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Slime Rancher Is Probably The Most Adorable Game I've Seen For A While
10 Jul 2015 at 7:37 am UTC Likes: 1
I like the look of this, I love FPS (first person slimer) games. Something a little different for me.
Happy Birthday To GamingOnLinux, Six Years In The Making
5 Jul 2015 at 1:13 pm UTC Likes: 1
Happy Birthday ^_^ Always a pleasure to read anything here, very informative and a lovely community.
Valve Finally Have A Proper Refund Policy For Steam
3 Jun 2015 at 7:40 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: DrMcCoy
Quoting: kalinThere is nothing for abuse
Well, many games can be played without having Steam running. So you could, theoretically, buy the game, install it, copy the game data somewhere else, and then ask for a refund. You get your money back and keep playing the game outside of Steam. Of course, you'll lose features like cloud saves and achievement tracking, but you might not care about those.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I am not advocating that you do this. This would be illegal too.
It would be a shame if devs who previously didn't, now insist their games do have Steam running so as to protect themselves from this in some way. I'd still hope users are trusted and treated in good faith... maybe at least the Linux versions ;)
Dying Light Linux Performance Patch & New DLC Released
27 May 2015 at 7:41 am UTC
Quoting: d10sfanHopefully Techland isn't done and that they are still working on patches.
I was looking forward to this but I'm not going anywhere near it until these issues are sorted out.

I never thought I'd be in the situation where I have so many great games backed up that I could be picky on Linux... actually "picky" is the wrong word, this (any) game shouldn't have been released in a broken state, period.
Dying Light Mod Tools & Steam Workshop Release, Both Windows Only Right Now
14 Apr 2015 at 2:44 pm UTC Likes: 1
This is a game I'd like but I'm holding off until these various issues are addressed. I'm still getting freezes in Dead Island and it looks like I may have to just put up with that... that's not right and I'm not going to spend money on Dying Light (or any other game from now on for that matter) if it's not working properly (good enough, isn't... good enough - for me or my money).

Aspyr - Borderlands 2 and all DLC, what perfect porting :wub: Now there's a good benchmark. There are others too, of course but I've sunk many hours into that one and it's been nothing but a joy for me, zero issues, so worth mentioning.

Looks like we have enough quality games coming through to be picky and let's be honest, I can't afford them all anyway :P

Thanks for all these updates Liam, it's great to have GOL!
New Linux Gaming Survey For April
1 Apr 2015 at 1:59 pm UTC Likes: 2
Well there's actually a change in response this month from me - my trusty old Phenom X4 died and I've replaced it with a 4790K. My first Intel CPU for many, many years. I think the last one I had was running at about 300MHz!

I had to tick quite a few boxes for those upcoming games I plan to get... just don't tell my wallet or the wife :whistle:
Dead Island Patch Released For Linux, Finally Playable (Updated)
12 Mar 2015 at 6:33 pm UTC
Cheers stan, I somehow missed that thread! :dizzy:

Fingers crossed...
Dead Island Patch Released For Linux, Finally Playable (Updated)
12 Mar 2015 at 5:42 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestSame here, after a few minutes (randomly) I’ll get either a freeze or a crash (assert(m_pOvr)), also on Arch and with a GTX660, but I think on Steam people with different distros have the same issue.
Thanks for the feedback. Seems odd why some (lots?) have no crashes. I'm running with no DE, so pretty much stripped down, I'd have thought the Steam runtime should be pretty consistent for everyone anyway.

Shame, I like the game and could really get into it given the chance.
Dead Island Patch Released For Linux, Finally Playable (Updated)
12 Mar 2015 at 5:21 pm UTC
I can't play this game for constant random freezes/crashes. It can be anywhere from 10 seconds to 20 minutes but it WILL go down, every time guaranteed, requiring me to kill the terminal I launch it in or kill the xserver.

I'm using a GTX 660 with the proprietary drivers on Arch. Anyone experiencing this or got any pointers?

Cheers.
Linux Now Has Over 1000 Titles On Steam
11 Mar 2015 at 8:22 am UTC
250/322, 70% not played! I think I've become as much a collector as a player... or should that be a hoarder?

I've definitely lost interest in games I would have snapped up when Steam first landed. I could never have imagined the choice available now and this is only the beginning :D