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Steamworks gets Denuvo Anti-Cheat, here's what Irdeto say about Linux support
19 January 2021 at 4:20 pm UTC Likes: 7

It will be better if the Gaming world would be DRM free (at least there are legal options for games, not like for movies or music). Without the Open Source engines reimplementations some games wouldn't even be playable today. And the DRM is not a cheap thing to use, so if the publishers would rather use these money for polishing the game they could probably have better profits. At least I like to hope that the publishers are the ones that want the DRM not the developers.

In case of anti-cheat, I'm not against using anti-cheat software server-side, but having it on client is actually not a good solution, especially if it prevents you to run the game in a few years or start it if you are not connected to some 3rd party server.

Saying all this, I'm still buying most of my games on Steam, because I want to support Valve on what it does for Linux. Keep it up, Gabe!

Simple GOG client for Linux 'Minigalaxy' has a small update out
12 January 2021 at 12:15 pm UTC

The minigalaxy flatpak now has support for Proton community build, I tried to play LIMBO with it and it works without issue. :-)

Simple GOG client for Linux 'Minigalaxy' has a small update out
8 January 2021 at 12:51 pm UTC

Quoting: Phlebiac
Quoting: ZlopezI'm using the Flathub version

FWIW, it's in the Fedora updates repo.

I'm using Fedora Silverblue, because I like the concept of it. So I prefer flatpaks where available. :-)

Simple GOG client for Linux 'Minigalaxy' has a small update out
7 January 2021 at 2:51 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: rat2000It is available also on flathub

I'm using the Flathub version for some time and I'm missing the Wine support, but as far as I know the maintainers on Flathub are working on the solution for this.

For anybody interested, you can watch the progress here.

Total War: WARHAMMER II - The Twisted & The Twilight now available on Linux
21 December 2020 at 9:45 am UTC

Quoting: Anders1232That's great news! Since the long time it took to port The Warden & the Pauch DLC to Gnu/Linux I switched my install to use proton (which works nicely), but with the native version up to date I'm thinking in going back to native version.

I can only recommend it, it runs really smoothly :-)

Total War: WARHAMMER II - The Twisted & The Twilight now available on Linux
17 December 2020 at 6:10 pm UTC Likes: 5

Nice to hear that the Linux port is here. I spent plenty of hours on TW: Warhammer 2 in the last few weeks. I finally learnt how to play it. I'm really happy for the work that Feral does :-)

EDIT: I tried to play it after the update, but I'm unable to load my previous campaign, because one DLC is now missing: Black Orc Big Boss.

Valve updates the Steam Linux Container Runtime for Proton 5.13, helps tools like MangoHud
26 November 2020 at 11:15 am UTC

I'm using the flatpaked Steam and they have problem running the Steam Linux Container Runtime at all (running flatpak inside flatpak is not possible yet). But they provide community build of the new Proton and it works without issue.

A chat with Trese Brothers Games about the upcoming cyberpunk Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
23 November 2020 at 3:31 pm UTC Likes: 1

I found out they exist when the campaign for Cyber Knights started and then tried Templar Battleforce and Star Traders: Frontiers.

I fell in love with their games and it was easy decision for me to support the campaign. I'm now eagerly waiting till Cyber Knights will be out.

Good job, Trese Brothers.

What have you been gaming on Linux recently? Come have a chat
12 November 2020 at 10:06 am UTC

Quoting: Anders1232I'm still playing Total War Warhammer 2. Just hitted 750 hrs on it last week. Playing as Tomb Kings now. I'm also playing Divinity: Original Sin Enchanced Edition and I'm loving it. Already got Divinity: Original Sin 2 and and teamed up with friends to do a 4-player coop on it.
The Tomb Kings are my favourite faction in TW: Warhammer 2 (together with Lizardmens). What I didn't like in the TW: Warhammer 1 and 2 was the diplomacy. When the enemy faction is travelling in your territory and you declare a war on them, you are the bad one. If this is done by the AI it is considered fine. And the opinion on you always going down is also not very nice. I can understand this in the factions that hate each other, but if this is actually your ally, it's strange.

Quoting: Anders1232Edit:
One sad thing I must add is that I'm using proton to play Total War Warhammer 2, since the GNU/Linux version of it is outdated, doesn't even have the warden & the paunch DLC.
I didn't know the Feral didn't ported it yet. I'm surprised, they usually follow very quickly after release. Does this means, they have some issues? Their radar is also pretty empty :-(

What have you been gaming on Linux recently? Come have a chat
8 November 2020 at 10:26 am UTC Likes: 2

I was playing Torment: Tides of Numenera, it's really good RPG with a deep story.