Descent 3 goes open-source, Nvidia hires lead Nouveau developer, Team Fortress 2 gets a Vulkan button, 7 Days To Die exits Early Access, Witcher 3 source code leaks, and $300 chocolates from Valve.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:56 Spanida
02:26 Fighting .Jason
03:44 Dragon book
STEAM NEWS
05:42 Making Valve earn their 30% cut
07:57 $300 Steam chocolates
NEW GAMES
10:53 Sheba New Dawn
13:55 Steel Symphony
15:35 Shin Megami Tensei V Deck Verified
17:43 Deck Verified performance metrics
22:36 Bitcoin game reviews
GAME UPDATES
23:49 TF2 goes 64-bit
26:33 7 Days To Die leaves Early Access
29:56 Black Mesa Necro patch
33:11 Speed Golf With Friends
35:37 Nvidia hires Nouveau developer
42:02 Descent 3 source code released
46:06 Witcher 3 & Cyberpunk source leak
HATE MAIL
52:10 Multiplayer Dragoons
55:14 Double-jump microtransaction
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
Steam is like a box of chocolates
Couple of protips from this year’s GDC.
Translation is surprisingly one of the big ones.
Simplified Chinese, Korean and Japanese are the big one, followed by FIGS
If you’re going to have to pay the 30% you absolutely should milk it for all you can.
Well, now I know how to get “free chocolate” from Valve in a way that doesn’t involve going to Gabe’s unmarked Van
It’s not about what you know, it’s about who you know.
If some folks at Valve actually like your game, they’ll be more likely to throw it on a weekend sale or event
Also apparently you should launch your game around big AAA ones cuz nobody else is and those carousel slots on the main page are up for grabs
Steam: New Games
This looks like a slick 2D action vania of metroid.
Except for that jumping animation.
We have Simon Belmont at home vs The Damage Sponges, the game.
I had to look it up cuz it’s a thing someone told me on the playground, but Shiba in korean means Fuck.
So Fuck a New Dawn
Kinda looks like a flash game.
One of those dope as hell super high quality ones, but it still has that vibe
2D real-time Worms / mech?
It’s like a MOBA boiled down to its core elements in 2D.
Speaking of Flash games
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
A former Switch exclusive.
Not native, but they have taken the time to get Steam Deck verified before release.
Sega is good like that and that’s nice because I want some Golden Axes.
Drops on June 14.
Steam is telling me this is like Witcher 3 and Nier?
I don’t know what the hell a Shin Megami Tensei is.
Still want to see performance added to the verification process but that’s a hard sell since it might result in people buying less.
Steam: Game Updates
Valve noted that the change “should include performance updates for most users”.
The patch increases TF2’s maximum FPS from 300 to 400 frames per second.
Now with 100% more -vulkan launch options.
No more crashy custom decals either
Does the server actually use more than 4 gb of memory?
Or more than one thread?
After 12 years in development.
What’s left, Project Zomboid?
$44.99!
The end times!
Gyro support for Steam Deck.
Some blue shift support is coming too
Hopefully they also do opposing force
Giving up on that native version is unfortunate, if understandable.
Last time I tried to play the native version it wouldn’t even launch properly.
They have put out a follow up to the original announcement to add better Steam Input.
They say they can’t probably get official verification but are willing to do as much as they can for Deck support.
Also, it’s malware according to Windows Defender!
First really means first.
I can hear the grunts and the screaming profanities!
You can brake your balls if you swing too hard
News:
Ben is back!
With a new email address.
He decided to call it quits after years of reverse engineering Nvidia GPU drivers.
It came out of nowhere for those of us keeping track of such things.
Welp. he just posted a set of 156 patches to the kernel.
It’s a collection of Nouveau GSP bits and general code cleanup.
I have to imagine there has been a lot of “oh, that’s how that works” going on as of late.
Okay, NVidia.
Giving a dev money to keep doing what he was already doing is probably a good idea.
Just ask VALVe!
Don’t fuck it up.
I wonder how long this has been in the works for?
Better have Ben than another Jia Tan?
Smart move by Nvidia here.
Hire the one guy interested in reverse-engineering your products.
Ah, “version control” being commented at the top of the file with a timestamp.
One dude has forked it and is linuxing away at it.
They stripped out some proprietary Interplay middleware, but no word from the remains of the former Fallout rights holder on the legitimacy of this release.
Considering the state they’re in, they probably shouldn’t open their mouth on it.
stopkillinggames.com
That might very well open the doors to a much better modding scene for the Witcher 3.
all the Liam Hemsworth mods
They just released modding tools on Steam.
They have it compiled.
I look forward to Openitcher3. “The Prophecy” steam made is coming true! Soon SFV is gonna launch
Semi-related; Member when someone was gonna leak the nvidia driver source code?
Member the conversation about all the CEOs who would disappear someone.
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