The art looks very good.

Crowdfunding indeed remains one of the main ways to bring games to Linux, working around the apathy and greed of legacy publishers who ignore smaller platforms even when they are profitable.

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Any news on this? Developers have been completely ignoring questions about the promised Linux release.

https://forums.compulsiongames.com/topic/2187-the-linux-version-of-we-happy-few/ [External Link]

So this starts looking suspicious, especially since they were acquired by MS.

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Quoting: DesumI wonder if this ups the chance of OpenMW going back to Ogre. There has been zero interest from the OSG devs to move to Vulkan.

Really? I've seen this:

* http://www.openscenegraph.org/index.php/8-news/232-vulkan-vkscenegraph-project [External Link]
* https://vsg-dev.github.io/VulkanSceneGraph/ [External Link]

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I suppose going from 12 cores of 3900X to 16 cores of 3950X is a nice bump, but the price increase is disproportional. $500 vs $750.

3900X is already quite a beast. Linux kernel compiles in it in just 6.5 minutes or so.

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Quoting: jensDo you have any source for that? Would be interesting to know what the exact requirements are for using the Stadia SDK.

Some details here:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdz4b5psrhE [External Link]
* https://dzone.com/articles/a-first-look-at-google-stadia [External Link]

Though of course stuff can change, i.e. nothing stops Google from making their SDK work with Wine, allowing Windows games wrapped through Wine and dxvk / vkd3d work on Stadia as well.

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Quoting: jensSorry, but no interest in having this discussion.

Good, then don't please (you kind of started it).

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Quoting: EikeThe "proper port" part, in contrast to WINE/Proton.

Yes, as far as I know. Stadia SDK requires native Vulkan port.

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Quoting: razing32I'd like this for some windows games.
Just in case proton/wine don't always cut it .
Like someone already said , you own the game and can install to your machine any time. Much better than other services.
But time will tell how it goes.

If Wine won't cut it, it won't work in the cloud either, since they are going to be using Linux for it. No one is interested in paying MS for licensing. Unless I'm missing something.

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In the context of Vulkan gradually obsoleting lock-in junk. These are problematic:

PlayStation Now, Xbox Game Streaming, EA's Project Atlas

I'd assume (is there any info?) that PlayStation Now will continue pushing their GNM and Xbox Streaming will push DX12 lock-in? What about EA Atlas? What software stack are they using?

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Quoting: GoboBut for Ogre it means abandoning the roots of their name quite literally, as I think OGRE is the OpenGLRenderingEngine.

Waiting for someone to make an engine called Wervulk.

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