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Tetris Effect: Connected adds HDR for Steam Deck OLED plus optimizations
14 Dec 2023 at 7:24 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: Mountain Man$40 seems unreasonably expensive for a Tetris game.
Get it on sale then in a few days.

Liam Dawe]I've actually never played this one, am I missing out on something here?
It's absolutely amazing. The "campaign" is a lot of fun, the extra modes are varied and challenging and they even have the classic NES score attack with the old ruleset.

Best Tetris game out there. The VR mode is neat too.
Death Stranding from Kojima is getting the live-action movie treatment
14 Dec 2023 at 4:26 pm UTC
The announcement was made almost exactly one year ago, lol.

https://deadline.com/2022/12/death-stranding-film-from-barbarian-producer-alex-lebovici-in-works-1235200209/ [External Link]
Steam Deck Beta and SteamOS Preview fix up some annoying issues
8 Dec 2023 at 2:47 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: tmtvl
Quoting: kuhpunktStill no word from Valve regarding the audio jack :/
What's your issue with the audio jack? Seems to work just fine for me.
There's some weird crackling noise/static, apparently due to grounding. Depending on your headphones it can be much worse. It's only on the OLED model.

Lots of threads on reddit, like this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/188fxu1/fix_audio_cracklingstatic_on_35mm_headphone_jack/?share_id=GTtenwjAatkQGQuos__BA [External Link]
Steam Deck Beta and SteamOS Preview fix up some annoying issues
8 Dec 2023 at 11:19 am UTC Likes: 1
Still no word from Valve regarding the audio jack :/
So what the heck is an 'indie game' nowadays anyway?
30 Nov 2023 at 4:41 pm UTC Likes: 2
How about just abandoning categories and just refering to them as games?
GE-Proton 8-25 released, should fix a bunch of early 2000s games
22 Nov 2023 at 4:53 pm UTC
Does anybody have any idea if Valve is still working on a solution to this problem? All this ffmpeg stuff. It's great that GE-Proton exists, but it would be nice if you could just rely on vanilla Proton.
Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update brings Half-Life: Uplink, Steam Deck support
17 Nov 2023 at 8:01 pm UTC Likes: 5
Very very nice documentary.
Valve reveals Steam Deck OLED for November 16th
9 Nov 2023 at 6:37 pm UTC Likes: 2
This is just awesome.
Epic Games launch 'First Run' and 'Now On Epic' with 100% revenue for devs
16 Oct 2023 at 6:48 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: ThibugNext news, Epic laid off 50% of their staff because they are losing money ?
They just recently got rid of over 800 people...
And just now 50% of Bandcamp

BREAKING: Epic Games lays off roughly 50% of Bandcamp amidst its sale to Songtradr.

The Fortnite maker purchased the music platform just last year but is now spinning it off amid massive cost cutting.
https://twitter.com/ethangach/status/1713970488257413600 [External Link]
Diablo 4 now Steam Deck Verified before launch but no Steam keys for Battle.net buyers
14 Oct 2023 at 11:46 am UTC
Quoting: Trinexx
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: Liam DaweWhile Valve generally limit key generation, I've no doubt they would work with bigger publishers on this.
That's quite the assumption. Valve hasn't shown much of a will to bend to publishers. They've let them leave steam because the publishers didn't get what they wanted.
Back at ya, you're assuming something that neither of us actually know. I'm just coming from the side of: we know Steam keys are already a thing and have been for a long time, and it would be to Valve's benefit to do it and would take little effort from Valve.
Publishers are allowed to generate up to 5,000 keys without question, but anything beyond that has to be approved on a case-by-case by Valve. Considering the number of copies Diablo 4 moved, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Valve rejected a request for bulk keys; that's a lot of potential money from second-time buyers to give up.
When Bethesda shut down their own launcher you could migrate your library to Steam. Blizzard (now Microsoft) could easily work with Valve as well and just unlock the game in people's accounts. It's not like this costs any money and it's more customers/users for Steam.