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Feral no longer porting A Total War Saga: TROY to Linux, citing less demand since Proton
27 July 2021 at 6:28 pm UTC Likes: 3

If the Steam Deck is successful eventually developers will start producing Linux builds themselves, as it'll be easier to select Linux as a build target in your game engine than to produce a Windows build and run it through wine and try to investigate issues while an extra layer is sitting between your code and the OS.
The problem right now isn't that producing a Linux build is hard, it's actually easier than using Wine (if you are using a game engine with Linux support that is); the problem is that developers aren't interested in targetting Linux in the first place.

Atari VCS finally actually launches (in the US) on June 15
4 June 2021 at 12:48 am UTC

Sounds promising. I can see a lot of people interested in such a device, especially that it has a full Chrome browser, something that no other console/media center has.

Free and open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 25 to release in June with feature-freeze imminent
31 May 2021 at 8:02 pm UTC

Quoting: omer666I really hope some day they will get to the beta stage, it's such a great effort.

I really don't understand why it's still labelled as alpha when it's more polished than many released commercial games. It's really production ready and doesn't need the alpha label, nor even the beta label.

GNOME 40 is out now with the redesigned Activities Overview
24 March 2021 at 10:00 pm UTC Likes: 1

"GNOME 40 is out now with the screwed up Activities Overview"

There, fixed the title for you.

Valve help developers into adding more controller support with new stats
25 February 2021 at 9:05 pm UTC

Quoting: Appelsin
Quoting: sarmadToo bad Steam Controllers are only 2%.

Too bad Valve never really wanted to sell them to anyone. Just like the Steam Link. If they'd actually been easily available for purchase then they would have sold a ton. In Norway, you couldn't really get one outside of Ebay.

I agree. Valve doesn't seem to be serious about selling hardware. I still remember the lame launch of the Steam Machines.

Valve help developers into adding more controller support with new stats
25 February 2021 at 9:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: no_information_here
Quoting: sarmadToo bad Steam Controllers are only 2%.

Too bad they are discontinued. We desperately need a second version.

The Steam Controller deserves to be wildly successful. Valve just seems pretty meh when they market hardware.

Indeed. A second version with a better build quality is needed, and is probably all it takes to have the steam controllers take off, aside from better marketing that is. Seriously, why did Valve market these as keyboard/mouse replacement rather than simply a better controller with higher precision?

Valve help developers into adding more controller support with new stats
25 February 2021 at 12:10 am UTC Likes: 5

Too bad Steam Controllers are only 2%.

Google shutting their internal game dev studios, focusing directly on Stadia tech
2 February 2021 at 7:59 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: dziadulewicz
Quoting: sarmadRIP, Stadia.

and f*ck you Goolag altogether!

Why the hate? Out of all the big companies, Google is the most respectful of open source, and the only big company that always supported Linux with their tools.