Quoting: STiATWe're lucky for that, but we're just beta testers for their real business goals. [...] Valve is scared not of the Microsoft store, but of Google Play.

Very interesting read! Many people are already carrying a little computer around and those won't get weaker...

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Unfortunately, I already watched that in a Let's Play, but it's a nice strange puzzler. Sort of. :o)

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No smug, just FYI:
"While our aim was to bring F1 2015 to Mac, there were complications with the OS that put a spanner in the works. We didn't want you to end up with a game that doesn't handle well, so F1 2015 will not be appearing on OSX. However, we do have some fast developing plans for racing on the Mac that we think you’ll enjoy. Stay tuned (up)."
https://www.facebook.com/feralinteractive/photos/a.752000158157823.1073741829.118120444879134/1186449301379571 [External Link]

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThe reason games aren't 64 bit is because it doesn't really provide any advantage whatsoever, maybe on Linux if they were using linux libraries it wouldn't require the 32-bit but that's not the case as they ship their own libraries to my understanding.

I mean the only advantage I can think of is address space being increased, but then if your games is using 8GB ram I would start the dafuq face imo.

There's many new registers, helping the Compiler to create (a bit) faster code.

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Quoting: bradgyMars = Roman god of War

your fav rapper and mine MC Hammer has already been mentioned...

I'm beginning to suspect a recent Total War game :)

edit: I suppose there's nothing to suggest 'Total' in the clue... so I'm not ruling out a Dawn of War title

Mars fully shown = total war.

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Quoting: MacabreHeartSome of those stars were brutal. I had to resort to the walkthroughs at points just because some of them were just too obscure, like that one with the sphinx

I gave up early on them. There were many that I never have seen in the first place, let alone reached.
I gave them another try in Road to Gehenna, but failed as well. I gave up after I nearly got the one in the valley...
But for some of those that I did get, the puzzles were really clever.

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Quoting: lejimsterNot in the same league or same way as Portal.

I agree. Even the normal puzzles of Talos Principle are way more clever than those of Portal, and for the really crazy people, there are the stars...

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Quoting: KristianNow as others point out, yes older Windows versions provide a reason. But that reason will dissappear.

Half of the Steam users wanted Windows 10 not even for free...!
Wonder what would make them change now. Even more so if (what I don't believe) MS would start to charge money from Windows 7/8 users for Windows 10.

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Quoting: KristianOlder Windows versions is a shrinking market

While it's surely shrinking, it's still half of the Windows users at Steam.
So you could use
* DirectX11 and publish your games for all Windows users,
* DirextX12 to reach half of the Winodws users,
* DirectX11 and DirextX12 and still reach all Windows users, but with more work,
* Vulkan to reach all Windows users (plus the small amount of Linux users with additional work).

I'm not betting on Vulkan, but this doesn't sound like a situation too bad for us.

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Quoting: dmantioneI don't want to downplay the Talos Principle, it an such unique masterpiece of art that it is a must play for every gamer and even non-gamer, but fact of the matter is [...]

Well said!

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