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

Quoting: Dorrit
Protect 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 Apr 2020 at 12:57 am UTC

From 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 Apr 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

Psyonix are ending support for Rocket League on both Linux and macOS (updated)
27 Jan 2020 at 12:21 pm UTC

Quoting: HoriCan I get my account ported to Playstation?
No unfortunatly, you have to start from scratch

Psyonix are ending support for Rocket League on both Linux and macOS (updated)
26 Jan 2020 at 10:27 pm UTC

They're dropping mac and linux because they're moving to dx11? But they were already using a translation layer for dx9->gl so why couldn't they have just moved to DXVK to translate from dx11->vk?

Game manager Lutris just had a huge update with D9VK, Discord Rich Presence and more
8 Sep 2019 at 12:24 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: AsciiWolfDoes Lutris support VKD3D?
Yes, VKD3D is built into wine so Lutris doesn't need to add special support like with DXVK and D9VK

Google reveal more games with the latest Stadia Connect, including Cyberpunk 2077
19 Aug 2019 at 7:28 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: scaineI honestly thought Stadia was just a glorified Steam Link that worked over the internet? So while the box you buy might be Linux-based, I always assumed there would simply be a farm of PCs running Windows in a datacentre somewhere and you tapped into that resource to place your game.

It feels like an ecological nightmare to be honest. And the implications for bandwidth are horrific.

No support for this from me. I realise that I'm not their target demographic, but... nope. No interest.

Edit: Ecological piece seems pretty legit actually: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/cjivzb/for_those_wondering_if_googles_stadia_will_impact [External Link]]
The stadia server farm is confirmed to run on linux and all games will use vulkan

After suggesting a developer drop Linux support, Vivox have released a statement
1 May 2019 at 7:17 pm UTC Likes: 8

Quoting: callciferImagine a business seeking profits, the horror!
So? Obviously corporations exist to make a profit but that fact doesn't make their actions infallible. That's like a company dumping waste into the ocean and someone defending them with "They're just doing that to maximize profit" like duh of course but their profit-driven motive doesn't excuse their actions from criticism.

CHROMATOSE, an RPG and Visual Novel hybrid has been fully funded and heading to Linux
15 Apr 2019 at 12:59 pm UTC

Looking forward to the release. It looks more inspired by Persona 5 then Persona 3 judging by the graphic design and gameplay style.

Humble Store are giving away Tacoma during their Indie Mega Week sale
23 Mar 2019 at 5:41 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: marcusTacoma does sadly not come with a steam key.
It instead comes DRM-Free which is arguably even better.