Valve faces an $843 million lawsuit, Steam Next Fest demo picks are in, TUXEDO has a Snapdragon-powered Linux prototype, the Epic store leaks upcoming games, and Windows still struggles on the Steam Deck.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:28 Bulb colours
01:04 Sound card heat sink
02:51 Flesh rolls
04:31 Pedro blinders
06:30 Steam sued in the UK
11:56 Take your games anywhere
13:36 Assassin’s Creed copy pasta
14:04 Steam stable client update
16:46 Windows on Steam Deck sucks
20:32 Windows on Deck would be nice
21:27 Tales of Iron II
24:42 War on Wheels
27:31 Castlevania ReVamped
30:21 Path of Exile 2 Steam Deck optimized
31:37 Snapdragon laptops with Linux
33:31 ARM Qualcomm dispute
39:07 We want ARM laptops
41:31 Epic Store leaks upcoming games
43:45 SteamDB for Epic
44:11 Codename job
45:01 Roblox & UEFN alternative
48:47 Good times with Intel ARC on Linux
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
Valve isn’t the only one with a sweet most favored nation deal
If we’re going after them can we also please go after Amazon and their like too
Vicki’s goal is straight up financial in this class action suit, and she states that the class could be looking at 22-40 pounds, and “maybe” change their business practises
But again, Valve isn’t even the most egregious example of this.
VALVe is a juicy target
They’re using the same argument Wolfire did
So I guess one will pretty much dictate the other
I don’t know if that DLC point holds much water in court, it certainly doesn’t in practice.
If you bought the game on a platform wouldn’t you want to have the DLC in the same place?
Would be nice if platforms were compelled to make stuff like DLC and saves easily transferrable
And as much as I wish there was competition, everyone else seems too focused on having exclusives on their platform, forcing spyware down people’s throats, kernel level anti-cheats, de-listing and removing games from people’s accounts.
Can we start suing Epic, Ubisoft, EA, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and the rest for refusing to compete instead?
Same legal humans that went after Sony in 2022.
So now they are claiming both Valve and PlayStation are monopolies?
“It says Valve “forces” game publishers to sign up to so-called price parity obligations, preventing titles being sold at cheaper prices on rival platforms.“
That only applies to Steam keys.
Steam Client Update – June 13th
You can now quit games with spaces in their names
I was hoping that might fix the never closing issues with some Ubi titles.
Haw haw overlay was busted on windows
How about the ability to dictate what you want in the tray icon menu?
I used to use that feature to basically remove everything except Library, quit and the settings shortcut.
Good to know you can dual boot now.
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Audio drivers work okay on the LCD, not on the OLD.
XDA could not be arsed to test performance, instead linking to a year old video.
Still, it would be nice to have something for the hella anti-cheat titles.
Well, at least they’re not complaining that using HoloISO as a desktop OS is a bad idea.
“Bespoke OS for the device it was built for in the first place is the best choice” – In other shocking news, sky reportedly still blue.
Steam: New Games
Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter
Salt and Sanctuary with adorable woodland critters.
Batracomiomachia 2: Beyond Frogs
Narrated by Not-Hemsworth, Not Cavill Geralt
Oh shit, he was also Victor Vran
His name was robert paulson Doug Cockle.
Medieval rocket league burnout
I’m intrigued. I guess throw enough bonkers fantasy shit in a driving game and I’ll at least give it a look
I kinda want to play that… a lot
You forgot to populate the Linux repo, Brad.
It’s a bit basic-bitch chaos fk around arena flailing.
You have some popout stabby horns and a shield button.
And sometimes you boost.
Postage stamp or fullscreen.
You can also set window scale
From the CLI?
In game, you do gotta make it to the options menu
Good luck with that.
Controls pretty well.
Much better than classic castlevania
Slide Simon slide.
Steam: Game Updates
Oh good, just what I need.
Crack I can take anywhere
They always made sure the first Path of Exile at least worked with WINE
It’s great to see they are basically continuing to do so but with the hardware to back it up.
News:
Tuxedo has taken a Snapdragon X Elite laptop from everyone’s favorite German PC maker Schenker, and slapped some Linux on it.
The demo PC was stuck in a boot loop at Computex.
They are working on prototype MKII.
Unfortunately, this whole bunch of Snapdragon X laptop announcements have reignited the fire under Qualcomm’s ass.
And the flames are shaped like ARM lawyers.
Considering the brands releasing these, Tuxedo is possibly the best if you’re planning to part with your money.
Bit of a shame the demo shat the bed
Nice to see plain Debian get some spotlight.
Qualcomm has Debian ready to go’ish.
Waiting on some bits to get upstreamed to the kernel proper.
A bunch of these titles are marketing codenames, so folks are having fun trying to guess what kondo and offenbach are
Other confirmed entries include Doom Eternal, Dragon Age 4 And Battlefield 2042
The hole is plugged now
Can’t wait for the SEGA take on, CurlyWurly.
A Wonder Woman game would be nice if it’s not a fk motoring live service.
Turok would be cool.
EpicGamesDB is a thing #TIL.
Using 3rd-party tools, the site was able to uncover a massive list of unannounced titles present in the EGS back-end.
Epic Games revealed that they have updated their store to prevent such leaks in the future.
That’s hitting all the right points.
Easy to use creator with minimal coding, engine and IDE all in one, using Godot, upcoming marketplace.
Yeah… Don’t fuck it up!
We talked about this back in LGC 606 pick up stix and it looks like they’re continuing to ramp
They had their first release back in may
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