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  • Ross Scott: "The "Stop Destroying Videogames" initiative has received official accusations of it (and myself) of violating EU rules! These would be serious charges, except that they're false

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  • Copy of the claims

    clams: False "No Funding" Declaration

    evidences:

    Multiple media interviews identifying Scott as handling "the standard day-to-day work of running the Stop Killing Games initiative"

    Scott described as the primary strategic decision-maker and public spokesperson throughout the campaignConservative Professional Value Assessment:•Intensive Periods: "Many weeks" of 12-14 hours/day during critical campaign phases

    Conservative Estimate: 15-20 weeks at high intensity (12-14 hours/day) = 1,260-1,960 hours

    Regular Campaign Work: Additional ongoing daily campaign management throughout 12+ month period

    Professional Rate: €50-75/hour for campaign management/advocacy services (market rate)•Minimum Estimated Value: €63,000-147,000 in professional contribution

    **Additional Considerations: **

    This represents only documented intensive periods, not total campaign involvement

    Scott has managed strategic decisions, media relations, and operational leadership throughout

    Even conservative calculations show contribution exceeding €500 threshold by 125-295 times

  • Oblivion Remastered studio is reportedly laying off 300 people

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  • It's not like Devs can afford to say "Hey, you! No, not you, the other one.... hire me now!"

  • [Discussion] Reminding that Steam is also a store on the ARM platform

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  • What’s the difference between ARM and x86 other than proprietary?

    Both ARM and x86 are proprietary, innovation is made differently tho.

    Arm holding set new standard for the broader concept of innovation, trying to gather as many companies possible to further innovate in their own way and as many companies possible.

    X86 is mostly ruled by Intel and the way Intel manufacture things; AMD is thrown in the mix both both need to be cautions around their business: it's in their hope no third party interfere with what and how X86 are manufactured.

    RiscV is the ultimate goal: a platform not owned by anyone, which anyone is free to innovate for their propose (like Linux's kernel which power big Super Computers mainframes, desktop pc or table clock: there's a root capability, then everything extend from there by its purpose.).

    How is steam an ARM store? (Genuine question not a disagreement)

    It's not an ARM store in the sense they sell ARM hardware; but the store itself (also) runs on ARM CPU: to have a piece of software (such as Steam, as the steam client you download and install) run on different platform, you need some work to be done: CDProjekt did the job for CyberPunk 2077 (for the Nintendo Switch 2) as Valve did the job for Steam (for the MACs)

    What specific brands/companies/developers do you see becoming relevant in this context within the next year?

    Intel could come in to play, the reason they are not "seriously" in the RISC business is because the conflict of interest with "their" X86.

    Both Nvidia and AMD are already in both ARM and RiscV business.

    Any company in the smartphone business can join in: they just need ARM binaries (CPU) and full Vulkan support (GPU)

    Will this translate to more budget friendly pc-gaming options?

    You can buy a ARM Raspberry Pi Zero 2 (and alike) for about ~15$, add this a MicroSD, a K/M and a screen to attach to hdmi, and you have a fully fledged Linux PC with basic office capabilities.

    I am a former pc-gamer. Built my last PC in 2009. Even then it was a budget build (AMD gfx).

    A Raspberry Pi 4 B 2GB would cost about ~40€ (there are cheaper chinese variant) would match a 2009 Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB ram and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330. You can power it with a powerbank.

  • FBI says it's now seized "multiple" ROM piracy sites, claims downloads resulted in $170m losses in just three months

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  • They assumed that every download was by someone who would otherwise have paid over 53 USD for it, which by itself is an absurd delusion.

    You're wrong, your presumption assume one single person to download a single file he/she never ear about.

    What's most likely, people download ROMs for nostalgia, ie: something they, or their parents, bought them when they were children. So, if we assume someone download their "childhood library" which was already paid, of about ~30 cartridge (admitted the download is the right one, and didn't required multiple download attempt); in the view of the FBI, that single person "stole" 3180 USD he/she paid ~20 years ago.

    You're not just supposed to lose the things you bought, you're supposed to be fined (for attempt to play the product you already paid) with price updated to current industry standard.

  • AMD Ryzen "Zen 6" CPU Samples Already Distributed, Architecture To Be A "Evolution" With More Cores Per CCD, New "Dual" IMC Design

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  • Steam Deck 1 (also called "Steam Deck One" or "The First Steam Deck") uses Ryzen 2. Not gonna say anything else.

  • Stop Killing Games gets official support from prominent European politician - Nicolae Ștefănuță, one of the sitting Vice Presidents of the European Parliament, posted a call to action on Instagram

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  • Help Us, Intel. You're Our Only Hope [ Gamers Nexus ]

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  • Thanks for the thumbnail link, I've added it

  • Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off

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  • Looks more like a DSSL testing (which had dedicated cores/hardware) rather the actual potential. Also, one single title, wake me when there's a test to match everything SteamDeck can emulate (Switch 1 too)

  • Pricing announced for the Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld with Manjaro Linux [AMD Ryzen 7, 450$ and 550$

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  • If is designed to work on Linux (Linux drivers), that's all you need to distro-hop the device until the end of time

  • The end of Stop Killing Games

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  • First off that’s a strawman It’s not just one guy.

    If you discuss with an idiot, he can drag into his idiocy; there's no need to defend Ross Scott, the issue is completely different level.

