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January 19th, 2020, 11:50 Posted By: wraggster
RetroArch v1.8.4 is released. RetroArch is a multi-system emulator for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and *BSD. It is formerly known as SSNES. Its design and background is quite different than most other emulators as RetroArch does not implement an emulation core itself. RetroArch talks to libretro, a generic emulator core API. This means that RetroArch is core agnostic, and it does not care which emulator core is running.
Currently there are libretro implementations for systems such as SNES, NES, GBA, GB/GBC, Genesis, and even arcade games (Final Burn Alpha).
libretro isn't only usable for emulators. A preliminary port of an open source reimplementation of Cave Story has been ported to libretro as well.
RetroArch believes in modularity. The application itself is a command-line driven application suitable for HTPC and/or headless use. There also exists a GUI frontend for RetroArch, supporting every single config option available in RetroArch.
http://www.libretro.com/
http://www.emucr.com/2020/01/retroarch-v184.html
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January 19th, 2020, 11:49 Posted By: wraggster
VirtualBox v6.1.2 is released. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86/x64 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
VirtualBox v6.1.2 Changelog:
Virtualization core: fixed performance issue observed with Windows XP guests on AMD hosts (6.0.0 regression; bug #19152)
Virtualization core: consistent IBRS/IBPB CPUID feature reporting, avoids crash of NetBSD 9.0 RC1 installer (bug #19146)
GUI: fixed updating of runtime info
GUI: in Display settings, do not show "2D video acceleration" checkbox if it is meaningless for the selected graphics adapter
Audio: fixed audio input handling when VRDE is enabled
Audio: fixed crash in the HDA emulation when using multi-speaker configurations
Storage: fixed use of encrypted disks with snapshots involved (6.1.0 regression; bug #19160)
Storage: improve performance of virtio-scsi
Storage: read-only support for compressed clusters in QCOW2 images
Windows installer: include unintentionally dropped vbox-img.exe utility again
Windows host: when installing or removing an extension pack, retry the sometimes failing directory renaming (usually caused by anti-virus software accessing the directory)
Linux host: Support Linux 5.5 (guest additions not yet)
Windows guest: accelerate 2D video decoding (scaling and color space conversion) if the VM is configured to use VBoxSVGA with 3D enabled
Windows guest: fix guest additions installer to upgrade the mouse filter driver reliably
Windows guest: when uninstalling older Guest Additions with old 3D support enabled try restoring original Direct3D files
Linux guest: improve resize and multi-monitor handling for VMs using VMSVGA (known remaining issue: do not disable a monitor "in the middle", causes confusion)
http://www.virtualbox.org/
http://www.emucr.com/2020/01/virtualbox-v612.html
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January 19th, 2020, 10:59 Posted By: wraggster
Exclusivity deals may be a contentious topic among gamers these days, but that doesn't seem to be dissuading companies looking to establish new platforms from scratch. As reported by Eurogamer, Stadia Games and Entertainment is the latest to adopt the idea whole-heartedly, as Google's game-streaming service is pursuing a full slate of exclusive titles in the near future.
"Looking at our upcoming lineup, we are tracking more than 120 games coming to Stadia in 2020, and are targeting more than 10 games in the first half of this year alone that will be only available on Stadia when they launch," the company said today, implying the exclusivity will be for a limited time. "We're working with our partners to share more on those games soon."
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...usive-strategy
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January 19th, 2020, 10:58 Posted By: wraggster
The 2017 PS4-exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn may be on its way to PCs, according to a new report.
Multiple sources told Kotaku that the post-apocalyptic open-world adventure would head to both Steam and the Epic Games Store sometime this year. What's more, it may experience an upgrade in its new PC home, without having to be locked at 30 fps as it was on the console.
Sony has been public about its consideration for releasing PS4 exclusives on PC in the future, with SIE Worldwide Studios chairman Shawn Layden admitting the company's previously strict stance about keeping exclusives exclusive might be changing in an interview last year.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...y-coming-to-pc
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January 19th, 2020, 10:55 Posted By: wraggster
The games industry continues to pitch in with efforts to raise money for those dealing with the effects of the Australian bushfires.
Humble Bundle is among the latest to launch a fundraising initiative, offering a special 29-game bundle for $25 where 100% of the proceeds will go to charity. The money will go to WIRES, the RSPCA and the World Wildlife Fund.
