Steam

Number six.

Epic boss Tim Sweeney calls Steam's AI declarations political and abhorrent.

This is John Walker over at Kotaku.

The Tim Sweeney Stop Saying Stuff challenge has been lost once again, as the Epic boss took to his ex-account over the weekend to once again make clear his position that AI content disclosures on Steam are abhorrent and a forced political statement.

Sweeney recently attempted to take a swipe at Valve by releasing an updated, vibe-coded version of the god-awful Epic Games Store that he claimed ran so much faster than Steam, only for Steam to preemptively roll out its own update that already beat it.

That was very funny.

Now he's back, this time expressing outrage at Valve's requirement that developers announce if Gen AI was used in the production of a game.

I don't know what's wrong with me today.

I'm about to milk this.

And my second co-host dove headfirst into the sea of AI slop to sacrifice her mental health to find you the best demos to come out of the Steam Next Fest.

Miss 5,000 Watts, say what up.

hello hello yes uh the world is upset with ai slop games except for a certain ceo i think you should take them all and harbor them a safe home to keep them away from me

Fair enough.

We're going to get your opinion on a different week.

So instead, let's pivot to the Steam Next Fest.

For those unaware, Steam Next Fest is a festival where they celebrate all things indie.

The feature gathers games and recent releases it thinks you might be interested in based on what it knows about you and arranges them by release date just for you.

Yeah, this one's been in beta for a while, and people are way into Steam anyway.

I really, really like it.

Scientists at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and the Beijing Institute of Technology in China have published a solution to the problem of how to read a qubit in a quantum computer without needing auxiliary qubits.

That's a big deal.

94% positive on Steam.

Now, people on Steam, they're not messing around.

Like, if it's not good, they will let you know.

So, apparently, it's pretty good.

It is coming out hopefully at a console soon.

I played it on Mac.

It's on PC and Mac on Steam.

From Jawi Morales.

Jailbroken PS5s can now run Steam PC games.

You can now sign in with your Steam account and install games from your library directly to the console.

This should make absolutely perfect sense.

Steam has done a lot of really good work in taking little AMD chips, running on other platforms, other consoles, like Linux, like the Steam Deck.

Great compatibility for PC games in general.

Little AMD processors, Steam compatibility, been really, really, really, really, really good.

And so now you can jailbreak your PS5, and I bet you that's probably a pretty decent platform for playing PC games.

But, you know, viewing it in the totality of the Shadowrun trilogy or whatever, it has real big, like...

This is like, we're not going to do early access, but we're going to do a chapter, you know, like a chapter zero prologue entry on Steam to kind of put it out.

And I think that an awful lot of it has to do with its kind of strict linearity and the fact that it never really sits still in any one thing long enough to really be about anything.

Yeah.

I've got my little laptop right there.

I did find and customize a pretty good controller configuration.

And with that, you can stream over your Steam Deck.

Oh, nice.

Like the remake version? The remake,

yeah, because it was like £1.70 on Steam.

You sure that was the remake one? Maybe not.

Because that was the main reason I didn't play Alan Wake 2.

I'm trying to remember if I played it on PC.

I can't remember.

I don't think it was on Steam.

I think I was playing it through Game Pass.

When someone buys something and they used a creator code, we or any creator program partner will need to know, okay, well, what was purchased? How much was spent? What currency was used? And then which creator code did the player's account, was it attached to? And all of that information is sent after a transaction happens, so it doesn't interrupt the actual process.

We, for example, don't need to speak with Apple or Steam or any of the actual payment platforms.

And Getting that information through an API integration is really simple and straightforward.

The only other work that the publisher needs to do is actually build that field in game where the player types in which creator they want to support.

All right.

Now, you've got games on the computer? Yeah, a couple on Steam, yeah.

All righty.

We should be all sweet then.