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The Long Dark is celebrating five years since release, Episode 3 of the story due in October
24 Sep 2019 at 10:32 am UTC Likes: 2

Did you just put an infographic in an article? :P

Steam's top releases for August 2019 are out, here's our usual look over
24 Sep 2019 at 9:43 am UTC Likes: 1

There are several Proton "broken" reports there mentioning black screens. I also see others that went from black screen to working with the Media Framework fix. If that helps for the other broken ones as well, then the only true broken ones are the EAC games.

ATOM RPG had another massive update recently adding in an Isometric mode
23 Sep 2019 at 12:39 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: BeamboomHuh? What was it before, if not isometric? How is this different?
Isometric view has no perspective. The normal view does.

The Linux gaming Sunday round-up paper
22 Sep 2019 at 4:52 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: BrazilianGamer
Total War games must sell reasonably well on Linux for Feral to port so many of them.
That's my opinion too. They announce a new game and right after it, they announce it will be ported to Linux. Linux sells very well otherwise there wouldn't be any reason for a many ports. May they come more and more
And they are allowed early ports for near simultaneous release. I think they had Three Kingdoms up only hours after the Windows release. Which keeps it nicely visible in short period of high attention.

The new Steam Library Beta is officially out for you to try
21 Sep 2019 at 10:24 pm UTC

Quoting: stud68Looks good but crashes when I open SteamVr.
I had that too, but it turns out that was SteamVR beta 1.8.2 (and later), not the beta client.

A French court has ruled that Valve should allow people to re-sell their digital games
20 Sep 2019 at 11:47 am UTC Likes: 2

I think people are making far more fuss about this than what is really going on. It appears to me that the ruling is about the passages in the licence agreement that forbid users from reselling their games. I suspect that all that is needed for Valve (and other stores) is to remove those passages and inform the users that this is in fact legal. However, nowhere does it really say that Valve needs to implement a system for people to resell individual games to other users. Which means that all that the net effect maybe that you will be allowed to resell your entire account. How many users will that benefit?

Might and Delight just announced Book of Travels, a unique new RPG that will support Linux
18 Sep 2019 at 10:28 am UTC Likes: 3

Absolutely gorgeous, but the trailer is almost AAA in its ability to not give a clue about the actual gameplay.

The new Steam Library Beta is officially out for you to try
17 Sep 2019 at 7:49 pm UTC

A bits are broken for me though. The manage DLC does nothing when I click it. It also says I have no screenshots for games that definitely have them.

War Thunder 1.91 'Night Vision' is out with the Chinese nation, new sound engine and Easy Anti-Cheat
12 Sep 2019 at 2:37 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: massatt212why Easy Anti-Cheat Doesn't work with Wine Prefix ?
Easy Anti-Cheat was never designed to work with Wine and Wine will likely need to implement a bunch of things to allow a Windows version of EAC to work.
I'd say it is even worse. EAC (and BattlEye) work based on the idea that they can keep taps on everything that's going on in your system. Working inside a Wine container would contradict that idea and basically be a means to defeat it. So unless there is some big issue in EAC, it is unlikely that the current EAC will ever work in Wine. The only real hope would be that EAC would make some changes to the client that allows it to communicate with a native version of EAC from inside Wine. Which is not unthinkable as proton games do the same with Steam (and SteamVR). But I'm guessing that the funding would need to be generous.

FOSS voice chat application Mumble has finally put out the massive 1.3 overhaul
12 Sep 2019 at 1:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: scaine3. Discord collects and sends... everything? How do you know? It definitely looks for "known apps" and that list includes games and OBS. Bit of a stretch to suggest that this is sending all my process info out. Unless there's evidence to suggest otherwise.
It at least has to check everything in order to decide what it is. I don't know what exactly it will store and send. But since 1. didn't fill me with confidence, I decided that my time was better spent preventing collection than attempting to figure out what happens to it.

Quoting: scaineI've requested my data via a freedom request. When it appears, I'll share a summary of the results here.
Do they have an EU presence? If not, I don't think they have any obligation to provide anything.