Quoting: on_en_a_grosI'm just curious, is there a way to know if my purchase is affiliated with GoL?

Unlike Humble, GOG don't show it on the store when your purchase helps a partner. However, if you use our links you should be fine. You can check if there's cookies for GOG named "pp_st" and "pp" that have "b2a10a6c3dcadb10c8ffd734c1bab896d55cf0ec" in them (the same code added to the end of our links).

I can say plenty of people do use our partner links, and they really do help us.

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Quoting: subHi Liam,

thanks for the work!

While the absolute number of Linux releases per month is certainly interesting,
I'd be even more interested in what fraction that represents with respect to the total number of games released in that very month.

Would that be possible?

The number of games released per year on Steam increases every year for the last 10 years
https://www.statista.com/statistics/552623/number-games-released-steam/ [External Link]

To give you an idea of that, on Steam there's around 34,412 released games. Through December, for Windows around 770 released compared with the 85 for Linux. It won't be drastically different to that most months, always a big gap. The main thing though: Windows gets a LOT more junk. Honestly, 90% of it is just whatever someone could push out once they've paid to be on Steam. A lot of them just reskins of Unity, Unreal, Game Maker etc game packs and complete rip-offs of other popular games with 90% less effort put in. I honestly find with indie games, a lot of the time if they're on Linux they're the ones with some effort put into them.

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Quoting: dulsiHas the developer said if the expansion is coming to GOG?

I would have thought so since the first DLC is, but GOG is slow atm due to holidays.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyHuh, I don't get why you'd play it with Proton. That's an AGS game.

I played that, a few years ago, with a native AGS build I compiled myself. Really, I wish the dev would just publish a Steam package using a proper AGS build for Linux

Part of the point of Proton isn't it? Users don't need to compile anything or mess with anything, they click and play.

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Quoting: mylkaspeaking of proton. could it be, that it got a little quiet around protondb since they force you to link your steam profile?

Doesn't really help that it's not instant, which it really should be. I see people confused on this all the time, that ProtonDB additions don't appear right away.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

since they don't support Galaxy on Linux yet

You know, there is optimism, and then there is naivety...

I am the forever optimist, don't judge me :P

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Quoting: ShmerlAlso, I get the impression that total number of users with active stats is dropping month after month. I'd expect the opposite if Linux gaming is gradually growing. Why the negative trend?

People dropping offafter two years. A lot of people don't update it once they do it initially so it removes them.

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Quoting: BielFPs

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: 95ych0I've never played any of Half Life. I hear such acclaim about it. Can I get into the series by playing Black Mesa without playing the original?

Yes, this is the original, just enhanced.

It's actually a fan remake, but they are very faithful to the game's lore (in some points better than the original).

I'm very aware of what it is...

Quoting: appetrosyan

Quoting: 95ych0I've never played any of Half Life. I hear such acclaim about it. Can I get into the series by playing Black Mesa without playing the original?

I disagree with Liam. The original has an atmosphere that’s not the same in the remake. Partially because the sound design is the toughest thing to get right if you’ve never done it professionally. A lot of the bugs simply add to the experience, and as much as I like BMS, the original is better.

Wow, people get really really anal about Half-Life, who knew.

I was simply trying to be clear that this is the first party of the story.

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Quoting: 95ych0I've never played any of Half Life. I hear such acclaim about it. Can I get into the series by playing Black Mesa without playing the original?

Yes, this is the original, just enhanced.

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Quoting: orochi_kyo"Prepare for Half-Life: Alyx"

This is what I call a dark sense of humor, knowing Alyx was made only for the 1% of the Steam player base.

Cool to live in the first world, have 500-1000$ to buy a VR headset, while the rest of the world somehow PC gamers have to choose between buying that game on sale or paid food or medical bills.

Nice joke Liam, enjoy Alyx.

Nice overreaction, orochi_kyo.

I've been pretty clear myself, in multiple articles, that I can't even afford VR personally right now. I understand not everyone can, but plenty of people do have it and the amount that do is at least comparable to the Linux market share now. I'm not going to ignore it. We're a news site, we post news and sometimes I play with the title like I did here.

As others said, VR prices have come down and they will continue to if it becomes more popular. You don't have to have the Index to play it, a second-hand Vive would do and the prices of those have gone down dramatically.

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