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Sackboy: A Big Adventure is another Sony port working well on Steam Deck / Linux
29 Oct 2022 at 8:29 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Solitary
Quoting: mphuZDeckard? :whistle:
No, more likely just diving goggles. Look at the wetsuits hanging behind it. He is on a yacht.
Chillin' with the Deck on deck.

Sackboy: A Big Adventure is another Sony port working well on Steam Deck / Linux
29 Oct 2022 at 5:55 pm UTC Likes: 1

I'm pretty certain Sony will make sure all their remakes work well on SD. Even if they don't have this written down in their deal with Valve, they must be aware that a big chunk of SD users came from the PSP/Vita crowd.

Valve finally clears up Steam game release dates, also adjusts pricing
28 Oct 2022 at 4:09 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: syylkIn a way, it's also the fault of rich countries spoiled brats using VPNs to fake buying from overinflated ones, so to have a colossal, undeserved, screw-you-all discount on something that's absolutely, positively leisure-only.

Gaming is great, but it's not a god-granted human right. Enjoy as much as you can, but if/when you cannot, ffs don't mess with other people (be it devs or people in countries with less robust economies)!
Imagine fucking over a whole country or two just because you wanted to feel better about yourself (rather than just pirating the damn game).

JSAUX cancels current Steam Deck Dock with RGB, after competitor pinched it
27 Oct 2022 at 2:21 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: SupaySome years back I was looking to buy some very expensive telescope eyepieces. Found a factory in China where a contract had been signed with them by the US designer but they had then pulled out due to some anti-Chinese manufacturing campaign at the time, decided to make them in the US instead with an even higher retail price than before. So the factory in China, having been sent all the designs already, just began producing them anyway and selling them for a tiny fraction of the cost of the US made ones. I picked them up and they were superb, could not see any signs of cut corners that affected their performance. Slightly different circumstances as it was the designer who breached the contract, but paid off for me.
Exactly the same happened with some very expensive woodwork machinery made by one of the companies I know. They outsourced the production to China, after some time pulled out, but the Chinese factory kept producing it and selling off-brand, and much cheaper. IP laws just don't exist there, any product design outsourced for production to China is as good as given away.

Valve finally clears up Steam game release dates, also adjusts pricing
27 Oct 2022 at 1:12 pm UTC Likes: 4

At this point, why even do regional pricing if everyone is expected to pay American prices?

Valve finally clears up Steam game release dates, also adjusts pricing
27 Oct 2022 at 1:08 pm UTC Likes: 4

Thumbs down on the price increases. That these currencies went down (vs dollar) doesn't mean that people using them suddenly can afford to spend more on games, quite the opposite.

CD PROJEKT RED announce The Witcher Remake in Unreal Engine 5
26 Oct 2022 at 7:56 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: CorbenOh... now I have good reason to NOT finish my playthrough of The Witcher: Director's Cut, hihi.
Haha, I've been meaning to start it since I got my SD in March. I guess I can postpone it even further now. ;-)

SCS Software hope Euro Truck Simulator 2 has another 'decade of further growth'
24 Oct 2022 at 6:54 pm UTC

Quoting: basedI hope for that too, great sim game, although idk how are they going to do that, Europe is not endless after all and they got most places already, hmmm...
They still have the West Balkans (upcoming) and Greece, then maybe Ireland and hopefully Russia + Belarus revisited some day, and Ukraine (+ Moldova) of course. I wouldn't mind some mini-DLCs like Northern Scandinavia, Iceland and/or smaller islands. And yeah, that's about it as far as the map goes, not counting the remodelling the oldest parts. Next they might continue adding stuff like new cargoes, trailer types etc. - we'll see I guess.

Steam continues growing hitting over 30 million online
24 Oct 2022 at 6:03 pm UTC

I'm currently playing whatever I bought on Stadia, before it shuts down. 33% through RDR2 and 10% through Cyberpunk. The latter, I heard, has progress transferable to Steam, but Red Dead probably not.

Widelands, The Settlers II inspired strategy game version 1.1 is out now
24 Oct 2022 at 5:52 pm UTC

Quoting: soulsourceThere's also an open source reimplementation of the game called Settlers 2.5 Return to the Roots.
Does it have a single-player campaign? I checked the FAQ and it says "Return To The Roots besitzt noch keinen Singleplayer Modus." but I don't know if it's up to date.