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Quoting: BeamboomBut... I thought this engine for all practical purposes was dead now? Are there new games released on it nowadays?

A few, apparently [External Link].

I've removed Homefront from the list, and Snow is an "upcoming video game", which leaves... none.

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Quoting: PatolaMe too. Another one for my wishlist. But I tend to buy when there is some sale. Is it safe to buy while it is still sold as "Windows and Mac only"?

Some people report a Linux sale counts even if the game is not officially available for Linux yet, but I'd wait for the icon to appear. Got the additional advantage of people trying it out before you.

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Quoting: EikeCompare the overall best title selection for 2016 to the one for 2017. IMHO, it has already happened.

1) You're mixing up the years.

You're right, fixed it in the quote for making my point clearer.

Quoting: liamdaweI get it, we don't get a lot of AAA titles, but what's with all the negativity from people lately? Unless you had crazy wild expectations - we all knew this would take a long time to build up.

I'm still getting more good games than I've time to play (plus my time to play has shrunk dramatically). But when I look at the list of best games for 2016, it looks more impressing to me - especially big production wise - than the one for 2017. I didn't expect a huge explosion (and I'm saying so for years now), but a shrink would be/is still disappointing.

Long time to build up, all fine, but what about a long time to crumble down...?

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Quoting: BeamboomI'm sorry I haven't participated in the nomination process, but nobody nominated We Happy Few in the anticipated category??

Other than that, I really think that category is a sad sight, it demonstrates a glaring lack of major releases to Linux. There's pretty much just indie titles again, with an exception for a rather old title, Tomb Raider.

Compare the overall best title selection for 2015 to the one for 2016. IMHO, it has already happened.

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Quoting: g000hIn terms of exposure to Linux, this old neighbour had an old laptop with a broken Windows install on it (Windows 95 or XP, I can't remember). I offered to fix it for him, by installing Linux. He happily engaged with Linux - browsing, emailing, OpenOffice for working on documents and spreadsheets, making Skype calls and messages. He wasn't really used to Windows, and took up Linux with very limited computer skills - and managed okay with it.

IMHO, Linux is very suitable for people with nearly no computer knowledge. Of course, they cannot fix/administrate it. But they cannot fix Windows either when it's broken.

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Quoting: crt0megaThis and "WTFs/min" should be web-standards!

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Quoting: Mountain ManI didn't much care for the demo -- it struck me as a starkly humorless take on Portal -- but Croteam's Linux support is almost without peer, and I'm tempted to buy this game for that reason alone.

While Portal is more humorous than Talos Principle, in my humble opinion the latter is the better puzzle game.

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Quoting: adamhmAlso here's a key for Hard West that needs to be used ASAP as it will expire today if it isn't used.

I tried it five minutes after you posted, but it seems someone was fast in redeeming and slow in saying thank you...
Anyway, thanks for the offer!

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I stopped playing Divinity due to the §$"§$! Rock-paper-scissors system. :-(
I hope the second part (if it gets ported) doesn't have that?

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Quoting: HoriThis has been going for 10 years. 10 years and none of their skilled engineers noticed? I find it kinda hard to believe that. They either did not care enough about finding the problem, or they tried to hide it.

It's not like there's a huge open door (like Apple had some weeks ago with their root logins). People have invented an extremely clever way to expolit hardware features (and yes, I could hardly call them bugs). I'm a software developer myself and I had no idea how they would tunnel data from the predictive execution branch (which is not going to save any data were it can be read) through to legitimate code. This cache data tunneling is so sophisticated and I didn't even yet look how they manage to delay the memory exception...

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