Also, Shadow of the Tomb Raider 78% off. https://store.steampowered.com/app/750920/Shadow_of_the_Tomb_Raider_Definitive_Edition/ [External Link]

I feel a bit bad for Feral. But I guess for a year+ old game, deep sales are to be expected.

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This might also be a thing that could go towards satisfying Easy Anticheat's requirements, without making changes to the OS, which the average Linux user would not have liked.

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I wonder if there is a server version of SteamOS that cloud providers will be using.

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Valve's entire Linux strategy so far has been a "hedging strategy" as they have referred to it themselves. The idea is that Linux will save them from whatever Microsoft does to undermine/damage/destroy "PC gaming" as it is. And it might. Linux is flexible. Their catalogue can exist on a new Steam Machine, or in the cloud, without publishers needing to do much.

Microsoft has said that it wants to focus on services and devices. Likely to eat into the Google/Chromebook market. The likely result here is that they will be shipping low powered cheap devices just like the Chromebook, but running a basic Windows that's mainly for running these services. Of course, gaming is a non-thing on those. Enter cloud gaming.

Valve's counter to this is to make sure than in a world where Microsoft has a lot of influence over hardware sales, they can still exist in a market where millions of people just have these low powered machines.

Microsoft have been trying to undermine PC gaming for a long time now in various ways, largely because they cannot tax people to run software on Windows. I think the long term goal is to go fully walled garden. The wall in this case is shifting from being Windows, to Microsoft services that can exist on other platforms. (see Edge news for this)

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

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Quoting: dubigrasuI just hope this is not Feral's swan song. (or should I say penguin song?)

Why would it be? They only recently confirmed TROY and Life is Strange 2 is yet to come.

These were announced yonks ago and nothing yet after that. Unlike Aspyr, I don't think Feral will just up and forget they do Linux ports, but it does look like Switch and mobile are what is buttering their bread right now.

Yonks? It was late September..
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/total-war-saga-troy-officially-announced-and-it-will-be-coming-to-linux-next-year.15052

True, although I don't count the Total War games in this equation, since I suspect they will not stop doing those.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: dubigrasuI just hope this is not Feral's swan song. (or should I say penguin song?)

Why would it be? They only recently confirmed TROY and Life is Strange 2 is yet to come.

These were announced yonks ago and nothing yet after that. Unlike Aspyr, I don't think Feral will just up and forget they do Linux ports, but it does look like Switch and mobile are what is buttering their bread right now.

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I know hating on new stuff is how we like to roll, but there are quite a few improvements.

- The list filters (Recent, Installed, etc) are now actually above the list itself, rather than just in the Library menu

- The game view is way more clean than it used to be before, when it had all those links down the right

- Managing collections also way better than before

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Quoting: GuestWhat gameplay? It was just a bunch of dialogue... And what ever happened to making an actual VTMB game? (Not that I trust them not to completely fuck it up in the first place..)

Relax, you can dial it back a few notches. It's a visual novel so dialogue Is the gameplay. There still is a Bloodlines 2 coming, so you can get angry at that instead when it comes out. This one is not for you so you can ignore it.

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Seriously, they go, "hmmm... Ordering stuff online. What if... Fresh vegetables! File patent, sue."

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Quoting: SalvatosDid the Gnome people actually post the relevant patent and claim anywhere? Not that I don’t trust them per se, but out of principle I would like to see the documents before I consider donating to their lawsuit.

I did see the patent and the claim somewhere. The patent has to do with transferring photos between devices and filtering by tags.

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