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'Motorsport Manager' won't get a Linux version until later, despite it releasing with a SteamOS icon (updated)
By Liam Dawe, 10 November 2016 at 3:27 pm UTC
Well, Steam didn't contest my refund request, I hope the developer takes note of my comment on it.
Tyranny, the massive new RPG from Obsidian Entertainment releases today day-1 on Linux, our review
By raverrebel, 10 November 2016 at 3:20 pm UTC
Too bad that there is no multiplayer (especially local split screen, like Divinity has, would be nice)..
Tyranny, the massive new RPG from Obsidian Entertainment releases today day-1 on Linux, our review
By whitewolfguy, 10 November 2016 at 3:16 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quotereleases today day-1 on Linux

This is music to my ears.
Tyranny, the massive new RPG from Obsidian Entertainment releases today day-1 on Linux, our review
By cRaZy-bisCuiT, 10 November 2016 at 2:59 pm UTC Likes: 5
Why don't you guys just accept a game could possibly have no cloaks?


I'm pretty sure they were about to implement cloaks, but then the dev team took an arrow to the knee.
Unity 5.6 will be the first version of Unity to have SDL for Linux
By Beamboom, 10 November 2016 at 2:58 pm UTC
Quoting: liamdawe@Beamboom the correct way is "should have", but let's not have article comments descend into grammar hell?

No no by all means - I just have always wondered about this particular "odd" way of writing, since I've seen it "everywhere" and it's so explicitly wrong (in my eyes).
But I understand now (also thanks to those who sent me a PM on the subject!) that it's a way of mistyping "should've" since it sounds a bit like "of" at the end. I still think it's odd, but at least I now know that it's not me whom vocabulary is just a bit outdated. :)
Tyranny, the massive new RPG from Obsidian Entertainment releases today day-1 on Linux, our review
By lucifertdark, 10 November 2016 at 2:44 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: liamdaweThe game as far as I could tell, doesn't have cloaks.
Well that's one way of fixing the problem, leave them out totally. ;)
Tyranny, the massive new RPG from Obsidian Entertainment releases today day-1 on Linux, our review
By QuanTuM, 10 November 2016 at 2:34 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Stupendous ManI suppose the question we all want answered is: do cloaks show?

Will they ever fix that? I check after every update but still no capes for tux in PoE...
Tyranny, the massive new RPG from Obsidian Entertainment releases today day-1 on Linux, our review
By Liam Dawe, 10 November 2016 at 2:22 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Stupendous ManI suppose the question we all want answered is: do cloaks show?
The game as far as I could tell, doesn't have cloaks.
Tyranny, the massive new RPG from Obsidian Entertainment releases today day-1 on Linux, our review
By Stupendous Man, 10 November 2016 at 2:20 pm UTC Likes: 1
I suppose the question we all want answered is: do cloaks show?
Tyranny, the massive new RPG from Obsidian Entertainment releases today day-1 on Linux, our review
By Liam Dawe, 10 November 2016 at 2:14 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: GuppyFeel free to include an "executive summary"
Both myself and BTRE included a summary near the end. A one line "TLDR" won't do the game any justice.
Tyranny, the massive new RPG from Obsidian Entertainment releases today day-1 on Linux, our review
By Guppy, 10 November 2016 at 2:11 pm UTC Likes: 1
Feel free to include an "executive summary"
'Motorsport Manager' won't get a Linux version until later, despite it releasing with a SteamOS icon (updated)
By Liam Dawe, 10 November 2016 at 1:48 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: elbuglione3 simple steps:
1- Report Bug (missing OS support)
2- Negative Análisis (misleading advertising)
3- Refund
About point 2- You can't do a review if you haven't even loaded the game.
'Motorsport Manager' won't get a Linux version until later, despite it releasing with a SteamOS icon (updated)
By elbuglione, 10 November 2016 at 1:36 pm UTC Likes: 1
3 simple steps:
1- Report Bug (missing OS support)
2- Negative Análisis (misleading advertising)
3- Refund
'Super Rad Raygun' might be the retro action game you need, now on Linux
By NOX LinuX , 10 November 2016 at 1:25 pm UTC
It's great to see so much Native Linux games made to work on All Linux distribution(ubuntu,fedora,etc)
I've started this week installing ubuntu 16.04 LTS from scratch and it's proprietary Drivers intel & Nvidia GTX 970, so far works great on my desktop PC
'Motorsport Manager' won't get a Linux version until later, despite it releasing with a SteamOS icon (updated)
By whitewolfguy, 10 November 2016 at 1:19 pm UTC Likes: 4
It is extremely sad to know that. I think Steam should have some way to not allow such a practice.
'Motorsport Manager' won't get a Linux version until later, despite it releasing with a SteamOS icon (updated)
By Eike, 10 November 2016 at 1:17 pm UTC Likes: 2
It wouldn't need computer magic at Valve's side to automatically test that there's at least something downloading for every supported system...
Motorsport Manager released, sort of, currently downloads nothing on Linux
By Liam Dawe, 10 November 2016 at 1:17 pm UTC
Update: Linux isn't planned until later, I am not amused.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided released for Linux, port report and review
By amachini, 10 November 2016 at 12:30 pm UTC
Great post! I have a question: There's good support for Nvidia graphics card on Linux? What kind of drivers are you using? The game seems pretty smooth, impressive.
Developer of 'Steam Marines' talks sales, Linux represented 2% over the lifetime of it
By -Daniel-Palacio-, 10 November 2016 at 12:13 pm UTC
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: SangreDeReptilOn a related note, by reading all the comments I had an idea (that I'll post here so that you can Like it if you agree): what about giving these communicative developers a special badge, like the "GOL Supporter" and the "Contributing Editor" ones? Not only it would be a gesture of respect for caring about our community, but also it would be easier to find the developers' responses among the huge number of comments in articles like this. It would only take a single mail to verify the identity and that should be enough.
We used to do it, but removed it, can't remember why. I just added it back in and enabled it for them :)
This is nice. Also, potential trolls won't be able to impersonate developers now.
Motorsport Manager released, sort of, currently downloads nothing on Linux
By leillo1975, 10 November 2016 at 12:10 pm UTC
Quoting: TuxeritoI want that game :(

