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Trump administration debates allowing Tencent to keep its gaming stakes, FT reports

The White House is debating ‌whether to allow Tencent to keep its stakes in major video game groups as U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in China in ⁠April, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
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March 3 (Reuters) - The White House is debating ‌whether to allow Tencent (0700.HK), opens new tab to keep its stakes in major video game groups as U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in China in ⁠April, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

Top officials have held internal meetings to assess whether Tencent's investments in U.S. and Finnish gaming firms pose a national security risk, the newspaper said, citing several people familiar with the deliberations.
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Can't wait until the regime forces Epic to divest from Tencent and makes Tim sell the shares to either the Saudis or the Ellisons.
 
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"Hi Elon! Big Mars fan here."
 
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Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google until 2032

Epic CEO is muzzled.
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On March 3rd, he not only signed away Epic’s rights to sue and disparage the company, he signed away his right to advocate for any further changes to Google’s app store polices. He can’t criticize Google’s app store practices. In fact, he has to praise them.

The contract states that “Epic believes that the Google and Android platform, with the changes in this term sheet, are procompetitive and a model for app store / platform operations, and will make good faith efforts to advocate for the same.”
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That's amazing. I guess he'll just double down on the anti Valve stuff rather than stfu though. But for some stuff you can go "hey Tim Google/Sony do it too, stfu".
 
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If I'm reading this correctly, Google still charges a platform fee for Google Play transactions even if you use an alternate payment processor or link out to a web store. Tim has criticized Apple for charging to use alternate payment processors and implied Valve has a similar program for then handful of games on Steam that link out to other stores. I know he's under court order to be Google's bitch, but this doesn't seem like that big of a change compared to the old terms.
 
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I assume Valve will bring ARM emulation of PC games along with potentially native android apps. The emulation will be a big deal since people can just download their existing Steam games and play on their phone.
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Yep. Steam games are already playable on Android through unofficial apps, it's only a matter of time until Valve launches an official app.
 
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edin said:
I will be using this on the ayn thor at some point when I can. I'm curious how it works and holds up.
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I’ve been doing a bit of research and the consensus seems to be YMMV.

For 360-era games and earlier, performance is solid and if you can get the game running it’s a good experience.

Later than that, and you’re dealing with custom drivers and such. But they have decided to walk this path with Steam Frame and FEX, and all of that directly benefits Android too, so any Valve solution is going to be good.

The work is mostly done, so this feels like a good opportunity to me.
 
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