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Wolfire Games filed a lawsuit against Valve over abuse of their market position
30 Apr 2021 at 3:29 pm UTC

Quoting: dubigrasuRichard Geldreich, that guy has a huge chip on his shoulder about Valve, I don't believe a word he's saying. Of course he's siding with Epic.
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-and-not-DirectX [External Link]
then you may believe that directX was a good thing...
also, that the earth is flat

Wolfire Games filed a lawsuit against Valve over abuse of their market position
30 Apr 2021 at 11:44 am UTC Likes: 3

the issue is that the public dont want competition, they want convenience at all costs.
people want netflix to be an monopoly so they can sing an single bill and have everything that netflix decides to licence (while ignore that there are a lot of good content unlicenced by netflix), and at the same time they have an single user interface to browser for all the content (lets ignore that its possible to have this by another aproach: separate the content from the presentation, wich is what google tv want to achiev, so you can browser an single ui for the content avaliable on all streaming services)

people want the same convenience on pc gaming, all games in a single user interface, all achievments in a single account, and those steam stickers and other gimmicks on every purchase.

consumers can be quite stupid sometimes, i can understand when an linux user complain that other stores dont support linux at all, the issue is: are we willing to sacrifice everything to push linux foward /keep using it?
backward compatibility is pretty much non existent already.

Piepacker is a new online multiplayer platform for retro gaming
24 Apr 2021 at 7:28 am UTC

Quoting: Protektor
Quoting: elmapulso... the games are licenced? and how the hell they get the licence from nintendo to run games from their catridge formats?
Not every NES or SNES game is owned by Nintendo. So other companies are free to license out their old games to whoever they want and Nintendo can't say a word about it. Nintendo doesn't own the copyright for every NES or SNES game out there.
i'm not talking about the games, but the catridge support.
https://youtu.be/-4cDI8jL47M?t=45 [External Link]

Piepacker is a new online multiplayer platform for retro gaming
23 Apr 2021 at 8:09 pm UTC

so... the games are licenced? and how the hell they get the licence from nintendo to run games from their catridge formats?

Metro Exodus from 4A and Deep Silver has officially released for Linux
23 Apr 2021 at 9:40 am UTC

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: elmapul
Quoting: GuestI also would like to win a Key so count me in!
i think i already asked but anyway, asking again...
what is the name of the character on your profile pic?
hibiki from the anime/game kancolle/kantai collection
oh, i guessed it was her.
i didnt liked the anime, and i wont play more gatcha games (one is enough to ruin my life), but she is very cute and there are tons of good fanarts of her

FMOD Studio 2.02 is out along with native Linux support
23 Apr 2021 at 9:39 am UTC Likes: 1

great.
correct me if i'm wrong but fmod is one of the 2 most used tools for making music for games right?
afaik the other one is wwise

Metro Exodus from 4A and Deep Silver has officially released for Linux
21 Apr 2021 at 1:32 am UTC

Quoting: GuestI also would like to win a Key so count me in!
i think i already asked but anyway, asking again...
what is the name of the character on your profile pic?

Windows compatibility tool Wine 6.5 is out now
31 Mar 2021 at 4:19 am UTC

OpenCL support updated to version 1.2.

this version is 10 years old...
i hope its not wide spread... and i hope that dont mean every other verion of openCL have issues too...

pureya gives you a mini-game that changes every 10 seconds
30 Mar 2021 at 4:59 pm UTC

wario-ware esque game.
not complaining, i just think its an nice comparission that you could have used in the article

Terraria for Google Stadia is surprisingly back on and going through certification
28 Feb 2021 at 3:10 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: marcus
Quoting: elmapuli know that most people will not care on that aspect so they have no reason to rely on google, but think for an moment: how many of those discontinued google products were paid?
Google Music was paid.
you still can acess your musics, they just rebranded the service as youtube something.