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The Dwarves, the new fantasy RPG from KING Art is now available
1 Dec 2016 at 9:47 pm UTC Likes: 1

Blind Guardian are great. Nightfall in Middle Earth is my favorite album from them.

The Dwarves, the new fantasy RPG from KING Art is now available
1 Dec 2016 at 7:59 pm UTC Likes: 1

I'm going to buy it. Does it work with Mesa / radeonsi? I decided that waiting for Vega is taking too long, and bought an RX 480 on sale which should be coming soon.

What one game would blow your mind if it came to Linux & SteamOS?
1 Dec 2016 at 5:47 pm UTC

My most anticipated game is the Witcher 3. From the unreleased ones - Star Citizen and Cyberpunk 2077.

Nearly 4 years later, Steam still won’t close to the tray icon on Linux without workarounds
30 Nov 2016 at 5:29 pm UTC Likes: 1

"Closing to tray icon" is actually a bad practice according to desktop design guidelines. "System tray" is a notification area, and not a place for showing running applications. Situation when application is not shown on the task bar (or whatever UI element is used for showing all running applications) and is still running is not correct - it breaks general UI consistency.

There were several articles on this subject.

GOG have something mysterious planned for December 1st
30 Nov 2016 at 6:16 am UTC Likes: 2

Full source:


GOG have something mysterious planned for December 1st
30 Nov 2016 at 3:37 am UTC

Quoting: Comandante oardoThe Mass Effect franchise and Dragon Age Inquisition were made by Bioware, no?
Yes. Though I've heard Dragon Age Origins is the only good game in the DA series and it's the last game made by "old Bioware". It was already released on GOG. Can't say anything about Mass Effect - I never played any of them and didn't research opinions either.

Quoting: DMJCOnly NWN, Witcher 2 and Kotor2 are based on the NWN engine which currently have Linux native ports.
Witcher 2 has nothing to do with Aurora engine [External Link]. You mixed it up with Witcher 1.

GOG have something mysterious planned for December 1st
29 Nov 2016 at 8:55 pm UTC Likes: 1

Folks on GOG forums found the original source:



Now what does that mean? Both are already out on GOG. I guess more D&D goodness coming.

GOG have something mysterious planned for December 1st
29 Nov 2016 at 8:42 pm UTC Likes: 4

Witcher 3 for Linux? But jokes aside, possibly they are taking Galaxy out of beta, and they finally will be able to document its protocol, as they promised, so community would be able to start hacking on the FOSS client for it. I care about that way more than about their closed client for Linux that I'm not planning to use either way.

A Little Less Desperation, a point & click adventure game in a comedic sci-fi setting is heading to Linux
29 Nov 2016 at 6:27 pm UTC

Looks cute. Though episodic releases is a somewhat risky thing. I.e. the project can halt somewhere in the middle.

GSC Game World have confirmed that the Linux version of Cossacks 3 will come to GOG
27 Nov 2016 at 10:36 pm UTC

Good! Surprisingly, newly released Limbo didn't get the Linux version on GOG.