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Quoting: thelimeydragonI have a copy of what could be claimed to be the first "Star Wars" game. Although it is not officially licensed. Was made in 1978 for the RCA Studio II clones (bit more to it than that but that's a whole other topic). It's very to extremely rare.. but you're not missing out on much.

Ah yeah, I'm aware of that one! I've been having trouble getting solid confirmation of whether or not it's licenced though.

Initially I'd hoped to be able to include and/or write about fan-works, but with 4 months' worth of reserach going in to licenced titles alone, and without any way to be as comprehensive as I like my stuff to be, I decided to not pursue them. I hope somebody does someday!

There's also the Star Wars Electronic Battle Command game thing, which may have been the first licenced Star Wars game, but again, in the interests of keeping the scope to something that I could manage within one lifetime, I ended up sticking to what could I could identifiably classify as a "video game" (so, no Star Wars Trivial Pursuit either).

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I have a copy of what could be claimed to be the first "Star Wars" game. Although it is not officially licensed. Was made in 1978 for the RCA Studio II clones (bit more to it than that but that's a whole other topic). It's very to extremely rare.. but you're not missing out on much.

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Ryzen hype :D

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Can't. Didn't change.

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That indeed was a lovely announcement, so lovely in fact that I bought the game purely based on it. I don't think I'll have the time to play it any time soon, but Linux love is Linux love :)

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I wish the zoomed out view had more of an aquarium theme than what is shown in the trailer. As it is, it's an adorable idea, but it looks a bit too sterile and doesn't quite tickle my fascination with marine life.

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Wolf Among Us and Walking dead ...my favorite ones from TellTale...haha

goVEGAN

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KOTOR. The end. The only SW game you need lol...

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Shmerl in a nutshell: Praises and feels excited about games also releasing GOG versions;dislikes and not interested at all Steam only Linux games.

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Quoting: wolfyrionI have seen only 1 movie of StarWars (that one with the young Anakin racing?) and played 0 games... :P
It seems that I cant find anything exiting about the franchise

Arguably, you've seen the worst Star Wars film ever made (arguably worse than Battle for Endor). In the full article, I spend some time digging into what I think makes Star Wars interesting/culturally resonant. If you're looking to understand why it's exciting to so many people, that section might be worth reading.

Quoting: ShmerlIt's a shame Aspyr can't wrap things up and release KoTOR II for Linux on GOG already. It's playable in Wine though. Same as KoTOR I.

Yeah, it is a shame. I don't know what the ins and outs of Aspyr's publishing rights for KotOR 2 are. It's possible that there are some unseen hurdles in the way.

Inversely, it'd also be nice to get the DOSBox packaged stuff like Dark Forces up onto Steam as well, but I suspect that GOG are the ones driving that, so it's unlikely to happen.

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I have seen only 1 movie of StarWars (that one with the young Anakin racing?) and played 0 games... :P
It seems that I cant find anything exiting about the franchise

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It's a shame Aspyr can't wrap things up and release KoTOR II for Linux on GOG already. It's playable in Wine though. Same as KoTOR I.

Some of my favorite soundtracks from there:

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It's not quite ready to handle KotOR/KotOR 2 yet, but DrMcCoy's xoreos engine will someday allow people to run both of those games natively on Linux in a F/OSS engine.

The project's always hunting for more contributors, so if you're mad keen on KotOR and want to help out, I'm sure that would be super welcome :D

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Quoting: GuestI benchmarked Talos with all the governors on my Core i5 4690K, in Vulkan mode, on Linux 4.9.6 with nvidia 375.26.

Long story short:
- intel_pstate performance and powersave give the same framerate (76.5 FPS).
- acpi_cpufreq ondemand and conservative achieve the best performance (78.7 FPS).

Both CPU core 0 usage and GPU usage were 100% when I benchmarked in Ultra quality, but I tried again with the GPU Speed setting set to Medium to make sure the GPU wasn’t the bottleneck and still got the same framerate for intel_pstate performance and powersave (~240 FPS).
EDIT: I also tried the opposite, CPU Medium and GPU Ultra, again same framerate.

As for OpenGL all the governors gave the same framerate (55 FPS) except acpi_cpufreq powersave (29 FPS).

I have some mixed Intel results here showing that overall there's not much difference indeed in average FPS. http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1605221-DE-ALLGOVERN95
However, it can be a significant improvement in alleviating the stutter especially in not so demanding games (where the CPU gets down-clocked frequently).
Also it was something much more visibly on my previous AMD CPU.
Thing is, fiddling around with governors is not something that will give instant guaranteed boost in performance on every game and every CPU out there, but is something worth trying when you want to squeeze some more oomph from your CPU.

