Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 14, 2024)
2024 games: Upcoming releases
Best PC games: All-time favorites
Free PC games: Freebie fest
Best FPS games: Finest gunplay
Best MMOs: Massive worlds
Best RPGs: Grand adventures
On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through every single game that is released on Ste…
Steam Deck app that unified your Epic and GOG games on Steam removed by Valve days after it appeared on Steam
Junk Store is an existing plugin for the Steam Deck homebrew launcher Decky Loader, and its purpose is simple: it allows installation of games from GOG and the Epic Games Store. It was recently announced that Junk Store would be releasing on Steam as standalone software, allowing players to play any and all games from competitors, with developer SDK Innovation saying it lets you “install and launch games directly in Game Mode without switching to Desktop or relying on external launchers.”
That all sounds pretty convenient, but the big question is whether Valve would be cool with it: the nature of Junk Store would’ve made it the first product available on Steam that changes the functionality of Steam itself.
Readers: Valve was not cool with it. The Junk Store steam p…
OpenAI, a company built on ‘scraping’ content without permission, makes a copyright claim against a subreddit using its logo
OpenAI is a company built on the work of others. Techbros may hail CEO Sam Altman as some sort of digital messiah but, with apologies to Monty Python, really he’s just a very naughty boy, who understands that if OpenAI hoovers up as much content as it can to train its models, then all we can do is close the stable door long after the horse is bolted. OpenAI trains ChatGPT on copyrighted content by design, and dares society to try and stop it (on which note, good luck to the New York Times with its lawsuit).
One of the advantages of all that lovely venture capital flowing in is that OpenAI can afford all the lawyers it wants to fight these battles. But maybe there was something of a lull recently, because OpenAI has issued a “copyright complaint” against the r/ChatGPT subr…