Totally off-topic interjection: If you're at all wondering why Romero's site has an Apple logo, rather than something 'beautifully demonic' (haha) as its 'little icon' on the browser tab, it's because having started on an Apple ], Romero's a a huge fan of the fruit company. (Oh, and he probably made the site on some Mac utility, and left it there.)

Check out these videos of him gushing over the Apple II (later on iOS as well) at his 2012 appearance at the 'Kansasfest': [Romero - Keynote [External Link] / Romero - Q&A [External Link]

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Quoting: massatt212I Doubt CD Project are going to use DX12 That API is Garbage at its best and to risk so many bugs with it, they are gonna go Vulkan or prob DX11 and DX12, if they do DX 12 many people will have to upgrade to Windows 10 just to play.

It's highly unlikely that they'd go 'DX12 only', considering that they're releasing for the PS4 as well.

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Quoting: FredOIt looks like Supergiant's next game Hades will have an Early Access release on the Epic Store. I don't see any mention of it on Steam yet. Let the exclusives begin...

Likewise for the formerly PS exclusive 'Journey'.
Having seen the video by Matthewmatosis, I'm really intrigued by that one.

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I took a look ... and ... is that all the user interface that they have? It might work on a mobile phone, but on a large screen it looks ridiculous.

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Quoting: skinnyrafMacOS is BSD under the hud, but we cannot call Apple free software friendly. If this announcement came from Apple, I'd be sure there wouldn't be Linux support at all.

This is going to be off-topic pedantry, so apologies first. It's pretty inaccurate to say that macOS is 'BSD under the hood'; they take the BSD userland, and due to the fact that the 'hybrid' kernel that they use (XNU) has 'elements' of the BSD kernel, *some* low level utilities like dtrace work. Other features like jails, ZFS & pf don't work. As to the userland, though, what comes on the standard installation are BSD versions of a bunch of *ancient* releases of commandline tools. People who know that they exist, and use them, replace them with more up to date versions, or the GNU versions, via package managers like MacPorts or homebrew. Also -- Apple is pretty 'open source' friendly, but not 'free software' friendly; so that distinction is crucial here.

Quoting: KetilGNU isn't important, just look at the BSDs. The important thing is that it is unix-like.

I fail to see (for practical purposes) how Android is 'unix-like', when anything that faces the user comes from an opaque java layer.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Eh theres already origin uplay they competetion just not under linux

Epic is planning to sell other companies' games too, and they offer 'competitive' percentages as to what the respective 'cuts' will be. I'm not sure about 'Origin' (haven't used it in ages); but on their storefront, ubisoft doesn't sell 3rd party games.

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The other open platform is obviously OpenIndiana, specifically, 'The Hipster Distribution' [External Link]. That's because they're planning to implement 'cloud saves', and they want to leverage the flexibility of ZFS snapshots for that purpose.

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Quoting: eldakingRegarding this new Epic store... this company has a single product so far, which isn't available on Linux. I would not call this promising for us.

Nah, Jazz Jackrabbit Collection is available on Linux -- and DRM-free to boot.

The sequel isn't though.

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I hope they also release steamcmd on the RPi eventually. (Or better yet, open source it.)

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: wvstolzingIf anyone was confused, like me, about this news, the earlier 'opening' (-not-really-though) of PhysX was this: https://developer.nvidia.com/physx-source-github [External Link] , when they made it available over github to 'registered developers'. (I don't know what the latter implies exactly.)

FWIW anyone could register there and access it. Even I have an account there and I'm no developer.

I guess the difference is that this is the new (4.0) SDK, and it's on the BSD aka 'do whatever you want with it' license.

I also didn't know that physx has applications in robotics etc.; that makes it more interesting, because frankly, the effect in games isn't *that* big of a deal imho. (At least it wasn't in titles like Arkham City or Assassin's Creed 4)

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