Also, new players will now be matched up with people who have consistently high behaviour scores.

I wish they would do this by standard for all players.
There are few matches where I don't report someone for ordering the team to report a teammate because of bad gameplay.
I'd rather wait a few minutes more to have a team that deserves to be called like that than playing more or less instantly with a group of people that fight each other instead of the opposing team.

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Stellaris [External Link]
Great fun in multiplayer mode with a friend. But we still get roasted by the AI. It's quite a complex game one has to learn before succeeding. But we keep getting better and better.

Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny [External Link]
I completely missed this remake of the original from 1992. Both the original and the remake are part of my all time favorite games. According to the steam reviews the Remake had a rough and buggy start but the version I am playing now (4 years after release) is fantastic.
RoA is a very slow paced RPG series with a focus on the pen&paper part of role playing. Every action in the game is decided by a dice roll comparing the result to your skills. The world feels very alive even though many events are only described in a textbox. For example it was quite fun to read that while trying to sleep at an inn a bard out on the street was singing off tune to impress a lady. My dwarf left the room, shortly afterwards my party heard a bang and my dwarf came back, went to bed and kept the party from sleeping due to snoring. Such little stories make the game so charming.
The successor Realms of Arkania: Star Trail [External Link] left Early Access yesterday and the reviews are much better than those at the start of it's predecessor.

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Quoting: De1m0sBut, my xbox360 controller does not work with newest games.

I don't own a xbox controller but I got my ps3 controller to run without installing any drivers just by starting steam in big picture mode with my controller attached. steam detects the hardware automatically. it also works for non steam games if you manually add them to your steam library.
Maybe this helps with your controller issue.

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I hope they will add the search filters from the shop page to the games library.
When searching for games that have local / online multiplayer or coop play you are forced to look up each game separately.
I have several hundred games in my library so that might take a while.
This really annoys me about steam.

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A absolutely can't understand all this hatred towards GoG for not having a Galaxy client on Linux.
I can't remember having downloaded a single patch for a game I already installed. I would only do this if the game had issues or it would be necessary for multiplayer. But up until now there was no need on my side.

What is the benefit of Galaxy besides automatic downloading of updates? I have used it with some Windows only games but to be honest I don't see the benefits of it. It just means some more clicks and waiting until I can start a game.

I for myself have more or less completely moved from Steam to GoG. If I find a game that is available on both stores I always choose GoG for it's DRM-Freeness. Only by buying at a strictly DRM-Free shop one can educate the publishers that we gamers absolutely reject that stuff in games.

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This application should be in the official repositories of every major Linux distribution.

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The game looks like fun.

I'm also a great fan of the sc-controller [External Link] project.
Due to its python nature it even runs on my RasPi so I can play SNES Games with my Steam Controller. :)

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The syntax reminds me a little of Pascal or Visual Basic.
Here are a few example scripts:
https://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Category:Example_Scripts [External Link]
And a list of all available commands:
http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/docs/plotdict.xml [External Link]

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Nice to see that RPGMaker has finally landed on Linux.
It's a pity that RPGBoss, OpenRPG and EasyRpg (the editor part) development has stalled.
I ended up using "O.H.R.RPG.C.E [External Link]" for my rpg projects as it is the only mature FLOSS rpg maker running on Linux currently.
The Interface looks dated but it is really quite powerful with its hamsterscript language and tree like "slice" system for building complex gui stuff.
Development [External Link] is quite active too.

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I personally don't think it should be the duty of the end customer to ensure payment of the porting companies.
A Linux port of their games gives the original developers a wider customer base and thus a bigger income.
If the developers don't do the ports themselves the porter should be paid per order by the original developer. "Port our game X to platform Y and we pay you X€ for this job."
There should be a one time payment for the porting (+ a software support contract for eliminating bugs after the port).

Basically like it is handled with books.
Translators are usually only paid once by the original author / publishing company and not for every sold book in the additional language.

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