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My stock portfolio just took a viagra.

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For the love of god please don't let Nvidia get their grubby hands on Intel

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If I remember correctly, some ten years ago it was speculated that Intel might buy Nvidia (to be able to fully compete with AMD who had CPUs and GPUs already). Things can turn around...

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Well, perish the thought that the few oligopolists left should actually compete with each other. Of course, cartel all the way, wonderful.

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Given the quality of Nvidia's latest low-power GPUs, I wouldn't expect too much from an RTX iGPU... in raw power at least.

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You people do fantastic work. fheroes2 and VCMI both have a permanent spot on my phone, not to mention HoMM1 via Dosbox. Very cool to have all this right here in my pocket wherever I go.

Some consolation as the world continues to (appear to) crumble around us ;)

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And so it begins...

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This is purely about AI, a bubble I wish would just hurry up and burst already. There will be no focus on desktop builds, only data centre. Any benefits to desktop will be incidental.

If Valve use an Intel/Nvidia SOC in their next SteamDeck I doubt I'd buy one. I really do hate AI that much, and I just don't have any enthusiasm for supporting NVidia, a company dedicated to burning the planet for the benefit of AI - going so far this week to announce that green energy can't support their ambition and fossil fuel reactors and nuclear power are the only option.

I don't even consider myself particularly green, but that's a new low.

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on paper it completely makes sense, but in practice in real life? I feel like Intel is so damaged, like maybe beyond saving, that Nvidia and Intel will clash super hard when it comes to actual cooperation aspect. I'd like to see them succeed and come out with some great products to keep the landscape competitive, so I guess we will just have to wait and see.

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I was quite looking forward to this, but didn't realise it's single player. The only way/time I'll play a racing game is with one of my two online groups of pals, so I'll give this a miss, I'm afraid.

Looks great though. If I had more enthusiasm for racing games, I'd be pleased this existed, since many of the more recent options are just incredibly technical.

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This looks amazing! I still have CrossCode on my "to play" list for the Deck, so I'm going to need to get to that sooner rather than later it seems.

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For some reason I'm getting a Gunpoint vibe from this, which is definitely a good thing.

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> Pity it's still in Early Access though ...
The previous game, Airborne Kingdom, is fully released and finished.
As-is, Airborne Empire already has more content and is more enjoyable IMO.

> Checked the system requirements and it will actually run on my laptop!
Do test if you pick it up, earlier versions ran surprisingly poor on my 3500U with older Proton releases.
This might have been improved since, it's been a while since I tried Airborne Empire and there have been significant updatea since.

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This is totally nuts and I would have never guessed it in a million years. Somehow it does make a lot of sense considering Intel's on-board graphics have been so far behind AMD's.

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Another game I've been looking forward to. I'm gonna have too much to play!

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This is going to be interesting. Intel does need all the help it can get, and Nvidia's deep wallets can help that.

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for super smash bross u have slippi
u also have support for mihoyo games wiyh the epic game store

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Nice looking game... Local multiplayer with splitscreen could gave been nice though... Still, for the price, I'm not going to complain too much.

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If this were reminiscent of a Nintendo property rather than Capcom they'd be sued already. Not saying Capcom isn't going to do anything, but at least it isn't a complete certainty.

@tmtvl
From watching the video, I don't see Capcom really doing anything to the developer that made this game because it's not like they made a one to one copy of Resident Evil 1. Also, the game mechanics isn't the same at all because this is turned based and not in third person mode.

The closest game that Capcom could do something about is The Mute House but again, it's not an exact copy of Resident Evil and the developer hasn't been sued by the company.

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Right?

I had I think Haz4 solved and almost all of the Morkite cores collected when I purged my save. (Accidental deck/desktop mishap)

When the release was announced, I stalled the grind to see what new systems were in place. Kind of glad I did, I think. Now I can play through on one save and achievement hunt on another!

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Really glad to see them learning to incorporate the world around them. Linux isn't dominant yet but I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see a massive upsurge in Linux communities with the next purchases.

Intel, NVIDIA, Microsoft all seem to be shaping themselves into a weird homogeneous cross-compatibility love child that mandates you give them full control/access to your entire system all so you can play a quick round of Solitaire. The level of overreach and requirements is becoming untenable.

Not everyone can maintain new and bleeding edge technology. Not everyone wants to and they shouldn't have to.

