Latest 30 Comments

There were some pretty big delays between the console releases and the PC releases, so I can't imagine it was hurting their sales. Maybe the negative reaction to forced PSN is what shut it down, if they were hoping to get new subscribers that way.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

There was an article recently, from Bloomberg talking about GTA VI and console-first release, stating that from multi-plataform game sales, around 50% came from PC, and I think these recent changes to stop releasing games on PC might come from that.

In my opinion, Sony and M$ lost this battle when they tried to have trimmed PCs as consoles. Valve saw the opportunity to blend together a console-like experience with a full-fledged OS instead, and people have responded to that. They've also seen the PC game market is fair-er(ish) that the console one, with true retro-compatibility, mod support, and better pricing.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

As long as they don't start removing them...

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Imagine running a business where your value proposition is in putting up artificial barriers to access your goods/services.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Seems like a good list of changes to me.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

They can arrange and rearrange all they want, at the end of the day the tags are applied by the community, so I will probably continue to find them thoroughly useless.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

It's a pity, but not having big exclusives is one of the main reasons causing the XBox decline. Sony must have been taking notes and don't want the same to happen to PlayStation.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: TheSHEEEPI don't quite understand some of them.
For example: Why remove "Warhammer 40k" as a tag?

I would assume because Warhammmer is not a genre, it's an IP.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I don't quite understand some of them.
For example: Why remove "Warhammer 40k" as a tag?

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: WMan22I wish this was just a regular feature like OtherOS was on PS3, the value add this gives to consoles, especially surrounding matters of End of Life plans, is downright nuts.

Like, Sony's pulling out of single player PC gaming because they want people to buy Playstations but if they just simply made this a feature, bringing PC to Playstation instead of Playstation to PC, they'd accomplish their goal with considerable efficiency. Hell, I'd buy a Playstation again if they did this.

Being able to use steam on a console would make the console's native marketplace moot. Consoles (PS & Xbox, not Switch) are sold at a loss and recouped via online purchases, if customers could use Steam manufacturer suddenly can't make enough money. Or so i believe, considering more options using the console means more people buying it...

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: SlayerTheChikken

Quoting: mr-victory

Added XDG, Pipewire, and KWin direct screencast capture on Linux

Huh, so I can actually shut off my display when using sunshine instead of setting an invalid input on the monitor so it is off but also "connected"

There's also this [https://github.com/frostplexx/sunshine_virt_display](https://github.com/frostplexx/sunshine_virt_display)

I'll check it out though I prefer casting my actual display so I can start doing stuff remotely then continue locally. I use sunshine for streaming my DE instead of games

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Hm...out of nowhere Heroic lost/changed proton installation and switched all wine prefixes to shared empty one (on deck). All saves disappeared until I figured out what happened. Made kids unhappy until I did :(

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I gave the demo a try. I've never really gotten into these sorts of incremental games, so it was a new experience. I can sort of see the allure of number-go-up (I did end up playing it for almost two-and-a-half hours to get through everything the demo had), but also it just felt so…sterile. So curated, or on rails. The numbers go up, but it doesn't actually mean anything because everything's so balanced; whether you're making 2 or 2 billion fuel per second doesn't really have any effect, because the costs of everything scale up proportionally. There's no way to break the game, ultimately – you're just walking a path that's been laid out for you in advance.

And I feel like I'm coming off quite negatively, but that's not a bad thing necessarily. I guess maybe what I'm trying to say is that it feels like there's a very low skill ceiling – I'm doing lots of work, but it doesn't feel like I can meaningfully get better, or even do worse, at doing that work. I dunno. It's a well made game (the pixel art on the various celestial bodies orbiting around the system is delightful), just maybe I'm not really the target audience for incremental games.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Frankly if this is fully 100% keyboard/controller/remote navigable this is like a dream come true, I use a tiny mini PC in place of a Roku device in my home so bigscreen is a feature after my own heart.

It *especially* makes sense in the context of Steam Deck docked mode.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I wish this was just a regular feature like OtherOS was on PS3, the value add this gives to consoles, especially surrounding matters of End of Life plans, is downright nuts.

Like, Sony's pulling out of single player PC gaming because they want people to buy Playstations but if they just simply made this a feature, bringing PC to Playstation instead of Playstation to PC, they'd accomplish their goal with considerable efficiency. Hell, I'd buy a Playstation again if they did this.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

This is really wonderful to see! I love creativity.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: PhlebiacOn the (GOG) deals page, if you select wishlist only, and there are no results, you get stuck with no way to turn that off, other than by changing the region. I assume that wasn't intentional / is a bug.

Yeah, unfortunately I just discovered that after the release. Not major but we will do a hotfix for that and other minor bugs we found.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Not surprised that such sloppily Microsoft-sloppy games have memory bugs.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: walther von stolzingI've finally run emacs inside Minecraft ... fine; but I think what I really want to do is to run Minecraft inside emacs.

