Quoting: wolfyrionJeez!!! Not another turn based strategy game!!!
What is going on with all the developers these days, everyone has to create a boring turn based strategy game! Why???

I need adrenaline , I need to test my reflexes, I need pure awesome action - I cant wait for turns .... :'(

Exactly. Why would you want to play a turn based strategy when you have chess?

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Great news

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nVidia is only saying that to assure current users of OpenGL that they won't be abandoned. But down the road there won't be a need for OpenGL once there is stable libraries/engines built on top of Vulcan to provide simplicity.

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I was playing it over the weekend using a Steam Controller. I am new to Steam Controller and I am coming from consoles. I managed to make 15 kills though (and 15 deaths), so a 1:1 k/d ratio, which is great for someone new to Steam Controller. As a player coming from consoles, I would say Steam Controller is definitely superior to traditional controllers when it comes to FPS games.
Valve should stop marketting their Steam Machines to PC gamers and start marketting them to console gamers instead.

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Obviously the bottleneck is not the GPU.

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Interesting. I thought Itch was going bankrupt or something.

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Quoting: HalKadoA few people discussed netflix support. I really hope this shows up in steamos, I'd love to see a steam machine that could completely remove the need for an appletv or console. As it stands it just plays games, which I'm happy they focused on, but isn't enough to justify a purchase just yet imo. Personally I think I will buy either a steam machine when it gets netflix, or an appletv if it gets a steam streaming client :D

You can install Kodi on SteamOS and then use a Netflix add-on. I haven't tried this myself though, but in theory it should be possible.

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It's expected that people say "despite Steam Machines...". There are currently around a million Linux gamers. In comparison PS4 and XB1 probably sold a million units in their first couple of weeks. If Steam Machines were to sell as good as PS4 and XB1 then linux share should have doubled by now and that's what people expect.

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The Zotac Steam Machine is definitely a hit. It's sold out on Amazon at 900$. The only question is: how many of those buying the NEN are buying it to install Windows on it and how many are buying it as an actual Steam Machine?
The problem is, we'll probably have no way to tell, and I don't think the Steam survey will show up in SteamOS to give us any indication.

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Honestly, I don't even know if Valve is still serious about SteamOS. It seems as if they are just doing an experiment. If you go to Steam's Hardware page you'll see most of the games advertised there don't support SteamOS. So, if Valve is not bothering to advertise SteamOS properly on Steam, who will? Also, Valve is not even bothering to respond to all the bad media about SteamOS's performance. It feels as if it was just a temporary project: make it, release it, then forget about it and get back to regular business. When Sony or Microsoft release a new console, they go to game studios and make sure new releases target their platform. Valve didn't even bother to do that. We don't need old AAA games ported to SteamOS, we need to make sure new AAA games will target SteamOS; that's what matters to most people, old AAA games matters to only very few gamers.

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