Quoting: Cyba.CowboyYeah, Valve Software will be at PAX Australia to tell us that they're going to release the Steam Deck locally in 2048... Meanwhile, everybody else - from two-bit nobodies through to billion dollar multinationals - can release their wares in a tenth of the time that Valve Software can, and generate a profit in the process!

Even if those said companies make profit on those wares, Valve will still be the de facto standard when it comes to buying your games on PC and they still profit as well.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyAt this point, Sony may as well just give up on the PlayStation consoles and stick to PC exclusively... Especially when you consider the price of the new PlayStation 5 Pro.

Sony is not giving up Playstation consoles anytime soon as long as it continues to sell to those that don't care about PC. Even if the PS5 Pro is expensive, it doesn't mean it's the only option since most console gamers can still buy the PS5 Slim with or without a Bluray drive.

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What's your favourite Steam related memory?

My Steam related memory was when I was attempting to play Diablo 3 with some people back then on a Macbook Pro but got lazy setting it up. From there, I forgotten all about it until I started redeeming some Humble Bundle games but even then, it wasn't enough to jump into Steam until the Steam Deck came along. Once the Steam Deck was released, I was one of those naysayers, thinking it was nothing more than a Switch wannabe but once I bought one out of curiosity, my attitude changed. Now, I love playing games on Steam with the Steam Deck and happy birthday to Steam :smile:

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I'm glad Godot continues to gain ground over Unity since it wasn't a smart decision to implemented this fee that they're now canceling.

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I guess it was good timing because The Crew 2 is currently $1 without the Season Pass on Steam and once this offline mode is enabled, I might test it out on the Steam Deck to see if works. If this offline stuff works well, I hope they apply it to other games down the line because it would suck to have their crappy anti-cheat still lurking around after they stop supporting the game.

Finally, I wished companies like EA and Activision would add a offline mode to their games because their anti-cheat sucks for those of us that only care about the campaign modes on Battlefield and COD.

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Quoting: Pyrate

the development of PlaytronOS "directly contributes to the evolution of several open source projects".

I guess it could be truly beneficial for all at the end. But recently I've gotten really tired of the "it serves a greater cause, so anything bad that might happen is okay" notion. Web3 is the red flag for me here. But who knows, maybe with all that corporate backing, this could help with low hanging fruit such as anticheat on linux for example. We'll see.

The moment they mentioned anything about crypto and Web3, that was a red flag for me because I don't want any of that crap on my gaming systems and I'm still not convinced that they would ever solve the kernel anti-cheat situation even though they made a bold claim on their website that it can play all Windows games.

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I can see Valve using a custom version of the Z2 because the chip might have features that they might not want and at the same time, want to keep the low power profile that the current Steam Deck is using today. While every other handheld PC have power starting at around 8W, Steam Deck can go as low as 3W and imagine how much more gaming time you can get at 3W with those new chips for emulators.

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I might think about this game since it's one of my favorite genres but the art style reminds me of those mobile games that you see on iOS and Android and it doesn't look like a Metroidvania from what's shown in the video.

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I remember the articles posted here about Playtron and if I wasn't convinced then with their intentions, nothing is going to change that now with Square Enix investing in them.

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Love to see Linux continue to increase its share. Hopefully, it continues to grow more when people start seeing the light and dump Windows with it's AI and ads embedded into the OS.

Quoting: Geppeto35To get back to the news: As this increase is clearly due to Chineses:
What's happen in China so people are moving into linux that fast? End of windows XP or pirate licences? Some USA's laws on patriotic stuff? Political decision from China's government? Governmental changes in OS making this fast increase in Linux?
Do we know why?

It might be because of the release of Black Myth Wukong and seeing that it's number 1 for the most played game on Steam Deck in August, it might have helped sell more units over there.

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