External Media: You need to be logged in to view this.

In theory you would then be able to run emacs inside Minecraft inside emacs.

I mean, strictly speaking this is 'displaying inside' as opposed to *running inside*; so that kind of recursion wouldn't be a big deal, not so different from the infinite tunnel you get when streaming the desktop with an OBS window inside it, etc.

Not sure about an emacs native wayland compositor, but emacs is already able to launch image buffers, satellite windows, etc.; so in that flimsy sense, emacs too can display Minecraft inside it.

... but the thing is that both Minecraft and emacs can *theoretically* 'run' each other as computers ... though it wouldn't be practical in the least. emacs still has a better chance of course, especially since it can have plugins written in C; but implementing at least a 32 bit computer using redstone inside Minecraft, etc. etc., that's a tall order.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I don't know anything about the PS5, but found these posts outlining firmware options:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5_Jailbreak/comments/1t3uooq/current_state_of_ps5_jailbreaking_in_early_mai/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ps5-exploit-guide.613891/

Running Linux requires a hypervisor jailbreak that was patched in firmware 6.50, deployed in january 2023.
So you need a phat PS5 that hasn't been updated in a while. Users apparently are forced to update to play some newer games, and can't go back and downgrade.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

It's been 15 years already? I know I am nearing 50 but, damn.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

"6.00, 6.02 with M.2 support"
when that firmware versions were relased? and what is the current version number?

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Really great!
Now I just need a version that doesn't require compiling.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

implying unreal 5 can run on mobile hardware lol

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

I REALLY want to see what Re-Logic could do other than Terraria. They're clearly an immensely talented team and I wanna see what else they can do. Sure Terraria 2 made in a more modern engine would be neat and I'd spend 600 dollars on it and put a quarter trillion years of playtime into it, but damn what I wouldn't give to see them explore other genres too with the same level of quality.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Horizon 5 ran really well on linux when I played it, which was probably 2 yrs after release. I will probably do exactly the same here, and by then it'll be cheap(er?) and run completely fine. I have PLENTY of games in my backlog to go until then :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: walther von stolzingI've finally run emacs inside Minecraft ... fine; but I think what I really want to do is to run Minecraft inside emacs.

External Media: You need to be logged in to view this.

In theory you would then be able to run emacs inside Minecraft inside emacs.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: mr-victory

Added XDG, Pipewire, and KWin direct screencast capture on Linux

Huh, so I can actually shut off my display when using sunshine instead of setting an invalid input on the monitor so it is off but also "connected"

There's also this [https://github.com/frostplexx/sunshine_virt_display](https://github.com/frostplexx/sunshine_virt_display)

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: cameronbosch

Quoting: vic-bayIf microslop really wanted to prevent their games from running on Linux, they would just block it with some anticheat-like measure or straightly blocking it like genshin impact devs did.

You do realize they did just that with Call of Duty Black Ops 7, right? Don't think for a second Microsoft actually "loves Linux", they do, but in the classic "[triple E](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish)" ways, even if they at first appear to be more adept at hiding it.

There's no other valid explanation at this point. The Steam Deck absolutely sold "millions of units", aka, what Tim Sweeney want for him to have Epic reenable EAC for Proton, which was intentionally disabled at first for "that reasoning". Of course, that turned out to be BS, and his settlements in the Google anti-trust lawsuits show it, as does him never suing Microsoft for the same reasons of a "monopoly", which with the whole Windows 8 Microsoft Store monopoly attempts, actually started Valve done the whole Linux route in the first place. While that attempt failed, Microsoft still keeps trying to make lock-in a thing, just like Google and Apple.

The real reason he won't allow for Fortnite on Linux it is because he, like Microsoft, sees Valve as competitors, and Linux gamers as too free from his control, and he can't be helping his competition, can he? (Even if it means burning millions of bridges and more in the long run!)

And in reality, any "code" that runs at ring 0 that isn't the OS itself or FOSS (so independent people can see what it's actually doing) and even more so if it can detect a VM and refuse to run should be treated as malware. Do not run it! And don't fall for that lock-in!

I know it sometimes seems like it, but Tim Sweeney does not actually work for Microsoft. Him being a scumbucket is not genuine evidence that Microsoft itself is doing shenanigans.

I will never trust Microsoft. If anything, I am often surprised at the anti-Linux moves they fail to try these days, but I think it's more a matter of MS suffering from bureaucratic gridlock and inability to go after more than a few key objectives at a time than genuine lack of malevolence. But in this case, I really lean towards "The game was just coded lousy and they've barely managed to make their nonsense not crash it in Windows all the time, let alone Linux."

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

​this wine version in my case work with lastest mesa 26.2-dev vulkan 1.4.350





also vulkan 1.4.350 benefit some nvidia cards with lastest dxvk git (this enable KHR_maintenance11)

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/5617

chrome in my case stay showing problems with phoronix (phoronix text editor related), solved with firefox

​😀

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment