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Valve add additional titles to the Steam Play Whitelist
1 Aug 2019 at 8:42 am UTC Likes: 3
Again it seems to be a wide range of underlying tech. I think internal testing and subsequent whitelisting have more to do with ticking compatibility boxes than anything else.

Gorogoa is a Java game, for example. It's also one of the most clever puzzle games I have ever seen.
Blender 2.80 is out, a major advancement for this FOSS 3D creation suite
31 Jul 2019 at 11:34 am UTC Likes: 5
2.8 is the result of a dedicated effort to improve the usability of the app for both new and veteran users. Now, if only we could get the same treatment for GIMP (along with a name change).
Steam Play Proton 4.11 released, a pretty huge release pulling in D9VK and a replacement for esync
31 Jul 2019 at 10:27 am UTC Likes: 6
So far I have found D9VK to work really well with Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, and Skyrim. The latter I'd have to play more to know for sure, but with DD, it's pretty much flawless. (plus a really good game to boot)
Train Valley and Train Valley 2 released DRM-free on GOG with Linux support
30 Jul 2019 at 1:01 pm UTC Likes: 2
I grabbed the first one thinking, "hey this looks relaxing" It is not. It's hard as balls. But fun.
Flippin Kaktus is an absolutely mad looking action-platformer coming to Linux
29 Jul 2019 at 4:12 pm UTC
Quoting: M@GOidGamepad support is broken on the demo. Seriously guys, is 2019. People don't play 2D games on keyboard anymore (except some stubborn weirdos).

With that said, it looks like my kind of game. I hope they can fix gamepad support before the launch, so I can buy it. I learned in the hard way NOT to expect important fixes after the launch of a game.
I'm a stubborn weirdo. Keys are more responsive than analogue sticks.
Jupiter Hell has a new crazy trailer ahead of the Early Access release on August 1st
26 Jul 2019 at 2:42 pm UTC
Quoting: KohlyKohl
Quoting: hansonry
Quoting: KohlyKohlI like the genre but I don't care for the time only moves when you move gimmick.
@KohlyKohl What genre are you talking about? I ask because all the roguelikes I have played have the "time only moves when you do gimmick".
I wasn't even thinking about the roguelike aspect but rather as a top down shooter.
This definitely does not qualify as a shooter, top down or otherwise. It has grid based movement even.
A look over Steam's top releases for June 2019, plus a look at the top games by player count
24 Jul 2019 at 1:59 pm UTC Likes: 7
Amusingly, of all of those there's maybe 3 I think I'd actually ever want to play. I think it's because the metric is by (concurrent?) player count. Games I favour tend to be one-and-done type games, mostly single player. The last non-native AAA(ish) game I played was A Plague Tale, which was great, but unlikely to ever show up in a list like this, even during release week.
The developer of Streets of Rogue recently commented about supporting Linux
16 Jul 2019 at 8:36 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Alm888First "Supraland", now this. The story is basically the same: a developer lamenting about low GNU/Linux sales and me being completely uninterested in the games in question (would not even know about them if not for the news on this site).
You did not read the article. There's no "lamenting".... he says the sales are low, but also that it was easy to port and support.
D9VK for translating D3D9 to Vulkan for Wine has another new version out, 0.13f - "Hypnofrog"
15 Jul 2019 at 7:34 pm UTC
Still slashing my way through Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen running on Glorious Eggroll's custom proton, with the latest D9VK manually installed on top of it as it was a version or so behind. Smooth smooth.
Seems that the Linux version of Supraland will not be heading to GOG (updated)
10 Jul 2019 at 12:17 pm UTC Likes: 8
Just reinforcing what has already been said. If you are "lending" someone your GoG games, you are pirating, according to the GoG terms of use.