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Wild Woods, a free couch co-op action game about defending a moving wagon
22 January 2020 at 2:28 pm UTC

Defending a moving wagon. So it's Overwatch! With some extra features. :D

New stable Steam Client up, fixing Steam Survey and NFS mounts on Linux, plus other Steam news
21 January 2020 at 10:30 am UTC Likes: 1

I'm still on the beta version and I still sometimes get library freezes. It's not as common as earlier, but it's still weird.

Feral Interactive are asking what you want ported to Linux again
21 January 2020 at 10:27 am UTC

Quoting: SalvatosWell holy shit, if Horizon:Zero Dawn is coming to Steam I definitely want Feral to port it now!

Agreed. For many reasons! Even though I've seen the entire game on live stream, I'd still pay full price to Feral for a Linux port without blinking. The game is that good. Feral ports are fantastic. But most importantly, it would be a different source than where Feral currently ports from. And that's something I would like to see more than any specific game.

Vulkan API specification 1.2 released, new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver up
16 January 2020 at 11:11 pm UTC

Just did a quick test, but the new Vulkan beta does not fix the recently introduced VR issue.

When Kickstarter goes wrong for indie games: Drift Stage
16 January 2020 at 1:54 pm UTC Likes: 12

QuoteDrift Stage was successfully funded on Kickstarter back in February of 2015, with a reasonable sum of $57,720 to make their modern take on retro racing a reality.

I think the problem is that this is not a reasonable sum. That amount of money funds at most a single person for one year. While it is not impossible for an experienced dev to make something good in such a time span, it is not an easy task either. Especially when you want code+art+sound+music, which generally requires multiple people.

When I see such numbers, I immediately wonder what other types of funding they have.

Valve give a little more info on what 'Gamescope' actually does for Linux gaming
16 January 2020 at 9:54 am UTC

I'm also interested in how this would impact specific use case where Wayland is still incomplete. I'm thinking of G-SYNC/Freesync and VR.

Vulkan API specification 1.2 released, new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver up
16 January 2020 at 9:36 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAnd... there is a new Nvidia driver in the Ubuntu ppa

Wait, what? A Vulkan Beta driver in the PPA. First time that has ever happened and I'm wondering if this wasn't a mistake.

DOOM Eternal coming to Stadia on March 20, plus other Stadia news - a round-up
15 January 2020 at 10:48 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: HJ>also why are you covering stadia all that much?

My in-head guideline for gaming and Linux:

Native = Linux gaming
Wine/Proton/Emulators = Gaming on Linux
VM = Not Linux (since it requires a licence of a different OS)

More interesting is where Stadia would fall in this. In can be used on Linux without licence, so it is gaming on Linux. But so are other streaming services. But is it Linux gaming? Need to have a thought about that. When my brain needs additional work that is.

As for Stadia. I get the feeling that it is not going well for now. After the initial bit of media attention, interest seems to have died out. On "mostly windows" discords you don't hear anybody about it. I also don't think that the extra buddy pass was something they did because of the quickly rising user numbers. And I'm not that surprised either. For most people, the current financial scheme just doesn't make sense. It's more like niche product now, where only a very small group actually has an advantage over what they were doing previously.

Slay the Spire patch 2.0 is out, bringing in The Watcher as the fourth character
14 January 2020 at 10:33 pm UTC Likes: 1

Is it terrible that I initially read that as "The Witcher"?

Open-ended tower-defense mining game Mindustry is just awesome
9 January 2020 at 11:49 am UTC

Quoting: TheSHEEEPI honestly don't understand why they sell it so low, but it's their choice.

It's a free and open source game. The Steam version is probably only there so you can support the dev. Although I suspect many buyers on Steam don't even know that it is actually free.