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Take-Two Interactive buying Gearbox from Embracer, more Borderlands on the way
28 March 2024 at 5:23 pm UTC Likes: 1

I'd be excited to hear about a new borderlands game if it wasn't for BL3. Now the first thing I want to hear is that they got a complete new team of actual writers.

GitLab takes down Nintendo Switch emulator suyu due to the DMCA
22 March 2024 at 9:20 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: rambo919Isn't all this very much besides the point? A large corporation managed to take down an OPEN SOURCE project by using a copyright legal mechanism infamous for easy abuse.... the problem is not emulation it's the legal precedent set.

There was no legal precedent set here. There was a settlement with the company behind about stuff that technically wasn't about emulation. And this one reads like nothing more than Gitlab being scared and removing the repo before Nintendo comes knocking.

I'm guessing the suyu people had already set up their private git repo, so probably nothing more than a minor inconvenience. And considering their dmca button, I doubt they're tied to the US.

VKD3D-Proton version 2.12 adds NVIDIA Reflex support
18 March 2024 at 12:14 pm UTC

Quoting: D34VA_
Quoting: EhvisStill not entirely sure what reflex is supposed to bring me. Any suggestions for testing it?
Use a camera and a wired input device. Record in high framerate (proper slow motion). The time between input and action can be determined by comparing the time between press and apparent action over frames per logical second.

That's more about the technical stuff. I meant a game where it should make a difference.

VKD3D-Proton version 2.12 adds NVIDIA Reflex support
18 March 2024 at 11:05 am UTC Likes: 1

Still not entirely sure what reflex is supposed to bring me. Any suggestions for testing it?

Valve COO on Epic's Tim Sweeney "you mad bro?" when launching the Epic Store
14 March 2024 at 4:21 pm UTC Likes: 10

The "you mad bro" is not entirely unjustified if you think about Epic trying to set up a competing store to Steam after almost 15 years of growth with only Fortnite as a basis. It also demonstrates that throwing lots of cash at it is not enough. Of course the fundamental problem with Epic is that they don't put the customers "first". They've been selling themselves to devs and publishers with only minimal effort to serve the actual customers.

Had to look up what the wolfire was. Weird one. The claim still seems to contradict itself.

Command & Conquer The Ultimate Collection launched on Steam (and other classics)
9 March 2024 at 9:59 am UTC Likes: 4

Seeing a whole bunch of screenshots of 4:3 games stretched to 16:9 is not exactly helping me to look at this favourably.

Ghost of Tsushima comes to PC on May 16
7 March 2024 at 11:33 am UTC

This one is kind of interesting. It does depend on how MKB controls are implemented. We'll have to see. And maybe it's just me, but seeing upscaling mentioned as a feature is a big negative in my eyes.

EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support
5 March 2024 at 12:49 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: EhvisThe interesting thing will be what they do next. The code to both has been preserved and deleting all mirrors is something even Nintendo money can accomplish. So it's only a matter of time until builds will pop up somewhere (possibly under a different name). Will Emudeck pull those in?
I think the EmuDeck developers would be pretty stupid if they did pull in some fork, they would be opening themselves up to lawsuits for facilitating what has already been basically declared illegal.

The case was settled. Nothing was declared illegal.
I think you understand what I am saying though. Maybe illegal is not specifically the right word, but the settling and the statement make it pretty clear it's tainted and should not be distributed by anyone.

And this is probably the biggest thing that Nintendo gained and probably was after all along. I suspect the knew that they couldn't really declare the emulator itself illegal and that it was just about the behaviour of the company. That explains why they accepted a tiny settlement. They just wanted to get rid of the emulator itself and put some fear into other parties. Which is a pretty big gain for settling a lawsuit that only applied to the US.

But the world is a lot bigger and not everybody is going to be intimidated, so I expect we will see it again.

EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support
5 March 2024 at 12:25 pm UTC Likes: 8

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: EhvisThe interesting thing will be what they do next. The code to both has been preserved and deleting all mirrors is something even Nintendo money can accomplish. So it's only a matter of time until builds will pop up somewhere (possibly under a different name). Will Emudeck pull those in?
I think the EmuDeck developers would be pretty stupid if they did pull in some fork, they would be opening themselves up to lawsuits for facilitating what has already been basically declared illegal.

The case was settled. Nothing was declared illegal.

EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support
5 March 2024 at 12:04 pm UTC

The interesting thing will be what they do next. The code to both has been preserved and deleting all mirrors is something even Nintendo money can accomplish. So it's only a matter of time until builds will pop up somewhere (possibly under a different name). Will Emudeck pull those in?