That's kinda weird since "Atari" is Infogrames - they just changed their name to Atari after they bought the Atari assets when it went bust.

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What have you been playing recently?

I've platinummed Horizon Zero Dawn [External Link] and, since then, been cracking on with Full Void [External Link].

The little one's been playing Potions [External Link], Rota [External Link] and Dead Cells [External Link].

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Yeah, "Steam Deck support" is essentially a lie.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicI mean bloody hell, what was the dog damn point of all that?

Quoting myself from Discord:

When interest rates were low there was loads of investment money sloshing around looking for something that would create growth. The games industry took advantage of that by studios growing and acquiring other studios. Embracer already had lots of studios from buying studio groups at fire sale prices and had a hope that they'd all be able to cross-pollinate and provide steady income, so they continued to buy studios at market prices with the investment money sloshing around. They weren't that good at actually getting games released, though - they just had hundreds in the pipeline.
Then interest rates went up, and the "free" investment money dried up. All the studios that had been relying on that investment money were now unsustainable - hence the industry-wide massive layoffs and studio closures. Embracer was particularly relying on a $2 billion deal that fell through. They've been restructuring to try to cover that.

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This is the first act of an ongoing story event.

Hopefully they won't lose interest partway through, and leave it on a cliffhanger...

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Quoting: CreakWhat's the difference between RetroDeck and EmuDeck [External Link]?

Different project, different people, different goals, and so on, and so forth; but in terms of actual usage I think it mostly comes down to RetroDeck puts an entry in your gaming mode Deck, and EmuDeck puts an entry in your gaming mode Deck for each game.

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Quoting: SpurlosI wonder if every bit will fall in the right place for the OS like Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to get it working, or people who are stuck with LTS releases would have to wait for another two years to get everything in the main repos?

LTS releases get newer versions of the kernel and Mesa every six months until the next LTS.

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The little one's established empirically that it works well on the Deck.

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Quoting: tuubiSounds like he might be old enough to resent being referred to as "the little one". :grin: But I suppose that's a parent's prerogative.

Probably. I did consciously stop referring to him as "the tiny drummer" when he got too big for that. He's 8 now.

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The little one (who loves puzzle games, is a drummer, and has released his own music) is having a whale of a time with the demo.

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