The "Valve good guy" points are noto just with customers, they also don't mess with publishers, otherwise you wouldn't see this much AAA publishers get in business with Valve so easily.

Epic gives literally money for free to publishers, but due to lack of "good guy points" (after all they bribe publishers: publishers are happy to get bribe money, but once you fail their demand... they shit all over you: see Randy Pitchfork's latest comments on Epic) publishers are quick to forget them (despite much more convenient cut share).

TL;DR: if Valve annoy publishers, publishers take away the "Valve good guy" point.

Sony exclusive marketing black hole,

Epic exclusive marketing black hole...

SQ: "uhm... I wonder why Final Fantasy IP isn't memorable anymore".

Maybe a reality check around the fixed PlayStation platform being third place below to PC (Steam, not Epic) and Mobile?

There are other publisher that stick with Sony this much? 'Cus Capcom isn't, and their IP aren't just great... people actually pressure for more forgotten IP from them! (Dino Crisis, MegaMan etc.)

While this is understandable, it really shows how Proton is still a Damocle's sword over Linux (and SteamOS) future in general.

God of War isn't "Linux compatible" but "Linux-Windows compatible": this is a problem because the Windows part is still under the strict rule of Microsoft, which mean Microsoft is in position to shut down any kind of access ( UWP is partial work on that direction ) and phase out the classic Windows support on which Proton/Wine works on.

I see this game mentioned repeatedly over the meme-brink, but it's that relevant in the PC scope? Because I am beginning to think only people who had already played on PS4 care about it: it looks like the "I use Arch, btw" meme (a random guy repeated that make clear they use a product/thing... which nobody ask them about).

Bloodborne sold ~7million copies in the span of ~7 years ( ref ), for comparison a game like Sekiro (while not forgotten, you don't see random people jumping out and say "I played/want Sekiro btw") sold 10 million in ~4 years ( ref )

Japanese developers may have a still lag towards the new generation of Japanese gamers (which are almost strictly on Mobile with PC gaming arising).

I wonder what's his stance towards fan made Doujinshi; yeah, I mean "those" Doujinshi.

Can’t or won’t?

"money"

I think this is more to have a look at a generational shift; Adults and elders may be still more familiar with movie stars, movie streaming services, Saturday cartoons, or things like those "Disney adults" I eared speak recently about, new generations just don't seems to feel it anymore: all those paradigm may go into the background such as a play and opera.

...if you're fine with mandatory AI copilot taking resources for spying on you.

People tend to forget that DLSS use physical, hardware taking, space on the material board. This mean that if you don't use DLSS, a portion of the GPU you paid for is unused.

Whenever you use, or not use, FSR... you can always reach the theoretical 100% of your GPU.

It depended on who use that word: your average CEO ala Elon Musk or TikTok's short... totally pointless crap to catch people interest.

Nvidia, Intel, AMD? That's a bit of different story, isn't?

...added to the title.

...also, this is something you're not supposed to do. You can "change the license" to your own work, but the work done so far (by contributors) was GPL... so, a bit messy, I guess.

IMHO: Valve is phasing off the very initial gen. of Steam Deck to focus OLED/HDR (which would benefit Linux gaming ecosystem), as SteamDeck is certainly a standard defining device for Linux gaming ecosystem.

just remove the "unb" from Funbucks and you got the original plan for Ubisoft to their customers.

Remember when everyone though the PS3 was insane at 599 US dollars?

The day Microsoft did smile, as finally they could see an actual chance for their xbox thing.

GZdoom, Brutal Doom, FreeDoom (all packaged for the basis of a single game) then... something to pick there and play: https://www.doomworld.com/10years/bestwads/

Astronaut A: "Wha~, Half Life 3 was recently confirmed?"

Astronaut behind, pointing a gun: "always been"

screen showing events in whic Freeman save the planet erasing the events of HL3 from everyone's mind

'Epic is not pressing their advantage'

" ... not giving enough bribe money for BL4 after Tim Sweeny's waste of money on BL3"

...I guess giving away free money is still a bummer when you don't see them back.

Microsoft business was never meant to convince: it's either forcing their way in by bully OEMs in doing what they want, and make sure Linux isn't an option, like in the ACPI case, or buy successful companies that elude their direct control (or simply buy companies that already won the battle they are fighting, like their desperate attempt to make a success "Microsoft Game Studio" and instead resort to buy Bethesda, Activision etc.)