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Scream Fortress XII has arrived for Team Fortress 2, new all-time high player count
2 October 2020 at 3:36 pm UTC

The Hacker bots pretty much only target the official servers so community servers are the way to go by far.

Linux distro Fedora 33 may get DXVK as the default for Wine
22 July 2020 at 8:16 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Alm888Sure, I can "blacklist", uninstall and purge everything, but if Fedora goes down the "fork-path" it will hinder upstream improvements even more so (than wine-staging).
DXVK is definitely not a fork in any way, maybe you're getting mixed up with proton? The proposal page even outlines how you would blacklist the package in case you didn't already know:
QuoteUsers would be able to opt-out from using DXVK by adding 'exclude=wine-dxvk*' into /etc/dnf/dnf.conf and removing wine-dxvk package.

Linux distro Fedora 33 may get DXVK as the default for Wine
22 July 2020 at 7:39 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: Alm888I do not need DXVK in any way or form. Yet, I am (or will be) forcefully fed it from F33 onward
All they're doing is making wine-dxvk a recommended package for wine. Literally just blacklist the package no one is forcing you to use anything. This is a change to give the average user who may not even know about dxvk better compatibility/performance out of the box, if you don't want it you can just not use it.

Linux distro Fedora 33 may get DXVK as the default for Wine
22 July 2020 at 12:01 pm UTC Likes: 8

Quoting: Alm888The last thing I want in the distro I use is some 3rd-party fork instead of upstream version. Otherwise WINE won't have any patches from Fedora anymore, as (rumor has it) DXVK does not play nice with WINE, outright conflicting with its libraries.
DXVK is just dll files. Theres no patch or fork required

Valve moves on from OpenVR, goes all-in with OpenXR for SteamVR
25 June 2020 at 8:06 pm UTC

Now developers can just target OpenXR instead of having to maintain both SteamVR (OpenVR) and Oculus (OVR) modes. It should make cross compatibility between standalone headsets much better as well because right now they all use their own apis.

itch.io has a huge bundle going to support 'Racial Justice and Equality'
6 June 2020 at 2:26 pm UTC Likes: 3

The bundle is worth it for Night in the Woods alone imo that game never goes on sale. The fact that it's going to a good cause just makes it even better :D

Raspberry Pi 4 goes 8GB, plus new 64bit OS
29 May 2020 at 3:47 pm UTC Likes: 1

Finally! We've been bottlenecked by a 32-bit os for too long. I just hope theyre making good progress on that vulkan driver.

If you work for the NHS you can get free games from the Games for Carers initiative
30 April 2020 at 11:56 pm UTC

Quoting: Dorrit
QuoteProtect the NHS
I thought the NHS was supposed to protect the patients.
Protect the NHS from privatization by keeping it a national service for all otherwise there would be no healthcare to protect the everyone during pandemics

Old source code for Valve games CS:GO and TF2 ended up leaked online
23 April 2020 at 12:57 am UTC

QuoteFrom additional info sent out from Valve, they did also confirm in these emails
Did you email them personally to confirm this?

How-to: upscale old games on Linux
19 April 2020 at 7:47 pm UTC Likes: 2

I tried to use this tool to run games at a higher res then my monitor and scale it down and while it did work it's way too inefficient. Team Fortress 2 worked but my fps went from 1000 fps to 10 fps :D