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  • CAPCOM Reveals 93% of Its Game Sales Are Now Digital - PC has also become the main platform for CAPCOM, accounting for around 54.5 percent of their total sales

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  • Sony: PC doesn’t make us money.

    That's quite correct, PC does not, indeed, make their Playstation's money. Once customers realize they can be treated with respect, it’s unlikely they’ll return to the PlayStation’s walled garden to be constantly bi**h slapped and forced to pay for everything (for example, even just to play online).

  • The Immense Engine - Arjan Brussee (Guerrilla Games) is developing The Immense Engine. An AI-based engine alternative from Europe to challenge the dominance of Unreal and Unity.

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  • I don't think there's need for "continental purity"; it only need to be open source, even better if llm runs on Vulkan like llama.cpp. Cuda is a more troublesome presence in the llm space, it's not even about reliance on US tech, but the restricted club of Stargate/Palantir wich is openely involved in affair of war crimes (US gov. opposition to ICC) and genocide (...and whatever Netanyahu is up today).

    I think Godot got all is needed by the democratic wotld; Europe etc.

  • The Immense Engine - Arjan Brussee (Guerrilla Games) is developing The Immense Engine. An AI-based engine alternative from Europe to challenge the dominance of Unreal and Unity.

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  • As side note, Unity was founded in Copenhagen.

    Also, Godot, started in Latin America, I bet due its global nature has most European people working on a world-wide popular Game Engine in the world already.

  • Killer Bean launches into Early Access on June 8, 2026

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  • Jeff Lew started the franchise in 1996 with "Killer Bean: The Interrogation" web short.

    If you think it's some sort of parody for "Kill Bill"... considered the movie was released in 2003

  • PC Motherboard sales face sharp 25%+ decline amid weak demand

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  • So.... you're gonna lower the price, right?

    Right?

  • Steam On Linux In April Pulled Back From Its Record High Marketshare [now 4.52%, lost -0.81%]

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  • I do agree that monthly voluntary surveys is not an exceptional way for the general audience to have a clear idea on things are going on, but my point is less about the general audience and the responsibility weight Valve itself sit onto.

    We can endlessly speculate on the secret/true data Valve is hiding from the general public, but in fact, only the actual public data affect their business: that's where publisher and developers make the strategic choices on which platform (OS) and hardware (VR HMD, highend GPU...) to support. Any incorrect or nonfactual data would lead to less sales, and less happy developer/publisher/customers.

    Yes, of course Valve does have it's own "secret recipient data" they don't share... but I think the secret data is used more as sort of control on those who try to cheat the stats.

    Sometime simplified Chinese language goes on top, resulting English language as secondary for the whole platform... quite often Valve fix those stats, no doubt by cross referencing their secret sauce.

    That's how most modern anticheat in videogames works: the data is keep secret, until one special day you get one big wave that flush all them at once (if you throw constantly daily updated data on which kind of cheater you caught... the cheater got a precious feedback they can play onto)

  • Steam On Linux In April Pulled Back From Its Record High Marketshare [now 4.52%, lost -0.81%]

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  • I’m getting pretty tired of seeing these posts every five minutes from the same couple of sites.

    Statistics have variance, especially when they’re recorded from voluntary surveys, please get over it.

    Currently Valve is the only billion dollar company who invest in Linux gaming industry.

    ...incidentally is basically the only billion dollar PC company who invest in PC gaming and don't have any kind of conflict of interest with Console (Microsoft's Xbox? any major AAA game company who also publish/make exclusives to console? Epic Games's Fortinite earning is 48% Playstation, 27% Xbox and remaining 18% for Nintendo Switch/Android/PC)

    So, yeah, the earning on the only billion dollar company who is 100% all in in the PC gaming industry matter: those stats matter for Valve, at the very least.

  • Europeans must recognize US, China and Russia are ‘dead against’ us, says Macron

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  • PRC does business with everyone, criminals like Putin included, as EU does business with criminals like Netanyahu. Difference between neither Putin or Netanyahu can set foot in Europe, since they are wanted criminals by International Criminal Court.

