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A round-up of some good sales going on Linux games for you this weekend
10 Dec 2019 at 5:27 pm UTC

A couple of nice titles going for dirt cheap over at Fanatical.
https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/staff-picks-winter-build-your-own-bundle [External Link]

I can recommend Slain: Back From Hell if you're into gory platformers with heavy metal soundtrack. \m/
Also Reus is a native game despite what Fanatical says.

Dying Light is doing a Chivalry crossover event with new weapons and an outfit
10 Dec 2019 at 4:29 pm UTC Likes: 3

Techland really spoiling us with events lately, at least two per month in Q4. They also fixed bugs in the Linux version... unexpected and very appreciated!
Well worth it to participate in the events, the previous Hyper Weapons event gave a permanent Hyper Mode bat as community reward. :D

Insurgency: Sandstorm no longer getting Linux/Mac support or a campaign mode
10 Dec 2019 at 4:24 pm UTC

Quoting: some PR lizardwe apologize for mismanaging expectations

Chooseco are getting indie games using 'choose your own adventure' taken down on itch.io
10 Dec 2019 at 8:21 am UTC Likes: 5

Choose Your Own Trademark Infringement Lawsuit

Offering up some intense multiplayer mayhem, Tank Maniacs is out now
5 Dec 2019 at 10:23 pm UTC

Cool little game indeed! They even have a #steamremoteplay channel on their Discord.

Build a busy hive and make lots of honey in Hive Time, releasing this month
3 Dec 2019 at 10:34 am UTC Likes: 8

Almost can't beelieve it's finally releasing! Runs beeautifully on Debian sid as well. You beetter put this on your wishlist ASAP beeople, definitely worth it. Save the bees!

Spoiler, click me

The Linux and gaming Sunday round-up paper is here
1 Dec 2019 at 5:23 pm UTC Likes: 1

Great little huge Sunday Funday roundup!
Guess I lucked out and got my SC order done quickly enough, Valve just sent me an email that it's being prepared for shipment.

Techland have updated Dying Light again, Drop Attack should be fixed on Linux
1 Dec 2019 at 12:50 am UTC

Uh... this thread is derailing into false information territory.

Linux native version of Dying Light runs well with AMD Mesa, even with a Radeon VII. Doesn't need a special build of libGL.so.1. Any recent Mesa version, say 19.x should be fine. The performance last time I tried was actually pretty good, not at all the horror show it has been. Definitely playable with a good experience. DXVK still performs better and the Windows version has additional graphics options.

I played the native version on an AMD card back when the 17.x series just managed to get it working. Since then there's been ups and downs with the Mesa versions but today it should be fine. The black screen bug happens for Nvidia users as well as in Windows too, not Mesa specific.

The granary bug is also not related to Mesa. Unfortunately The Following has only 3 quests from which you can start again, it's basically start, middle and end.

I strongly recommend backing up saves for any game where you really care about the progress. Even if the game itself behaves, Steam cloud can bork saves now and again. Not specific to Dying Light.

Techland have updated Dying Light again, Drop Attack should be fixed on Linux
29 Nov 2019 at 3:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

I still wonder how... or rather, who fixed it. Did Techland hire a Linux developer? :O