[Steven W]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/03/ ... e-console/

It's been over two years since major players in the international game industry united to largely cut off the Russian market in response to a request from a beleaguered Ukraine. The relative isolation has apparently forced Vladimir Putin's government to contemplate the kind of homegrown gaming hardware and software that characterized Cold War gaming behind the Iron Curtain.

PC Gamer brings word of a series of recently approved Russian economic orders from the Kremlin. Amid talk of airport and museum funding, ocean shipping, and road construction is the somewhat bewildering instruction for the government to (machine translation):

consider the issue of organizing the production of stationary and portable game consoles and game consoles, as well as the creation of an operating system and a cloud system for delivering games and programs to users

Oh, is that all?
A massive undertaking

Seriously? Don't worry about a console, you need a 'Russian Steam'. A platform that will run on Chinese CPUs/GPUs. OpenGL? A custom Linux Distro... Am I wrong?

[Steven W]

Kinda looking there are some sites dedicated to a single game...

[Steven W]

https://store.steampowered.com/steamos

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamos_kernel

[!]

I know SteamOS and Steam are locked and DRM but I still like Steam, its DRM actually never bothered me, they did it the right way I guess.

Also there prices and discount sales are really great, who wants to pirate copy crap off random sites and risk getting viruses, for a $5 game. They've been very fair IMHO, granted, I haven't had a PC for a few years now so maybe things have changed.

[Steven W]

Well, setting aside the argument regarding DRM, when the government of some shithole where the corporation running the thing decides to cut people off from it, *maybe* it was NOT worth paying for in the first place.

[Steven W]

Well, setting aside the argument regarding DRM, when the government of some shithole where the corporation running the thing decides to cut people off from it, *maybe* it was NOT worth paying for in the first place.

Well, setting aside the argument regarding DRM, when the government of some shithole where the corporation running the thing RESIDES decides to cut people off from it, *maybe* it was NOT worth paying for in the first place.

I guess that also raises just as much of an issue with the DRM, all information you trust them with, how dependent you make yourself on their service(s) (not only meaning video games here)...