    Or at least they are not allies as we mean it

    Of course not, Putin does the war crimes, PRC does the business with said criminal. It's just business, you see.

    ...in league with war crimes but still, just, business.

  • Europeans must recognize US, China and Russia are ‘dead against’ us, says Macron

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  • As not being lap dog of someone like?

    USA: lapdog for billionaire

    Russia/China being lapdog for each other as one wage war and the other profit from it?

    There's no need for nationalism: Europe can do well with other decent countries, which are not Russia, USA, China and closeted allies (such Israel/India). Australia, Canada, Japan... basically any country of this planet which is not a dictatorship and,at very last, adhere to the International Criminal Court.

  • Europeans must recognize US, China and Russia are ‘dead against’ us, says Macron

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  • Like fueling, ICC's wanted criminal war, Putin's economy as he wages war on eastern Europe?

  • Australia targets Steam, Roblox and others in new legal push against extremists and predators

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  • .. Like the refound policy, it's not like big billionaire have any kind of obligation towards people's health and safety: they can model the world just about those "special" islands they party all time

  • Way to Make Friends: Péter Magyar Invites Netanyahu to Budapest, but Would Arrest Him under ICC Warrant

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  • Everyone pretending they all friend to "surprise arrest him": he wouldn't go anyway, since already know is "legal status" + plus his party saying "see? Nobody is really upset with him"

    Everyone reaffirm publicly he's a wanted criminal: their party just shut up on his global legal status + his adversary party should remind israelian people the criminal they are paying.

    Russian also are supposed to know they are supporting a crimina... or be aware of their willingnlfull ignorance (which is pretend to not know)

  • Black Tabby Games, devs for Slay the Princess, opening "Black Tabby Publishing" branch; will publish Prove You’re Human

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  • found only pay/cookie walled ones.

     
        
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-04-10/in-a-brutal-video-game-industry-two-indie-developers-are-teaming-up

https://theverge.com/games/908072/black-tabby-games-publishing-slay-the-princess

  • ETA Prime: "PC Game Emulation On Android Phone Is INSANE!" [Red Dead Redemption 2, Project Cars 2, Resident Evil Requiem, Ghost of Tsushima, GTA 5, Cyberpunk 2077]

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  • They have a phone with 24GB ram.

    Didn't check this, it's actual ram or a clever use of swap file as branding joke?

  • Subscription service for indie games gets a rough reception

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  • Well, you have to go with loss leader for a long time... then progressively bullying your own customers to arise the price until reach parity.

    ...from then you finally earn by continuing bullying the remaining customers as some sort of whales (people keep paying for shitty service due to constant spending habit).

    I don't see why this would work with the simple concept: pay & get value that come with indie.

    You need a big plan to screw your customers and, like Google Stadia, carelessly drop millions in the trashbin just to buy that only lucky ticked that made Netflix win (but you did lose)

  • Zero Parades devs knew they didn't want to make another cop game after Disco Elysium: 'How people think of the police these days, it's a bit different'

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  • Any crime done by a spy in one nation is "a solve" from the side of the other nation.

  • Zero Parades devs knew they didn't want to make another cop game after Disco Elysium: 'How people think of the police these days, it's a bit different'

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  • ...instead like, you know, being unemployed just because people are angry; I guess.

  • It's Official: Ubisoft is Remaking Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag

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  • Piracy increase the sales. AAA companies are dumb enough to not even understand what actually draw sales with demo and shareware.

    Forgive & forget: don't play, don't talk, don't share products of the IPs from companies you want out of the game: forgotten.

  • Steam H&S Survey ["Chinese +30%" results in: English minority as 2 people every 10 (22.2%); Linux -1.15% (2.23%); Win10 +12.46% (40.25%); Win11 -10.43%(56.28%)] [stats will be fix later, probably]

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  • Chinese pirated copies in internet cafe for shady activities: usually Valve fixed this data in the coming days/hours. But I think it's nice to have a snapshot: a sudden motion of 30% would technically mean a sudden switch of millions of customers (or a bunch bot machines well placed)