Wait… VALVe has an official discord? Anyone can help me find it? Maybe it’s just me being miserable at searching stuff online, but somehow I can’t find it.

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Quoting: JustinWoodSeeing that it's 40% off on Switch currently, I'm curious, how's the performance? Any reason I should avoid this version over other platforms?

Sorry for the late response. The performance is fine I guess. I didn't measure frames but it went pretty smoothly for me. If I'm not mistaken the game was originally developed for the Switch and then ported to other platforms.

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Quoting: EriIf it's on the Ori spectrum, works for me. From your PS I understand that no background from other games is needed, right?

Yes, as far as I can tell you wouldn't need the background from previous entries in the series.

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Quoting: EriHas anyone tried it? Is a good metroidvania? I've never played a Prince of Persia, not even when it peaked in popularity 20 years ago, but this one being a metroidvania gets my attention.

I played it on the Nintendo Switch (not finished yet, but not far from it). It's a pretty good Metroidvania in my opinion. The looks and feels kinda reminded me of Metroid Dread. I'd say it's not as great and complex as Hollow Knight, but pretty much on the same level as the Ori series (at least regarding the level-design/-structure and gameplay-wise). Hope that helps :D

Also: the last PoP I happened to like was Sands of Time on the GameCube - failed to have fun with pretty much every entry in the series since then, except for this one.

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Quoting: voytrekkDoes anyone have any Bluetooth earbud recommendations for the Steam Deck? I tried the ones I have and the latency is just too high to be enjoyable.

This might not be the answer you were hoping for, but *taking cover*... my AirPods work pretty well with Steam Deck. In an earlier version of SteamOS I had some trouble connecting them (often took me 2-3 attempts), but this got solved by VALVe in a later update.

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Quoting: Patola[...]We already do not own our games, we license them. [...]

I am reading this so often lately. But did you already look up how many games on Steam you DO own?
There's quite a huge list of DRM-free games on Steam. https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games [External Link]
Also quite some big titles on this list.
The worrying part about the perception getting spreaded about Steam game ownership is, that people might think that they don't lose anything with cloud gaming, since they already don't own any games anymore (which isn't true as you can see - especially with GoG ofc). But there actually is a loss of ownership when comparing cloud gaming to Steam.
If you might be fine with not owning games is another topic and not the one I intend to discuss in this post.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: NarcotixOfftopic: So with cloud-gaming on the rise and being executed on highly proprietary environments that happeen to use Linux, it might become weird when Amazon and Google's services get covered here, but not Project XCloud, since they all just provide access to a proprietary service, the only difference being most of them use Linux in the background while Microsoft does not.

You're missing the point entirely. Stadia is covered because it's supported on Linux and works on Linux. It's not just about the service behind it that powers it. I can open Chromium, click a button and on my Linux desktop I can play Destiny 2, The Division 2 and the list goes on. If being on Linux, and then playing a game is somehow not gaming on Linux, then the world has gone mad.

Okay, very good point, I really didn't take this into consideration, tbh. So yes, pretty blindsided by me.

Quoting: Liam DaweAdditionally: for the people not liking the service with (valid) complaints, that doesn't matter. It doesn't change that it's an option. The same way people complain about their issues with Steam, GOG, itch and whatever other store or service and so on for various reasons.

As for the others - Project XCloud is not supported on Linux, neither is GeForce Now, hence neither being covered. If either turned around and said "yes, we support Linux now" - then yes we would look to cover some of what they do. That's the entire point of this website.

What makes you think I don't like the service? Me stating that it is highly proprietary? I use Spotify, Google Chrome, Steam and many other proprietary stuff. Actually I am a founder of Google Stadia and like the service quite a lot.

Quoting: Liam DaweCompletely different to PlayStation news too since that's an entirely different hardware device that means nothing to a Linux website. How you can conflate it like that with an entirely different service to try and make such a false point is ridiculous.

Well, the thing I am trying to point out here, is that it isn't about the hardware or the OS at all, but about the service. And therefore it just doesn't matter whether the open source part is hidden behind a cloud service or on your local machine (PlayStation) since you won't be able to access both of them.
Then again, it's the same as for my first point. You are right, it's about gaming on a local Linux machine, no matter if the game also gets executed locally or not. And in this context my comparison with PlayStation makes no sense whatsoever.

Quoting: Liam DaweTip: if people don't want to see news about game streaming, as just one example while we're on the topic, we have a feature for you to filter it out under "Content preferences" in the User Control Panel.

Thanks for the tip, but I will continue to consume your news on this topic :)

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Something that seemingly very few people understand, is, that we no longer live in a world where the Desktop or the end-users device is the main battlefield for the it-companies. We are moving to (or already arrived) in a world where it's all about services. So the main OS is no longer the OS running on your PC/Phone/etc, but the cloud. E.G. Google running Stadia on Linux servers with Vulkan doesn't matter at all, since it is still a highly proprietary platform.
VSCode being open source is just a smart business-move, since people are happy about having control while Microsoft can provide proprietary cloud-services in the VSCode marketplace. Don't get me wrong, I do like VSCode, i just think that people being happy about Microsoft open-sourcing stuff and bringing Edge and Teams to Linux doesn't mean they care less about money or control of their products.

Linux is the future, and it's great to see so much more embracement of Linux by companies everywhere, but at the same time: the future is not about Linux or any OS at all, but services.

Offtopic: So with cloud-gaming on the rise and being executed on highly proprietary environments that happeen to use Linux, it might become weird when Amazon and Google's services get covered here, but not Project XCloud, since they all just provide access to a proprietary service, the only difference being most of them use Linux in the background while Microsoft does not.

So, if this site wasn't all about Linux gaming but open source gaming in general we might want to get more PlayStation news, right? After all it's just a proprietary OS built around the open source FreeBSD. Pretty much the same case for Stadia, in a sense at least.

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It's great to see them pushing into this. Now give us proper Optimus-support and i'm eager to buy a laptop with an NVIDIA-GPU.

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Quoting: CrendgrimPlease do note that Packt books apparently very often lack in quality. Reading bundle reviews of their bundles always has someone criticising this.

Can confirm. However, Vulkan Cookbook was praised quite a lot by fine graphics programmers over on Twitter (or was it "Learning Vulkan" which is also Packt-published? I think not).

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