Quoting: orochi_kyoAlso to be competency of Steam you have to be more than just a store.

I don't mean to be an ass, but since you used it several times: the word you are looking for is competitor :)

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Quoting: liamdaweI think people need to look outside the bubble for a moment. Look at what happened with Steam, we didn't think it was really coming and it eventually did. At that time, Valve also had nothing on Linux.

Why are people instantly counting Epic out, when the situation is the same? Like I said in the article, there's no other "open" platform left - it's got to be Linux.

Ouya!

Uh.....FreeBSD!

Hmm....give me time, I'm sure I can think of something else.

The Atari thing? :)

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And cows. And nuns. And old people...

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Would be great if you can get a word with THQ, Liam, to confirm their feelings about a Linux port. This disgrace has been sitting in my Steam library unplayed for so long.

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Since no one mentioned this, a flushing point is also this:

A flushing point is a capped pipe which is accessible on the surface for maintenance. Blockages can be cleaned or flushed out. They can be found at pipe junctions or where small-bore sewers are connected to a conventional sewerage.

I don't know too much about Bioshock, but I can see how that allusion to an underworld and the art style would call the games to mind.

Any games out there that pertain to Greek sewer systems?

Failing that, perhaps the words are meant to be taken as an access point to the underground more generally, and the image might be intended to represent death/hell/hades. Something to do with the gates of hell?

For what it's worth, Hellgate: London happens to have been rereleased on Steam very recently [External Link].

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I wish I could filter out DLCs on GOG like Steam does. Four pages of mostly NWN, PoE and Tyranny addons is so bothersome to sift through.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI wouldn't be surprised if this will be the last such game we will see from Obsidian. MS isn't interested in gaming other than X-box, and the classic RPG genre Obsidian is operating in doesn't translate at all to consoles. I still wonder why they bought that particular studio, which seems to have next to no synergy with the sort of games MS is usually doing. We're probably going to see Pillars of Eternity: The Shooter, rather.

Maybe they'd want to mix some of their acquisitions to make a new series of 3D RPGs, either 1st- or 3rd-person. Ninja Theory working on the 3D and Obsidian on the writing and RPG ruleset, for example. Maybe compete with Dragon Age or something.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: MasterSleortThank you and pardon me for missing that :)

It's well hidden! :-)

Moments like this make me wish we had tags to indicate people from the industry, but they would have to be optional of course.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoSo, my theory was correct!
If We buy LIS 2 now on the Steam store using the Linux Steam client and play it only via Proton, Feral will get their cut.

But a smaller cut, apparently? Since they prefer if we wait until the actual release. I wonder how that works. Or maybe it's just so they have better figures to show to publishers about how useful the ports are.

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: RadiarionNOTE: Is it possible for someone to create an easy install nvidia drivers package for linux vergins like me? Just a thought.. If not, anyone have an idiots guide (and I mean complete idiot) to installing nvidia drivers on mint 19?

Go to their Unix drivers page [External Link]. Pick a version, download it and run the file. That's about it as far as I remember :)
Edit: And reboot, of course.

Um, no you can't just run the file. You have to drop to terminal and shut off display manager. It's not that hard though. On mint I only need to control-alt-f1, then cd to the directory where the .run file is stored. Type in "sudo service lightdm stop" then "sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-*". Then choose the prompts that are already highlighted. Really though unless you just like installing and testing the very latest drivers (like me) then you don't need to do anything special with mint. Either just use driver manager or add the ppa from https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa [External Link] , that page tells you how to add it.

Hm. I thought they had made it achievable through the GUI in recent years. Must have been something else. Maybe LAMP.

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