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Stadia has games free to try this weekend for Stadia Pro, 'Project Hailstorm' is teased
22 Jan 2021 at 6:36 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: spayder26Stadia, where you pay full retail price to rent games until they shut down, and where an expensive subscription gives you trials and 30 cheap games (which between old, bad, and indie ones, are worth of 20 bucks as a whole on sale).

Still not getting their value proposition against using your own games in services like shadow.tech
I get to play AAA titles which I probably would only have played through once or twice like AC Valhalla or Cyberpunk, on Linux, on a machine which could not remotely hope to run them properly even on Windows.

And I can play from the couch on the TV if I want to.

And shadow.tech has crazy waiting times at the moment. 6 month until you get access... I'll forget the games existed till then.

Odin is finally pleased so the open-world survival game Valheim releases on February 2
19 Jan 2021 at 1:23 pm UTC

Finally. Unsure yet if I will buy in early access or at release though...

Still have AC Valhalla and Cyberpunk to finish on Stadia.

But I will buy it, that's for sure.

The Linux distribution I was most thankful for in 2020 - EndeavourOS
6 Jan 2021 at 2:47 pm UTC

Been on Arch for over 7 years and in the end started hopping again. Got too lazy to setup things complicated I guess, and got mad at opt depends required to get MTP working in Dolphin didn't get installed and it just kept throwing errors at me (we had windows phones at work, they only had MTP as option).

Took me a while to figure what's wrong. And that's why I do not want any arch-based distro, since they will never deliver the best desktop experience out of the box.

But I needed something more or less rolling since I want to be pretty up2date with the libraries I target. Which left me with Solus.

Not always as fast as I'd like with updates, but mostly they have good reasons (I really needed kernel 5.9, which they blocked due to a regression with certain hardware), so I had to run a custom kernel.

But in general I'm very happy with Solus, and it's year 4 now since 1st of January, I never looked back. Which is surprising considering how often I hopped 2013-2017.

Mad Max and Shadow of Mordor delisted for Linux and macOS on Steam
4 Jan 2021 at 3:18 pm UTC

Sad, but ye. When there are licenses expiring...

This means the end for feral getting cuts on linux sales, so it's probably right the original publisher is not advertising it.

Wished they have had some permanent agreement, but when it comes to licensing that's hardly ever done.

Stadia Pro gets F1 2020 free in January 2021, all users can claim Crayta free right now
1 Jan 2021 at 12:56 am UTC

Just subbed Stadia and bought Cyberpunk and AC: Valhalla. I'm only playing on HD, so no 4K, and my connection is about 75 MBIT.

The experience so far has been really better than I expected. So far no lags, no disconnects, stable experience, easy launch. On top of that, no disk space used, no downloads required.

Due to my system growing old, and me being reluctant to replace it, if it makes it to actually have enough titles.. why not. I'm not really in on the game streaming, I keep thinking how often I really have time to replay a game (except of KCD, DA:O and M&B Warband which I got combined more than 1k hours played).

Only thing which bugs me is that my KDE tray keeps popping up when I press escape to exit an in-game menu ... there may be some workaround, but it annoys me (my workaround is hitting the windows button twice :D).

For me playing on linux a streaming concept could work. My setup changed moving to one place with my better half, I'll in future only have a work laptop with docking station and no gaming PC any longer, so remote rendering and a good connection may get me rid of my gaming rig. I'd prefer it coming from Valve though. Just personal preference, also considering what they did sponsor in the Linux gaming marked I'd like to keep giving them some love back. But that will need Valve to get the gears turning and bringing out some serious hit in that direction.

Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
10 Dec 2020 at 8:46 am UTC

I'll probably try Stadia for this. I doubt my RX460 will do, and I have no plan for a beefy and louder GPU.

Steam Play Proton 5.13-2 compatibility layer is out now with improved Direct3D 12 support
14 Nov 2020 at 11:36 pm UTC

Fixed mouse cursor in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.

Yeey!

Linux game manager Lutris gets a small update for Direct3D 12 using VKD3D-Proton
21 Jul 2020 at 12:30 am UTC Likes: 1

They're doing a really great job there at Lutris. Coming from PoL this service is a huge improvement over what PoL was. I was sceptical at first it would end up in a script hell again, but it's a really pleasent and nice to use service. I agree with Perkleen, a donation is in order.

Tropico 6 gets a new 'Lobbyistico' adding in a Corruption mechanic
9 Jul 2020 at 7:38 pm UTC

It's still on the weekend sale.. is it by now half playable and not that bug riddled any more? The reviews after release were quite devastating when it comes to bugs/crashing.