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Dying Light has a Left 4 Dead crossover event happening right now
1 November 2019 at 7:56 am UTC

Quoting: SlickMcRunFastIntro vids have sound but the menu screen and in game are silent.
You could try launching with -nologos to skip the intro, maybe something borks when it should hand over audio to the actual game.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York shows off some gameplay, releasing December 4
29 October 2019 at 7:44 pm UTC Likes: 1

I wouldn't expect Linux support for any of the other upcoming World Of Darkness games. We got one at least with
Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York

The others (known so far)
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 (2020)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse (2020)
Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong (2021)

Eurogamer news tidbit on the WoD games

ULTRAKILL is a first-person shooter for fans of super speed and lots of blood
29 October 2019 at 7:24 pm UTC Likes: 2

Very fast pace indeed! :D
Thankfully you can tweak the settings to fix that insane FOV, among other things. I found it completely unplayable on ultrawide until I poked around a bit.

Devour all humans in the gruesome preview of CARRION
26 October 2019 at 4:55 pm UTC Likes: 2

Simply awesome, like we always knew it would be from the first moment we learned about it.

Dying Light has a Left 4 Dead crossover event happening right now
25 October 2019 at 9:11 am UTC

Quoting: seamooseI'm afraid my old rig won't run it
You'll do way better than my crotchety old AMD laptop with feeble A10 APU and GCN1 GPU. :)
It can run Dying Light with Proton/Vulkan, 720p lowest settings 20-25 fps... and this craptop is way below minimum spec.

Plenty of 'Can I run it' threads in the DL Steam forums if you want to check it out.

Quoting: g000hI hope it is just a name-change and this doesn't mean my actual owned game has lost graphical fidelity or its "enhancedness".
If you bought 'Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition' that is what you should own. AFAIK there hasn't been a name change. The game is still the game, the 'enhanced' part is simply a bundle with The Following expansion, Season Pass and select DLC's (Bozak Horde, Ultimate Survivor, Crash Test Skin).

Dying Light has a Left 4 Dead crossover event happening right now
24 October 2019 at 9:57 pm UTC

These viral swarms are great fun!
Finished the community quests, nice to see a bunch of them this time.

Pro tip: The virals will head towards your general location even if you are camouflaged, so lure a pack of them to enemy soldiers (near airdrop/crates) and grab some popcorn. :)

After making Crusader Kings II free, Paradox are now giving away The Old Gods expansion
21 October 2019 at 5:50 pm UTC Likes: 2

Banner on the subscribe page currently says
QuoteWe are experiencing technical difficulties with giving out the Old Gods DLC for Crusader Kings II

Dominus Galaxia, a 4x strategy game heavily inspired by Master of Orion 1 has a Linux demo up
16 October 2019 at 9:14 pm UTC

AMD userss - if you feel like tinkering, Vulkan with RADV vs. AMDVLK gives quite different performance results for me, and there's word that ACO runs the OpenGL version well (haven't tested DG with ACO myself yet).

Odds and ends, the Linux and gaming Sunday Section
14 October 2019 at 6:46 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: PatolaJust like the GPU can do OpenCL for computations other than graphics, the matrices multiplication of RT units can be used to other stuff too, like the deep learning of DLSS... you can use NVIDIA's Optix in Blender to get the Cycles renderer to render your videos much faster.
I thought Nvidia said the RT cores are specifically for ray tracing, and Tensor cores are for deep learning stuff. OptiX seems to utilize both.