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Feral about AMD driver support
7 Dec 2015 at 12:07 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: maodzedunHowever, the real blame lies with developers who go the quick and dirty route instead of writing clean code, which results in unplayable performance in on AMD and Intel and nerfed on Nvidia.
How many professional game implementations did you check to make these claims?
Because I'm sure at Feral they did check some.

GRID Autosport releasing for SteamOS & Linux on December 10th
5 Dec 2015 at 11:34 am UTC

Quoting: PublicNuisanceHopefully it is accompanied by a sale like Bound By Flame :) A man can hope. between Steam and GOG sales lately I am running low on cash.
AFAIR, the big Linux releases were all accompanied by sales, right?

A developer on Tesla Effect details why the Linux port never arrived
4 Dec 2015 at 7:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

Does anyone know why Bink video is that widely used?
What's the big advantage over say MPEG?
Is it more efficient for computer-generated graphics?

GRID Autosport releasing for SteamOS & Linux on December 10th
3 Dec 2015 at 10:53 am UTC

Good news!

(Waiting for the comments of people who said they don't care for AMD...) :-(

Linux is holding exactly where we thought it would in the Steam Hardware Survey
2 Dec 2015 at 8:02 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: tastyjerkI wonder if we'll actually see a big push at some point in time by Valve for the Steam Machines. Needless to say the launch of the Machines was more of a whimper than a bang, but I think it's pretty common knowledge that SteamOS itself needs some more polish and support from developers. Will there be a point where Valve is satisfied with the state of SteamOS and Steam Machines that we'll actually see them push into the mainstream eye to try and get more consumers? I'd love to see it happen.
I don't think so. It either grows solwly on people or it doesn't. No push, no bang.

Total War: ATTILA looks like it's preparing a Linux & SteamOS version
2 Dec 2015 at 4:32 pm UTC

Quoting: ArehandoroWhy they never port the ones I own. I need my Shogun 2!

Good news anyway :)
They want your money! :p

New Linux Gamer Survey For December
2 Dec 2015 at 9:11 am UTC

Quoting: MohandevirHey! What a surprise! It's kind of off-topic but I just logged into Steam and I got the Steam Survey for the first time in nearly a year. I might just be "lucky", but since it's the first survey after the official release of the Steam Machines, anyone else is in the same situation?
I had this some months ago, also at the first of the month AFAIR, but nothing special this time here.
New Steam number 0.98% (+0.03%). We're a very slightly increasing percentage of a probably very fast growing group. Not too bad.

The most popular Linux gaming articles for November 2015, 137 in total
2 Dec 2015 at 9:09 am UTC

Quoting: fleskI don't mind that the games I like to write about usually don't make it to the top 20. I would love to see more interest in the crowdfunding articles though, since crowdfunding has given us many great Linux games.
If you look at the top article, many of the views don't come by overly interesting articles, but by revisits due to many user posting.

New Linux Gamer Survey For December
1 Dec 2015 at 12:39 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: IlyaI bought 2 Steam Controllers (one that I've been enjoying a lot and a second one that I'll be putting under the Christmas tree together with some Local co-op games)
If you didn't yet buy Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - do it! Have fun! :)

New Linux Gamer Survey For December
1 Dec 2015 at 12:10 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TheBossI appreciate everyone wants to see their particular distro listed everywhere, but we want to keep the bracket lists short enough so people get which one to tick and nothing more :)
I guess most users of Arch-based distros know that they are. More so perhaps than some users of Debian-based stuff. ;)