Steam Next Fest picks! Unity gets a Red Hat, Nvidia 4080 Ti targets AI gamers, Diablo IV is Steam Deck certified, and Counter-Strike drops support for macOS.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:13 Blue tentacles
01:43 Hipster lenses
04:12 The Pedro gang
STEAM NEWS
05:46 Next Fest picks
09:41 Working with old game engines
10:17 Shaving John Romero
11:36 Steam distributes malware
13:09 Hackers targeting Steam
15:25 Slooow Steam App
17:19 No Counter-Strike 2 for macOS
21:47 Do you game on MAC?
NEW GAMES
20:20 Gearbits
27:08 Cheap storage
GAME UPDATES
27:52 Diablo IV is Steam Deck verified
29:50 Steam Deck outdoors
NEWS
32:08 Nvidia 4080 1/2-2
34:29 Stealth AI card
36:05 Team green Pedro
36:47 Intel 580 benchmarks
40:58 4 new Intel somethings
43:27 RedHat CEO joins Unity
47:38 Microsoft noms Activision
50:12 Bugdom 2 source-code release
53:38 Open RA updates
55:09 EA duality
HATE MAIL
56:57 Wayland 2
01:04:17 How many loopback devices?
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
Thaumaturge and paranormal investigators look neat
As Linux games go, I look forward to Europa.
It’s one of the very few non-2D, non-Visual Novel games coming out on Linux.
Wizordum is my other pick for the boomer shooter appreciator in me.
Couple of hmmms so far from the NEXT Fest.
STREET UNI X (controls like a PS1 game)
Anima Flux (no controller support)
144/162 ratio on the mac/lin demos.
I guess this is one way to cut down on shovelware
Gotta input an SMS code every time you onboard someone too
Will this ultimately just lead to a bunch of abandoned/never updated games on steam?
Steam has to be a juicy target for malware distributors.
I wonder if indie devs on Steam get the same offers as plugin / app devs do?
Apparently there were some cases where legit games had their depos compromised
An extra layer of authentication for uploading the build, every single time.
That’s one way to stop session token grabbers.
Hackers were able to yoink browser access tokens from the developer of NanoWar: Cells VS Virus.
Hackers were able to upload a build containing malware.
Has it been three years since the release of the M1?
That was my guess for Linux overtaking Apple on desktop gaming.
Users have until the end of the year to claim their refund.
Log your bugs with the legacy version now cuz after january it’s no longer getting any attention.
I assume an email went out at Valve HQ that read something along the lines of “anyone want to learn Metal?”
This email was never replied to.
The moltenvk folks don’t have a joshie
Sucks if you just dropped $12K on a new Mac Pro gaming rig.
Look at that! VALVe offering people an option to continue playing CS:GO specific community servers on the final build of Global Offensive.
Like they did with 1.6 and CS: Source
As money grubbing game publishers go, VALVe is still one of the best.
In all seriousness, does anyone buy an Apple Desk/Laptop for gaming?
It does suck since Apple got the Steams before Linux.
Steam: New Games
That looks a little too good for a game made to just capitalize on the renewed popularity of Armored Core.
It’s more like Armored Earth Defense Force Core.
Yeah it reminds me more of the mobile suit Gundam games than AC
Still looks pretty good though for a 1 person project
All you need is a hard drive
Steam: Game Updates
Diablo IV will be Steam Deck Verified on launch.
Yes, you have to buy it again if you picked it up on battlenet.
Guessing it bypasses the launcher?
News:
Nvidia is really hung up on the 4080.
Everyone rightfully pointed out how having 2 cards with the same name was stupid when they were so different.
Like the Titan X and the Titan X in 2016.
7 years and they just can’t fucking help themselves.
Still firmly out of everyone’s price range
A slightly faster 4080 with more memory requiring more power.
A 20GB Nvidia GPU at the $1.2K mark is probably aimed at gamers who enjoy playing AI.
If you’re in the market for a 1080p medium GPU.
It’s a wee faster than the 3050 but needs an additional 71 Watts to pull it off.
Their review unit was also a loud boy
$180 for something which delivers better performance than NVidia’s last gen 3050, which is $40 more expensive.
It sucks to see Intel doing to this card what they’ve been doing to their processors, which is to feed them more power in order to keep up.
Though if you’re buying parts on the cheap you probably don’t care as much about the power utilization, just the cost up front.
Hopefully this can help fill out the midrange and give Intel some more GPU market footprint.
Only Intel knows why they released this card.
Clear out old stock?
But we know 4 new Intel somethings are in the works.
This guy was heading out the door before the pricing changes were announced.
He did sell most or all of his shares prior to the triple foot-shooting, he’s got plenty of money already.
Whitehurst isn’t that big a dummy so we’ll see what his move is to salvage the whole dumpster fire
Former Delta COO, then RedHat, then IBM president.
He’s at least got a bachelor’s degree in computer science.
Ah, he is an advisor at the private equity firm Silver Lake.
They own a chunk of Unity.
See if Whitehurst can fend off derp decision from inversorts and board members.
I hear Kotick is looking for a job.
Developers will use the new leadership as an excuse to continue using Unity, guaranteed.
Like it was planned.
Source port for Bugdom 2 done with SDL
Has a handy little build script that builds the appimage
Really likes my leftmost monitor but it picks up my PS4 controller and everything works.
Has a handy little AppImage that you can download. X86 and ARM.
Picks up the PS4 controller with rumble support.
Sam the Snail is up to something. Don’t trust him.
It’s no CroMagRally but Pangea games were all the same sandbox with different bits thrown in.
Tiberian sun remastered multiplayer is now in preview
If you’re on a laptop the launcher will ask you if you wanna use the integrated or dedicated GPU
Their internal survey now reports Linux distributions
The flatpak won’t crash on Wayland now either.
Red Alert Global League Season 15 has just started, and for Halloween you can expect Dark Tournament VII, for which registrations are currently open.
This release contains significant progress towards C&C Remastered Collection support.
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