Regarding the comments on the official linux port of Arma 3 - that's long dead. They were having the porting done by a third party, it became too expensive* to pay that company to keep updating when they were releasing updates every couple of months and so they paused work on port updates. Then Proton came along, the game was working on linux under Proton and was costing BI nothing so they officially killed work on the port.

* Confirmed unofficially and in private by a friendly BI dev that they were being charged eye-watering amounts to keep the port updated.

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A BI Dev on Discord said they already contacted BattleEye about this a month ago and still haven't heard back ...

https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/105467328782692352/907328253042233446 [External Link]

One thing seems pretty clear, BE have done a piss-poor job of communicating this stuff to Developers. It was the community that originally told BI about the support for Linux, not BE and now it seems BE aren't responding to the developers. Yet BI are the paying customers of BattleEye ...

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Quoting: MorguldirKinda "old" news, they confirmed it here: https://twitter.com/feralgames/status/1420319814648795137 [External Link]. I'm guessing they already had a contract for porting Total War: WARHAMMER III, since they do seem to have given up on further linux ports.

Not just Linux, they don't seem to have anything else on their 'radar' for OSX, iOS or Android either. This is in sharp contrast to past years when they would have several games being worked on simultaneously.

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: GBeeI'm going to repeat my speculation that they will start releasing some desktop processors without a GPU so that they can compete on core count with AMD without increasing the package size. Their discrete GPUs will then be bundled with those CPUs to system integrators.

They did. Since the generation 9, processors of the "F" line comes without iGPU...

It was my understanding that the F series have the GPU it just failed qualification testing so is disabled. Therefore it still takes up space on the die.

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I'm going to repeat my speculation that they will start releasing some desktop processors without a GPU so that they can compete on core count with AMD without increasing the package size. Their discrete GPUs will then be bundled with those CPUs to system integrators.

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Well I hope this stands up against the original. Unfortunate that the release date falls just a month after the lockdown is lifted - I plan to spend as little time inside as possible.

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It's not surprising but it's also not really the end of the road. A DCMA claim is not the same as a Cease and Desist or any other legal measure. It requires no proof to be provided up front and for this reason, the fact that the repo is offline is NOT an indication that the developers were in any way in the wrong. The developers can challenge this with Github and if Take Two's lawyers cannot immediately provide a solid legal reason for the DCMA order (say because the repo contained Take Two assets), then the repo would be restored.

The fact that they went with a DCMA and not more formal legal proceedings suggests to me that this was a drive-by attack by a company, not necessarily a law firm, hired to protect Take Two's IP/Copyright.

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Quoting: 14I feel like we're starting to see the negative impact of Steam's Proton. That is: Larger development studios are no longer building (or porting) Linux releases because they can get Linux buyers "for free" anyway. Linux gamers (myself included) will buy the Windows version and rely on a compatibility tool to play.

Glad I'm not the only one disappointed to see an almost complete lack of new AAA game ports.

Even the last major porter, Feral seems to be getting out of the Linux ports business, they used to put out a few games a year, but now we're lucky to see one. In fact, are they about to close down? They have literally nothing on their radar.

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Unfortunately there were no offers that would have enabled the bankruptcy estate to close the deal.

It sounds as though they did get offers to buy, otherwise wouldn't they just say "There were no offers." Instead they seem to be saying "there were no offers we could accept".

So given the choice for the estate is between zero money and some money to go to the creditors, why wouldn't they sell?! In those circumstances aren't they obligated to accept any offer?

I quite liked Rochard, although I originally bought it purely because it was one of those early games that offered native linux support, in what I'll call in hindsight the 'glory days' of Linux gaming. It wasn't super-challenging, but the gameplay premise, story etc were pretty well done.

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Yeah, my current laptop is high-end Dell. Honestly if a Ryzen based XPS comes to market it will be an instant purchase for me - even with the Windows tax.

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