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With a rewritten rendering engine that gives Vulkan support, X-Plane 11.50 is out now
10 September 2020 at 1:35 pm UTC Likes: 2

I've held off on testing the Vulkan renderer so far. Mostly because I've been busy with other things. But it looks like it's time to give it a spin again!

Come win a key for the upcoming fantasy city-builder Songs of Syx
10 September 2020 at 9:54 am UTC

Still curious about this one. Kind of looks like an upscaled Rimworld. So count me in!

Upcoming FPS 'Core Decay' gets a new trailer, teams up with 3D Realms
8 September 2020 at 12:24 pm UTC

Feels a lot like HL1 with better lighting. Trailer doesn't really give me a good insight into the gameplay.

Human Diaspora is a new wild-looking Early Access sci-fi FPS
8 September 2020 at 11:47 am UTC Likes: 3

I find the visuals of this game to be very hard on the eyes. Cool to see an FPS game in Godot though.

Linux Mint teams up with Peppermint OS on a WebApp Manager
7 September 2020 at 9:15 pm UTC

The reason why I would want something like this is to get it to use proper fullscreen so vsync/gsync would work like it should. But this never seems to work for electron apps. I wonder if this is something that can be fixed.

Bringing together audio and video, PipeWire for Linux is really coming along
7 September 2020 at 9:12 pm UTC

Quoting: LinasIn the olden days you could only play one audio stream at the time on Linux, because most sound cards only have a single hardware channel.

Not sure what "olden days" you're referring to, but it seems to me that the situation for default audio chipsets now is much worse than it was in soundcard days. The old wavetable cards had a whole stack of channels back in the 90s.

I'm hoping pipewire does things right. Pulse has some nice ideas, but a lot of practical issues. The main one is not having enough control over what it does. These sort of systems need a full gui to control it though. I have a setup where one computer connects to my main desktop to play audio. I've set that up maybe two times and as a result I don't remember the details and need to consult the documentation every time.

What have you been gaming on Linux lately? Come chat
6 September 2020 at 3:57 pm UTC Likes: 2

Factorio. Yep, that's it. Building a megabase is a lot of work, but an interesting design challenge.

Metro Exodus is now live on Steam and Deep Silver say it's coming to Linux
2 September 2020 at 6:16 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ThetargosI still remeber the community rage when CDPR said thet The Witcher 3 on Linux would use a similar translation layer as TW2, and the uproar resulted in no port, ....

Don't believe everything you read on the internet. Business decisions are not based on the behaviour of screaming children.

A little round-up of Gamescom news for Linux PC fans
2 September 2020 at 2:03 pm UTC

Quoting: KohlyKohl
Quoting: gojulLooks that Feral has forgotten us, sadly. :-(

I wonder if someone else will come along and fill their void?

You're assuming there is a void to fill. To port games, you first need to have a deal with a publisher developer to port something. Looks like those may be in shorter supply these days.

First-person shooter Prodeus looks insane, and it's out in Early Access this November
28 August 2020 at 8:59 am UTC Likes: 2

In general I'm usually happy to go to Samsai's stream and watch him play these retro styled shooters the way they were meant to be played, after which I can go back to a game that's more in line with my skill set. But I have to admit that I'm highly tempted to try this one myself.