Valve can ignore margins on the Steam Deck

I doubt they are selling them at a loss, if you are only counting cost of parts and production. Of course, if you factor in R&D and ongoing software development, then maybe they are. As you say, they can certainly absorb some loss by assuming they will make it up on game sales.

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"M$ threatened our Windows discounts after that Go S release, so we had to promise a Windows-exclusive release, even though everybody is figuring out it runs way worse that way."

Netbook deja vu?

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what AMD plan to do with amdvlk for Windows

Wondering the same, but the open source Linux drivers have been much better than the Windows drivers (on the OpenGL side as well) for quite some time. ATI's hardware has always been better than their drivers, going back decades, so having Valve, Google, Red Hat, and the rest solving that for them has been great for everybody.

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Besides the original Layers of Fear, the original Observer (before the Redux version) also had native support.

I played the original Silent Hill 2 probably 20+ years ago, on the PS2, and loved it. I later played 3, which was also good but not quite as good, then 4 which was definitely a few steps down. Eventually I played the first one; it was for the original PlayStation, so definitely a bit dated, but still better than the 4th game. I think everything that came after 4 wasn't good; I tried one of them (Homecoming?), and wasn't impressed. A few years back there was buzz about a Silent Hills "playable teaser", but I never tried that, and I guess it got scrapped (falling out with Hideo Kojima, after which he made Death Stranding?).

They tried to do a HD remaster of Silent Hill 2 for the PS3, but it had bad reviews, as apparently it was based on a buggy beta release - rumor was that they lost the source code of the final release, which had some important fixes.

Fast forward to the present - I was home sick from work last week, and played a bit of Bloober's remake on the PS5 (got a good deal on it; Steam key is still expensive even on sale!). I have to say, they did a great job, and it is mostly how I remember the original (I'm sure I'd appreciate it a lot less now, having played the great remake).

The new Silent Hill f looks like a different take on it; I'll wait for reviews. However, I certainly wouldn't be opposed to remakes of Silent Hill 1 and 3, done by Bloober. Capcom did great with their Resident Evil remakes, which I'm guessing was the inspiration.

Edit: looks like they *are* doing a remake of the first game too! "We are thrilled to announce that a SILENT HILL remake project is in the works at Bloober Team, developed in close cooperation with our friends from Konami!"
https://www.metacritic.com/game/silent-hill/ [External Link]

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the Steam store itself went down hard

Don't people have jobs any more??? It's a freaking Thursday. :D

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won't be playing in 4K as I have 2K monitor

"4K" is 2160p; what are you calling "2K"? 1440p?

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Strictly speaking, a reimplementation is emulating the original implementation, by way of reverse engineering. But I agree that "emulator" doesn't really fit the common usage.

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Looking at randombundle.com, this is the 6th charity bundle for Palestine; by no means a complaint, it's just sad.

Palestinian Aid (2021)
Games for Gaza
Palestinian Relief Bundle (2024)
TTRPGs for Palestine
Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle
(current one)

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The trailer music is giving "Stranger Things" vibes.

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Is this the first game listed as "SteamOS Compatible" while being "Steam Deck Unsupported"? I'm still wondering how that's going to pan out over the long term, especially for lesser known / lower profile titles.

Also: it looks like the Steam website still doesn't list SteamOS compatibility info; the Steam Deck Compatibility is still too hard to find if you don't know where to look (IMO).

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