As much as I enjoy PC gaming, I also appreciate the turnkey experience of console gaming, especially with kids.

Personally I am for the Steam Machine, mostly because of its size and that I could also use it for another purpose than gaming, and the GPU seems decent enough for casual gaming (I’m not looking for Ultra settings at 4K, 240 fps, etc)

I read conflicting info regarding RAM upgradability. 16GB nowadays is the bare minimum IMO, I’d rather bump that to 32GB or 64GB, at least if the price can come down.

I haven’t spent a single dollars on EGS, only collecting the freebies since it launched.
I do buy games on GOG whenever possible, as their core mission (make classic games DRM-free) is appealing to me.

Personally I just hoard the giveaway games.

At least I get to keep the delisted games I bought in my account DRM-free.

If you don’t plan on making a successor that plays and contains the features the userbase would expect, don’t name it like it’s a sequel.

They ruined the name of a perfectly good franchise just to attract the fanbase, nobody wins and everyone is angry.

Not an issue limited to the Steam Machine, but yeah…

I rarely play the latest games, so that machine would be a good upgrade for me. Especially with the ability to load a different OS that I could use for both productivity and gaming.

Bump it to a bigger SSD and 64GB of RAM and I’ll be happy with it.

Good thing the fediverse is decentralized :)

Up yours, fascists!

Look at me owning an Xbox even less.

And for Linux handhelds there’s PortMaster to easily use some of them on the go.

Handling payments like this puts the responsibility of dealing with fraud at Valve’s level and significantly increase their workload, instead of being the payment processor’s responsibility.

I don’t blame Valve not wanting to deal with this.

…for the investors

Classic skill issue

1. You can’t see these games without being signed in
2. When you create a new account, adult games are hidden by default
3. You can use the Mature Content Preferences if you don’t want to see them
4. Steam Families + managed accounts is the way to go to curate stuff for kids

Let the adults be adults, and let the parents to their jobs. No need to grandstand on something so petty.

At least GOG is getting into mod management too.

Added to my wishlist, thanks :)

You take that back.

Good thing that such clauses are null and void in Québec, Canada.

https://www.canlii.org/en/qc/laws/stat/cqlr-c-p-40.1/latest/cqlr-c-p-40.1.html#se:11_1

Hopefully they still can ship direct to Canada.

If buying isn’t owning, surely that means pirating isn’t stealing.

Would be nice if it could be set as some kind of post / comment metadata, hidden from view but there in the code.

That would make a nice Linux-based gaming PC for my kids that is for sure.

Bazzite comes with Nvidia support out of the box.

Not gonna complain to see investments made into an open platform.

God damn leech

Which validates the point that buying a game on pre-sale or Day 1 is a terrible idea.

Epic is doing me a favor, I get to keep my money while I play my backlog, then I buy the game on Steam / GOG for cheaper later on.

It’s only illegal if it’s enforced
~ the rich

I’ll buy it when it comes to GOG then.

Ah so that’s why the sound on TV and radio news was messed up.

FYI your link to Steam is pointing to Imgur.

To be fair it’s not exactly obvious that the downloaded file is generic enough to be used on something else than the Steam Deck when the file is named steamdeck-repair-20231127.10-3.5.7.img.bz2

SteamOS 3.0 should get out there for generic PCs pretty soon, in the meantime there’s Bazzite.

I claim whatever I can, and that still doesn’t force me to play it or install their launcher to claim them.

IMO a gambling label should only be considered if there’s is real money involved in the game combined with chance (ie: lootboxes)

Making the rating boards only look at the old-fashioned method of gambling (casino or casino-themed mecanism) while disregarding the monetary factor doesn’t help anyone.

A kind of brawl-based FPS (with some limited gunplay, ammo is really scarce) with a kind of old detective vibe mixed with an underground superhero group. It’s replayable in a way where you can try a more sneaky approach to minimize combat or punch your way through.

In that situation, Fallen Aces.

My favorite game of 2024: Selaco

EDIT: Confused by what you’re looking for, space-themed or not space-themed?

It’s depressing when you see someone actively doing their best to help people gets harassed for the state of the industry upon which they have no control of…

Of course there are reasons to be angry for the mass layoffs, but at least be angry at the people actually responsible.