Running the Nintendo Switch’s Horizon OS on Linux, W4 plans to monetize Godot, Half-Life smashes its concurrent players record, and is Win32 the only stable ABI?

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:35 Buying a used motherboard

03:05 Jim at Guitar Center

09:22 Half-Life smashes its concurrent players record

12:17 New games added to Proton 7.0

12:33 WTF is Chuzzle Deluxe

16:24 Proton Exp fixes Re-Volt and Vermintide 2

19:29 Valve year in review but with metrics?

21:44 Neodash

23:14 Climb Challenge at 15FPS

25:49 Pillow fights with Bulanci

28:29 Blossom Tales II: It’s not Zelda, probably

31:54 Linux & Thrills bundle

42:49 Why win32 is or is not the only stable ABI

51:44 W4 plans to monetize Godot

57:09 Running the Nintendo Switch’s Horizon OS on Linux

01:00:29 SRB2Kart v1.5

01:02:59 Review: Kung Fu Er San

01:14:29 Emails

Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

Steam: News

Record crowbars

* We did it internet!

* 12,280 Half-Life players got together to set a new all-time peak player record for Half-Life.

* The #RememberFreeman campaign is a sequel of sorts to last year’s “Breaking the Bar” event, which smashed Half-Life 2’s concurrent player record.

* I fully support the community coming together to play the actually good old games, not the website.

* It was the largest spike since Steam Charts started recording it: https://steamcharts.com/app/70

Proton

* Our long national nightmare is over. You can Play Chuzzle Deluxe on linux

* No big features, just game specific fixes.

* WHAR spoodermang fixes?

* That is a fat chunk of what was in Experimental.

Experimental

* Re-Volt and Vermintide 2 have been fixed.

* I would strongly recommend you use Luxtorpeda and set Re-Volt to run with RVGL.

* It runs much better on the Deck.

* Cutscenes in Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen should be slightly less choppy now.

* Halo Infinite gets ingame on AMD. GE has had it running for a while, but it’s good to see mainline proton catching up

* Apparently Vermintide is still a little unstable if you’re not the host

* Elite dangerous is still borked for me

Steam numbers

* Valve is working on a “year in review” page for the winter sale.

* So far it indicates playtime and total sessions for the year.

* Deck playtime is one of the metrics and that’s worth watching out for.

* This is per user as of right now.

* Those numbers you see were just from the xPaw himself.

* Though, I do hope someone will figure out a way to get the info of that out of at least the public SteamIDs.

* It would be great to see those deck numbers vs. the mac and desktop Linux numbers.

Steam: New Games

Neodash

* Distance minus the multiplayer

* More physics platformer with wheels.

* I think I played this during the snek peek event a while back.

* One dude spent the last two years making this.

* Single player and clocking in at a hefty 1.