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The Linux GOTY award is now over, here are the results!
19 Feb 2017 at 9:29 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Guestthis is a popularity contest and a shit form of analysis. I've played most of the games in the audio category, and none of them have SHIT on Devil Daggers for audio. you're comparing the second greatest game ever made to cinematic garbage.
How can it be anything else? If 95% never played a game, I can't win a category no matter how good it is at it.

Diluvion, a deep-sea exploration game with RPG elements may be coming to Linux
14 Feb 2017 at 10:17 pm UTC

That trailer looks cool, but it gives me absolutely no idea about what the gameplay will be like.

The Talos Principle has a new stable build with more Vulkan optimizations
14 Feb 2017 at 10:10 pm UTC

I used to have the black screen crashes, but haven't had them since the 375 driver.

The Talos Principle has a new stable build with more Vulkan optimizations
14 Feb 2017 at 5:34 pm UTC Likes: 2

Unlike Wholly Mad Studios, Croteam are actually worth a purchase. So I'm excited for the new stuff as well. Even though SSHD probably doesn't really need Vulkan for performance. And I probably won't have time to play it. :D

Project Cars 2 now has a trailer, with no mention of their promised Linux/SteamOS support
14 Feb 2017 at 3:03 pm UTC

Quoting: m0nt3I checked the website, but did not find mention of SteamOS, just steam.
It's mentioned in the list at the bottom of the"Game vision" column on the WMD page linked in the article. I'm assuming they mistakenly copied it from the previous site and have no intention of delivering.

Feral Interactive will livestream HITMAN for Linux on Wednesday the day before release
13 Feb 2017 at 2:16 pm UTC

The did get an update with an "offline profile", which suggests that it should be playable offline. But for more first hand answers it's always best to drop into the stream and ask questions directly.

Civilization VI released for Linux, video and port report (updated)
10 Feb 2017 at 9:20 am UTC

Quoting: Mountain Man
Quoting: MajGuanoWow, the Linux port chews up about 15x as much disk space as the Windows version.
15x? You sure about that?
It's not 15 times, but the Linux depots are twice the size of Mac/Windows ones. Which is still a big difference.

Feral Interactive have released the HITMAN system requirements for Linux, NVIDIA & AMD supported
10 Feb 2017 at 9:13 am UTC

Quoting: PixelPiThere seems to be a bottle neck, which limits the fps on the OpenGL ports, no matter which card one uses.
The bottleneck is likely the CPU, more specifically single thread CPU performance. I suspect (didn't actually bother checking) that the added overhead of the OpenGL translation causes a relatively high load in one of the threads and causes latency that limits the fps.

Feral Interactive have released the HITMAN system requirements for Linux, NVIDIA & AMD supported
9 Feb 2017 at 3:56 pm UTC

Quoting: Xpanderif the price is correct i take more cores every time over less cores :) specially considering vulkan that will take care of those and my pc is not only for gaming also :)
We've had multi core CPUs available for about a decade now and for many applications the single core performance is still the deciding factor. I'm not too optimistic about seeing this change completely in the next year. Which probably means that my next build will still be decided on by single core performance.