Latest Comments

And i teasering divided by two perfomance compared with wine/windows.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Would love if it was FarCry, but I highly doubt it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Apart from significantly better graphics what can this do for me that OpenRCT2 can't? Serious question cause I do have a fondness for these sorts of games and would definitely be willing to buy a new one if it gave me a good reason to.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I know that that type of drum is a jembe, a traditional West African kind. It has a reputation for being loud and distinctive. So maybe something that involves a beat of some sort? No idea about the spacious skies.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Ummm... Homeworld?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

The original is hilariously great, too bad it's not on Linux and sadly doesn't have the most active community either. I really look forward to Remasted!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I'd only heard of the series before and it seems neat. It's really cool to see more Japanese games being ported to Linux, especially indie ones. Hopefully it won't be too long before it's out for linux.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

One of these days I'll get round to actually playing the original.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

While these calculations look interesting and show some kind of trend, they have even more influences of unknown factors then the ones you already discussed.
Current number of players and number of active Steam Users are probably correlated, but in no way linear.
Essentially, the conclusion that linux users are growing slower then steam itself are directly taken from the steam-survey percentage. Nothing new learned.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

That is one hell of a weird game franchise. I do enjoy it in all it's craziness though.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

The Ship: Murder Party is one of the best games I ever played

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Don't forget about Crossover/Wine users

View this comment - View article - View full comments

awesome <3

View this comment - View article - View full comments

That's quite a weird "teaser" trailer >.< but the game looks like it could be some fun

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I initially stared playing on rather high settings, then bumped into frame drops at the exact same location as Liam had. After experimenting with graphics options, I ended-up having texture quality at high, while lowering shadows/details/reflections to normal. I had no more frame drops since then (currently about 40% into the game). The game now runs very smooth on my moderate machine (1920x1080, GTX 870M 6GB, i7, 16GB RAM) and I'm bloody enjoying it!!! :) Still, my almost maxed out visuals and fluid experience of Shadow of Mordor is yet to be beaten.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: t3gThe last time I got a survey was over 6 months ago and I play on GNU/Linux almost daily. By Valve doing these silly surveys instead of using login and game data, they are hurting the perception of their SteamOS as well. Don't they care at all? Or will we assume that Valve will simply give up if this situation doesn't get better?

The publishers / developers are simply not interested in just "how many people use which OS". That's in fact too less information for game development, especially for bigger titles considering the system requirements. They need the information about how many users use which OS and which graphics cards to see their potential target market. If 90 % (in example) of the linux steam users use Intel drivers, I can see why we're not given so much love. On the other hand, since Feral etc. are mainly betting on NVidia, I'm pretty sure the majority of linux gamers runs NV cards.

Of course valve knows how many users use linux, and even if it's 5 %, the number is completely irrelevant for developers/publishers unless they run that on gaming rigs which are strong enough for their games, making them a target audience. So probably the target audience for bigger games is way below even that 1 %.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I got the survey too yesterday. That's for the first time in 3 years!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: CreakInteresting statistics!

I've got a question about it... I don't know how the peak of concurrent users number was taken, but if it was taken the same day the Steam statistics went out, we might have a problem here.

The Wayback Machine does not archive the Steam Statistics page daily. I took the closest archive date to the 20th of each month. So yes, it is possible that there is some noise due to a differing number of users during a week.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

The last time I got a survey was over 6 months ago and I play on GNU/Linux almost daily. By Valve doing these silly surveys instead of using login and game data, they are hurting the perception of their SteamOS as well. Don't they care at all? Or will we assume that Valve will simply give up if this situation doesn't get better?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

awesome, chucklefish has shown they seem to know what they are doing. Starbound works flawlessly and has the linux binaries for modding Starbound. so I'm confident this will be really good.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

This still doesn't account for SteamOS users though, right?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I really do hope to see this on Linux soon.
I would like to see SEGA follow their example by porting of their new version of Genesis/MegaDrive classics that have Steam Workshop compatability.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Instabuy for me, I thought Ethan already has a playable version available for donator? Have been replaying Harvest Moon FoMT this entire week on emulator and now this news comes out. Can't wait :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Atari shall be removed from the List of Shame™ once they make good on their promise.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: ElectricPrism(Maybe because this blog is based in Europe I just assume when I hear football that I'm hearing about soccer)

Agree, but some people will never understand the difference between football and handegg!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Nyamiou...There is a lot of Steam users that only play one game, and often it's a free to play game, those guys don't matter much...

An excellent point. I wonder how many of the steam users just play Dota, Counter Strike, or Team Fortress and absolutely nothing else.

I was in fact wondering why so many games continue to get ported to Linux even though all indications show 1~2% market share!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Nice! Day-1 buy for me, I love Harvest Moon :D

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Mountain ManActually, the Linux version of XCOM 2 ran comparable to and even slightly better than the Windows version. It was Firaxis who "downgraded" some of the visuals in the performance patch. Feral just ported those changes into the Linux version.

View video on youtube.com

Wow, that's quite surprising! Then I guess some hope's restored, though XCOM 2 was released recently and costs much more than Tomb Raider after three years. So it's much more likely to be optimized. The driver issue still stands as I see and unfortunately 35x.xx branch just isn't for me, NS2 crashes with it frequently and Steam crashes as well when changing game category.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: slaapliedjeI still think that after all this time, all games with a multiplayer aspect would have the functionality built in. Consider an MMO where if you aren't within a certain distance, your group can't hear you. If for example in something like ArmA, you had to whisper to ambush your enemies, whether they are people or AI. I think one of the Splinter Cell games had this option. Adds to the Immersion.

I think Unturned works this way

View this comment - View article - View full comments

we need better linux user calculations. just for example. %2 of 100.000 linux users in 2015 is maybe lesser than % 1 of 500.000 of linux users. And we have to calculate Wine users too. so wine should create user survey.

View this comment - View article - View full comments