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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard
19 Jan 2022 at 7:31 am UTC Likes: 1

I do hate this.

But what did Microsoft spend this buttload of money on? Maybe 5 franchises, some of them on their last legs. King is probably worth more to them than Blizzard in the long run.

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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard
18 Jan 2022 at 2:16 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: syylkWell, most Blizzard products were known to run well under WINE since dirt was invented - to the point of speculating if somebody internally was smoothing them at the edges on purpose to keep some sort of unsupported-but-working compatibility...
Wasn't speculation. In the past the WoW team did implement things here and there to smoothen running it in Wine. I don't have a source to hand but it was in public postings from their team on their official forum.

Possibly goes back to when Sam Lantinga worked there.

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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard
18 Jan 2022 at 2:15 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: GuestKotick needs to be the first one out the door after this.

They've promised to keep him around to still run things. ActiBlizz employee morale must be in the tank today.

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Valve continues tweaking their new Store Hubs for tags
18 Jan 2022 at 1:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: einherjarIt would be interesting to know, how many titles are steam deck verified by now

Probably still just 1.

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Collabora pulls in Jason Ekstrand to work on Linux graphics drivers
18 Jan 2022 at 10:36 am UTC

This is the sort of move that makes me want to switch to AMD, but so far all comparable AMD cards to my current setup has been more expensive. I always thought AMD was supposed to be the cheaper brand.

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Steam Deck on track for the end of February
14 Jan 2022 at 3:04 pm UTC Likes: 6

I'm still having silly arguments with people who believe that only when 100% of your Steam library works on Linux will Linux / Steam Deck be "ready" for the masses.

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Looks like Monster Hunter Rise runs well on Linux with Proton
14 Jan 2022 at 1:32 pm UTC

Capcom provided Valve with an early copy which certainly helps.

https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1481451939787251713 [External Link]

CDPR did the same with Cyberpunk 2077, but in that case the problem was that it was Cyberpunk 2077.

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Looks like Portal 2 is the first Steam Deck Verified title
12 Jan 2022 at 2:13 pm UTC

Quoting: einherjarPortal 3 would have been the cooler announcement.

Just saying...

This was not an announcement, just some steamdb data mining.

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ProtonUp-Qt adds support for Lutris Flatpak, new batch update feature
12 Jan 2022 at 12:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

Lutris itself is still just on flathub beta, where it has been for a while. Anyone know if it's being maintained at all?

EDIT: never mind, I just installed it and it is current

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NVIDIA 510.39.01 Beta driver out for Linux
11 Jan 2022 at 11:15 pm UTC

I think VK_EXT_border_color_swizzle might fix text rendering in Far Cry 6. Will go poke someone with the game to test.

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