The organisation estimates the games included amount to more than $400 worth of content, with Hollow Knight, Void Bastards, Euro Truck Simulator 2, The Gardens Between and Frog Detective among the titles offered.
At the time of writing, 18,913 people have purchased the bundle.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ushfire-relief
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January 19th, 2020, 10:54 Posted By: wraggster
Google Stadia has partnered with telecom firm BT in order to deliver its game streaming services to UK customers.
The deal sees BT become the first European network to partner with Google for the Stadia; the telecom firm is promising the "best cloud gaming experience" with its BT Superfast Broadband 2 service, which is reportedly six-times faster than the average speed of UK broadband.
To commemorate the partnership, BT is launching a number of different Google Stadia offers, which include free Stadia hardware, trial subscriptions, and broadband packages; this will be accompanied by an ad campaign across print, TV and digital.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-google-stadia
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January 15th, 2020, 21:14 Posted By: wraggster
Wine v5.0-rc5 is released. Wine is a project to allow a PC running a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System to run x86 programs for Microsoft Windows. Alternately, those wishing to port a Windows application to a Unix-like system can compile it against the Wine libraries.
Wine v5.0-rc5 Changelog:
Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
http://www.emucr.com/2020/01/wine-v50-rc5.html
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January 15th, 2020, 21:06 Posted By: wraggster
BizHawk v2.3.3 is released. BizHawk is a A multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.
BizHawk Supported Systems
* Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom, Famicom Disk System
* Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Famicom
* Nintendo 64
* Game Boy, Super Game Boy, and Game Boy Color
* Game Boy Advance
* Sony PlayStation
* Sega Master System, Game Gear, and SG-1000
* Sega Genesis
* Sega Saturn
* NEC PC Engine (AKA TurboGrafx-16), including SuperGrafx and PCE CD
* Atari 2600
* Atari 7800
* Atari Lynx
* ColecoVision
* TI-83 graphing calculator
* Wonderswan and Wonderswan Color
* Apple II
https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk
http://www.emucr.com/2020/01/bizhawk-v233.html
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January 15th, 2020, 20:44 Posted By: wraggster
GameEx v16.11 is released. GameEx is a graphical DirectX based front-end for MAME, Zinc, Daphne, PC Games, and all command line based game emulators, along with being a good Home Theatre PC solution. It also makes a good CarPC and touchscreen frontend. The original goal was for it to be used on Windows XP Media Center and Arcade Cabinets although it will run on any version of Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and Vista. For just $17 (USD) you can too unlock the full potential of the front end.
http://www.emucr.com/2020/01/gameex-v1611.html
http://www.gameex.net/
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January 15th, 2020, 20:36 Posted By: wraggster
HTC Vive has cut prices on its line of Vive Pro virtual reality headsets, dropping the price on three of its Vive Pro offerings by $200 each.
For those who want the headset on its own, the Vive Pro HMD is now $599. The Starter Kit, which includes the headset as well as two controllers and two Steam VR 1.0 base stations, will sell for $899 going forward. Finally, the Vive Pro Full Kit with the headset, two controllers, and two Steam VR 2.0 base stations, now goes for $1,199.
The Vive Pro Eye headset is not included in the price cuts. The eye-tracking version of the headset remains $999 for the headset on its own, and $1,599 when sold as a Full Kit with controllers and a pair of Steam VR 2.0 base stations.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...d200-price-cut
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January 15th, 2020, 20:31 Posted By: wraggster
Tequila Works' Google Stadia exclusive Gylt is somewhat of an anomaly on the list of games currently available via the streaming service.
Described as "delicate horror" by CEO and creative director Raul Rubio, it's inspired by Pan's Labyrinth director Geuillmo Del Toro, who is "in love with his monsters."
But nestled amid the blockbusters and arcade-style games, Gylt's haunting exploration of teenage bullying is Stadia's clear attempt at getting some indie credentials.
While speaking with GamesIndustry.biz at the Fun and Serious Game Festival in Bilbao, Spain, Rubio discusses working with Google in the run up to Stadia's launch, and what the future holds for game streaming.
Google approached Tequila Works around two years ago, and Rubio says he was immediately impressed by the Stadia tech. Riding high off the success of 2017's Rime, it's not hard to see why Tequila Works got the call. But Rubio sounds almost surprised when he says Google wanted a narrative-focused, indie exclusive without online or multiplayer.
