According to the article here: https://venturebeat.com/2021/07/06/amazons-lumberyard-becomes-an-open-source-3d-game-engine-with-support-from-20-companies/ [External Link]

It was actually rewritten from scratch over the original Crytek engine fork. This is news to me, but that could mean it was never fully completed (like the last 10% are 90% of the work).

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I also recently came across this: https://github.com/RobLoach/lutris-kodi-addon [External Link]

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Humble boss Alan Patmore said "Operational costs, such as the cost of acquiring content, have risen dramatically" which is one of the reasons why they're doing this.

Sounds to me like Epic is at fault for that given the sums they have offered for their give-away titles.

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Sounds like a simple case of Google data-center located near you, Microsoft data-center not located near you?

Geforce Now is using AWS?

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Started playing Serious Sam 3 coop campaign with some friends. Actually pretty fun ;)

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I can see why Valve ended up not pursuing this... cool idea but IMHO very limited market and thus there will be hardly any games for it. But lets see how it will work out :)

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Needs VR support :)

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I really enjoyed TF2... until it became the F2P sh*tshow a few years ago. Way to ruin a game for short term loot-box profits :(

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Quoting: slaapliedjeIf that were accurate, attempts at making open source phones would have more platforms to choose from, and it seems to me the only ones they do tend to pick are the Mali GPUs. I'd have to look into it again, it has actually been a while. Still waiting on my Librem 5 phone...

See for example this: https://youtu.be/ZYCGVzkSIpg [External Link]

But finding a suitable ARM SoC for a Linux phone is way more complicated than "just" having open GPU drivers for it.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI'm betting Linux. None of the SoCs for ARM seem to have open source video drivers, which has caused heaps of problems getting updates onto the things. Though likely it'll be pretty embedded.

This is a bit outdated, the Panfrost drivers for Mali GPUs actually work fine and are fully open source, in fact most ARM GPUs have open-source OpenGL drivers these days, but they support status differs.

However Vulkan support is not as great yet so that might make things difficult.

Overall though, I could also imagine Valve going for an Android solution, as making a stand-alone capable headset and then having no games for it would not be very wise for business. While if it runs Android, then most Occulus Quest games should be quite easy to port over. But if Valve would sponsor Anbox (a compatibility layer to run Android apps on GNU-Linux) development, that would be also cool :)

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