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Amazon announces 'Luna', their own take on cloud game streaming
24 Sep 2020 at 7:34 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: elmapuli wonder why we cant have an "open handset alliance" with all the companies who want to have games on linux to improve the ecosystem of their platforms

I feel like the likes of Valve and Google could form a Linux gaming alliance and promote Linux gaming in more collaborative way. Too bad Google doesn't care. It doesn't look like Amazon cares either. Even their Lumberyard is lagging with Linux support.

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Amazon announces 'Luna', their own take on cloud game streaming
24 Sep 2020 at 7:31 pm UTC Likes: 10

So what exactly is their architecture? Are they running Linux on the server like Stadia or Windows like Geforce Now?

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Lenovo launches ThinkPad and ThinkStation PCs with Ubuntu pre-loaded
23 Sep 2020 at 2:50 pm UTC

Checked Lenovo laptops, I don't see any Linux option there so far:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-series/ThinkPad-T14s-AMD-G1/p/20UHCTO1WWENUS0/customize [External Link]?

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Explore a nightmarish world of twisted religion in Blasphemous - now available for Linux
23 Sep 2020 at 6:29 am UTC

Was it inspired by Bosch?

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System76 announce more Linux laptop models get open source firmware
22 Sep 2020 at 2:32 pm UTC Likes: 5

Are any of them using AMD or not yet?

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Bevy seems like an impressive upcoming free and open source game engine made with Rust
21 Sep 2020 at 2:08 pm UTC Likes: 2

Is it using Vulkan?

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Story-driven, tactical stealth game Desperados III is now available on Linux PC
21 Sep 2020 at 2:14 am UTC Likes: 1

I think they can figure out a way to make a build that works both for Steam and GOG without a need to set up multiple ones.

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The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is out today, some details for you (plus new driver release)
18 Sep 2020 at 5:57 pm UTC

Right, ASICs for ray tracing will be added only in RDNA 2.

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The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is out today, some details for you (plus new driver release)
18 Sep 2020 at 1:39 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: The_AquabatIf you make such a bold claim like twice performance, you have to prove it.

I knew from the start that 2x improvement claim was just marketing. It simply sounded unrealistic.

Quoting: The_AquabatSo I expect Big Navi to score some wins at least on compute tasks, and maybe some games optimized for AMD, and it is definitely not even close to "dead on arrival"

Regarding AMD, they gave projected improvements in their RDNA 2 slides and I don't expect it to be far off:

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That's for performance per watt. What's not known yet, is how powerful their highest end card will be using that improvement and whatever amount of compute units they'll put in it. It could be quite a leap from 5700XT.

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Helheim Hassle is a seriously funny adventure puzzle-platforming mix
18 Sep 2020 at 1:37 am UTC

Looks fun, but Humble version isn't DRM-free unfortunately.

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