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The Sunday Gaming Section, Linux Gaming From Around The Web

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Here is some Sunday reading for you from other gaming sites across the internet. Not much generally happens on a Sunday, so let's see what's been going on elsewhere.

OMGUbuntu recently did a poll on dual-booters for gaming, and a whopping 58% dual-boot for gaming. This is out of 7,300+ people and only around 20% no longer dual-boot.
Not a surprising statistic as OMG's following isn't fully Linux gaming related, but more of a general Ubuntu site.

RootGamer took a lot at some screenshots for Edge of Eternity a good looking RPG coming to Linux.

Humble Indie Bundle 12 is still going for those that somehow missed this!
Quite a few good games in this, and I can't wait to see what extra games will come.

LinuxGameCast took a look at "The Bridge" and gave it three chairs, so it seems worth checking out.

Rock Paper Shotgun did a post on what CPU to buy for gaming and basically said not to bother with AMD. Ouch!

What have you been up to this weekend, and what are your gaming plans for the rest of it? I have been "testing" Destiny on the PS3 and it's surprisingly good. Linux wise I am still aiming for world domination on Civilization V! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Izberion Sep 15, 2014
Quoting: GuestOut of curiosity, what CPU do you have? I’d like to upgrade my first gen Core i3, but really it’s still enough for a lot of things… Only a few games (*AHEM* witcher 2 *COUGH*) seem like they may be CPU-limited. That, and video encoding / compiling C++, of course.
I have an i5-2500k but with Broadwell coming out this year it'll be 3 generations behind. But it helps that I have 16GB of RAM and 4GB VRAM from my GTX 770.

By the way I run Witcher 2 on Ultra (without Ubersampling) at around steady 60fps on both Windows and Linux.
neffo Sep 15, 2014
Quoting: Segata SanshiroWhat really put me off the site though is this mac-like cultish devotion to the distribution

Looking at the figures for the GOL poll, I can already say that those stats are WAY different. It's a shame though that GOL doesn't have the readership to pull off 7,000 responses (the poll is currently at around 10% of that) considering this is a much better site in almost every respect.

I wouldn't call people who duel boot to Windows "cultists". It's pure pragmatism (ie, the opposite).

And Ubuntu is the most popular distro, it's also the target distro for Linux builds. Again, it's pretty straight-forward if you "just want to play games". Go with the two OSs that are mostly likely to work (or more importantly, are supported).

Why diss people for choosing Ubuntu? Punch up, not down/sideways.
Segata Sanshiro Sep 15, 2014
Not dissing dual-booters or Ubuntu users (I use Xubuntu and Kubuntu myself), I was referring to OMG Ubuntu, its content and readership.
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