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Feral Interactive are teasing yet another game on their radar
4 Mar 2016 at 11:54 am UTC

Quoting: melkemindGuys, this is quite obviously Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which runs on the Fox Engine. :D
all MGS games since 3 are built on Fox engine. and FoxHound is highest rank game references to. sadly, i doubt it is so. MGS already has hefty requirement and port taking additional toll wouldn't be funny at all. as much as i wish for this, it won't be so

Quoting: lucifertdarkThe Overlord games. :D
those are ported by VP

Valve will be at GDC talking about Practical Development for Vulkan
28 Feb 2016 at 12:51 pm UTC

color me blind here, but what is Unity guy doing here talking about practical use?

as far as it was told not so long ago, they haven't even started it. Epic on the other hand is demoing working Vulkan in Unreal for S7

Vulkan 1.0 specification and SDK have been released
16 Feb 2016 at 3:26 pm UTC

Quoting: rustybroomhandleHah, the "Multiple operating systems" slide in the video shows several specific Linux distros, plus a generic tux icon. :)
hmmm, android, linux and windows7-10 already cover big fucking majority

GPUOpen has launched, AMD open up more to the community
9 Feb 2016 at 4:09 pm UTC

That probably refers to things such as async compute, features of Vulkan/DX12/PS4/Xbox1 which aren't in OpenGL or DX11
true about async, for the rest i beg to differ. all published things relate to DX11

GPUOpen has launched, AMD open up more to the community
9 Feb 2016 at 2:41 am UTC

name GPUOpen and this

Current and upcoming GCN architectures (such as Polaris) include many features not exposed today in PC graphics APIs
just doesn't make any sense.

while Gameworks suffers from being closed and that is why it only works good on NVidia, this one is tied to GCN and features not exposed in APIs. it is just another type of vendor lock-in

it is really sad if it is so. i kind of expected GPUOpen to bring something to the table

Tomb Raider, the awesome 2013 version looks like it's heading to SteamOS & Linux
31 Jan 2016 at 3:15 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestFirst I thought this was great news, and then I watched some gameplay and read the negative reviews on Steam… Camera moves by itself to take annoying angles, many QTEs (for which you probably need a gamepad), many cutscenes. Exactly what I hated in Mordor.

Hopefully they port Dishonored 2 next…
as far as QTE goes, in TR they worked much better with keyboard than controller. and of those only 5 are bad since they completely fucked up gamepad part there where you couldn't pass trough it if you had even a bit worn controller.

but, when you use QTE on kbd, it doesn't show key which you need to press. it showed symbolic icon for action and this pissed a lot of people

Bound By Flame has a new Linux beta to fix some issues
24 Jan 2016 at 12:45 pm UTC

Quoting: STiATFinished it three times. Certainly was worth the money, expected a lot worse than it was. As expected, a very straight forward not really dialog-based story (a few choices about which way you're going, more demon-way or more human way), but a fun game. The gameplay / controls (playing keyboard/mouse) was sometimes rubbish, but I can see it work better with controllers (still need to get my steam controller).

The thing which was a bit annoying was the difficulty-jump to the end. Through the whole game, it was combat wise not really challenging at all, you didn't need a lot of tricks or potions anywhere, and the last boss was like a jump from 0 to 100. Even the end seems to be abrupt. Gave me the feeling that they had to cut the storyline to actually get the game out for what ever reason. That's of course just speculation on my side.

Overall I can recommend it if you like this genre of games, for the price tag it has, it was a lot of fun to me. It was even a steal a while back on steam at a sales.
it has so called "heavy gameplay" which is not liked by many people. you either have power or agility, never both and this requires more thought put into strategy. if you go and watch dark souls you'll notice the same pattern... use the weapon with most damage and roll like crazy and this doesn't work here, this is why reviews on this game are so poor

for me personally it was best buy i did

Vendetta: Curse of Raven's Cry To Release This Month, Free Upgrade With A Manual Process
4 Nov 2015 at 10:54 pm UTC

lol, why the fuck must i provide receipt when i have it on my steam account? they could just populate update

Borderlands 2 & Borderlands The Pre-Sequel Updated
31 Oct 2015 at 4:41 pm UTC

Quoting: oldrocker99I know I suck at FPS, but I can't even kill the very first boss :'( . It'd be nice if I could see the rest of the f*cking game...
ever thought of using coop feature? it exists there for exactly that reason. hell, even i made at least 20 characters just to help people with same problem as you and not screw their game with being op. and i'm not even close to being hardcore player. if you're at first boss, you can't be more than level 5

borderlands is most fun when you play with other people

Don't Count On Any EA Frostbite Powered Games On Linux
12 Sep 2015 at 4:20 pm UTC

Quoting: BdMdesigN
Quoting: ricki42For EA games it's not just the engine, it's also Origin that would need to be ported.
Still, Mass Effect: Andromeda would've been nice.
Yes of course, but use the Steam HWsurvey for a stament is poor.
Realy poor and nonsense, if you don't have Linux with steam 4 linux installed to see how much you get the survey.

But i see it on windows, too.

I have my steam account since 17. October 2013 and i got 2 surveys on the native linux
client, one on wine and one on Windows native.

So i got 4 surveys in 2 years.
Do you see the irony?
sad thing here being...

you want Linux support, yet your actions says you'd give money to them anyway since in reality you don't really care if game has Linux support or not.

your words speak one thing, your wallet another

not to mention, there is nothing nicer for Linux than some user playing wiser from person who actually matters. same kind of stupid as that last comment from petition for Blizzard