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Neon Wings: Air Race is a new sci-fi arcade racer in Early Access
1 Jan 2021 at 1:03 am UTC
Happy New Year! :grin:
1 Jan 2021 at 1:03 am UTC
Quoting: fubenalvoThe game mostly made in free time, after work. Two of us working on it. Sadly we have no budget for a bigger testing team, so we are using our players for that.Hi there. That's perfectly understandable, and you reaching out is appreciated. Let me get back to you with a bit more information after the smoke from all the fireworks has settled down. :smile:
Happy New Year! :grin:
Neon Wings: Air Race is a new sci-fi arcade racer in Early Access
30 Dec 2020 at 3:42 pm UTC
30 Dec 2020 at 3:42 pm UTC
It's a REALLY early version from what I have seen. Controller support is partial at best, menus are clunky, and my ship would just randomly fall into the abyss right at the start without any explanation of what is happening or what I should be doing.
Sony to officially support the PS5 DualSense on Linux with a new driver
28 Dec 2020 at 3:17 pm UTC Likes: 2
28 Dec 2020 at 3:17 pm UTC Likes: 2
I wonder what the motivation of Sony is? Their consoles do not run Linux, and they only have a few games published on Steam. Has Sony done anything out of kindness of their heart ever?
The Steam Winter Sale 2020 is now live, plus a new Codemasters Humble Bundle
23 Dec 2020 at 9:13 am UTC Likes: 8
Even though I consciously know this, it still is so tempting to buy the game on sale that I maybe will play some day. When the truth is that I still have more than a bunch of games that I haven't played from 5+ years ago.
Will I buy more games this time around? Yeah, I most likely will. :grin:
23 Dec 2020 at 9:13 am UTC Likes: 8
Quoting: DorritI wonder what percentage of buyers really save money on these sales?That's exactly the idea behind sales. Let's say I have games A and B that cost $20 each in my wishlist. That's $40 I don't really want to spend considering I have a bunch of other games I haven't played yet. Now they go in sale for $7.50 each. For me it means I can save $25! Woohoo! But for the publisher it means I just gave them $15 that I wouldn't have spent at all.
I ask because I have the feeling many will buy much more than they normally would, and filling up their library with unplayed games :tongue:
Even though I consciously know this, it still is so tempting to buy the game on sale that I maybe will play some day. When the truth is that I still have more than a bunch of games that I haven't played from 5+ years ago.
Will I buy more games this time around? Yeah, I most likely will. :grin:
Quake II RTX adds support for the official cross-vendor Vulkan Ray Tracing
16 Dec 2020 at 11:20 pm UTC
16 Dec 2020 at 11:20 pm UTC
Quoting: gardotd426Because I remembered reading something like this: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Not-just-RTX-even-the-Vega-56-can-do-ray-tracing-at-1080p-30-fps.420357.0.html [External Link]Quoting: LinasNot seeing VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline extension on my Vega 56. And unsurprisingly it doesn't start.Don't know why you would think it would, since the Vega 56 doesn't support Ray Tracing.
Collabora announce their Wayland driver for Wine
16 Dec 2020 at 12:22 pm UTC Likes: 2
16 Dec 2020 at 12:22 pm UTC Likes: 2
Nice. Looking forward to it.
I tried switching to Wayland on my gaming machine recently, and the experience was pretty nice overall. Firefox VAAPI and WebRender acceleration seems to work much better (when configured correctly) than on X11. Some games even felt a tiny bit smoother, although I have no data to backup the claim.
I switched back to X11, because some Proton games behaved a bit weird. For example the mouse pointer was invisible in The Witcher 1. This new driver may be exactly what is needed.
I tried switching to Wayland on my gaming machine recently, and the experience was pretty nice overall. Firefox VAAPI and WebRender acceleration seems to work much better (when configured correctly) than on X11. Some games even felt a tiny bit smoother, although I have no data to backup the claim.
I switched back to X11, because some Proton games behaved a bit weird. For example the mouse pointer was invisible in The Witcher 1. This new driver may be exactly what is needed.
Quake II RTX adds support for the official cross-vendor Vulkan Ray Tracing
15 Dec 2020 at 4:00 pm UTC Likes: 1
15 Dec 2020 at 4:00 pm UTC Likes: 1
Not seeing VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline extension on my Vega 56. And unsurprisingly it doesn't start.
Stadia gets direct to YouTube livestreaming, a new home page, new games and more
9 Dec 2020 at 9:20 am UTC Likes: 3
9 Dec 2020 at 9:20 am UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: hardpenguin...it took a while until this feature arrived in the Epic Games Store as well...That's quite a low standard to measure against. :tongue:
Uno Platform 3.1 released, adding Linux support to their Universal Windows Platform Bridge
3 Dec 2020 at 1:03 pm UTC Likes: 3
3 Dec 2020 at 1:03 pm UTC Likes: 3
This stuff is really interesting. Anything that reduces the friction between Linux and Windows is a good thing in my book.
At work all our servers are Linux, but desktops are Windows. And it always seemed that these are two separate worlds that have nothing in common. But now a lot of people started using WSL on their desktops for development of our server applications. Some are content with that, and think why would they run Linux when they can do it all in WSL? While others started questioning why do they need Windows at all if they spend all the time in WSL anyway? A double edged sword for sure, but at least people are talking about it now!
As for daily work, all the developer tools, Microsoft Teams, and Skype work natively on Linux. Office 356 runs in a browser anyway. Printers work via CUPS. Windows shares via Samba. Evolution is a great replacement for Outlook, and works just fine with an Exchange server. Surviving as a Linux user in a corporate environment is not nearly as much of a struggle as it has been.
At work all our servers are Linux, but desktops are Windows. And it always seemed that these are two separate worlds that have nothing in common. But now a lot of people started using WSL on their desktops for development of our server applications. Some are content with that, and think why would they run Linux when they can do it all in WSL? While others started questioning why do they need Windows at all if they spend all the time in WSL anyway? A double edged sword for sure, but at least people are talking about it now!
As for daily work, all the developer tools, Microsoft Teams, and Skype work natively on Linux. Office 356 runs in a browser anyway. Printers work via CUPS. Windows shares via Samba. Evolution is a great replacement for Outlook, and works just fine with an Exchange server. Surviving as a Linux user in a corporate environment is not nearly as much of a struggle as it has been.
Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator from IPACS is now available on Linux
24 Nov 2020 at 11:29 am UTC Likes: 2
24 Nov 2020 at 11:29 am UTC Likes: 2
Looks like Euro Truck Simulator of the skies. I'm in. :happy:
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