Everyone into old-school FPS should give Quake1 mod Arcane Dimensions a try.

*Really*

Simon's stuff is amazing imho.

http://www.simonoc.com/pages/design/sp/ad.htm [External Link]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXI76-P_olw [External Link]

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Quoting: lelouch

Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiT7 nm but only GTX 2080 performance? Why? For the same price?

Nice only because we got a open well performing driver on Linux for AMD. Still I'm not much impressed.

Half of the structure (14nm -> 7nm) cannot bring you double of the performance, because the are negative physical effects working against you (read a physics book for details).

Integration density ideally scales quadratically with the inverse of the structure size.
Hence, half the structure size should roughly result in a 4 times higher integration density.

Yet there are many contribution of losses that do not allow performance to scale linearly with the integration density.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. :)

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I'm sure Half-Life 3 will be a card game.

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We can thank Valve that the new stores support Linux or that there is at least a serious discussion to do so.

I pretty sury without Steam offering Linux support we wouldn't be there.

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Quoting: tuxintuxedoAlthough the Linux version of Botanicula is not on Steam, but it still exists. I would have preferred something that is not available in any way natively.

Good point.

I remember Amanita Design saying that they are working on a new engine (Twitter). Not 100 % sure, but I also remember they want to replace it also for the older games.

Wasn't Machinarium re-released with a new engine?

Maybe Liam can get back to them on that topic. :)

EDIT:

Oh yeah, Machinarium got a new engine last year and I remember saying them,
the want to support Linux again following that route.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/06/22/machinarium-rebuild/ [External Link]

It's just that I haven't heard anything again.

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Quoting: LeopardThough ; i don't think Valve needs our suggestions at that point. They know what to do. Only need is time to see what will happen next.

Not necessarily our suggestions.

Yet, Valve seems to have developed a kind of hubris that does not make me believe they "know what to do". At least not like they did 15 years ago.

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Someone give BTRE a cookie! :)

And there is something I want to add.

Lately, all is about the store and the big pile of money Valve made and still makes. While most people agree it's "natural" from an economic POV to focus (only) on that cash cow part, I think it's wrong, short sighted and it will probably show soon.

Let's be honest - Valve treats their franchises badly that made them BIG.
Or in other words: They are treating their DNA with disrespect.

Imho it would have been extremely clever if they had still released great new games based on the Half-Life universe, including Portal.
No matter the "little" money the probably make with it compared to the store.

They didn't. Presumably, because Steam is such a cash cow.
But they should have. Simply to strengthen this one important part of their DNA.

Now that there is a chance Steam might not be as dominant anymore in the near future, they probably wished people would still associate them with being the company making outstanding games.

They threw that away too easily and I'm really sad about it.
Yes, I'm sure this is an extremely important part how that company is perceived.
Decisions (or better support) of your user base might be different, if they still love you for the outstanding games YOU MAKE.

And now it's just that company with that big store. :/

Just my 2 cents.

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I like that tweet

https://twitter.com/retroremakes/status/1070080659887144961 [External Link]

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It's nowhere near a real issue yet for Valve.
But with more successful competition on the store side it can get some very quick.

If Steam really goes down the drain there is at least the hope that Valve gets back developing fantastic games again. So many good Valve games have not being developed just because Steam was/is such a damn cash cow.

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Quoting: 0aTTAll this has to be financed somehow.

Are you trying to kid me?

And who says people that dislike this pricing model want F2P instead? :huh:

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