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
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This could all be avoided with a couple of strategically placed Deck Nipples.
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Or a Deck Ball.
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People on the Alpakka Discord are very much looking forward to being able to make use of this.
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The Gyro feature is ironically going to be a bit unstable as they solicit feedback from real world testing
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The moment the Deck released people were asking when the Deck 2 would come along.
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Kudos to VALVe, their messaging has been consistent.
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Yeah, this is kind of a puff piece.
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I do hope we get one with an easily swappable battery though
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Nintendo is a stable company. It doesn’t need constant growth to succeed.
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Take notes from your elders.
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Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo way back when, and got laughed out of the room.
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The Xbox team comes across as disconnected from reality.
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I want to believe Steam is safe as long as Gabe is around.
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Steam AG? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Buying Nintendo and VALVe would open Microsoft to yet more antitrust suits.
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Is this a curse?
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Does Microsoft have to get sued for antitrust once every other year or the universe implodes?
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They just can’t help themselves.
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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
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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
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Dev reached out to let us know about this one.
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Linux demo available.
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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.
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Local multiplayer only?
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If you’re making a digital board game having online multiplayer is a must
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Which is sad cuz this looks like a chill little board game
Steam: Game Updates
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This is good news, the high price was a barrier to entry.
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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.
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This is a game that has not peaked over 80 players in the last 5 months.
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$19.99 was a bit much for what it offered and I remember saying as much when it launched.
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Yeah, I don’t blame them for increasing the price of the game.
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It’s certainly not going to sell more copies
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Maybe it can just mean a steeper discount when there’s a sale or a bundle?
News:
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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.)
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No install fees below $1,000,000 at all.
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Unity free can now remove the splash screen.
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Fees only apply to 2024 LTS and later – nothing retroactive.
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Users are going to be on the same TOS as their Unity version.
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What they’ve backtracked on (retroactive and same TOS as unity version) are the things Unity would have ended up in court over.
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Unfortunately the path of least resistance is kicking in and developers are praising the changes.
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Well, the naive ones.
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If you have a game in development I get it, but the next one?
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You don’t have to be too cynical to see that this was probably what they wanted to do all along.
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If they hadn’t shown just how bad it could be, people wouldn’t be happy.
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But since they did, this looks positive by comparison.
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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.
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And might try again, because every single one of the scumbag leadership is still there.
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They had to try, right?
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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
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Ultimately I think unity will be fine.
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Donating $100,000 to FNA and GODOT.
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Keep Flibit in a monetarily comfortable position, that way he can keep looking extremely sexy for longer.
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The boy needs to eat something
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Terraria is an FNA joint
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The sweet, delicious irony of that ruling!
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Does this mean that the UK is basically mandating Win32 as a standard game EXE format?
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At least for ubisoft games?
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Yeah, it does look like NVK and Zink for GL compatibility will be the way going forward for NVidia without proprietary drivers.
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Would be nice if NVK properly supported Maxwell and up.
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Would be awesome if it supported Fermi too.
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Nouveau Stallwart Ben Skeggs resigned at red hat and thus is no longer gonna be working on it
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He says he’ll still be around though.
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Linux killed Stadia.
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“The company considered going with Windows and DirectX, which would have made it a snap for developers to port games.”
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Because those other Windows based streaming systems support streaming all games, right?!
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Also, if you’re developing a fully streaming based platform you probably don’t want to be relying on Windows.
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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.
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You’d have to have NVidia money to justify operating a subpar service like that.
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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
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I’d be interested to hear from someone like flibit regarding actual platform difficulties porting stuff to stadia
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Besides, we all agree the ownership issue was the real killer. Can only play your shit on stadia
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Joshy getting his first taste of OBS bureaucracy.
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At least he didn’t get told to not even bother submitting the PR.
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This is great for our Gamescope as a desktop compositor future.
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With this OBS should be able to capture specific regions/windows within a gamescope context rather than just the parent Gamescope “window”/”screen”
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Apparently a point of contention is the use of hole punching vs enhancing/creating a corresponding portal
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Interesting idea if you’re using GOG for multiplayer.
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It compiles on Linux but I don’t know if it could be used with an open-source Galaxy client.
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I’m sure we’ll find out… very soon!
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The project scope is intentionally limited as a lot of gog games support direct connect
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Can you also use it with steam games ie shadow warrior 2
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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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