It’s a mixed bag, I’m pretty neutral on it since it prevents copyleft licensing as much as copyright.

I don’t mind if the developer adds AI-generated code, but if they mix it with their own work without appropriate attribution in a way that it could be considered all AI-generated, it may become un-copyrightable.

Uh oh, Epic’s not making more profit than last year! We need to squeeze money out of parents’ pockets for their gullible kids and milk our cash cow harder!

The PRS needs to pay the wanker down the street for the licence to act like such bellends.

Well just like a MATLAB plotting program “draws” lines and curves and stuff, Claude is a programs that puts together various reasonings based on the mathematician’s input.

An actually interesting use of artificial intelligence being able to accomplish something, when put in the hands of expert mathematicians. Definitely a lot of coaxing it back to doing the task correctly but it is pretty cool that it can solve problems (even if they are math nerd ones) in a way that are independently verifiable.

Right? I think this is the answer to why people don’t get invested in a game like this. The publisher asks customers for money upfront, then continues to ask through in game purchases, forcing a connection to them whenever you use it all the while holding a button that can cut off access to everything you paid them for. The rational response is to refuse this skewed bargain, and play something better.

Might make some mods that support multiple versions stop at 1.20.1 but any new ones will be fine on the new ones, various API, helper mods, and surely some OpenGL->Vulkan translation ones will come in as needed.

Crypto never really used hard drives that much besides a little to store wallets

3 important ideas if the developers and publisher want a game people come back to:

• Permit offline solo play.
• Allow for player made mods.
• Release a custom 3rd party server binary.

GDC 2026 marks the first year of the event’s rebranding as the “GDC Festival of Gaming,” which event organizers have described as a “bold reimagining” of the event. GDC organizers will now have to boldly reimagine a new keynote speaker before the event begins in 31 days.

Great line by the article author Ozzie.

Xitter comments indicate that the PCs should be of sufficient spec to achieve a good sell value. So if it’s not Win 11 compatible then Sofmap can’t price it in hopes to resell them according to the social media responder.

How about construction vehicles with a cute little indication of their status… some suggestions:

“tired” becomes a little tornado cloud coming out from the bubble.

Idle is zzzs coming from the bubble

You could use these kinds of marks, as inspiration.

The OG Steam Deck 256GB launched at a price of US$529 so it was clearance pricing, more or less. (The 64GB launched at $399).

The meme of “Valve maintains dominance by doing nothing but waits for competition to trip over itself” is funny but they do put part of the billions they make towards beneficial products for their customers.

• Remote Play (stream your own game from another PC)
• Remote Play Together (can stream a game to friends without a copy of the game and play together)
• Linux, Proton
• Well designed hardware innovations

Not out of the goodness of their heart but to drive sales and foster a customer base willing to return.

GOG and itch do try in their own way so I have bought from them, IMO they are the only competitors making serious efforts to build a mutually benefical gaming ecosystem.

Epic, Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA and the rest are like a trapdoor with a wooden board over it. Tim Sweeney is standing there hoping you won’t think he’s trying to find the right time to swipe the board away and get you to fall in.

Metaverse and AI, lmao

B…B…B…BLOODY SCREEN! SO REAL!

That’s IMO a big part of what’s different between the 7 transition and this one. Last time Microsoft was going around upgrading people’s computers for them, and even if people didn’t want to jump to 10 right away, they allowed Win 7, 8, and 8.1 keys to activate it pretty much whenever. Now with their hardware requirement, they’re official line is telling people without TPM that their hardware is junk when they stop supporting Win 10. That drove people to look for the better alternative Microsoft won’t tell you about.

It was 5-10 years ago, not too hard to find and a little before Google intentionally made things harder to find. I’ve used many public and private trackers, but it’s just that these days my interest in movies has disappeared almost completely, and I’m happy with most of the games I have.

I’ve had a lot less of a desire to pirate games after moving to Linux full time a few years ago. But FitGirl has been the one reliable place for public torrents, compaed to chancing it on the third Google Link or scrolling through the Russian CS-Rin-Rulette forum to find links.

You are correct, though it bears stating that they make millions from kids gambling and they make billions for their software distribution platform, as one indicator of Valve’s priorities as a for-profit company.

Call me a shill, but Valve’s actions indicate that they care about the money that comes from improving a product or service. That differentiates them from many publicly traded companies that care about money at the expense of the quality of their own products and services.