I have the Android version from Google Play, that version was released years ago but the new version includes new options and better graphics.

I also play a lot the android version. It's a very addictive game. Must have to me
Black Mesa, the very popular fan-made recreation of Half-Life is now on Linux in beta
By individual, 10 November 2016 at 11:42 am UTC
Works ok for me. I'm already after this huge 3 head monster...
System is Arch with Nvidia 760 and latest drivers. Up to now no single bug observed.
Unity 5.6 will be the first version of Unity to have SDL for Linux
By Magamo, 10 November 2016 at 11:40 am UTC
Hmm, I wonder if this will fix the longstanding issue I've had with unity games (and perhaps it's fixed, I've not checked with newer unity titles) where you cannot launch multiple unity applications at the same time.
Unity 5.6 will be the first version of Unity to have SDL for Linux
By Tak, 10 November 2016 at 10:51 am UTC
Quoting: kellerkindt
Quoting: MaCroX95I'm not really familiar with SDL, does this mean that games will be able to run in independent window manager regards of which one system uses (x11, wayland, mir)? If that is the case this is some great news!

SDL is more like a thin layer you talk to (your application -> SDL -> X11/Wayland/Mir/whatever).
It allows you to use the same code for everything SDL supports. So you tell SDL to create a new window, and it will sort out how to do it on your system.
Yes. However, as Na'Tosha said, only the X11 backend will be supported at first - Wayland and Mir will come a bit later, as everything gets set up for building/deployment/testing of those configurations.
'Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice. Reloaded' now available on SteamOS & Linux
By Eike, 10 November 2016 at 10:23 am UTC
Quoting: ImantsFirst game had very many jokes about Russian culture which usually are lost in translation so I do not recommend any of these games without Russian language knowledge.

I got the same impression from reading the reviews.
'Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice. Reloaded' now available on SteamOS & Linux
By Imants, 10 November 2016 at 10:02 am UTC
First game had very many jokes about Russian culture which usually are lost in translation so I do not recommend any of these games without Russian language knowledge.
'Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice. Reloaded' now available on SteamOS & Linux
By VaDen, 10 November 2016 at 10:01 am UTC Likes: 1
This is actually a remaster, the original is considered cult classic in Russia. Not sure if the English version will give you the full experience, but it's probably still worth a try.
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS lives again, about to get a lot more multi-threading
By Liam Dawe, 10 November 2016 at 9:55 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: TcheyI still didn't digest their price/DLC/Community policy.
Continuing to develop and support games costs a lot of money over time, producing a newer version with lots of new features is time consuming, not every developer can do that sort of thing for free. They continue to support both PA and PA Titans, PA got tons of free updates over it's life.

That's because it wasn't a polished game when it was released and should have never been released when it was. Those "free updates" were patches, and them slowly attempting to deliver a full game. Every game should have free bug fixes and should be finished.
It wasn't the most polished game at release no, but tons of games have so many issues that never get fixed, I am personally thankful they have supported it as well as they have so far. It gained plenty of new features during these free patches, the kind of stuff other developers would have happily put into DLC, Uber aren't as evil as people keep trying to say they are.
Unity 5.6 will be the first version of Unity to have SDL for Linux
By Liam Dawe, 10 November 2016 at 9:48 am UTC Likes: 3
@Beamboom the correct way is "should have", but let's not have article comments descend into grammar hell?
Steam store updated, Valve still haven't fixed filtering to only Linux games on the homepage
By rea987, 10 November 2016 at 9:45 am UTC
Quoting: GuppyBit annoying that you can only choose 3 tags to show fewer of - not even block, show *fewer* of. Still one can hope that adding visual novel to the list will stem the flood of crappy pixel boobs shovelware that keeps cropping up

Well, if you mean nude girl games which pop up every now and then, filter the term ANIME. ;-) But yes, we should have at least 10 filters.
Unity 5.6 will be the first version of Unity to have SDL for Linux
By Beamboom, 10 November 2016 at 9:45 am UTC Likes: 2
I'm sorry about this digression into a discussion of grammar, however there's been a burning question for me a long time and I want to use this opportunity now that I saw this usage of the word "of" again:

QuoteAbout time. Should of been using it from the start. Would of eliminated tons of problems they had with the engine on linux.

I see this *all* the time: This usage of "of" instead of "have"!
This is not meant as an insult or anything towards this particular poster cause like I say, I see this absolutely everywhere and it puzzles me every time.
My question is: Is it legit English? Or an American variant? Or is it a kind of slang?
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