It's such a shame that studios like Freejam have to close down, and it's even more of a shame that they can't release any of their source code to whoever is interested in keeping the game going in their spare time.

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So Linux had less than 1% market share at the beginning of 2024, but now it has over 2% market share. That's huge growth! Definitely nothing to scoff at.

I hope Linux can grow even more, especially considering what Microsoft is doing with Windows 11, and the seemingly unstoppable AI crap that nobody asked for.

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Quoting: Doktor-Mandrake

Quoting: Mountain ManWhy do they bother when they know Nintendo is going to shut them down? 🙄

Not happened to a single decomp so far

Banjo Kazooie should come at some point hopefully since that's 100% decompiled now

Not sure why you disapprove so much over such old games being ported to pc lol

It certainly baffles me that Nintendo hasn't shut down these projects, when Rockstar/Take Two was able to shut down re3/reVC three years ago.

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I must say this is a bit surprising to me. Amazing how times have changed.

Based on my experience and intuition, 20-30 years ago, PCs had approximately 25% of the market share, and consoles dominated the rest of the market. You can see this in how people are more likely to know of or talk about Sonic or Mario, compared to Wing Commander or Commander Keen. Doom II and Command & Conquer are the only PC/DOS games I can think of, which are still as well-known today as they were back then.

There's also this, from the article about console support [External Link] on the Godot Engine blog:

While platforms like Steam are very easy to publish for, the reality is that most of the revenue from independent developers generally comes from consoles (this, of course, speaking of devs not focusing on mobile).

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Unfortunately, Nintendo has so many patents in their arsenal, that they could have sued half of the game industry back in 2017 [External Link] if they really wanted to. We can at least be thankful that they generally don't go after Nintendo-style games, or games inspired by Nintendo games.

So I believe the real reason Nintendo went after Palworld is because, as many have pointed out, some of the Palworld creature designs are blatant ripoffs of well-known Pokémon creature designs.

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On the other hand, SEGA did announce some new games for their IPs during last year's Game Awards, so I wonder if this delisting has anything to do with that.

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Quoting: PyrateAnd just a couple days ago I was praising this collection as a great way for a company to provide ROMs for retro titles.

No kidding. And just as I got the retro gaming/console emulation bug, too! I had also been planning to save up this month, but so much for that!

I really hate when video game companies do these sorts of things!

What a sad day for video game preservation... :sad:

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This article serves as a good reminder of a significant reason to avoid multiplayer games.

Still, stuff like this is only going to hurt Linux in the end. Imagine someone wants to switch away from Windows; then they hear they can't use Photoshop Affinity Photo; and they can't play games like League of Legends, Fortnite, Roblox, Apex Legends, Valorant, etc.

If we're lucky, Linux users will still be able to play these games via cloud gaming services like GeForce NOW, even if using such services requires a sizable sacrifice in terms of control and privacy.

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Gosh, whenever you hear of a PC game being released only on a particular storefront, it's usually the Epic Games Store, because they are known to bribe game developers and publishers with exclusivity deals. Makes you wonder why they decided to release only on GOG.

Even though GOG is a more established storefront which has been around longer, and offers more features than the Epic Games Store, IIRC GOG doesn't really offer any benefits over Steam. For example, AFAIK both Steam and GOG take a 30% cut from the developers' earnings from their sales. In addition, one of the requirements for releasing on GOG is to be "DRM-Free".

To help GOG grow? Or is there something else going on behind the scenes between Argonaut and GOG?

And maybe the game will come to Steam in the future. For example, the Kingdom Hearts PC releases are now available on Steam, but that's only after Square Enix decided to change their strategy because they weren't earning enough from selling on the Epic Store.

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I think a big reason developers choose non-free licenses for their video game source code releases is that they don't want other developers releasing cheap knockoff titles, whilst putting in little effort to make their own derivative/knockoff substantially different from the original.

We also cannot ignore the elephant in the room [External Link]. Most people don't want their code, writing, or artwork being used as AI training data.

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