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Feral Interactive are teasing a new Linux port, time to start guessing
15 Nov 2018 at 6:23 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: pete910
Quoting: rustybroomhandleIf it is Shadow of the Tomb Raider, they better reveal it soon because they are losing sales in droves to Steam Play.
This is why Wine/Steam play is a double edged sword.

Wine has it's place for older unsupported software but I get the feeling that devs will make their game work in steamplay and claim Linux support. Which in turn will hit devs like Ferral as they will be deemed unneeded.

I still wont by a game even if it does work in wine/steam play well, the old saying "No tux NO bucks!"
In a world where 100% of all Windows games would run in Proton in a way that's 100% indistinguishable from running it in Windows...why would it still matter if the port is native?

Because that's what Valve wants to do.

Feral Interactive are teasing a new Linux port, time to start guessing
15 Nov 2018 at 4:12 pm UTC Likes: 3

Did they publish a new Total War game already?

Obsidian Entertainment and inXile Entertainment have officially joined Microsoft
13 Nov 2018 at 8:41 pm UTC Likes: 3

Yeah, why would the world want medium sized studios anyway! Or any smaller business that doesn't completely dominate both its market and its customers. Bigger is better, right?

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Right...

Feral Interactive are asking you to send the game port suggestions again
13 Nov 2018 at 6:39 pm UTC

1. Shadow of the Tomb Raider
2. Fallout 4
3. Divinity Original Sin 2
4. Hitman 2
5. Red Dead Redemption 2 (yes, I know how likely THAT is)

DXVK 0.92 is out with fixes for LA Noire, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and more
12 Nov 2018 at 5:16 pm UTC

Shadow of the Tomb Raider runs with this? I thought Denuvo prevented any game using it from running in non-Windows systems?

Snapshot Games have cancelled the Linux version of Phoenix Point
9 Nov 2018 at 6:12 pm UTC Likes: 26

What a pile of BS.

- They don't need to officially support distros other than Ubuntu. Most devs don't, so that's fine. 10/10 on the lame excuse scale.
- If they aren't using a rubbish engine, it can export to openGL as well as DX. I am not aware of any major engine that can't in 2018. And a small studio not using a standard engine should probably be a punishable offense in the first place.
- Drivers? Eh, it seems to be ok for the devs that published these other 3,000 Linux games.

On top of that, they took crowdfunding money when advertising Linux as a target platform. Now they said "Haha, sucks to be you, but we're not making it because we don't feel like it anymore." They really should start considering such practices fraud, because that's what it is.

Theme park builder 'Parkitect' had another nice beta update recently
8 Nov 2018 at 4:45 pm UTC Likes: 1

I got it very early on, and must say that the devs really know what they're doing. It's really a cute little game, and it's getting better and better.

Unreal Engine 4.21 is out, now defaults to the Vulkan API on Linux
7 Nov 2018 at 6:51 pm UTC Likes: 5

It IS odd that they added Linux support to their engine, but their own games do not make use of that feature. Not that I personally miss Fortnite. But it's popular, so it would be nice to have it support Linux. Our AAA games list is still short and probably the biggest remaining hindrance for Linux adoption these days.

The Steam Hardware Survey for October 2018 shows a small drop for Linux, a look at daily and monthly active users
4 Nov 2018 at 5:23 pm UTC Likes: 1

I find it interesting that even in a world where Windows 10 tends to draw criticism even in mainstream user circles for taking away control from the user, forced updates that break something else every single time, spying on users at an unprecedented scale, and a myriad of other things, we STILL don't manage to match Windows growth.

Despite Linux is free, doesn't come with any of the above mentioned issues and we can play enough great games these days to make most users not miss Windows anymore.

I get that I am biased, but I don't understand why not more people are switching to Linux, which seems to be the better choice for almost everyone these days. Do people resent change really THAT much that they stick with an inferior OS when they could have a better one for free, and all they'd need to do is investing a day or two in getting used to it?

Valve's digital card game Artifact releases this month with same-day Linux support
1 Nov 2018 at 7:11 pm UTC Likes: 6

They should have delayed the Windows version by half a year. I guess that would have doubled our market share right there. :D