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Obsidian and Paradox team up for new RPG called Tyranny and it's coming to Linux
16 March 2016 at 3:31 pm UTC Likes: 1
Count me in. Obsidian is one of my favorite game developers.
GOL Asks: What have you been playing recently?
16 March 2016 at 3:29 pm UTC
I've been playing a lot of demos lately but for full games I am working on Deadfall Adventures. It's overall got sold gameplay, nothing special but not bad. The sad thing is they only had one guy working on the Linux version and he left the company so it has been in an endless beta phase where it has seen zero improvements in almost 2 years. Going to probably play the visual novel RE: Alistair++ once i'm done.
Ubuntu 16.04 dropping the AMD Catalyst/fglrx driver
11 March 2016 at 3:33 pm UTC Likes: 2
I can only cite my personal experience. From a crashing and reliability standpoint I will take AMD drivers any day of the week. I have had multiple issues with various Nvidia cards over the years on Linux ranging from not booting the OS after a restart to simply not wanting to run the driver install file in the very first place. AMD drivers have not crashed on me once and have never given me any issues such as the OS not loading after a restart. I have installed the FGLRX drivers as well as the drivers right from AMD website same as with installing Nvidia drivers from the driver manager as well as Nvidia's website.

From a performance standpoint I have always been underwhelmed with AMD on Linux. I can't even max out Pillers of Eternity with my R9 280X without my framerate dropping to the 20's at times let alone more intense games such as Shadow of Mordor.

Due to performance reasons my next GPU on my Linux system will most likely be an Nvidia GPU. It saddens me because I despise most of Nvidia business practices and would rather go AMD. I would rather support AMD who gave us TressFX which runs on both AMD and Nvidia cards well instead of Nvidia's Hairworks which kills performance on AMD cards. I would rather support AMD who supports OpenCL which runs well on both Nvidia and AMD cards instead of Nvidia's PhysX which kills performance on AMD cards and slapped original Ageia PhysX users such as myself in the face when they bought the company. I would rather support AMD who is a big reason we have Vulkan coming up instead of Nvidia who hopped on the Vulkan wagon when it suited them.

I maintain a Windows system because at heart I am a PC gamer and if after a few years a game still isn't on Linux then I don't feel the need to wall myself off from a good game. I buy between 5-7 linux games a month, I donate to Linux Mint, I donate to various Linux patreon Causes. On the Windows side of things I will continue to support AMD but on Linux I doubt I will be able to.
Interstellar Marines seeking funding again as they let staff go
9 March 2016 at 2:44 pm UTC Likes: 1
If I had the money I would just start gifting copies of it to people, that's how much I would like to help them get additional funding and get this finished but sadly I am not in a financial state where I can do that. Best of luck to the developer.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II and expansions look like they are coming to Linux & SteamOS
7 March 2016 at 4:32 pm UTC
Dawn of War II was solid. Haven't played retribution. Would be welcome news.
DiRT Rally also looks like it's coming to SteamOS & Linux
7 March 2016 at 4:31 pm UTC Likes: 1
According to Steam I already own this game. No idea how that happened. Must have been a bundle. I'd still give them some money if it came to Linux.
Life Is Strange looks like it will come to SteamOS & Linux
7 March 2016 at 4:30 pm UTC Likes: 2
I have already picked this up but I would happily buy another copy if it came to Linux. Furthermore it would be awesome because it would mean future games from DontNod may be Linux bound. Vampyr is looking great.
A chat with AtomicTorch Studio about their Linux sales with Dinocide & VoidExpanse
7 March 2016 at 3:00 pm UTC
I love articles like these because most times I had never heard of the games mentioned or the developers behind them. I am not the biggest fan of space sims or platformers but I am enough of one to want to support this developer. They have the right attitude about Linux development and we could use more like them.
A chat with the developer of Quest of Dungeons about their Linux sales
6 March 2016 at 2:13 pm UTC Likes: 1
Looks interesting enough and price is right. I should be picking it up in a couple pay cheques.
Microsoft's latest tactics show Gabe Newell of Valve was right to worry
2 March 2016 at 3:11 pm UTC
I doubt I will ever give a cent to the Windows Store. I tolerate Steam when a game is on Linux, is less than $5 and can't be found elsewhere but the Windows Store won't have Linux and I highly doubt Quantum Break will be less than $5. DRM free is my big checkbox for games to hit, even more so than Linux.
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