Simultaneously were in the age of retro revivals with emulation being at its peak thanks to the open source software community and the absolute pile of handheld form factor consoles available in the market.
Every bad launch has damaged the industry as a whole. The reputation for PC gaming has been diminished by a thousand cuts. No one expects a game to be good on launch. Everyone has been burned at least once by this.
The only people that are going to stop this behavior are going to be Valve. They need to get on the stopkillinggames.com bandwagon because they are affected the most.
All these constant demands for refunds because a developer violates the terms of agreement by adding DRM or additional online service requirements months after the initial release that makes your product now unplayable is more than a trend. It's the future of the steamdeck if Valve doesn't do something about it.
Honestly, this article shouldn't be called how to. I'm trying to make heads or tails of this documentation but I would love to see more. I just want to recompile Mystical Ninja starring Goemon as it's my favorite N64 game from my childhood.
I was Nobara user, then I am using Fedora right now. I want to use things like Hyprland etc. and ya know, Its damn cool to say I am using arch btw. So I've decided to use Arch Linux. But everyone says its always breaking and gives problems. That's because of users, not OS.. right? I love to deal with problems but I don't want to...
Large language models are going to replace search. Naturally concise recommendations are easier for humans to interact with than a swath of web pages. The problem that you get here is this is going to disincentive the creation of new web content outside of the walled gardens we already have. The walls are just going to get higher.
Yeah they don't even need you to on TV and recant your crimes against the state. They can just disappear you and train an AI to become a mouthpiece for the state. Wild.
The tale of Elon will be retold to our children for years to come
about how billionaire philanthropists were incredibly dumb.
How they squandered all their good faith and love
for a payout before they cut and run.
Never forget the tale of Elon,
a man who could not tell right from wrong.
He wanted to save us from a future grim
as long as it was saved by him.
Just a thought, remakes like this tend to appeal to people in the PC crowd. We've all moved to PC for various different reasons. Better games, better prices, better hardware? Emulation and software preservation is the name of the game for a lot of people. Those people are working everyday to make things like the steam deck the dream game console they always wanted. That's the kind of person who will go back and replay Final Fantasy 7 four or five times.
They don't care. They are lazy cowards who will give up everyone's rights for a false sense of safety. Trump can say whatever he wants because they don't take anything he says seriously. The more active among them are convinced that Trump is a "tool" to get what they want. Little do they know they are the ones being used.
That's what happens when you have to be a loss-leader to secure your position in the market. Even when the government steps in to protect you you still claim it's a loss even though you've been crowned leader.
150 million is nothing for what Linus has control over. That's like the combined net worth of 100 of the top paid strippers in Vegas. (I'm going by vice documentary numbers)
Agreed. This is something that is very much overlooked when people talk about how manufacturing in China works. The country is split into special economic zones that have different rules and laws that govern the regions. This allows them to uniquely exploit their labor markets to keep their costs as low as possible.
iPhones are built by FoxConn in their Shenzhen factories. See FoxConn Suicides for more.
Abso lutely. Microsoft and Google basically have a duopoly on corporate email and no one seems to care. I know this does seem relevant but trust me it is.
More than anything, though, it’s a gut punch because it sends a message. The wrong message, really. Xbox had one major studio in Japan - no more. Xbox is making deals with third parties and independent creators, yes - it’s got something in the pipes with Hideo Kojima, for instance - but like I said, the first party is your...
It's funny especially because the attachment rate of the average gamer to a console is like less than 4 games. Microsoft killed their cash cow when they mismanaged Halo into oblivion. Players came to Xbox for Halo not the other way around. Once they had that audience they invested into them with more titles (like halo 3 and gears of war) and improved online experiences, by the time the 360 was done, Microsoft's new direction for the console including the announcement (then retraction) of CD keys being their new killer feature, they lost the entire audience at the turn of the hardware generation. Players ended up mostly on PC at that point.
This. Buying power of the average American has decreased drastically. If you worked for the last five years and your pay has changed you've technically made less money every year as the power of the dollar has diminished. If you're on a fixed income it feels even worse.
