal to inexperienced users. The Pantheon desktop and icons are beautiful. I sometimes ran into sluggish moments with the desktop, but usually only when the disk was under load or I had a video playing. I was really impressed by how Pantheon was put together and I like a lot of the little convenience features. The picture-in-picture preview and the shared edge window resizing are great. I also love that tapping the meta key will show a list of desktop short-cuts. It is little details like these which give the distribution a polished, friendly feel. I already mentioned the icons look good and it bears repeating. Minimal icon design drives me mildly mad. I don't like functions represented by vague dots or arrows, I want a detailed icon and (preferably) text to let me know what a button does. elementary does a good job of making icons distinct, clear in purpose and typically accompanied by a text label or tooltip. There were a few problems. Some of them were fairly minor, like Epiphany using high CPU load, especially in the virtual machine, or X11 gobbling CPU cycles on my workstation. There were other little touches like the release notes link in the installer not working, that are perhaps only worth mentioning because the rest of the experience was generally so polished and showed a lot of attention to detail. My few serious complaints were with user accounts. Specifically, there appears to be a guest account enabled, but I could not find any way to sign into it. It is not a big deal to set up another account for guests, but it makes me wonder if the enabled (and hidden) account could be exploited. I also found it disappointing the parental controls did not work to block application access or forbidden websites. On the other hand, I think Pantheon includes some great features and I like that it is fairly flexible in its look and behaviour. The flexible notification area and the quick switching between application menu styles were welcome features. Generally speaking, I think elementary OS looks and feels professional. I hope it gets picked up by more hardware sellers, like System76, as I think Juno feels polished and looks good. I think it will especially appeal to less experienced users, but many of the features and the Code tool will likely be useful to more advanced users and developers too.

• elementary os 5 Juno – For The Record

  elementary os 5 Juno first look. What’s working, what’s not and what happens to be brand new with elementary os. This first look at elementary os 5 Juno includes some things to make upgrading a little easier, suggestions for the next release and list of features I think are simply fantastic.

Windows 10 October Update Once Again Plagued By Another File Management Bug

Since the announcement of Windows 10 October update 2018, things have been going pretty bad for Windows users. At first, it was the file deletion which caused a lot of inconvenience to Windows users, and later the driver issues. Now, people have come across another Windows 1809 bug which appears to be another File Explorer issue. Several users on Reddit and Ask Woody have reported an unusual activity while extracting files. The primary issue revolves around the prompt which should technically appear during the process of un-zipping a file on Windows 10; however, it does not, leading to data loss.

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