Yes, Valve is quite consistent about keeping things locked to its store. Steamworks is also limited to Steam. Proton is an exception, but the LGPL license of Wine simply wouldn’t allow it to be otherwise. Publishing the source code is required if building on it rather than just using it as a component.

Meh. Still a great soundtrack from the same artists. It’s a remake, not a remaster. It preserves the original games in spirit but also offers something fresh to the old-school fans.

We’re in this mess precisely because things are good for the citizens of Russia though. The world embraced Putin with open arms and boosted the country’s economy, invasion after invasion. Now it’s too late for the sanctions to bear fruit. The Russians, especially the pro-Putin Russians with no direct ties to the West for the sanctions to affect them, live like it’s business as usual.

You’re only underscoring Kaldaien’s point about Steam by bringing up Fortnite, given that Epic is willing to release their products on other stores, whether it’s mobile or Microsoft Store on PC, as long as the terms are reasonable, not junk fees, as Sweeney puts it.

He’d be on Truth Social like “Vladimir, why you do this”.

Just realized that I was a little gaslit there, as Epic has already had bundles since 2019, with one of the most recent being the STALKER bundle that costs less than the individual games combined. Just like a game edition, a bundle can even be wishlisted on Epic, a feature lacking on Steam.

At least the West made sure the Russian OnlyFans creators can’t get paid. That’ll show them.

The problem here isn’t really with the source but how it is read. It doesn’t say “killed” but rather “approximate enemy losses” (орієнтовні втрати противника), which would also include the injured.

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Putin keeps talking about the West’s purportedly degrading spiritual values and contrasts them with the “traditional values” of Russia, using that to outlaw LGBT people and being childfree, but this demonstrates the true value of his faith.

Who’s the voice actor behind the man in the suit? Sounds super familiar.

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Yeah, even on Twitch there’s a separate drops category for the Russian version.

“Here’s a world of tanks for you”

Incredible how they got to take their time to (presumably) target the areas that would deal the most damage.

The OP says global preloading and gifting are going live soon. Bundles are also on the roadmap. At the end of the day though, what’s the main benefit of a bundle? It’s the discount, right? I’m not sure the discounts offered via bundles on Steam are an overall better deal compared to Epic offering cashback of 5% on everything, sometimes increased to 20% (like now). For some countries, Epic also offers significantly better base prices compared to Steam. It still supports the Turkish and Argentinian currencies and presumably has specific price guidelines for those as well, compared to Steam having removed those options. I also remember Epic talking about supporting more regional currencies compared to Steam. From looking at the documentation now, it’s 37 on Steam and 43 on Epic.

Regarding the app, I disagree. It was very convenient to have everything in one place (which Steam fans should understand, given their reluctance to use a different launcher) and I used the chat feature all the time, but after Valve separated them, I just got tired of switching and ended up not installing the chat app after resetting my phone OS. Sometimes I need to message a friend, but I feel like the effort of installing it and logging in is not worth it for those occasions.

People love to bash Epic and list all the (often redundant) things Steam is ahead in, but nobody mentions the ways in which Epic is ahead. Something as simple as being able to chat with your friends is no longer a feature of the mobile Steam client, but if Epic sticks to the roadmap, their app will allow that. It also makes me think of how despite so many years of existence, Steam still doesn’t allow to add game editions to your wishlist, while Epic has allowed that from the start. It was also the first to introduce a custom value field for downloads throttling, before Steam followed suit.

They wouldn’t want to risk his friend Vladimir getting the info.

Its approach to moderation has been the same as Musk’s on X. Extremely permissive, with racist games like Tyrone vs Cops or Yasuke Simulator doing OK despite sufficient reporting on them. There are also countless groups and users profiles that promote the Russian invasion, others that promote neo-Nazism, and so on.

Well, Putin still may have been the first. Remember him diving to find some ancient relics?