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18 votes
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Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu, saying their tech illegally circumvents Nintendo's software encryption and facilitates piracy
@Stephen Totilo: NEW: Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu, saying their tech illegally circumvents Nintendo's software encryption and facilitates piracy. Seeks damages for alleged violations and a shutdown of the emulator. pic.twitter.com/SGZVI6Cs0x
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Playing Fallout 4 with only my eyes - Feat. SpecialEffect
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UEVR is here! Hype or legit? [it's legit]
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Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS
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MSI's new monitor uses built-in AI to flag enemy positions for you in LoL
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There has never been a better time to game on Linux
I've been running Linux full-time pretty much since Valve released Proton. I remember submitting reports to ProtonDB back when it was just a shared Google Sheet! In the years that followed I made...
I've been running Linux full-time pretty much since Valve released Proton. I remember submitting reports to ProtonDB back when it was just a shared Google Sheet! In the years that followed I made it a point to test and report out on different games as new versions of Proton were released and support improved. I thought it important that we have a good data set for what worked and what didn't. Over those years I tested hundreds of games and submitted as many reports to the database.
In thinking back over my gaming in 2023, however, I realized that I fell out of the habit of submitting reports because I'm so used to Proton working that it's stopped occurring to me that it might not.
That doesn't mean that there aren't some games that don't work -- it simply means that the success rate that I used to have (maybe 30-50% on average) has risen high enough that I'm genuinely surprised if something doesn't work (it's probably somewhere around 95% for me now, though that's biased by the types of games that I play). I actually tried to remember the last game that didn't work, and I genuinely couldn't tell you what it was. Everything I've played recently has booted like it's native.
Honestly, I genuinely don't even know which games are native and which run through Proton anymore. I've stopped caring!
I got my Steam Deck halfway through 2022. It was awesome, but it was definitely a bit rough around the edges. There weren't that many compatible games. The OS had some clunkiness. It matured though, and has gotten better. Among my friend group, I'm the only person who cares even a little bit about Linux. If you asked any of them to name three different Linux distributions they'd stare at you blankly because they wouldn't understand the question. Nevertheless, of my friends, SIX of them have Steam Decks and are now gaming regularly on Linux.
There are currently ~4,300 Deck Verified games and ~8,700 Deck Playable games according to Valve. On ProtonDB, ~8,600 games have been verified as working on Linux by at least three users, while ~19,700 games have been verified by at least one user. There is SO much variety available, and the speed with which we've gotten here has been pretty breathtaking.
This was my device breakdown for my Steam Replay for 2023:
- 55% Steam Deck
- 32% Linux
- 10% Virtual Reality
- 4% Windows
The only non-Linux gaming I did was VR and some local multiplayer stuff I have on a Windows machine hooked up to my TV.
I don't want to proselytize too much, but if you have a general interest in gaming, you could probably switch over to Linux full time and be perfectly happy with the variety of games you have available to you. Not too long ago, making the jump felt like a huge sacrifice because you'd be giving up so much -- SO many games were incompatible -- but it no longer feels that way. You can transfer and most of -- probably almost all -- your library will still work! Also, if a particular game doesn't work, there isn't too much sting because, well, there are thousands of others you can give your attention to.
If you have a specific game that you must play, then it's possibly a different story. If you love Destiny 2, for example, then full-time Linux definitely is not for you. The same goes VR -- it's simply not up to snuff on Linux yet. There are other niches too that don't transfer over as well (modding, racing sims, etc.) so, of course, this isn't a blanket recommendation and everyone's situation is different.
But for a prototypical person who's just your sort of general, everyday gamer? It's reached a point where they could be very happy on Linux. In fact, as proven by my friends and their Steam Decks, it's reached a point where people can be gaming on Linux and not even know they're doing that. That's how frictionless it's gotten!
I don't really have a point to this post other than to say it's incredible that we are where we are, and I'm beyond appreciative of all the effort that people have put in to making this possible.
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Steam has cut support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1
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This game console has no pixels. The Vectrex from 1982.
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AI revival of deceased actors' voices should still involve people, company says
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Video game voice actors are ready to strike over AI
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The ESRB wants to start using facial recognition to check people's ages
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From prototypes to future tech: How PS VR2 was built. New insight into the multi-year development process behind the PlayStation VR2 hardware.
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Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil”
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Anger from voice actors as NSFW mods use AI deepfakes to replicate their voices
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RPG Maker and learning game design
I have been making a game with Rpg maker MZ in my free time. It is a slow process, but it is coming along. With no background or experience with coding, I had attempted to jump into Unity a while...
I have been making a game with Rpg maker MZ in my free time. It is a slow process, but it is coming along. With no background or experience with coding, I had attempted to jump into Unity a while ago, but quickly became overwhelmed and gave up. Rpg Maker has felt like a great onboarding for learning game design. The simplicity of making events, adding in sprites, sound effects, dialog and anything else you want is amazing. I've gone from googling how to do the simplest of things, and now have a full town with npcs, a dungeon with puzzles and a few quests, and usually able to figure out any problems on my own. It feels like my own little world. I even have a small discord that I post updates to and get suggestions/comments from friends and family.
I think when I am done with this demo, I may give Unity another shot. I feel like I have a much better understanding of how to think when designing a game. I know Unity is a much bigger step, but I feel like I can at least see the staircase now.
So I guess my question for you is, what other programs have been instrumental to your game design journey? Have you used Rpg Maker and what are your thoughts on it?
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Pour one out for HDDs because PC games are starting to require SSDs
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They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft – and unearthed new potential for AI
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Turning ChatGPT into a DM?
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How Helsinki became the mobile gaming capital of the world
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Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI
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Activision’s faulty anti-cheat software
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Meta Quest headsets will finally stop requiring a Facebook account
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Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
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Cheat-maker brags of computer-vision auto-aim that works on “any game”
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Your grandma’s tube TV is the hottest gaming tech
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Cyberpunk 2077's dialogue was lip-synced by AI (Technical)
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New paper from DeepMind and world champion Vladimir Kramnik uses the AlphaZero self-learning chess engine to explore nine variants on the rules of chess
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Amazon and Google are in games for the wrong reasons
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Doom Eternal reverses course, will remove Denuvo Anti-Cheat with the next update
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Riot Games' new Vanguard anti-cheat system for Valorant involves a kernel mode driver that launches at boot, raising security concerns
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Speedrunning is plagued with cheating, and technological advances are making it more and more difficult to detect
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Go grandmaster Lee Se-Dol retires saying artificial intelligence cannot be defeated
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Modern games look amazing on CRT monitors
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The computer gaming statistics technology innovators should know
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How artificial intelligence will revolutionize the way video games are developed and played
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Denuvo DRM cracks seem to be happening faster and faster
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Older video game animation may have been limited by technology, but does that make it worse?
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Denuvo: Four years later
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The AI of Doom (2016)
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Does Denuvo slow game performance? Seven games benchmarked before and after they dropped Denuvo
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Streaming will happen, just a matter of when - EA
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Riot's approach to anti-cheat
3 votes