I'm noticing the language used over and over now is "live service" instead of "game". I'm coming around to the idea that what they're trying to do is replace the fact that a game used to be a "good" with it being a "service". That accursed farms video from 5 years ago titled "games as a service is fraud" was spot on. Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw
Hell yeah brother. Started playing Hades 2 on my custom chimeraOS PC yesterday in the living room. I absolutely love the experience. I've been considering getting that Hx100 PC from minisforum and running bazzite on there to replace my custom PC for a smaller console like footprint. The time is nigh!
I think Nintendo is dancing into dangerous territory here. I have a feeling this thing is going to be loaded with anti-features here specifically designed to curtail modding, piracy, and even unlicensed peripherals. The games themselves are going to get HD re-re-eleases and Nintendo will charge you full price again for the moderate upgrade.
My favorite trick to reviving old computers is trying to find ways to get them to run off of solid state storage. It really makes a huge difference. You will be surprised by how much more tolerable classic computers are when you no longer have to deal with slow storage mediums.
Mind you this doesn't make them modern levels of fast and you no longer get the satisfaction of hearing the hard drive grinding away when you open a window but thems the tradeoffs...sigh...
There is a good reason why American companies are scared. It almost never works out for them. Sony vs Zenith TVs is a great example about how a foreign company improved on a technology (color tv) and made zenith look like a stingy dinosaur overnight. Instead of selling color TV's zenith just doubled down and sold cheaper shittier TV's. By the time color was standard, their reputation was ruined and no one wanted a Zenith when Sony was the best. Sony however wouldn't have been able to get into the market without help from zenith in the first place.
I bought this game on EPIC games because I wanted to play it. I bent over backwards to get this thing to run well because I wanted the full experience. I built a windows PC just for it.
It's a pain playing it on Linux I'm basically forced to run a modified pirated version of a game I paid for to get a consistent experience.
I hope that maybe they will release a complete edition of Alan Wake 2 on steam when Control 2 finally hits because this is the kind of game that people want access to the back catalogue to theorize about.
Since the only way to obtain a WiiU gamepad is to take one from an existing system, this development will help revive old systems without taking from the limited WiiU gamepad market....
There are a lot of Android based Pocket devices out there like the retroid. Imagine having a retroid or ayn odin that can also double as a wii u controller.
Sweden is infamous for having some of the highest taxes in the world, and yet the country's tax agency is still one of Sweden's most trusted institutions....
This. It used to be the dream because we believed in what technofuturism had to offer. We believed in instant access to knowledge and we thought we could all make it cheap enough that it would be an uplift across humanity.
We came up with so many cool things in the process. Little did we know we were simply building the foundations of our dystopian cyberpunk corpo future.
"We just wanted ice cream cones and fast cars" (South park).
The same reason a movie theater owner can't show Pee Wee's Big Adventure every weekend. Value is derived from exclusivity. Exercising your "rights" to a work means preventing anyone from having access to the work unless you are paid when and how you want.
If NVK is good enough maybe Nvidia will consider dropping the proprietary driver because no one will want to use it and it will cost too much for them to maintain a separate driver.
Is there an alternative way to register a domain that cannot be seized? It seems like domain seizure is the one thing that enables internet censorship. Is there some sort of block chain base registrars out there? I’m genuinely curious.
A sex offender convicted of making more than 1,000 indecent images of children has been banned from using any “AI creating tools” for the next five years in the first known case of its kind....
Depends on the usage. That’s the gamble you take. I would maybe buy three and put two in a mirror and keep the third one as a replacement?
That’s 240$ for three drives without warranty though… Nevermind I’d prefer to buy two new Toshiba X300 new for 210$ a piece and forget the headache and get the warranty.
Car insurance is a scam, like all insurance. The main reason why insurance is going up though is most likely because the cost of repairing and replacing cars has drastically increased in the last 4 years. Some people buy a used car for 5k and slap a set of wheel and tires on it that cost 2k. I don’t know how parts for any car can be almost half the value of the vehicle and somehow be a sustainable market.
I don’t know what to think about the rushed inclusion of Copilot. It’s so very very flawed.
The only thing I can think of is that users are training it by using it and therefore Microsoft is getting free labor from you (as well as search/advertising revenue through their lock screens, dynamic as based backgrounds, live tiles, etc).
