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  • Rust developer has 'no plans' for Linux or Proton support, says games that support them are 'not serious about anti-cheat'

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  • I didn't know CS did this, but yeah, at a high level, that's how I'd address it, too. It's probably not a solution that scales super well due to the manual review required, and I know that game has a reputation of people still being annoyed by cheaters, but it might be the best we can do without being very invasive, like the ring 0 stuff.

  • What is your favorite Metroidvania?

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  • I've heard High on Life is a metroidvania, but I haven't played it myself. You're right that 3D metroidvanias are exceptionally rare.

  • Rust developer has 'no plans' for Linux or Proton support, says games that support them are 'not serious about anti-cheat'

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  • Nah, cheating is just absurdly hard to stop. Even ring 0 anti cheat doesn't stop it entirely. At some point, I feel like the answer is similar to piracy, in that you must accept that there's going to be some amount of it, and then find a way to mitigate the damage. Because there are solutions to both of them that both go too far.

  • What is your favorite Metroidvania?

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  • Batman: Arkham Asylum. It doesn't come up a lot, because only that first game is a metroidvania and Arkham City might be most people's favorite in the series, but it absolutely counts. I love Arkham combat. It's better in the sequels due to some slight tweaks in game feel, but that combat in a metroidvania is just excellent, and the game is just so well paced. It's a shame what WB did to that studio.

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    Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source

    opensource.microsoft.com /blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source

  • The Game Awards 2025 Nominees

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  • They're just games that favor those categories. Even if Peak pops off, it's not going to win a category like art direction or narrative, ever. It was far from a slow year.

  • An Update on Cities: Skylines II - Development moved to Iceflake Studios

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  • The only explanation I can come up with is that they're a studio that reliably ships finished projects, and maybe that was all Paradox was looking for.

  • An Update on Cities: Skylines II - Development moved to Iceflake Studios

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  • Echoes of Paradox moving Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 to The Chinese Room for some reason none of us on the outside understand.

  • Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers

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  • I don't believe I said anything like "all games deserve ongoing maintenance".

  • Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers

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  • If it costs them nothing, then what does the cost of servers have to do with anything? If someone else wants to run servers at their own expense, that's their prerogative. Why would you have an issue with a bad game remaining playable? That's valuable history that everyone can learn from.

  • Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers

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  • In this case, the ask is to release the server binary and allow users to point their game to a different server when the official one is gone.

  • Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers

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  • What do you believe the cost to Sony is for community-run servers?

  • Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders

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  • Your entry level PC is what I would have called high end as little as four years ago. I built a machine in 2021 with a Ryzen 5 5600x and an RX 6800 XT; it still runs the latest UE5 games at high settings. I would call that above and beyond entry level.

  • Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders

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  • Yeah, leaving it ambiguous like this leads to wild speculation, and I think you misquoted that with your own assumptions. You might be right, but Digital Foundry seems to think $400-$500 is possible. Given the cost of my own mini PC, which is older and requires higher margins than Valve can get away with, I would even believe $400-$500. But we just don't know. Everyone's best guess for the price of this thing has a low floor and a high ceiling, which will make this all really funny once we know the actual price.

  • Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders

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  • that will cost more than a console

    Is that part of the quote? Because I just saw "priced like an entry level PC, not like a console", which was more ambiguous than saying "priced like a console". One man's entry level PC is $300, and another's is $1000. I have a mini PC with the power of a PS4 Pro, which I'd easily consider entry level, and it cost me $530 about a year and a half ago.

  • The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’

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  • I liked it a lot. It's engrossing enough to make you just want to keep going to the next episode, and it's beautifully animated. Other than the story stuff, the gameplay loop is just This is the Police, and I think this improves both the Telltale design and the design of This is the Police by way of pacing. It did still leave me wanting more as a video game, but as a story and a comedy, I loved it.

  • Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers

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  • The correct lesson to take away from it, that they won't ever do, is to release multiplayer games in a way where they can live on without constant updates or a central server.

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    The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’

    www.bloomberg.com /news/newsletters/2025-11-14/the-turbulent-seven-year-saga-behind-hit-game-dispatch
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    Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers

    thegamepost.com /sony-concord-playable-again-custom-servers/

  • While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago

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  • So, funny story, I bought it as the Windows variant, because it was $50 cheaper for some reason. Bloatware subsidies, maybe? My roommate and I tried it for a little while, but using Windows from the couch sucked so much that I put SteamOS on it. My roommate only booted back to Windows to play Hearthstone. I just rocked whatever SteamOS would let me play local, since streaming games from my desktop in the other room wasn't cutting it for me. I played through KOTOR2 on that machine, on SteamOS, and had a great time.

  • While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago

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  • Why would you spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a PC that used a brand-new operating system and had a gaming library a fraction of the size of that of Windows machines?

    I had one of the old Alienware Steam Machines. I know it wasn't a popular answer, but my answer to this was that Windows was atrocious for the living room just like it's atrocious for handhelds today, and I had easily and cheaply amassed a large library of Linux-compatible games even back then by way of Steam sales. But this wasn't even the only problem. We only had OpenGL ports rather than lower level and more performant APIs like Vulkan. Running a marquis Linux title like Shadow of Mordor would come with a sizable performance hit compared to the Windows version, even when run on exactly the same hardware, and that would also require a machine that cost $200 more than a PS4 that could run the same game just as well.

  • Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]

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  • I've got a bit of a VR library, but the new ease of setup with this one does have me considering how I'd use the virtual display features. Even with trackpads, a lot of mouse-driven games aren't great on Steam Deck, but I'm replaying Baldur's Gate 2 right now and wondering how the mouse controls might work out in VR.

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    new Steam Controller Steam Machine and VR headset Steam Frame coming in 2026

    Steam Hardware

    store.steampowered.com /sale/hardware
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    ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2025-11-06/-grand-theft-auto-vi-is-postponed-again-to-november-2026
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    Pillars of Eternity – Turn-Based Mode Beta Announcement Trailer

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    Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark

    www.gamingonlinux.com /2025/11/linux-gamers-on-steam-finally-cross-over-the-3-mark/
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    including video games

    Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles

    www.gamedeveloper.com /business/report-amazon-cutting-corporate-roles-across-key-departments-including-video-games
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    March 19 2026

    MOUSE: P.I. For Hire | Official Release Date Trailer

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    Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2025-10-23/microsoft-pushes-xbox-studios-to-hit-higher-profit-margins
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    More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC

    www.videogameschronicle.com /news/more-than-1200-games-journalists-have-left-the-media-in-the-last-two-years/
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    Even Xbox developer kits are getting a big price hike

    www.theverge.com /report/803237/microsoft-xbox-devkit-price-hikes-developers
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    PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC

    www.videogameschronicle.com /news/ps6-and-next-xbox-console-are-both-aiming-for-2027-release-separate-reports-claim/
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    Cecil Stedman Gameplay Trailer | Invincible VS

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    Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

    www.gamefile.news /p/scoop-ubisoft-cancelled-a-post-civil
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    The Outsiders, studio behind Metal: Hellsinger, is being closed by Funcom

    bsky.app /profile/locust9.bsky.social/post/3m2jumlqlmc2m
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    Game Maker's Toolkit

    How Games Do Destruction

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    Jake Baldino asks a lawyer to explain what this buyout means

    the EA Situation is crazy

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    prices going up

    Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire

    news.xbox.com /en-us/2025/10/01/xbox-game-pass-ultimate-premium-essential-plans/
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    It's official: EA is going private.

    bsky.app /profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social/post/3lzxzk5aifs2w