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Ziggurat 2 - it looks awesome and it appears they're planning Linux support
9 Oct 2020 at 3:07 pm UTC
If you like super-casual farming games, do check out their other game, Farm Together also. It's quite a cute little faffabout.
The Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition is up with fresh demos to play
8 Oct 2020 at 9:04 am UTC
If you are a Proton-er, Ghostrunner works extremely well.
Wine 5.18 is out making use of the new vkd3d-shader library
26 Sep 2020 at 5:36 pm UTC Likes: 8
Ya know, fixing wine so that it can run games better is hot and all, but what's also sexy is companies fixing their games to work better with wine. Example: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1217060 [External Link]
Story-driven, tactical stealth game Desperados III is now available on Linux PC
2 Sep 2020 at 4:56 pm UTC Likes: 2
Yikes, another one to file under "Too 'spensive, I can't afford this"
Stadia Pro gets 6 free games for September, with 3 leaving
26 Aug 2020 at 7:52 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoSo... They actually remade the Linux port of Metro Last Light Redux..

Now, I wonder if the games are true Linux ports or just windows games running via DXVK (or a fork of it).
It's Linux. Stadia is all native Linux ports.
Free and open source voxel RPG 'Veloren' has a huge new release out
17 Aug 2020 at 8:35 am UTC
Quoting: PatolaI guess that game would feel even better if it had VR. And it would be the first open-source game to do so...
Can you maybe explain in more detail how VR would work with this? Bear in mind this is a third person game with camera that rotates around the character. Do you imagine it still using the same control scheme, but you can look away from the character? Or did you have something else in mind?
Free and open source 3D creation suite Blender gets funding from Microsoft
30 Jul 2020 at 7:32 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Creak
Quoting: Purple Library GuyHave there been decades of 3D graphics?
Well, Matrix in 1999, the PS1 appeared in 1997, and even Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which started in 1993.

I'm pretty sure we can find something in the 80's quite easily 😉
1987
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpt_3D [External Link]

1982
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron [External Link]
SpaceChem, a Zachtronics classic sees a 64bit and SDL2 upgrade
17 Jul 2020 at 3:22 pm UTC
Got this originally on Desura. Remember that?
DirectX 12 exclusive DEATH STRANDING runs on Linux with Proton 5.0-10
16 Jul 2020 at 9:04 am UTC Likes: 6
Same engine as Horizon Zero Dawn, so here's hoping.
Remembering an indie gem with Osmos over 10 years later
10 Jul 2020 at 1:00 pm UTC Likes: 2
Ah yeah, Bubble Fart Simulator. Played the heck out of this when it hit the bundles.