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Assassin's Creed Shadows gets bumped up back to Steam Deck Verified
13 Aug 2025 at 5:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

from the company who want us to pay to own nothing then want us to destroy our own games

Webcam-based 6DoF head & eye tracking app LookPilot released on Steam
12 Aug 2025 at 2:59 pm UTC

im curious to see how good this is for content production, (mmd, blender and tools to be a virtual youtuber in general)

Webcam-based 6DoF head & eye tracking app LookPilot released on Steam
12 Aug 2025 at 2:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

in theory this is super cool, but in pratice you cant look to the side that much as show in the video and still look at the screen, unless you have VR, but at that point, you already have a head tracker and will need an vr with internal camera pointing at your eyes to use the eye tracker.

Steam for ChromeOS Chromebooks is being killed off
9 Aug 2025 at 2:27 am UTC Likes: 3

google is way more stupid than i thought

Gyro through a collection of handcrafted mazes in the Steam Deck exclusive Game With Balls
7 Aug 2025 at 2:24 am UTC

Fond memories of playing Super Monkeyball
i aways wanted to play this since i saw an video of it on... i guess it was cybernet.
for some reason never played, maybe its not as fun as i think

"So dumb to market this as only for Steam Deck when there's many controllers like the DualSense and Switch ones that can connect to PC just fine and support gyro"
the issue is, gyros might have a different calibration from controller to controller and device to device, so the game might be super fun as designed in some and quite irritating and boring in others, maybe the dev plan to support other controllers, but want to make an quality assurance first?

*im not sure about gyro, but other stuff like thumbstick definitely need calibration anyone who tried to play an n64 or gamecube game using an playstation generic controller know what im talking about.

hell even nintendo official ports had issues with this, ocarina of time/master quest on gamecube for example.

but i can see the issue with exclusives, sure it suck, but sometimes an controller have an unique control (eg: playdate crank, wii motion, ds screen) and i rather live in a world where an game exist but its locked to an device (for a good reason) than one where the game dont exist.

by good reason i mean , only a single vendor created an device with an certain feature, others didnd had interests, but if they did no patent would hold then back.

Gyro through a collection of handcrafted mazes in the Steam Deck exclusive Game With Balls
7 Aug 2025 at 2:15 am UTC

great to see the dev is here!

Geert Verhoeff, what game engine do you used? im asking because um curious about how good the support for linux is, depending on your ansewer we will know if it was a better call to rely on wine =p

Gyro through a collection of handcrafted mazes in the Steam Deck exclusive Game With Balls
7 Aug 2025 at 1:52 am UTC

Doesn't change the fact it's pretty goofy imo. It's like making a Switch exclusive by developing a game for Android and relying on translation layers, sounds like you're only overcomplicating the process and adding another layer of failure.
linux dont have a good track record of mantaining backward compatibility and if we cant be sure we can play games made 6 months ago on a distro we cant be sure that an game written today will work 6 months in the future.

windows is a more stable target (mostly because microsoft dont evolve this shit) and while wine has to run on top of linux and may suffer from the backward compatibility issue, its a single point to fix, in order to make tons of games work, so we can be sure that someone will actually fix stuff if they break.

TL:DR targeting windows they can ensure the game will work on both windows and linux now and forever, while targeting linux it only can run on linux now and with no guarantee of it keeping working in the future.

that being said, they should totally make an option to run an native version instead, im not sure how mods gonna work.

Battlefield 6 will be a unplayable on Linux systems due to the anti-cheat
1 Aug 2025 at 9:18 pm UTC

Companies always only talking about Open Source using negative words. It very bad they use godot and do not told about this. I known closed-source programs, which use OpenSource and they are a lot, but they only mention about this in license text. Nobody normal reads license, because companies told humans that licenses were only to battle with piracy.

they dont have to, the game isnt powered by godot , i mean, the rendering isnt done using godot, nor the physics, audio or multiplayer, just an level editor they made.

never mind, it was not about the game, they riped off godot totally '-'

Game store itch.io has "deindexed" adult content due to payment processor scrutiny
25 Jul 2025 at 6:54 pm UTC Likes: 3

what happen to the content that peope already purchased? it still can be downloaded?

" It is also part of the bigger war against adult topics, if you include the age verification laws and regulations being thrown around. And the big question is are they going to do the same thing when more attacks come in?"

im not against age verification (that actually work, not an button asking if you are over 18) for adult content, but that show how much of a slipery slope this can be.

for exampe if porn is rendered illegal on your country tomorrow, and you have to prove that you are legally allowed to access somethin to access any 18+ content, they you cant access anything in your country without runing a lot of risk.

another more likely scenario, porn will not be ilegal, but payment processors/credit card companies will see what you've being purchasing/funding , so even if you find another service that stil sell this content, they can punish you directly instead of going after just the ones seling +18 content, they can render your bank account null and void.

for those who said, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to see, i hope you are happy.