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Playtron: the startup hoping to Steam Deck-ify the world


What if Steam Deck, but not just Steam and not just Deck?

And he says games like Fortnite and Roblox shouldn’t have to fear hackers reverse engineering their anti-cheat solutions because its Fedora Silverblue base has an immutable file system. Co-founder and CTO Franck De Girolami leads product: he was a programmer and later project leader on the Alone in the Dark games, which pioneered the 3D survival horror genre. McMaster tells me Playtron’s definitely skewing more toward the ease of use of a Nintendo Switch, partnering with Perplexity on an AI agent that could keep “core-casual” gamers from ditching games prematurely just because they got stuck on a challenge or puzzle.

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