Microsoft dreams of buying Valve, Unity offers a heartfelt apology, open-source NVIDIA driver maintainer steps down, gamescope could be headed to OBS, and Linux killed Stadia?
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:43 Everything is on FIRE!
01:35 Canadian RAID
04:35 Linux car cast with Pedro
05:58 Jitsi Pi project
06:49 DBZ character name?
STEAM NEWS
07:29 Updated gyroscopes for Steam
09:29 Thinkpad nipples
10:07 No Steam Deck upgrades
11:57 Switch 2 vs Deck
12:56 NVIDIA & Nintendo meeting
13:14 Microsoft leaks
13:42 Microsoft was never buying Valve
14:03 You can’t buy Nintendo
15:28 GabeN will not sell
18:01 Microsoft handheld
NEW GAMES
19:28 Beacon Patrol
GAME UPDATES
21:32 Hyperpriced Unboxed
25:06 Early access price changes
26:14 Unity is super sorry
36:34 Re-Logic gives $200K to open-source engines
38:45 Microsoft supporting Proton
40:44 Nouveau maintainer steps down
44:37 Linux killed Stadia
50:08 Gamescope powered OBS
54:00 Universal LAN for GOG
HATE MAIL
58:59 Unity derp-fest
59:53 How do you make Unity profitable?
01:06:00 Retro LinuxGameCast
01:08:58 Credits
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
This could all be avoided with a couple of strategically placed Deck Nipples.
Or a Deck Ball.
People on the Alpakka Discord are very much looking forward to being able to make use of this.
The Gyro feature is ironically going to be a bit unstable as they solicit feedback from real world testing
The moment the Deck released people were asking when the Deck 2 would come along.
Kudos to VALVe, their messaging has been consistent.
Yeah, this is kind of a puff piece.
I do hope we get one with an easily swappable battery though
Nintendo is a stable company. It doesn’t need constant growth to succeed.
Take notes from your elders.
Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo way back when, and got laughed out of the room.
The Xbox team comes across as disconnected from reality.
I want to believe Steam is safe as long as Gabe is around.
Steam AG? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Buying Nintendo and VALVe would open Microsoft to yet more antitrust suits.
Is this a curse?
Does Microsoft have to get sued for antitrust once every other year or the universe implodes?
They just can’t help themselves.
A gamepass based streaming service is basically Netflix at this point and Microsoft would just love to swallow up every company and just rent seek forever
I think they should just get broken up. If everything is just going to congeal together anyways we might as well make them work harder for it
Steam: New Games
Dev reached out to let us know about this one.
Linux demo available.
If this had real time sailing like Windward and the tiles indicated much larger areas, I’d probably lose a lot of time to something like this.
Local multiplayer only?
If you’re making a digital board game having online multiplayer is a must
Which is sad cuz this looks like a chill little board game
Steam: Game Updates
This is good news, the high price was a barrier to entry.
I’m not sure those $5 are as good for the perception of value of people who now have even less money, relating to how much more expensive food has become.
This is a game that has not peaked over 80 players in the last 5 months.
$19.99 was a bit much for what it offered and I remember saying as much when it launched.
Yeah, I don’t blame them for increasing the price of the game.
It’s certainly not going to sell more copies
Maybe it can just mean a steeper discount when there’s a sale or a bundle?
News:
Devs will pay the lesser of 2.5% revenue or the install fees if revenue is above. $1,000,000 (self reported in both cases.)
No install fees below $1,000,000 at all.
Unity free can now remove the splash screen.
Fees only apply to 2024 LTS and later – nothing retroactive.
Users are going to be on the same TOS as their Unity version.
What they’ve backtracked on (retroactive and same TOS as unity version) are the things Unity would have ended up in court over.
Unfortunately the path of least resistance is kicking in and developers are praising the changes.
Well, the naive ones.
If you have a game in development I get it, but the next one?
You don’t have to be too cynical to see that this was probably what they wanted to do all along.
If they hadn’t shown just how bad it could be, people wouldn’t be happy.
But since they did, this looks positive by comparison.
Following the law and having people stay on the terms they clicked “I Agree” on without actually reading is probably something they wished they could weasel out of, though.
And might try again, because every single one of the scumbag leadership is still there.
They had to try, right?
So get your inflight unity games done by 2024, or don’t update to a newer version if you don’t wanna be subject to the newer TOS
Ultimately I think unity will be fine.
Donating $100,000 to FNA and GODOT.
Keep Flibit in a monetarily comfortable position, that way he can keep looking extremely sexy for longer.
The boy needs to eat something
Terraria is an FNA joint
The sweet, delicious irony of that ruling!
Does this mean that the UK is basically mandating Win32 as a standard game EXE format?
At least for ubisoft games?
Yeah, it does look like NVK and Zink for GL compatibility will be the way going forward for NVidia without proprietary drivers.
Would be nice if NVK properly supported Maxwell and up.
Would be awesome if it supported Fermi too.
Nouveau Stallwart Ben Skeggs resigned at red hat and thus is no longer gonna be working on it
He says he’ll still be around though.
Linux killed Stadia.
“The company considered going with Windows and DirectX, which would have made it a snap for developers to port games.”
Because those other Windows based streaming systems support streaming all games, right?!
Also, if you’re developing a fully streaming based platform you probably don’t want to be relying on Windows.
On top of the frankly stupid decision by some publishers and developers disallowing their games from GeForce Now, using Windows incurs a massive technical debt and licensing cost.
You’d have to have NVidia money to justify operating a subpar service like that.
Microsoft has been aggressively pursuing their own game streaming strategy. I don’t think google getting in bed with them would have been a good relationship
I’d be interested to hear from someone like flibit regarding actual platform difficulties porting stuff to stadia
Besides, we all agree the ownership issue was the real killer. Can only play your shit on stadia
Joshy getting his first taste of OBS bureaucracy.
At least he didn’t get told to not even bother submitting the PR.
This is great for our Gamescope as a desktop compositor future.
With this OBS should be able to capture specific regions/windows within a gamescope context rather than just the parent Gamescope “window”/”screen”
Apparently a point of contention is the use of hole punching vs enhancing/creating a corresponding portal
Interesting idea if you’re using GOG for multiplayer.
It compiles on Linux but I don’t know if it could be used with an open-source Galaxy client.
I’m sure we’ll find out… very soon!
The project scope is intentionally limited as a lot of gog games support direct connect
Can you also use it with steam games ie shadow warrior 2
There are a big list of untested games, so if anyone wants to try it out, shoot them a bug report
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