Waiting for the free to claim weekend. Or have Epic offer me a free Steam Machine one week as thanks for opening their still half-baked store.

Definitely, agreed with you on all these points.

Tell me what a zionist game is. I’m not from the USA nor do I live there. I’ve told my local representative to have my country recognize Palestine, that’s since been done.

Anyway, I wish you a good day riding upon your high horse.

Okay, thanks for the feedback.

I don’t need anything from City Skylines 2 other than a fully fledged custom 3d asset importer. Then it will be as if the game has thousands of unpaid staff making content. Though if this next team picks up from an unfamiliar location it might still be a long time before we could even think of getting it.

More updates will be nice.

And I mean Gabe is overseeing the Valve team’s success, allowing his employees to develop at their pace and following what appears to be their passion. They aren’t shoehorning AI or whatever the latest buzzword to goose some imaginary number. Gabe was pissed at Windows enough, he used to work for Microsoft, so he’s instrumental in helping break Microsoft’s monopoly on gaming operating systems by supporting Linux compatibility and releasing first party hardware.

He deserves credit for the culture he cultivates in his company and shares in its success. Likewise, shame should be where shame is due, like with the whole lootbox gambling economy thing. The main reason why it is viewed as refreshingly good is because they seem to be one of the few big companies that still believe that profit growth comes from valuing employees, suppliers (gamedevs) and consumers, rather than trying to squeeze every last drop of profit no matter how cruel. It should be the norm yet it seems to be the exception.

It would be nice to have no billionaires, but right now we live in a world where government tells states to clawback aid they gave to hungry families so taxing the rich, or acting in any way that resembles normalcy, is a lot to expect right now. We can let Gabe make a silly luxury purchase.

If Valve burns the trust it has earned, then I will move away from them too, I don’t owe Gabe or Valve anything.

Hurry! Release the server code on the high seas before the Sony lawyers find you!!!

Oh boy I also hope this comes with the login queue battle royale mechanic (video) as well. Couldn’t call it a modern AAAA experience without one.

I’ve done all of that on my Nintendo 3DS… I’m being obtuse with that, but what you listed is not the Steam Deck’s primary intended purposes either, gaming is its primary use and Valve’s not being nefarious omitting secondary uses.

As a converse example: the fact you could play games on a Tesla vehicle, doesn’t mean Elon Musk has to call it a games console car.

1.5V Li-ion batteries in AA size that can be charged by USB-C are now available. For stuff like TV remotes, flashlights, little toys and gadgets anything more seems overpowered than needed.

If not a games console, what is the Steam Deck? Calling it just any ol’ personal computer would be ignoring the two halves of a gaming controller fused to either side of it.

He has no official ties with the European Citizen’s Initiative (besides “hype-man” as I recall he described it) but he is the founder of the Stop Killing Games movement, encompassing the original research effort in terms of what people could do to stop games being lost or intentionally destroyed.

In one sense yes they are a monopoly. But there are alternative game stores. However Valve has earned their cut of money by actually trying to make a platform that works for game developers, game players and themselves.

Don’t get me wrong, they have a high risk of turning bad and extorting the market they have captured. But the truth is that every equally or greater sized competitor (Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA, Epic) has already skipped to the extortion part of the cycle and Valve simply hasn’t, and hasn’t really expressed any intention to do that. Being a privately owned company, Valve is allowed to sit back, enjoy the money they do make and not have to constantly ask for more, and develop what the staff feel like making without strict deadlines.

The smaller competitors are still great even if not as feature filled (GOG, itch) and you should support them too. So while I reject that Valve is the big bad, I also reject that Valve could never enshittify. My position is that Valve has earned a trust no one else has (even itch had to cave to Credit Card companies), and that trust is Valve’s to break.

I think your average Linux user does want to give game creators their fair share. But they would like to withhold from those that take away from others.

I more or less stopped pirating games after moving my PC to Linux full time.

I knew that this game was overhyped and its life would be limited, but now is the time to try to preserve this game as much as possible ahead of shutdown date.

With CoD BO3 extensive ability to be modded and workshop support, it could be theoretically possible.

So by tying the bed to Amazon’s cloud exclusively, reduces its uptime from 100% to 99.5% or lower…

One could imagine that conveniently, Microsoft’s online support pages and the amount of support staff were designed to only handle hundreds of thousands of cancelations at a time.