Rubio says this began a "very open and honest dialogue" with Google, as the tech giant financed and produced the project. In fact, under Google he adds, Gylt had the "smoothest production for a Tequila Works game ever."
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...uila-works-ceo
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January 14th, 2020, 19:10 Posted By: wraggster
A new software update is available, would you like to update now? No, not for one of your consoles, but for RetroArch! The first new version of the year, in fact. RetroArch v1.8.3 has just been released, and this version makes some major additions to our favorite emulator frontend. The most notable new feature in 1.8.3 is ANGLE support, which helps platforms that don't have good OpenGL core support get better performance, by converting OpenGL to Direct3D. ANGLE is available for two platforms initially: UWP (Xbox One) and Windows 64bit. This will help out users that have older integrated graphics cards or use RetroArch on the Xbox One.
- For the regular Windows version, there are two binaries from now on – one with ANGLE (retroarch_angle.exe), one without (retroarch.exe). The non-ANGLE version will use your system-provided OpenGL driver, while the ANGLE version will use the ANGLE version of the OpenGL dynamic libraries.
- ANGLE works over OpenGL ES. This means that ANGLE requires separately compiled cores targeting OpenGL ES 2/3 instead of desktop OpenGL. What this means is that 1) you need separate cores for every Libretro OpenGL core you want to run, since the current OpenGL cores available for Windows assume that desktop OpenGL will be targeted, and 2) a libretro core has to have a working OpenGL ES 2 or 3 implementation in order for it to work. This will mean that currently, cores like Quake 2/3/Doom 3 won’t work since there are no working OpenGL ES 2 codepaths in those cores. However, Mupen64plus Next and Flycast do have OpenGLES 2 codepaths.
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That's not the only improvement, though! Netplay has also gotten some lovely fixes and refinements. A major bug that had plagued netplay users--disconnecting all players from a server when one player quits the game--has been solved, after a year. A memory leak has also been patched out, meaning netplay should just be more stable, overall.
You can see the changes for yourself, by grabbing the latest version of RetroArch from the Libretro site, linked in the source.
Changes
1.8.3
- ANDROID/BUGFIX: Fix ‘Install or Restore Core’ regression
- BUGFIX: Ensure core info is always initialised when calling ‘drivers_init()’. This bug could prevent cores from doing content runtime logging
- BUGFIX/MENU: History size can only be set to 1 at a minimum
- BUGFIX/MENU: (XMB/OZONE) Fix ‘quick menu’ detection. XMB would not display savestate thumbnails in the quick menu if it was accessed via the main menu
- BUGFIX/CRASH/CORE UPDATER: Fix potential double free error
- BUGFIX/CRASH/OPENGL/WINDOWS: Fix regression in 1.8.2 that would cause GL-based cores to fail because it would try to erroneously load libGLESv2.dll instead of OpenGL32.dll (cores affected: VitaQuake 2/3/Dhewm3, possibly more)
- BUGFIX/MENU/DESKTOP UI: Show desktop menu on startup does not launch Qt UI on Linux
- CHEEVOS: Don’t disable achievement when AddAddress generates an out-of-range address
- CHEEVOS: Don’t reset triggers/leaderboards that failed to load
- CHEEVOS: Don’t count unsupported achievements as unlocked
- CORE UPDATER: Display number of cores updated when updating installed cores
- DINGUX: Initial port
- D3D11: Block FL9_3 devices from D3D11 driver because they don’t work anyway (current D3D11 driver uses SM4.0 which requires FL10_0 and up)
- D3D11: Fallback to GL driver when D3D11 fails
- EMSCRIPTEN: Fix assets
- HISTORY/FAVORITES: Bump up default to 200 entries from 100
- FFMPEG CORE: Implement packet buffer, fixes MP4 video playback for many files
- LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
- LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
- LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
- LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
- MENU: Added ‘Hosting’ menu under Netplay menu
- MENU: Added ‘Subsystems’ menu
- MENU/FILEBROWSER: Fix file selection issues when starting from (or navigating to) the top level directory
- MENU/WIDGETS: Prevent looping of task title text
- RASPBERRY PI: Fix BGRA8888 color inversion issues in the menu and elsewhere with VideoCore GL drivers
- NETPLAY/RELAY: Add Sao Paulo (Brazil) relay server
- NETPLAY/RELAY: Fix the “spectator” bug when using the relay server – When a player switches into the spectator mode (pressing “i”) while using the relay server, all players will disconnect.
