Quoting: Dmitri SeletskiI know there is butthurt in Mac forums right now. And thought of that is making me smile. Those tears, ummy yammee! I fast on no carbs diet, but those tears are so sweet, like round fat fingers covered in doughnut chocolate of rich fan boys who have more money than sense.

Hum, I can certainly empathize with them. I would certainly prefer all games to be as widely available as possible. Maybe they could use MoltenVK in the future?

That dev statement is nice, I know what they mean, but I would certainly love them to elaborate a bit on this, as this would probably be a good argument for porting games to Linux.

Edit: I'd like to play this one as well, though I think I got it in a monthly some time ago. It would be nice to test with my soon-to-be-installed-in-a-new-pc new R9 Fury :D

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Quoting: devnullOne of the reasons to stag logged out of friends, is security. There were exploits against trading for example where people could send an offer and even if you didn't click on it, they could get your IP. In effect it pings your client.

Valve has some serious questions to answer if any of that has changed (yeah I know, good luck with that).

That's probably the reason they stated that chats were now relayed trough Steam servers and not p2p anymore.

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Quoting: GustyGhostEw... webRTC

What do you have against it? It's a nice set of protocols and APIs.

WebRTC-based backend. It uses Opus encoding, encryption and the voice chat now goes through Steam directly, instead of being peer 2 peer.

I usually read this as steam servers being used as Turn servers to allow clients to connect together (p2p) trough a NAT or firewall. They might implement a TURN fallback, though (like a proxy trough Steam servers), in case that fails. We'll, that's how WebRTC is designed anyway.

Weren't all chats in the same, tabbed window already? I sometimes found this "feature" annoying.

Great, another proprietary chat option, just what we needed! /s

I've been using steams chat myself, it was quite reliable. I like Matrix a lot, though, and I'm glad to see that there are some steam/Matrix bridges (though they will probably have to be updated).

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It looks great, but I never was a fan of those rollercoaster or attraction park games. Nor of the real thing, to be honest. The concept is a bit foreign to me :D

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IIRC, one of my big gripes with it is the lack of a dedicated/self-hostable server. Or was that solved some time ago?

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How about Inner Chains? Or maybe even Prey?

Other titles I would find fitting are Deadpool (though that's old) and Dark Souls. Let's bring Doom and Dead Space for good measure :)

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Quoting: tonRRead local English online newspaper this (super bored) morning, Saturday 26th May. Very interesting subject (other than endless Malaysian politics news):

Apple blocks Steam’s plan to extend its videogames to iPhones [External Link]

Digging down further:

Valve press statement on the Steam Link app for iOS being rejected by Apple. pic.twitter.com/dIAW22izfz
— Steam Database (@SteamDB) May 24, 2018
link [External Link]

IMO, now it is time for Linux community as whole to look forward on mobile devices now! Third OS are needed in mobile device world especially MS abandoned Windows Phone OS. And Linux distros should filled that gap.

Not everyone are big fan of G+ Android, especially me. Currently, Linux market share is 0.04% according to netmarketshare.com [External Link]. So, Linux getting 2-3% market share is huge.

p/s: I'm sorry for ranting about mobile devices guys. Just give an (frustrating) opinion. Happy weekend.

Well, I'm obviously biased as a minor contributor to PostmarketOS. But that's what we are trying to do (by building a Linux distribution for existing devices).

https://www.postmarketos.org/ [External Link]
https://www.postmarketos.org/blog/2017/05/26/intro/ [External Link]
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices [External Link]
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Porting_to_a_new_device [External Link]

Keep in mind that it's not suitable f
for a daily driver just yet, as sms, call and modem are just starting to work on a few devices.

Regarding the Apple store situation, I'll quote what I wrote on Ars Technica:

Valve should just open source it. There isn't much value in keeping this closed, and they couldn't do a lot against third party streaming apps popping over the store :D

I think there is a sound rationale to open sourcing it, and it probably makes sense in a business perspective as well. On the other hand, I already tried to argue the same about the Steam client, but arguably, it makes even more sense for the link app.

If not, I give it about 3 months before the first reverse engineering attempts start to pop up, with at least one proof of concept.

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Nice, I liked Turok: Evolution on Xbox back in the day. But I am a bit lost with the timeline... Or the series. I would like to play Evolution again, but did it see a PC release as well?

It is always strange to realize that the games I played when I was younger actually had a "story".

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So, is there a way to use it with regular android games or apps like ppsspp or supertuxkart? For now, it defaults to mouse + keyboard mode, which isn't compatible (yet) with those apps :/

Maybe a sc-controller port could help? I am not too familiar with device access on Andoid, but I guess it would be doable :)

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Quoting: CreakEdit: I'm wondering which engine he's using..

Completely in-house, IIRC.

The game was always broken for me (black screen with sound ATM, IIRC). But I'll wait for a computer upgrade before reporting, as it's probably related. This is a shame, as the game looks really nice!

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