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Two Point Hospital confirmed to be releasing for Linux next month
18 Jul 2018 at 5:01 pm UTC

What is this mythical "PC" operating system they are launching on? Does Two Point Hospital support PC-DOS?

Looks like survival game 'Stranded Deep' is now officially available on Linux
17 Jul 2018 at 3:48 pm UTC

Wow maybe this can be like ARK without the raging incompetent devs.

Don't Bite Me Bro! is a free 1-4 player co-op open-world zombie apocalypse game with Linux support
16 Jul 2018 at 5:03 pm UTC

I tried this with mouse & keyboard and unfortunately the game loses focus on the cursor after exiting any menu. Because of that I couldn't get beyond the first few minutes. Although it is probably fine with a controller if you're okay with giving up precision aiming.

Atari VCS RAM upgraded to 8GB and Atari confirm you can put a normal Linux distribution on it
16 Jul 2018 at 4:59 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: GustyGhost
When the Ryzen is operating in a thermally limited environment its performance is only marginally better than Bristol Ridge.
That is not my experience: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/3406/
That's a raw power test though, isn't it?
They are talking about running them both in the limited (bottle necked) environment of the VCS, and the Ryzen doesn't can't reach it's full potential, so it would be a waste of money and resources to use it.
So it makes sense to go for the cheaper option.
That is indeed thermally constrained: One small system fan and a thin client casing. Those stats are from 35W TDP chips and I reckon Atari's VCS is somewhere in that ballpark for heat dissipation.

If there is any reason they have elected to go with Bristol Ridge it is probably much more likely that the AMDGPU kernel module is still prone to freezes and that <=35W Raven Ridge is still difficult even for OEMs to source.

Atari VCS RAM upgraded to 8GB and Atari confirm you can put a normal Linux distribution on it
16 Jul 2018 at 7:34 am UTC

When the Ryzen is operating in a thermally limited environment its performance is only marginally better than Bristol Ridge.
That is not my experience: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/3406/

We Happy Few has a brand new trailer out
13 Jul 2018 at 11:32 pm UTC Likes: 15

Quoting: ShmerlIt took them quite a while, good to see that the game is approaching release. I'm more worried about their future games, since MS bought the studio recently. I asked them about their future plans for Linux and DRM-free releases, and they said:

We do not know yet. That's a question for Microsoft.

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil now has a beta available for Linux gamers
13 Jul 2018 at 3:02 am UTC Likes: 1

DRM-free or death.

EDIT: lol wait that can be horribly misconstrued. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_liberty,_or_give_me_death! [External Link]

Action racing game 'Road Redemption' updated with improved physics
12 Jul 2018 at 4:55 pm UTC

When this was first announced, I was hoping for a beautified 21st century version of Road Rash 64. But something about the final product felt so off. It almost feels like the game itself runs way too fast.

The amount of Linux users on Steam has increased when going by daily active users
9 Jul 2018 at 7:09 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: liamdaweWe dont have a feature to ban people from liking stuff, it's usually an issue with privacy plugins.
Confirmed. It seems the page doesn't agree me blocking facebook, youtube and twitter. It's no problem really, I will just forego the feature.