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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
AMD have today released the Radeon RX 5700 series GPUs and the Ryzen 3000 series CPUs
8 Jul 2019 at 4:29 pm UTC

Quoting: daishord
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: KuJo
Sorry for the delay, AMD decided at some point to stop sending us press releases.
Did AMD give a (good) reason for this?
No reply on it yet.
Maybe they use tracking pixels in the marketing mails and if your mailer blocks them they automagically remove recipients "never" reading the mails? It's a not uncommon issue with mailings lists.

Quoting: liamdaweI did also email them to ask where to find their press images, the ones you often see in articles on other sites.
https://mars.amd.com/Site/AMDResourceLibrary?lang=en [External Link] :)
No idea on the tracking stuff, as for that link the info wasn't live when I last checked it, as news sites get the access earlier. Frustrating to see it all now live <_<

Key reseller G2A is back in the spotlight again, as a petition is up to ask them to stop selling indie games
8 Jul 2019 at 1:03 pm UTC Likes: 5

Added an additional bit:
What's also brilliant, is that G2A seem to be asking people [External Link] to publish their "unbiased" article for payment, while also not mentioning it's sponsored which is probably against some advertising laws, as well as being incredibly immoral and only continues to show how shady they are willing to be.

More Xen content is coming to Black Mesa on August 1st
8 Jul 2019 at 9:22 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Sojiro84Is there a reason there is no Linux version yet? I mean, Black Mesa is already on Linux and this is "just" a few new levels to finish the game I would assume.

Or does this update also comes with a engine update graphically?
From what they said over past updates, there's quite a few engine changes.

AMD have today released the Radeon RX 5700 series GPUs and the Ryzen 3000 series CPUs
8 Jul 2019 at 8:09 am UTC

Quoting: KuJo
Sorry for the delay, AMD decided at some point to stop sending us press releases.
Did AMD give a (good) reason for this?

GOL is one of the largest, if not the largest, web sites dedicated to gaming on Linux. How can AMD, which offers acceptable Linux support on the one hand, on the other hand stop sending press releases to the website that reaches a large part of their Linux customers?

It's incomprehensible for me because it should be a cinch to add another email address to a mailing list. Even more incomprehensible to me is why an address like GOL's is removed from it.
No reply on it yet. I did also email them to ask where to find their press images, the ones you often see in articles on other sites. They asked for examples, i gave some and then no reply again.

AMD have today released the Radeon RX 5700 series GPUs and the Ryzen 3000 series CPUs
7 Jul 2019 at 10:31 pm UTC Likes: 1

Added a bit on the new release of AMD uProf, seems fitting to be here.

tinyBuild's CEO reiterates company's devotion to DRM-free releases on GOG
7 Jul 2019 at 3:56 pm UTC Likes: 7

Quoting: DesumUh-huh. If people are just getting into inde game development, they're MUCH better off going with something like Godot than tinyBuild in any case.
What? You're comparing a game engine, to a game developer/publisher. That makes no sense.

Prepare your Command-Wine Interface for an upgrade to version 4.12 (update - and 4.12.1)
7 Jul 2019 at 10:13 am UTC Likes: 2

Update: 4.12.1 was released soon after, to fix "broken 64-bit prefix initialization".

The next Humble Monthly is out, with two more interesting early unlock games
5 Jul 2019 at 5:44 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: g000hI grabbed the (just ended) July Subscription and very happy that I did:

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (early reveal) - should work fine on Proton
Moonlighter (early reveal) - Linux
...
Road Redemption - Linux - yay, a wishlist item fulfilled.
Warhammer 40000 Mechanicus - Linux
Love is dead - Windows
60 Parsecs - Windows
Naori, Tower of Shirin - Windows
There's also the Humble Original game "Kind Words" that released brand new with it, has Linux support.

Dota Underlords now has scoreboards and more improvements plus a "Proto-Battle Pass" next week
5 Jul 2019 at 2:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ajgpIm enjoying it, have to admit I play more on my phone than on the PC, but the shared account is appreciated.

My only gripe is that games take a fraction too long. If they were shorter I could easily use this as a filler game.
They did confirm plans for a Turbo mode :)