- NETPLAY/RELAY: Overall stability has improved. Fixed a memory leak that would cause the relay server to become unresponsive after some time
- NETPLAY/RELAY: Fixed critical bug that would cause all players to be disconnected from the relay server if one player was leaving the game. That bug had been open for one year and we were finally able to fix it
- SWITCH/LIBNX/BUGFIX: Fix onscreen keyboard input regression
- UWP: Add ANGLE support
- UWP: Wire up get_metrics to the fake context of D3D9/10/11/12 driver, enabling proper scaling and mouse/touch gestures
- VITA: Re-add Online Updater
- VULKAN: Fix font driver ‘vulkan_get_message_width()’ function
- VIDEO FILTERS: Only use threads when the number exceeds 1. Fixes race conditions with some CPU filters on Vita
- WINDOWS: Add ANGLE support for x64, separate binary (for now?)
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 Source
https://gbatemp.net/threads/retroarc...ements.556107/
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January 14th, 2020, 17:43 Posted By: wraggster
Facebook Gaming has seen an end-of-year rise in hours watched, reaching 102 million total hours in December -- up 210% year-over-year from December 2018's 32 million hours.
StreamElements and Arsenal.gg have released their Q4 State of the Stream report, which showed that Facebook Gaming's market share as of December has risen considerably since last year. Facebook Gaming held 8.5% of the streaming market last month, compared to only 3.1% in December of 2018.
YouTube Gaming held steady with 27.9% of the market (compared to 27.5% last year) and Mixer grew slightly from 2% to 2.6%. All platforms are slowly chipping away at Twitch, which went from 67.1% of the market in December 2018 down to 61% in December 2019.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...d-of-year-rise
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January 14th, 2020, 17:35 Posted By: wraggster
Grand Theft Auto IV is no longer available for purchase on Steam, due to Rockstar Games losing the ability to generate new keys for the game.
At the time of this post, the game still has a Steam store page and its standalone expansion, Episodes from Liberty City, is still buyable. However, a Rockstar Games spokesperson told US Gamer that the publisher will need to look for new options to distribute the game.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-generate-keys
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January 14th, 2020, 17:31 Posted By: wraggster
Epic Games today offered an update on the growth of the Epic Games Store. Launched in December of 2018, the store to-date has racked up $680 million in spending from 108 million PC customers.
While much of that total can be accounted for by Epic's own hit Fortnite, the company noted that $251 million has been spent by players on third-party PC games.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...layer-spending
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January 8th, 2020, 18:40 Posted By: wraggster
It was perhaps inevitable that other hardware manufacturers would attempt to bottle the Nintendo Switch lightening, and Alienware certainly appears to be doing that with the Concept UFO.
Unveiled at CES 2020, this is a prototype of a portable PC with more than a few influences taken from Nintendo's popular console. It has removable controllers, which can be attached to a grip to form a more traditional gamepad when the Concept UFO is standing upright or plugged into a monitor.
It runs on Windows 10, according to Business Insider, suggesting users will be able to access their libraries on Steam, Epic Games Store, uPlay, etc.
The device has an 8-inch screen with a 1200p resolution, a marked improvement over Switch's 6.2-inch, 720p screen. But while the controllers can be removed, it does not appear they support two players like Nintendo's console.
 The Concept UFO is powered by a 10th generation Intel processor, supports connectivity like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, has two USB-C ports and can be controlled with a keyboard and mouse if you so choose.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ble-pc-concept
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January 8th, 2020, 18:40 Posted By: wraggster
Steam has seen a major slowdown of games released on the platform for the first time in four years, according to data from SteamSpy.
Last year 8,415 games arrived on Steam, compared to 8,167 in 2018. With the number of games released on Steam rapidly increasing since 2014, this represents a notable change in pace.
The number of games released on the platform saw its first major leap in 2014, increasing to 1,609 from 557 the year prior. Since then, the number of games releasing on Steam has increased to nearly 2,000 a year.
The effect of this slowdown is seen throughout the data for 2019, most notably with the number of copies owned falling from 242 million in 2018 to 127 million in 2019.
SteamSpy is unable to provide precise sales data, but the number of copies owned "refers to total copies of games released this year acquired by users for the lifetime. Includes copies sold, downloaded for free and given out."
With both the average and median price increasing by around $1, it suggests the platform is seeing fewer cheap games released. It's also the first time the average price of games on Steam has increased year-over-year since 2014.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-steam-in-2019
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