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An interview with the developers of the Heroic Games Launcher
10 Sep 2024 at 9:02 pm UTC Likes: 2

Steam + Heroic, and Linux becomes a gaming powerhouse (sorry Lutris).

The save Team Fortress 2 petition lands at Valve HQ with over 340,000 names
9 Sep 2024 at 8:51 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: scaineand now my goddam principles are throwing them a middle finger.
This is the way.

The creator of Lutris has joined up with Playtron for PlaytronOS
9 Sep 2024 at 8:48 pm UTC Likes: 1

the development of PlaytronOS "directly contributes to the evolution of several open source projects".
I guess it could be truly beneficial for all at the end. But recently I've gotten really tired of the "it serves a greater cause, so anything bad that might happen is okay" notion. Web3 is the red flag for me here. But who knows, maybe with all that corporate backing, this could help with low hanging fruit such as anticheat on linux for example. We'll see.

Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay
8 Sep 2024 at 2:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: legluondunetor you can try "GPU recorder" app:
https://flathub.org/apps/com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder [External Link]
This project is great but it has a few limitstions, the setup is too long; unless this has been implemented in an update, you'll have to launch this program first, then select whether to Replay or Record, then you can use the hotkeys. The big thing with Steam recording feature is that it works automatically, and it turns on only when its needed (when you're playing).

I wonder if it's possible for one of these recording solutions to work in a way where it'd a small process waiting in the background, and when aa Vulkan application is launched, it'll start recording, similar to how MangoHud can be configured to work in any Vulkan game. I'm saying all of that as someone with zero programming knowledge at all, so don't mind me if i said something impossible and silly.

GE-Proton 9-13 released bringing in a fix for World of Warcraft
5 Sep 2024 at 6:10 pm UTC

Heroic also uses wine 8-26 by default, and recommends against using Proton-GE if possible, one reason being Proton doesn't produce helpful logs if it came to it. I only play 2 games on that launcher (Among Us and Fall guys), and the default wine works pretty well.

Humble Choice for September 2024 has Guardians of the Galaxy, Coral Island, Stranded: Alien Dawn
3 Sep 2024 at 11:45 pm UTC

Guardians of the Galaxy is a great game. I highly recommend it.

Risk of Rain creators Hopoo Games join Valve
3 Sep 2024 at 4:47 pm UTC

Quoting: WYWSo I guess no hope of Hopoo swooping in and fixing the RoR2 debacle that Gearbox created with the newest DLC.
If anyone isn't aware just look at the community discussion and patch notes, RoR2 is currently mutilated and broken in countless ways after the newest update.
Man, that sucks, I was going to try and get my friends back into it. How bad is it?

Risk of Rain creators Hopoo Games join Valve
3 Sep 2024 at 11:15 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: wytrabbit
Quoting: pb"What do you think they will be working on?"

Given Valve's track record, definitely not Risk of Rain 3. :whistle:
Quoting: PyrateRIP Risk of Rain 3.
In any other article it would have been funnier, but Liam just mentioned above how Gearbox handled the 2nd game and will be responsible for RoR's future...
Party pooper.

Risk of Rain creators Hopoo Games join Valve
3 Sep 2024 at 9:42 am UTC Likes: 2

RIP Risk of Rain 3.

Linux smashes another market share record for August 2024 on Statcounter
2 Sep 2024 at 2:50 pm UTC Likes: 9

I wish there's better ways to run these statistics, as I know many people including myself either directly or indirectly use browser agent switchers. On Librewolf (what I use), everyone has a Windows user agent by default.