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Nintendo goes after Switch emulator yuzu in new lawsuit
29 February 2024 at 7:41 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: TheSHEEEPIf I can play Switch games on my PC, why would I buy a Switch?

If I can play Steam games on my PC, why would I buy a SteamDeck? Oh, hang on, I did.

Driving survival game Pacific Drive is very cool - here's the fix for Steam Deck / Linux
8 February 2024 at 4:28 pm UTC

Looks good, but.. is it intentionally "Stalker"? Even the Region is called "Exclusion Zone" too...

Time to blow the dust off your VR headset - Metro Awakening is coming
2 February 2024 at 4:59 pm UTC Likes: 1

How do you know my Vive has collected spiderwebs?

Spec Ops: The Line gets delisted on Steam - you can still buy it elsewhere for now
30 January 2024 at 11:49 am UTC Likes: 1

If you don't have it, buy it. It's good.

SteamOS-like ChimeraOS 45 released with HDR & controller support for many more handhelds
29 January 2024 at 12:21 pm UTC Likes: 2

I actually thought about giving it a try on my notebook, but "Intel GPUs not supported".

Steam Remote Play gets VA-API DRM hardware decoding on Linux
25 January 2024 at 11:20 am UTC Likes: 1

Not happy with that beta.. So not happy I had to revert to stable

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/10408

For another (older) bug there's at least a workaround
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/10414

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game engine OpenXRay gets taken down on GitHub
11 January 2024 at 9:34 am UTC Likes: 2

Well, what do you know. I compiled it, and tried it with Stalker - Call of Pripyat, and it works.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game engine OpenXRay gets taken down on GitHub
10 January 2024 at 8:17 am UTC Likes: 5

In principle, the DMCA demands that
Quote"I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner, or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
But sadly, there is no enforcement if that turns out to be a lie.

Modrinth announce their Minecraft launcher is now in Beta
7 August 2023 at 3:24 pm UTC

Not sure how I feel about it. Another modpack format?

Certainly modrinth already changed the modded landscape with their webpage alone: It's the best and up to date site for minecraft mods (not modpacks, yet, probably), with the best options to search and filter.

Nintendo blocked Dolphin emulator release on Steam
27 May 2023 at 1:00 pm UTC Likes: 5

Basically, Dolphin shared a 16byte secret key, which Nintendo dislikes. Nothing that DeCSS hasn't done also.

In the end, it's a quarrel over some DMCA provisions, and you can argue either way whether this is legal or not in the US. In most of the world there is no DMCA, and what they're doing is legal anyway.

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