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Half-Life: Alyx now available on Linux with Vulkan
16 May 2020 at 4:05 am UTC Likes: 9

Celebratory Orange Box pics of my Index





Cheers, so hyped.

DOOM 64 is now available to stream on Google Stadia
13 May 2020 at 7:58 pm UTC

Google Stadia, now shipping 90s content -- look out SEGA Channel! What's Next Golden Axe II? Maybe we'll get StarCraft 64 :P

Give me a BattleTanx Global Assault BlockBuster rental and we'll be in business.

Unreal Engine 5 announced, Epic Online Services are now online
13 May 2020 at 7:54 pm UTC Likes: 2

Unreal Engine without Unreal Tournament? Doesn't feel right.

Valve has delayed The International tournament for Dota 2 and it may not happen until 2021
3 May 2020 at 3:21 am UTC Likes: 2

They should make TI 2020 digital. Players will still want their loot and legendary skins and other timed-exclusive content, and players will still want to stream such an event, though I know the canonical style of the event can't happen. It would be cool if they could do something and maintain player isolation.

Valve drops support for SteamVR on macOS to focus on Linux & Windows
1 May 2020 at 7:04 pm UTC Likes: 3

The Apple has gone rotten lol.

It doesn't take a genius to see the direction a company is headed to predict the future. Years back their refusal to update to current OpenGL, and then their hostility toward holding back Steam from a update on the App Store and then refusal to allow Vulkan on OSX -- and now for "reasons" Valve is dropping their experimental OSX support -- I guarantee it's because Apple made it difficult and lent no hands -- I mean why would they when they both make money on a % of App Sales -- they are direct competition in that model.

I'm just so glad I swore off their products 10 years ago after the absolute shit-show it was to download and upload music to and from a iPod

Download Music From Your iPod ???

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F. Apple
F. Facebook
F. Google

Back in the day it just used to be Microsoft shafting users -- now all these companies have joined the club. May they Rot in pieces, we don't need them or want the trash they're pushing.

It appears that Valve are preparing Half-Life: Alyx for Linux
26 April 2020 at 8:55 pm UTC Likes: 3

Excellent. My Index just entered "Shipping Soon" status today. So excited.

A newly public patent (filed in 2018) from Valve shows a Steam Controller with attachments
12 April 2020 at 7:27 pm UTC

People forget Valve is not a "single entity" with a single mindset focusing on one problem at a time.

Valve is a Bee Hive of many independent game developers and engineers.

The same people who made the Index Controllers likely didn't change their passion of interest in Human Input Devices.

And since Valve operates by committee to those of you who have read the Valve Employee Handbook I am not surprised whatsoever that they are working on a Steam Controller v2.

I just hope it has the option of having 2 joysticks. SC grew on me over time, though my only wish is for the track-circles to be replacable.

New SteamVR Beta has some essential Half-Life: Alyx fixes for Linux
26 March 2020 at 5:08 am UTC

Any AMD Index owners here to weigh in? As a previous Nvidia user I am not surprised in the slightest.

Still waiting on my ship date.

Seems Valve do intend to go back to SteamOS at some point
25 March 2020 at 9:54 pm UTC

Quoting: dubigrasuThey also said about future SteamOS being possibly image-based (not apt/etc) for better control and consistency, so whatever distro will be based on won't likely be a plain Arch/Debian/whatever with an "SteamOS" sticker slapped on it.

Good. With all the world to homed, there is no reason that the entire OS can't or shouldn't be mounted as "read-only".

As for the Debian gang being butthurt about their Valve previously noting Arch as an investigative option -- lol. That's what happens when Canonical/Ubuntu decides to kill 32-bit support. I mean you guys don't EVERY game developer on Steam still has the source code or funding to port to 64-bit like the FOSS community which doesn't run on funds but passion.

Checkout which OS is #2
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/users/statistics