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Some of the recent major updates to Planetary Annihilation: TITANS are now live
1 Jan 2019 at 8:32 pm UTC Likes: 3

"Eventually all the legacy Windows servers will be replaced with faster modern Linux servers."
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/659943965/planetary-annihilation-a-next-generation-rts/posts/2379013 [External Link]

Always nice to see Windows referred to as legacy. :)

Editorial: An open letter to Valve on why they should keep on embracing Linux
9 Dec 2018 at 11:59 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: LeopardLowering costs for games have Linux versions is a bad idea.
We might end up with bad performing ports just like VP did with Moto game. Many half assed ports done just for lowering costs.
I think developers would be more inclined to fix their bugs, rather than remove the Linux version, if there was a financial incentive to having it available. They could still leave it up as buggy, but the support burden is much higher that way (or potential customers see that they just ignore all the bug reports). Perhaps there needs to be a stipulation regarding keeping the Linux version up to date.

Valve have some serious competition, with the Epic Games Store being announced
5 Dec 2018 at 8:39 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: liamdaweSo...they don't support Linux. ;)
Not disagreeing! But apparently they have made changes multiple times to improve compatibility with WINE.

Valve have some serious competition, with the Epic Games Store being announced
5 Dec 2018 at 8:28 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: liamdaweBlizzard don't support Linux
But they do have some Linux-friendly devs (or at least used to - the creator of SDL was there for a while). Rumors have it there were native Linux ports of some of their games, but corporate did not want to release them, even as unsupported builds.

Google's game streaming platform Project Stream is built on Linux and Vulkan
2 Dec 2018 at 12:26 am UTC Likes: 5

From the article: "Ubisoft has been able to accurately port one of its most advanced titles from Windows and DX11 across to Linux and Vulkan." Would be nice to see them attempt to recoup some of that development cost by actually making it available outside of streaming.

Tower of Time, the rather good RPG had a big update to improve performance
27 Nov 2018 at 6:16 am UTC

Quoting: Leopard
Quoting: EhvisI actually had to uninstall this game because it went into a reinstall loop on steam where it updating->verifying->updating->.... forever.
Well,if you had free space less than 10 gb that happens. At least that is what happened to me
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5861 [External Link]
I've seen it too; don't remember which game for sure, but I could have sworn it was something based on Unity, not UE4.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is officially coming to Linux in 2019
21 Nov 2018 at 7:04 am UTC

Quoting: KeyrockI was not a fan of the reboot nor Rise of the Tomb Raider, mainly because they were 90% murder simulator and 10% actual raiding of tombs, and I would much rather the ratio was reversed... Now port HITMAN 2, please.
At least it's honest about being 100% murder simulator? LOL!

The Humble Store Fall Sale is live, some great Linux games going cheap
16 Nov 2018 at 7:54 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ShmerlGamingOnLinux is even featured on the game page
Pretty sure that just means you clicked a GoL affiliate link at some point.

Quoting: g000hSlightly joking - My "game" is online bargain hunting (as well as picking up freebies).
Same "problem" here. :-p

Feral Interactive are teasing a new Linux port, time to start guessing
16 Nov 2018 at 7:41 am UTC

Quoting: Guestwatching OS/2 disappear when it basically became redundant
FWIW, OS/2 hasn't completely disappeared:
https://www.arcanoae.com/ [External Link]