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Germany. :-( But why?


That does not mean it never happened, we just can’t find the source. I had this with my own statements in the past too, sometimes it was true sometimes I was wrong. Therefore I cannot trust everyone in the internet. What I can imagine is, that GOG worked on the GOG API (the programming interface for other tools) to add access to the Cloud features in example. It might came out of a request from the Heroic Launcher project. So in a sense GOG would cooperate. But this is just speculation on my part here.

Still the Heroic Launcher is a separate project doing all the work on their own.


What type of support and cooperation? And where it is documented, so I can read about it?


it does not suggest PC and PS5. We don’t know what cross-buy refers to. It could be for their upcoming handheld and PS5 / PS6 maybe.


I told you that it does not address my issue. No need to be mad, I have no bad intentions. I expressed what issue I have and adding the game as a non-Steam game does not solve the issues I have.


This does not address the issue I brought up in my reply. Besides the brought up point, it would not solve all other issues I would have. I know the functionality to add non-Steam games since I am on Steam over 12 years ago.


I’m a fan of Valve and Steam too. But you cannot deny that Valve does shitty stuff too. In example Valve is the company who either invented or popularized Loot Boxes. And they don’t do anything about the Black Market for the item trading and selling, such as Counter Strike skins and so on. And there are other little things that could be done, but nothing else upsets me as this.

But besides that, for the most part I love Valve. The commitment to support on Linux is unmatched in the gaming world. As a private company, Valve can do whatever they want. I genuinely think that PC gaming wouldn’t be this good without Valve. If anything, Microsoft would have the power… which in an alternate universe people have to suffer.


I would buy from GOG too, if they provided Linux support in form of an official launcher. And if available also official Linux builds. Back in the days GOG did that, but they stopped doing it. And before someone comes after me, I know there are alternative launchers on Linux. But I don’t want to give GOG money for work others doing it for free. I don’t want support a company who only cares about Windows.


That’s debatable. There are many games I do not consider to be good, but sold many copies / licenses. Same is true for the other side, where lot of good games sold poorly. So therefore I wouldn’t say it’s bizarre. The game is just not for you (and me).


Still impressive that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe got sold so many, as it is only a “Re-release” on a single platform.


Thursday’s layoffs announcement arrives on the same day that Square Enix shared its intention to have the majority of its QA and debugging work handled by generative AI within the next two years.




If the Steam Controller 2 is what I hope it is to be., I would probably buy 2 right away; one for daily usage, and the other as a collection unit that stays in package. The first controller didn’t work for me and certainly was not usable for all cases. But thanks to the Steam Deck, I am confident in the controller successor.

The question is, what do you think would it cost? And what would be your limit? I think it would cost maybe 60 USD or EUR and I would even be ready to pay 90 (but then would buy only one and wait for discount for second unit).



The most played games on steam are multiplayer games that use some sort of anti cheat.

However, lot of the most played Steam games are well supported and never have an issue with anti cheat whatsoever: https://steamdb.info/ such as Counter Strike 2 and Dota 2 (2 most played games). There are also lot of single player games as the most played games. Therefore this is a mixed bag.

Those anti cheats often break linux compatibility when the game or anticheat itself gets updated.

They not break often Linux compatibility when game or anticheat is updated. That’s false statement. There are games, when it happens. But that is not “often”. I play games with Anticheat on Linux and they do not break, such as Marvel Rivals and previously Overwatch and Splitgate too (besides Valves own games, but that is self explanatory). This never happened. So the “often” part is misleading here.


Unfortunately these minority of games are actually popular games. I think GTA 5 Online no longer works on Linux too. There was more popular games doing that.


Unfortunately I don’t have a source. Hopefully this is not a thing of misinformation from me. Gimme sec… ah it was just rumored. I don’t know if this is true: https://wccftech.com/halo-combat-evolved-remake-ue5-blam-engine-gameplay-tweaks/


It’s not entirely in the Unreal Engine 5. They use it on top of their old engine if I understand it correctly. Probably similar to how Oblivion Remake was handled. But from the gameplay, it was not entirely smooth. On the other hand, this is still in development. If the rest of the game runs like this, it will be okay.



We have no idea what they’re doing and have zero proof they are doing what’s asserted

That is exactly what I’m saying here. You can’t exclude or conclude based on your personal beliefs if you have no proof for or against it.


It still can be true, if Microsoft does an A/B testing. Some may get it earlier than others and this could result in different realities. Edit: Note, I am not saying it is true, just adding some spice that it still can be. I’m also skeptical about single unproofed claims, even if I don’t like Microsoft.





I personally don’t count multi-frame generation. That’s not just adding (fake) frames, but also real latency. I don’t care if you like it or not. People who don’t know what they are doing think this gives them more frames per second.



