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10 Awesome Games You Can Play Right Now In Your Browser Without Installing Anything

2024-12-212024-12-21 Danie

The image shows a computer screen displaying multiple video game windows arranged in a grid-like fashion. In the foreground are various game interfaces, including a chessboard, a hexagonal tile game resembling Settlers of Catan, a Wordle word puzzle, and what appears to be a first person shooter. The background is dominated by the vibrant colours and designs of the games themselves, creating a visually stimulating and dynamic scene.

Sometimes you have the urge to play some video games, but you don’t have the right hardware with you. Perhaps you’re stuck at work or school, or you have a basic device like a Chromebook. […]

Thanks to Whiskey, You Will Be Gaming on Your Mac More Than Ever

2024-12-192024-12-19 Danie

The image shows a dimly lit bar scene, with shelves of liquor bottles blurred in the background. In the foreground, a bottle of whisky, a glass of amber liquid, and a laptop displaying a pixelated video game are arranged on a wooden surface. The laptop's screen showcases a scene seemingly from a retro-style role-playing game, vibrant colours adding a touch of fantasy to the otherwise mature environment. The bar's soft lighting creates a warm, inviting ambiance, contrasting with the focus on the digital world displayed on the screen.

Whiskey is a free app that you can download right now, and use to play Windows games on your Mac. It brings together the WINE compatibility layer as well as Apple’s own Game Porting Kit, […]

You can ‘play’ AAA games on a Pi (or anything else) using open source Sunshine and Moonlight

2024-12-092024-12-09 Danie

The image shows an adorable cartoon penguin wearing headphones and holding a video game controller. It is positioned in the foreground against a background of a circuit board, with various electronic components and labels such as "Raspberry Pi 5" and "HDMI" visible. The background has a vibrant teal and green color scheme, with streaks of light emanating from behind the penguin, adding a dynamic element to the scene.

Moonlight allows you to play your PC games on almost any device, whether you’re in another room or miles away from your gaming rig. Moonlight (formerly Limelight) is an open source implementation of NVIDIA’s GameStream […]

Red Dead Redemption 2 Relaxing Ambient Third Person Horse Carriage Ride

2024-12-042024-12-04 Danie

The image shows a person in a horse-drawn cart traveling down a dirt road. In the foreground is the cart itself, appearing to be made of wood with large wooden wheels. The road is dusty and shows tire tracks from previous vehicles. In the background, there's a railway track running parallel to the road, suggesting a rural or countryside setting. Beyond the tracks are sparsely populated trees and rolling hills, with a bright sun dominating the sky. A wooden signpost indicating directions to different locations is also visible in the distance, as well as some birds flying in the upper right corner.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is an amazing game in more ways that one. But it is not just about gun fights. The scenery, sounds, and numerous small details are truly remarkable. We are seeing more […]

5 of the coolest things you can run on Docker

2024-11-112024-11-11 Danie

A desktop with a browser open. Shown on the browser screen is the game of Doom with the hand in the foreground holding the pistol.

These are some refreshingly different things to consider running on Docker. Covered in the linked article are: See https://www.xda-developers.com/coolest-things-you-can-run-on-docker

10 brilliant PC games you can enjoy without a graphics card

2024-10-292024-10-29 Danie

A floating city with neoclassical architecture, flying ships, and a giant statue in the center.

Modern PC gaming often gets a bad rap for being too demanding, pricing out countless gamers who lack powerful graphics cards. Plus, the state in which some AAA games get released, makes them a struggle […]

Thinking of Buying a Cheap Racing Wheel? Don’t Bother

2024-10-082024-10-08 Danie

Large screen TV showing a car racing game with a few cars racing on a tar track. In front stands a black steering wheel, with a gear shifter on its left, and some foot pedals can be seen underneath it.

Incredibly true! I wasted money my first time around by “saving” money on a cheaper steering wheel… That 270 deg rotation, no pedals, no gear shifter option, compatibility issues, etc all broke my experience. I […]

How I turned OBS into a ShadowPlay replacement — works on Windows, macOS, and Linux

2024-09-172024-09-17 Danie

Part of a map in the background, and overlaid in the foreground are three large icons with text labels Instant Replay, Record, and Broadcast LIVE.

If you have an Nvidia graphics card, you’ve probably heard of ShadowPlay. It’s a feature that you can enable so that when you press a key bind, it saves the last X amount of minutes […]

You Can Now Add Family Members to Your Steam Library

2024-09-132024-09-13 Danie

This seems like Déjà Vu? Valve added Steam Families to the Steam Beta Client in May. And now, it’s ready for prime time in the stable Steam app. With Steam Families, a parent can share […]

The FloorBoard — a DIY Foot Operated PC Button Pad

2024-09-052024-09-05 Danie

A foot rest with a white top. Inset at the top side is a smaller black panel with three coloured buttons, namely a blue, yellow and red one.

The FloorBoard would be useful for people with limited use of their hands hence the inclusion in the Assistive Tech channel. For example, using the foot button for ‘Control’ means that just one finger is […]

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