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Feral Interactive will livestream DiRT Rally on March 1st
1 Mar 2017 at 6:20 pm UTC

Quoting: saildata
Quoting: tuubiI'll be there to annoyingly beg for a launch discount. ;)

Please do! :)
And I just did. Their answer:
DiRT Rally is £39.99 on Steam right now. No news on possible launch discounts!
We'll just have to wait and see.

GOG is having another weekly retro sale with eleven Linux supported titles
1 Mar 2017 at 11:18 am UTC

So it seems. SangreDeReptil might want to fix the article. My point still stands, these adventures are well worth it.

GOG is having another weekly retro sale with eleven Linux supported titles
1 Mar 2017 at 10:54 am UTC

Some of the best adventures ever made for pennies. Insanely good deals.

Looks like Telltale's 'The Walking Dead' may be coming to Linux
1 Mar 2017 at 9:46 am UTC

I like traditional adventure games like Telltale used to do, but I don't much care for this format. Maybe there's a remote chance they might bring their older catalogue over if this stuff sells? I'd definitely want to play the Sam & Max stuff at least, and Puzzle Agent seems cool.

LiquidSky, the 'PC in the Cloud' gaming service will support Linux
28 Feb 2017 at 9:38 pm UTC Likes: 3

People make noise about the input lag and video quality with in-home streaming. I wonder what kind of miracles they expect when it all happens over the Internet.

Khronos announce 'OpenXR', their new standard for virtual reality and augmented reality
28 Feb 2017 at 9:16 am UTC

Quoting: elmapulwe are already in this situation.

OSVR came to become an open source, vendor neutral standard.
SteamVR came to become an standard but its not open.
Oculus want things exclusive for then, they dont want make an interoperability standard, just be the standard by sheer marketshare.
Samsung Gear VR and Daydream i have no idea.
This always happens with new, emerging tech. A useful technical standard simply can't be written until there is some sort of a consensus on how the technology is supposed to work.

As lucinos wrote above, OpenXR is designed to sit between the application and the different vendor implementations, not to replace them. Hopefully OpenXR will serve to facilitate software development for a wide set of consumer VR hardware, without stifling continued innovation. Because innovation is sorely needed before I'm likely to get excited about VR.

Feral Interactive will livestream DiRT Rally on March 1st
28 Feb 2017 at 8:50 am UTC

Quoting: chancho_zombieI don't know about if feral won't get a cent, they do sell linux keys, they have the linux icon unlike other stores that don't have it. I'll wait a couple of days to see if they update the page to display the linux icon.
They seem like a legit key reseller, but as far as I understand, key resellers sell pre-generated keys, and usually these keys register as Windows sales. In addition to a Linux icon, you probably need to check if they add Feral as a publisher. Currently they only list Deep Silver. Or you could just mail their support and ask.

Personally I like to make extra sure what little money I spend supports Linux gaming, but the choice is yours and I'm not telling you to boycott nuuvem.com or anything. Let's hope the game is worth the wait. :)

Shadow of War, a sequel to Shadow of Mordor announced, no word on Linux yet
27 Feb 2017 at 7:38 pm UTC

Quoting: scaineNo idea how people find time (or patience) to rack up thousands of hours in games.
That is the question. My most played game on Steam happens to be Mad Max at ~90h and I cannot imagine investing much more than that on a single game. I'm sure some online games take a lot more time and dedication, which is probably one reason I never properly got into any of them.

Shadow of War, a sequel to Shadow of Mordor announced, no word on Linux yet
27 Feb 2017 at 3:49 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: EikeI liked Shadow of Mordor, but got bored over time with its Ubisoft formula.
I think it's just the unimaginative and tedious execution of the formula that did it for me. I loved Mad Max. I liked the early Batman Arkham games and AC IV Black Flag on my brother's Playstation, and even the positively moronic Just Cause 2 was very entertaining. These all build on the same core mechanic but do it better IMHO. I uninstalled SoM before getting even close to halfway in I think. I will try to pick it up again at some point, but I'm not looking forward to it. Maybe you need to be a Tolkien fan to appreciate this game?

Quoting: BeamboomSo I hope one can select gender as part of the main game (and not just a DLC skin) and stick to that gender throughout the game this time.
I doubt it. The teaser suggests you'll be playing the same main character.

Pictopix, a very clever logic puzzle game involving counting squares
27 Feb 2017 at 2:13 pm UTC

Oh another nonogram/picross game. Good, I like them and so does the wife. I don't see any novel twists or ideas in the video, but that's okay as long as the puzzles are well designed and the interface isn't idiotic.