    His (the person you reply to) whole argument is more on the line "they lose, so it mean they must be wrong" (or doing something wrong.

    Picture the global politics today: human rights are failing all over and someone say "human rights advocate are losers, and I am cool by saying this".

    There's dissonance between what people think they say, and what they actually say. @ImplyingImplications thinks he's cool because denounce the losers while in fact he's just saying "I don't deserve these rights" <- he's the only true loser because his enemies didn't need to start the fight from the beginning (at the last with himself).

  • Linux is slowly taking over my life as a PC gamer [xda-developers]

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  • If you pick hardware/features from company that don't support your OS of choice, I don't see this to happened, not just in future, but ever. Just picture someone buying software/hardware for Sony's FreeBSD (PlayStation) and expecting it to work on Windows: this doesn't make any sense.

    Linux is an insane exception to this because it's the Linux community of engineers who reverse engineered. It's not about wait for "Linux has to be ready", but be sure the money you thrown at your hardware are well spent.

    If AMD company suddenly shut down, your hardware on Windows is just an unsecured brick which in few years become useless. On Linux it will be always supported, bug fixed and updated thanks to OpenSource drivers.

  • Linux is slowly taking over my life as a PC gamer [xda-developers]

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  • I don't know what's going on with your steam install to take this much time to log you in, but it looks like your Linux install is left with some dangling parts.

    First, we need to be clear if we're talking about Torvald's Linux vs Microsoft's Windows... or a bunch of company that don't give a fuck about you.

    Sound boards, GPU and all this insane amount of hardware runs on Linux better than any Microsoft thing may ever hope to. Your issue with your sound card is not Linux... it's called "Creative".

    There are way to develop sound cards and have them working on day -1 (even a day before it's release)... and way to put trick and trinkets in the binary blob without documenting anything (or, more precisely, keeping purposely hidden, since you always need source code to make binaries blob). In this case the Linux community rip and tear every detail by their own: the time took is never Linux or Linux's community but, put more plainly, just the company who took your money and said to you " oh! So you want to run this thing on your Linux install? Well, what about: fuck you! Is that OK?"

  • PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut?

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  • All you have listed are IP, as Nintendo one; the issue is that Nintendo's IP can be commercially produced for Nintendo's hardware only. PC don't have "company IP" (and that's one of its strength, openness), even Commander Keen appeared on Gameboy Color.

    In order to keep with PC openness nature, I would suggest something that come from and to the community itself:

    https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/PC-Tan

    Weaknesses: Often spaces out remembering old consoles that have passed on (e.g. Dreamcast, Super Nintendo), bursts into tears from these memories as well

  • Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales

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  • They may still subsidized by Microsoft or other strategic partners (like McAfee antivirus). IE: Microsoft could promise a share cut on every videogame sale made a registered xbox handheld; while this is still not enough to sell at loss, they (the OEM) may still consider reduce/forfeit they expected earning from each piece of hardware sold.

  • Xbox is launching a handheld with ASUS

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  • ...but will it have AI? I mean truly random AI gimmick like Pilot/Cortana whatever. People expected their HMPC for gaming insanely performing and slick, with no bloatware at all... but only Microsoft knows what you all need is some company AI thing that drain processing power to interact with Microsoft servers and spy on you. Nobody knows better than Microsoft how to Zune their way in a new entertainment industry

  • Epic CEO Tim Sweeney takes yet another victory lap after Apple's latest appeal fails: 'The long national nightmare of the Apple tax is ended'

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  • We have laws to protect children, no other companies: we need laws that hit hard companies that don't respect people (and other companies)'s rights.

  • Desperate to fight Steam, Epic burns money like firewood – but admits the Epic Games Store kind of sucks and "there's still a ton of work to be done" with "long overdue features"

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  • Make small admission to hide a bit trick.

    They never care about having a good video game store, they want a good frontend for Fortnite.

    Epic is eyeing Roblox: any good game made, no matter where it is sold, will become endlessly cloned in Roblox... almost all the money spend in Roblox, remain in Roblox.

    A good game in Epic Game Store? Soon or later it will go on Steam, and Epic will lose some potential money, will go on PSN, and Epic will lose some potential money, will go on Xbox Store and, you guessed, Epic will lose some potential money.

    They are pushing hard for artist and coder to get stuck in the Fortnite "Roblox Wannabe" metaverse; that's their only true goal. Lure developer, trap developers (I would say "Roblox lure child, trap child", but it sound excessively weird)

  • Epic Games' plans for Unreal Engine 6 are dividing developers - UE 5 will be unified with Unreal Editor for Fornite

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  • I hope more and more indie will start taking Unity space away and turn to Godot,: foolish CEO can destroy the indie alternative to AAA status equo ( Sony, Microsoft, and Epic as their servant). But once on Godot, the engine is in fully in the hands of the people.

  • Epic Games' plans for Unreal Engine 6 are dividing developers - UE 5 will be unified with Unreal Editor for Fornite

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  • They see Epic Game Store as constant revitalization, together with free game: the idea is, indie developers come to EGS to have their recognition (like among us, rocket league, lethal company and many other had); once in the EGS will bombard the customs with fortnite deals... in some cases even cloning successful indie game mechanics in fortnite (it did happen with among us). Basically they want to brute force the indie gaming industry in fortnite: the "metaverse" money they all see in roblox (Facebook, google etc.)