Games: Stadia, Steam, and More
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Stadia is Google’s Product Strategy - Daniel Miessler
Google refuses to invest in solid product strategy and UI/UX, and the results are becoming predictable
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As I ranted about with Google’s management interfaces, the interfaces seem completely oblivious to how people will actually use the products. So they fail.
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Stadia Joins The League Of Extraordinary ‘Killed by Google’ Projects
In 2019, Google introduced Stadia during the Game Developers Conference (GDC) held in San Francisco. A cloud gaming service, Google described it as ‘a platform for everyone’ – one that could stream games from the cloud to the Chrome browser, Pixel devices, and Chromecast. Against this backdrop, Google had also planned to establish its own gaming studio for exclusive titles. Stadia was touted to be the next disruptive thing in the gaming industry.
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Obliteration is a new PS4 Emulator for PC (Windows/Linux)
And here comes a new challenger. Developer ultimaweapon has released a brand new Playstation 4 emulator for the PC, called Obliteration. Obliteration is currently at a very early point, and it doesn’t exist for commercial games. Nevertheless, for that video demonstration can be found under the map as well as a download link.
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Steam Next Fest - October 2022 Edition is live now
Ready to try more game demos? Now is your chance once again as Steam Next Fest - October 2022 Edition is live.
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KDE devs talk Steam Deck and their work for it at Akademy 2022, over a million shipped
Recently at the Akademy 2022 conference, KDE's David Edmundson gave a talk on the Steam Deck and the ongoing work in KDE to improve things.
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AMD driver update gets Red Dead Redemption 2 working better on Steam Deck / Linux
Are you having issues with Red Dead Redemption 2 on either the Steam Deck or a Linux desktop with an AMD GPU? Well, upcoming driver updates should improve it. While there was an update in Proton Experimental recently that fixed the game not running after the FSR2 upgrade, it seems there's still problems with it crashing after a while.
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SteamOS and Steam Deck on top for Linux in the Steam Hardware Survey
The latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out now for September 2022, with it showing that clearly the Steam Deck with SteamOS is the most popular way now to game on Linux.
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Proton Experimental updates fix up Indiana Jones, Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake)
Valve has recently put up a fresh update for Proton Experimental, bringing more game compatibility and some fixes. The update was released on September 30th.