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Sounds interesting, and good to see them trying to release it widely on day one.

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Quoting: inlinuxdudeI saw this on Steam last night and was checking it out. It has great reviews, and I used to love that type of game (played Wolf:ET on Linux for thousands of hours).. My only reservation is my twitch reflexes aren't what they used to be when I was younger, so I'm kind of hesitant to drop $20 for a FPS game where I'll likely be outclassed and quit playing soon. So, maybe I'll wait for a sale to pick it up.

Don't worry too much, you wouldn't be the only one whose reflexes ain't anymore what they used to be. (In fact, I consider myself a really bad FPS player but I still greatly enjoy Day of Infamy.)

Day of Infamy isn't one of those run 'n gun games that all tend to end up in a frenzy, like for example Battlefield. It's a tactical shooter and in my opinion the pacing is just right.

I greatly enjoy Day of Infamy and totally prefer it to Insurgency. It has something that Insurgency and, in fact, most multiplayer FPS lack: atmosphere. New World Interactive did a great job with the sound design to bring this game alive. The fights are usually tense and even if we lose, I often find them pretty rewarding nonetheless.

I can only recommend this game.

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Haven't tested it myself but believe they should, will update once I gwt home and have a chance to test. They are javascript files that are put in a plugin folder that your project.

Update: Haven't tried every single plugin, but everyone I did test (about 40) didn't seem to have any issues.

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Quoting: GuestI've dumped 8 hours into Kona .. haven't really experienced any bugs except the headlamp used for repairing the snowmobile re-appearing every time you reload the area.

I think this may be due to another known bug having recently being fixed. I won't reveal too much here though.

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Lovely release announcement ^_^

QuoteLinux has given me so much and with that I am happy to announce that I can give something back to it. Although small and niche The Away Team grows the Linux game count by one. Something I could not be more proud to do

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Hopefully we'll finally get crossplatform MP with all platforms with the patch. Aspyr hinted in the Linux thread on Steam thread that that would be the case.

As for the civs? I'm not sure we needed a third ancient Greek leader. I'd rather have the Eastern Roman Empire if we must have more Greeks. If there's a scenario included, though, I look forward to recreating the Anabasis. Perisa is a good choice though, can't wait to try them out.

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I was hoping for some questions and weighing in on VR, whether they have SteamVR dev environments setup, whether they're seeking any contracts to port VR games or port over the VR features in a more standard game, etc. I think a porting contractor giving VR a lot of attention will be pretty critical for VR's success on Linux.

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Quoting: inlinuxdudeI saw this on Steam last night and was checking it out. It has great reviews, and I used to love that type of game (played Wolf:ET on Linux for thousands of hours).. My only reservation is my twitch reflexes aren't what they used to be when I was younger, so I'm kind of hesitant to drop $20 for a FPS game where I'll likely be outclassed and quit playing soon. So, maybe I'll wait for a sale to pick it up.

There is also a great coop mode, so dno need to be afraid of other players when all they do is help you!

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The great thing about this game as well as the developer's other game, Insurgency, is the amazing coop mode. You don't have to compete with others and can simply join a game where you and a small group complete objectives against some pretty competent bots. I already owned Insurgency, so I got a small discount for Day of Infamy by completing the bundle on Steam. Insurgency also runs on Linux, in case anyone is interested.

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Quoting: tuubiEDIT: I tried to resist fixing that minor typo but I'm weak.

I know how that feels.

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Quoting: EikeBut they do! Their performance levels are called Mhz, not governer.

I found something new which is also strange. When Ubuntu boot, for 2-3 minutes it shows that its in „performance“ mode. After that time, it switches to "powersave" and rest in that mode all the time.
This is seriously stupid whoever invented this. It should work automatically but it doesn't work at all.

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Quoting: GuestAre the two new civs free or it's a paid dlc thing?

DLC, but part of Digital Deluxe if you purchased that version.

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For those puzzled by the lower perf with Vulkan vs OpenGL, check if shadows are working correctly in OpenGL mode.
At least on my system in OpenGL mode they seem to work at random (most often not).

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Catherine de' Medici, leading France, speaks sometimes a very good Italian with Florence accent - she was originally from there. However, I'm not good enough in the history of the Italian language to know if back in the 16th century they really spoke that way.

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Is porting games to Linux commercially sustainable for Feral as per the current sales? This will indicate to us whether we will continue getting games on Linux.

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Quoting: Micromegas"Hannah Montana Linux" - lol. Never heard of that distribution. ;-)

Here! Check it OUT! It's real! :D
http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

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