As a developer, I can't imagine designing a tool/application that is exclusively Windows in today's markets. The idea of a Linux-user being some basement dwelling greybeards compiling their own everything and arguing about the latest mouse drivers - isn't really a modern thing.

Spoiler, click me

Sure they exist, but we shave! And the basement is finished, and has an easement window that lets in a lot of sunlight!

Overall I think this is a good move. I'm hopeful with this and other news articles that the triple-a studios and bigger-box companies are beginning to care more about this audience.

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I did the unthinkable! I bought the 8gb version!
I should be banned from gaming...

This said, I had the firm intention of buying the 16gb version but, at this moment, it sits at 540$CAN... I found the Sapphire pulse 8gb for 390$CAN. Quite a steep difference!

Sure it should be called the RX 9060, but boy this card is rock solid. I run Jedi Survivor at ultra preset (no raytracing) at 1080p and it doesn't break a sweat. No stutter, no lag. Solid 60fps. Cyberpunk 2077, with similar graphic settings, same kind of performances.

No regrets.

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@dziadulewicz I didn't know that Zoom Platform had this. Good on them! Plus Bernie Stolar is dead (he was my only gripe with them). lol

(He was anti-2D games at SCEA and helped kill the Sega Saturn at Sega of America afterwards...)

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But the approach towards the official Linux support from the shot callers was dismissive on the grounds of the low number of customers.

I totally understand that. Not every company has got the bags of money Valve seems to have.

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Because if somebody is interested in DRM free, they will probably not use Windows at all.

Disclaimer: I worked at GOG.com until 6-7 years ago.

You would be surprised! It is illogical to me as well but Windows is prevalent on GOG.com, just like everywhere else in the gaming world.

Still, the Linux community did a bang up job to add Linux support by themselves with projects such as GOGDL, Comet, Minigalaxy, Lutris, innoextract, and of course, Heroic Games Launcher. I might be forgetting some others.

The fact that these solutions are not actively blocked by GOG.com is... something, I guess.

Back in my times there was definitely awareness of the community-ran third party tools inside of the company. Especially all the tech people responsible for games, their delivery, and customer support did not want to break any compatibility with those tools.

But the approach towards the official Linux support from the shot callers was dismissive on the grounds of the low number of customers.

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Not a single buck to GOG to this date because there is NO official Linux support. Zoom Platform has much more passion for their mission already with an official Linux client.

"Tool to streamline installation, updating, and playing Windows games from ZOOM Platform on Linux using umu and Proton.

The script also helps you run our Windows installers on Linux and comes with some handy features to make sure the process goes smoothly.

That includes safety checks, handling updates, installing DLCs, creating desktop entries, a simple uninstaller, and of course automatically applying protonfixes."

Highly recommended https://www.zoom-platform.com

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look at that! A dead before birth "skate the broken crew" with extra fake promise content and deliberate steamdeck exclusion.

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I recently tried GOG Galaxy on Steam Deck with NonSteamLaunchers, but it wasn't a great experience, the games were crashing, store itself is missing gamepad support and it's not great to use it in general.

In the past I also tried Heroic Games Launcher, but the GOG games had so many issues (for example not finding gamepad, even when the game supported it) I just gave up on using it on Steam Deck.

It would be nice if the GOG just started using the work Steam does for Linux and improved their own tooling thanks to that, for now I rather buy games on Steam just because of the support they give to Linux. I actually wonder, given that they are promoting DRM free games, that they don't target Linux as main platform. Because if somebody is interested in DRM free, they will probably not use Windows at all.

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you could add "disney speedstorm" to the linux compatible "mario cart" alternatives, i ran the epic store version via heroic
although it is a f2p grindfest/money sink

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Easy things I'd add if it were my list:

Under "platform fighters" I'd put [Fraymakers](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1420350/Fraymakers/)

And under "Kart racing" I'd put [The Karters 2](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2269950/The_Karters_2_Turbo_Charged/)
(I'd also put Crash Team Racing under the unavailable on Linux part of that, as the lack of a PC port of Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled is what made me look into similar Kart racing games that I'd be able to play on my Steam Deck and main Linux PC, and how i found out about The Karters 2)

To be fair, both of these recommended titles are still in early access, but they're really good and also both have tons of community support in the form of Steam Workshop mods and other areas, so they're likely gonna be here to stay.

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