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Valve shoots down Itch stores attempt to get their client on Steam
12 Apr 2016 at 7:43 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Crazy Penguin
It's a shame, but I can see Valve's real point, they don't want any actual competition for sales coming from something on their own store.
I hate it already if a game needs an additional account to play it on Steam. Why hell should I want another Store, which just adds another account on the top? NO THANK YOU!!!!
itch.io is completely DRM-free, the client app they wanted to add is 100% optional but it is useful for downloading your games :)
There's an open source Standalone Steam Controller Driver
11 Apr 2016 at 6:48 pm UTC
Afaik you can also use the Steam Controller with non-Steam games if you add them to your client and run in Big Picture Mode, but not sure since I didn't try that by myself.
Developer of Banished writes up his thoughts on Linux
10 Apr 2016 at 7:16 am UTC
That is interesting, thanks for sharing it here :)
The Witness may one day see a Linux port, for fun or for ideological purposes
5 Apr 2016 at 6:21 am UTC
That is some good news! I am going to buy it, because the game is good :)
Gorky 17, another classic Topware published title now in beta for Linux, uses Wine
1 Apr 2016 at 9:56 pm UTC
Quoting: TobiSGDTried it, game crashed immediately with a DirectX problem after the intro video that is shown when starting a new game. Posted the info and log in the Steam thread about the Linux beta, let's see if this can be fixed soon, from the description this game sounds like a Jagged Alliance 2 type of game and I really like that one.
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The game has problem with the Direct3D rendering mode even on Windows. Try software rendering. The game won't look much more uglier, but it should run fine.

It isn't as much complicated as JA2, but it has quite entertaining setting and plot :)
Banished Linux port is pretty much complete, OpenGL performing well
30 Mar 2016 at 3:54 pm UTC Likes: 6
Will definitely purchase!

Tomb Raider, Banished, Rocket League (I still believe!) :)

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Tomb Raider will release for Linux on April 1st (Correction: release date was a glitch)
24 Mar 2016 at 7:37 pm UTC
Finally, a release date! Gonna get it and transfer some money from my wallet to Feral!
Remember I mentioned the pirate combat game Tempest could come to Linux? It's coming soon for sure now
22 Mar 2016 at 9:56 am UTC
Yessss! I am a big fan of Akella marinistic games (like Sea Dogs or Caribbean Tales) - sadly, they don't work very well with Wine. I am very curious if this game gonna be any like them!
Project Zomboid developers working on a new lighting system, new animations and better graphics
15 Mar 2016 at 9:23 pm UTC Likes: 1
Great, now it will look like first The Sims :D
Ubuntu 16.04 dropping the AMD Catalyst/fglrx driver
10 Mar 2016 at 7:41 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: ripperI'm pretty happy with my Radeon R9 270 running the opensource driver. The situation is not perfect, and yes, some games don't run or have issues, but the situation has improved sharply in the last 2 years, and I can now play the majority of my titles (including some AAA ones) quite fine. See my profile on OpenGameBenchmarks:
http://www.opengamebenchmarks.org/accounts/profile/91 [External Link]

As long as I have access to Windows in dual-boot, I'd never pick Nvidia. Nvidia driver is too much pain overall (not to mention that it's also the most aggressive, unlikeable, and opensource unfriendly company out there). Radeon driver just works, most games work fine, and for the few ones that don't, I reboot and play in Windows. And AMD needs some support for moving things in the right direction.
Ha! I didn't know Witcher 2 or XCOM run so well with the open source driver! Your card is pretty decent, too!

Nice profile you have there!