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Steam Deck officially comes to Australia in November
12 Oct 2024 at 10:15 am UTC

Quoting: LoudTechieI'm still curious what took them so long.
It's not chip restrictions, it's not copyright law, it probably isn't wiretapping law and it isn't the market.
Does Australia have some product safety law it failed to meet, such as "all gaming consoles should have minimally EAL5 rated hardware."
Could it be Chinese import/export restrictions.
The closest I get is that it's according to the american government [External Link] a "small competitive market", but that applies to a lot of their already released countries.
:huh:
I didn’t see a proper response.. I might have missed it though. We have strong consumer protections here, and Valve doesn’t always see eye to eye with how our laws work. That’s been the prevailing theory.

Descent 3: Piccu Engine is a new open source build focused on quality-of-life improvements
9 Oct 2024 at 9:00 am UTC

I played the hell out of Descent 1 and 2 from shareware and demo discs. But never decent 3. Is it as good?

Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) gets a first official release
5 Oct 2024 at 2:07 am UTC Likes: 1

Seeing comments about this elsewhere, people asking for screenshots, why should they switch to this one from Lutris, how many more launchers do we need and so on.

People are not really getting what this is. And annoyingly most of those posts linked back to this one too, so they’re obviously not reading what Liam has spelled out.

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered releases October 31 with the PlayStation Overlay
26 Sep 2024 at 9:04 pm UTC

The original version is what, 80gb? In my experience remasters are around triple in size. So this will be a 200+gb download.
And then unpack it to 250-300gb.

PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation changes license for no commercial use and no derivatives
17 Sep 2024 at 10:38 pm UTC

There’s a lot of drama going on for years and years between stenzek and the retroarch leads. Both public and behind the scenes.

If you’ve been part of the emulation scene for a long time then you probably not surprised by this.

The mgba dev has had the same blow ups with the same people.

And also Near.

The best emu devs out there have become frustrated and angry with that projects leads and it always goes to shit.

Here's what was most popular on Steam Deck through August 2024
3 Sep 2024 at 12:35 pm UTC

I have played nothing but Stardew Valley. It’s just so familiar it’s easy to keep going back.

Square Enix invests in Playtron for their Linux-based PlaytronOS - first Alpha out now
3 Sep 2024 at 12:29 pm UTC Likes: 3

So they’ve customised Silverblue to not be able to play native Linux games?

Feels like a super weird move to remove gaming features that already exist for your gaming OS.

Bazzite Linux gets keyboard-less installation (good for handhelds) and smaller updates
31 Aug 2024 at 8:08 pm UTC

As someone who never used Fedora, I like the ublue project in general.

I had Bazzite on a little 2400g based machine for steam gaming on tv until I got a steam deck. It was good, very good. I had no issues for that use case and everything I wanted from a simple game machine.

But I also want to get Bluefin going on my partners desktop since her PopOs is several years old. I did try to instal that on an old surface go tablet, but the install media keeps being corrupted.

The Abandoned Planet is a Myst-like classic pixel-art adventure out now
31 Aug 2024 at 8:01 pm UTC Likes: 1

I never really got into Myst back then. But the pixel art is making this one pop.

Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era announced from the developer of Iratus: Lord of the Dead
28 Aug 2024 at 10:17 pm UTC

Do Ubisoft games still require you run uplay? The last one I played was Far Cry 3 and it was such a pain I just ended up running a pirate version that bypassed uplay instead.