Our Linux-fueled Steam year end review! Nintendo NSO controllers learn how to Linux, open-source NVIDIA drivers outperform the binary blob, Intel won’t commit to a 2024 release date for Battlemage, and average people don’t install operating systems.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:19 New IP, who this?
02:53 Linux on Chromebooks
STEAM NEWS
06:17 Steam year in review
11:47 OLED Steam Deck fringing
15:04 Hiding naughty Steam games
NEW GAMES
19:04 Project Bridge
GAME UPDATES
21:55 Pirates Vikings and Knights II
NEWS
25:53 Intel Battlemage timeline
27:48 No Battlemage in 2024?
32:16 Where is Tom Petersen?
32:56 Linux support for Nintendo NSO controllers
36:06 Did you have a N64?
38:23 Windows 11 creates e-waste
40:38 How to fix Linux?
41:25 Kid vs OS
42:15 Open-source NVIDIA driver go brr!
46:29 AMD closed-source drivers
49:50 Alpakka gamepad updates
53:01 Alpakka should partner with Framework
HATE MAIL
56:39 First PC controller?
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
Shows OS usage if you run more than one.
My ideal game would be a racing metroidvania superhero tank sim with battle royale elements.
Mine is apparently a tank based roguelike deckbuilder boardgame
A lot of APB Reloaded!
Surprise surprise it’s BG3
Yeah, that looks better.
So if we’re going out of our way to fix chromatic aberrations, why do game developers feel like shoehorning that shit in everywhere?
Hide your Hentai or crappy CG porn addiction.
You can hide them from your Steam friends at the time of purchase or directly from the library.
Can do a mix of purchases and gifts in one go, now.
Once upon a time people had burner accounts for their naughty stuff.
What happened?
Unless…are there that many active multiplayer hentai games on steam?
This works across devices.
I want to see the slide deck for the internal pitch.
Someone was able to show that increased sales would (at least) cover dev time.
20 years from now someone will uncover their parents’ naughty list.
Steam: New Games
The void is encroaching and you need to Minecraft your way to stay alive.
Online multiplayer means you don’t get the shame bell.
If there is one thing I love, it’s auto scrollers.
It looks fun but there is only so much you can do with that game loop.
At least that’s my takeaway after watching the trailer.
Reminds me of Unrailed on a budget.
Be more like Unrailed, release a demo.
Steam: Game Updates
That trailer, once the gameplay proper starts, makes it look a lot like Counter-Strike Dark Ages.
It’s done on the source engine
I always liked 3 sided conflicts in games.
Red v blue gets a lot spicier once you throw yellow into the mix.
Or Kurt Angle.
It plays like old-school CS but with pointy sticks.
News:
Magelord when?
During a launch in Japan Intel showed a roadmap with Xe2 “Battlemage” discrete GPUs in 2024.
Then Intel reminded everyone that these were Intel slides and you should know better by now.
X-axis label translates as 2024 onwards, not a release date / year.
Man, is Intel seriously not going to commit to releasing Battlemage in 2024?
Intel having some of their own APU type systems that aren’t NUC form factor would be nice
“2024?” doesn;t exactly fill me with confidence either
No word of memory configurations either.
Hopefully Intel starts pushing 12-16GB as norm for midrange.
In a decade we will be reading about how Intel managed to fumble a chance to corner a market.
Gah, the N64 is $50… with 13 day free shipping.
Kernel support for more switch stuff is nice
These ones are weird.
They’re exclusively for the nintendo switch online services
Well, not anymore
Because the online controllers don’t have all the buttons that regular switch controllers do, they needed to modularize controller features like having an analog stick or gyros.
Having a controller that only works with a paid online service is peak Nintendo.
Edge case of A Hat in Time giving better performance with NVK than the proprietary drivers makes me very happy!
On a 3090 no less
Showing NVidia up at their own game across the board would be basically perfect.
NVK + Zink already curbstomps the old nouveau driver
The progress made by these folks is staggering
Targeting shipping this in fedora 40, which may make installing fedora on an nvidia system spooky easy
Next on the roadmap is targeting a feature set that’ll make them compatible with vkd3d
Maxwell support eventually. Sorry 900 series havers.
Changes to profile storage for the user created ones, no thumbstick until you calibrate, setting touch thresholds on the conductive PLA in the Control app actually sticks, and up to 8 Macro slots per profile.
Speaking of the Control App, it’s a real boy now!
It can actually remap everything or pretty much thereabouts and store it as custom profile.
There’s also firmware update notifications in the app, too.
You can now also buy the fully soldered PCB in the shop
Hate Mail:
Anyone remember their first PC controller?
