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Playback.demAnother month, another recap of the news on the Gaming world, community, along with a status report on our gaming network! Frag-Net Status ReportThere was a minor hiccup early in the month, where the master server froze unexpectedly. We made a change to the service so that it peforms a little bit of ‘self-maintenance’ to prevent this from happening. Gaming NewsBlue’s Stories of NoteHere’s what our favorite gaming news site, Blue’s News has listed as the top stories for April 2024 that you should be aware of, list is oldest to newest:
A jam packed month! BlizzCon is canceled, Gearbox is bought after leaving Embracer who are splitting up into three companies! SEGA has layoffs and is parting ways with Relic while Atari brings back Infogrames, and many new releases. Wow! The news of SEGA & Gearbox was last month but was included because the news wasn’t in our last Playback. April FoolsAs is tradition in our region of the world, every April 1st is the day of pranks and all sorts of tomfoolery. Blue’s News compiled a great list of the gags you may have missed this year. Check out Part 1 and Part 2 respectively! Here’s some highlights:
We were sadly too busy this year for our own prank, but you never know what we will be up to next year… ;) Accused Farms launches Stop Killing GamesRoss Scott of Accused Farms fame (Freeman’s Mind, Civil Protection) has launched a campaign about video game preservation called, “Stop Killing Games”. Anyone who has followed Scott knows he has been very vocal about this issue in the past, but this is his biggest effort yet at bringing awareness and a way to tackle the problem. This handy website helps give you clear and easy ways of contacting government organizations, signing petitions, and updates on legal actions regarding preservation efforts such as a lawsuit aimed at Ubisoft regarding “The Crew”. This is an issue we take very much to heart here at Frag-Net. We as archivists ourselves have seen first hand how much has been lost and have been victims of copyright abuse ourselves. Please checkout the site and FAQ for more information and take some time out of your day to help change law. Here’s a snippet from the website:
Thanks to Blue’s News and Gaming On Linux Microsoft Releases MS DOS 4.0 Source CodeSpeaking of preservation, Microsoft has given the public the source code to version 4.0 of MS DOS. They did this a few years back with 1.25 / 2.0 but they were under a restrictive license. This time however, they have release 4.0 under MIT, along with re-licensing the other version to MIT as well! While DOS has been heavily studied, reverse engineered, and even rewritten from scratch, it’s still great to have this for preservation efforts. It’s one of those rare times we can actually say, “Thanks Microsoft!” Grab your copies here. Wine 9.7 and 9.6 Releases Along with Proton 9For those non-Windows gamers, Valve partner in crime CodeWeavers have released two new versions of WINE! In case you don’t know, WINE is a layer for Linux and other systems that allows Windows software to run like a native program. Valve also contributes to the project as Proton is powered by it. Here’s the changelog from the releases this month:
See your local operating system’s package manager for installation or checkout WineHQ if you like it the hard way. For users of Proton
Round ’Em UpAnd here’s a bunch more new we couldn’t fit but felt was worth sharing!
Gaming News: CommunityAnd of course we have to highlight what’s been going on in the community! Fallout London Gets BBC CoverageThe drop of the next-gen update for Fallout 4 has affected the very popular mod “Fallout: London”. It’s an extremely rare occurence that mods are covered by the mainstream press, and to our knowledge there has never been a report on a modification breaking due to software updates. Battlefield 1918 20th Anniversary Edition ReleasedNear the end of March the classic WW1 themed Battlefield 1942 mod “Battlefield 1918” has received major updates. This special update features new maps and a new army, the fearsome Force Publique! Read more here. Grab a full copy here or upgrade your current version here! Thanks ModDB Round ’Em UpAnd here’s a bunch more new we couldn’t fit but felt was worth sharing!
Thanks ModDB All in AllAnd that’s it! We hope you enjoyed our first entry in this new series. Writing these articles will help us document the things that are happening and select info will go right into our game event & anniversary calendars. If you have any news you think we missed, should share on Frag-Net, suggestions, or even complaints, let us know. You know where to find us! Happy Fragging |
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