Isn’t this something everyone should do with every game? No pre-order, wait until reviews are out. If not really needed, then wait until patches are out, maybe with a small or big sale on the game price too. Almost all AAA games launch broken or unoptimized.


But lost sales for Black Ops was calculated from the beginning. The idea was in exchange the Game Pass subscriptions would go up. Nothing revolutionary here.


In all fairness, the prices of entire business is going up, including from their competitors, due to number of factors that has nothing to do with the acquisition. The question is, would Microsoft stay at the same price even if they didn’t purchase Activision-Blizzard-King? Would Microsoft layoff people and replace them with Ai, even if they did not buy Activision? What do other companies do? Would Microsoft change the Game Pass price anyway, because it did not workout well (especially without Activision library included)? What is the competition doing?





“I have a few older regular viewers”, Curry said, “but most of them seem to be very young kids, children, and I’m not getting any feedback from them on the videos. All I get is ‘Hi grandma, I love you grandma’. That isn’t what I was spending my time on making and uploading videos for.”

What did she expect? I mean this question seriously and in no way being disrespectful. Maybe she should start a community forum if she really wants to deep discussions about the game, her gameplay and herself. No one can expect that from YouTube comments. Or she could switch to another game, say Breath of the Wild. It would give her a fresh start and this can be exciting for her and her fans too.

I wish her good luck with whatever she does next. It’s amazing that such a old person enjoys videogames and even gets fame of it.


Download Eden a Switch emulator as long as you can
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/22388618 > It's reported that the Google Play store entry of Eden emulator (a Switch emulator) is no longer available. We don't know the reason, but my educated guess is that Nintendo might have striked. I recommend to download current official clean builds and source code for backup, just in case you want to use it later. > > * Homepage: https://eden-emu.dev/ > * Downloads: https://github.com/eden-emulator/Releases/releases/ > * Source: https://git.eden-emu.dev/eden-emu/eden > > I personally still use last official build of Yuzu, even today (playing Tears of the Kingdom). I never tried Eden, but it might be useful to archive it, so I do not need to download builds of others if I can't build it from source for any reason. > > Here is a random article about this subject: https://www.androidauthority.com/play-store-first-nintendo-switch-emulator-3597451/
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What you talking about? Just because you read comments, does not mean others didn’t read comments? After watching YouTube comments and looking into others comments, its like with any other Remaster release. People are divided and you personally have a tunnel effect with an echo and you can’t see outside of it, because you don’t want to hear and remember anything else than your own opinion.

No, this looks like a cool new Remaster. They update it to current gen, update slightly the looks, they do what a Remaster have to be. The only problem would be, if the price is too high, I don’t know what it costs. And we need to see the actual release before judging if its a low effort or not.


If you like or do not like the new look, that’s your right to decide off course. But you can’t speak for everyone and say that’s the point of everyone. My point btw was that its normal a Remaster is not improved too much, as that’s what a Remaster is. Although I think it is improved here, but that’s not my main point. My main point is that all the other things are improved and made compatible with current generation, including current gen features for controls and maybe trophies, and other stuff. A Remaster is not just about the textures and resolution.

How does Deus Ex run on the PS5?


The point is to invest minimal money and efforts, because this is not a mainstream game. Its a Remaster to make it a little bit better looking, update controls and other background technology to run on modern operating systems and hardware. And really, that’s okay. If the price is okay, off course.


It’s a Remaster. That’s to be expected.


Rocksteady Studios’ profit fell by more than half at the end of 2024 in US and Canada

The more correct title.


Nintendo right now: 👁️👄👁️


I like listening to oldschool videogame music. Recently I listened to some music of games I never played and one song in particular blew my mind. Its wonderful and since it lives rent free in my head, coming back to it over and over again. I'm loving it. Listen on: * [YouTube](https://youtu.be/Px0mPvn6PpY) * [SkipVids](https://skipvids.com/?v=Px0mPvn6PpY) (alternate player of YouTube, without its ads) "Sacred Somnom Woods" in [Mario & Luigi - Dream Team for the Nintendo 3DS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_&_Luigi:_Dream_Team). The composer is the well known [Yoko Shimomura](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Shimomura), also known for work on Street Fighter 2, Kingdom Hearts and many more legendary games. To me this track has this Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom vibes to it. Because I did not play the actual Mario & Luigi games, I always interpret this as a Zelda song now. Its name does contribute to this factor too! Do you also have sometimes game music that captures you?
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Alternative link: https://skipvids.com/?v=BA_HMsznNKg (Ad-free and does not use YouTube directly) Technical explanation of why almost all Nintendo 64 games looked so blurry. Kaze Emanuar is an expert in this field and does lot of Romhacks and Mods and creates his own Super Mario 64 games with it. So he is quiet knowledgeable. Note: I recommend watching the video at 1.4x speed, or at the very minimum at 1.25x speed.
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