Over to you in the comments, what have you been playing lately?

I'll probably not be playing much on the Deck for the next little while. I replaced my broken GPU on the desktop, so I'm going back for another go of Death Stranding [External Link] there. I did play a bunch of that some time ago, but towards the end the game removes all the fun & I stopped; I'm starting again from the beginning. What I'd like to do is stream the game from the desktop to the Deck, but Remote Play has gone janky again.

I did complete Full Void [External Link] on the Deck, though. I also had another try of Invisible, Inc [External Link] there; that one would be hugely improved on the Deck if they'd backported the controller work that they did for the console release.

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Quoting: MohandevirNvidia based Steam Deck 2? 🤔

Nvidia don't have an x86 licence, so they can't make a chip that's GPU and x86 CPU in one like Intel & AMD can. The handheld Nvidia can do would be ARM - and the Nintendo Switch is exactly an Nvidia/ARM handheld.

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How do you feel about Advanced Access?

It's something that I'll never ever use - particularly with the current trends of the release state of games - but if publishers feel that they really have to use FOMO to squeeze more money out of whales then a limited-scope upfront charge is way better than, say, getting people hooked on gambling.

Of course having a game release in a good state for a reasonable price - with a free demo for additional marketing reach - would be a much better outcome, but it can be difficult to get an industry to reverse its mistakes.

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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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