People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? ( www.bbc.com )
PC gaming getting worse every year ( www.xda-developers.com )
Man in custody for punching actor Steve Buscemi in Manhattan ( abcnews.go.com )
Feel the burn ( mander.xyz )
EA SPORTS WRC is adding EA anticheat, breaking another game on Steam Deck / Linux ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
EA SPORTS WRC will be adding EA anticheat, game will not playable any more. On ProtonDB game is rated Platinum ( lemmy.ml )
https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/ea-sports-wrc/wrc/news/ea-anticheat
How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time ( arstechnica.com )
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts ( www.theverge.com )
Decision of Next Os
I was Nobara user, then I am using Fedora right now. I want to use things like Hyprland etc. and ya know, Its damn cool to say I am using arch btw. So I've decided to use Arch Linux. But everyone says its always breaking and gives problems. That's because of users, not OS.. right? I love to deal with problems but I don't want to...
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down ( www.theverge.com )
Senate considers making Black Wall Street a national monument ( abcnews.go.com )
MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! ( www.youtube.com )
How AI turned a Ukrainian YouTuber into a Russian ( www.bbc.com )
......
Tesla now spends ad money to influence shareholders approval of Elon Musk's $55B payday ( electrek.co )
Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble ( www.ign.com )
Great, can we get FF7 Rebirth on PC now?
Donald Trump rally video shows mass "walking out" during speech ( www.newsweek.com )
Ford cancels EV battery orders as losses widen to $130,000 per vehicle sold ( www.notebookcheck.net )
Steam is now banned in Vietnam ( www.eurogamer.net )
U.S. to Announce New Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicle - Considering rates of 100% ( www.nytimes.com )
The Real Reason Your Favourite Game Studios Are Getting Closed Instead Of Sold ( www.thegamer.com )
Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. ( www.theverge.com )
With the closure of Tango Gameworks, Xbox sends an accidental message: it is not a platform for fans of Japanese games ( www.vg247.com )
More than anything, though, it’s a gut punch because it sends a message. The wrong message, really. Xbox had one major studio in Japan - no more. Xbox is making deals with third parties and independent creators, yes - it’s got something in the pipes with Hideo Kojima, for instance - but like I said, the first party is your...
CNN's Burnett asks Biden how he is going to turn the economy around. He said he already has. ( www.cnn.com )
In today's earnings call, EA CEO Andrew Wilson says he has been playing the next Battlefield game with the development team and it will be a "tremendous live service." ( twitter.com )
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It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine ( steamdeckhq.com )
Microsoft Abandons Redfall and Cancels DLC After Shutting Developer Arkane Austin Down - IGN ( www.ign.com )
Nintendo makes first Switch 2 announcement ( www.eurogamer.net )
Revive That Old Computer With AntiX Linux ( fosspost.org )
Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry ( insideevs.com )
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Alan Wake 2 Still Hasn't Earned Back Its Budget ( techraptor.net )
MattKC announces plans to develop an open source DIY WiiU gampead ( youtu.be )
Since the only way to obtain a WiiU gamepad is to take one from an existing system, this development will help revive old systems without taking from the limited WiiU gamepad market....
Why the Swedes love doing something that Americans hate ( www.bbc.com )
Sweden is infamous for having some of the highest taxes in the world, and yet the country's tax agency is still one of Sweden's most trusted institutions....
How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status ( www.cnbc.com )
Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? ( arstechnica.com )
NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance ( www.phoronix.com )
The end of movie-web ( programming.dev )
Sex offender banned from using AI tools in landmark UK case ( www.theguardian.com )
A sex offender convicted of making more than 1,000 indecent images of children has been banned from using any “AI creating tools” for the next five years in the first known case of its kind....
12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com ( serverpartdeals.com )
Has anyone bought from here before? Looking to upgrade my NAS drives.
Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity ( www.gamedeveloper.com )
Why car insurance rates are so high ( www.vox.com )
Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon ( www.pcworld.com )
Explicit Sync support has been merged into KWin! ( invent.kde.org )
Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites ( arstechnica.com )