MaximumPCMag managed to interview Gabe Newell of Valve, and he talks a lot about some very interesting things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ayB6U3l2g
It interesting to hear that Blizzard will support Vulkan, but it’s still unlikely they will bring any of their games to Linux before our market share rises significantly.
It's an extremely exciting time to be a Linux gamer, and hopefully Vulkan will come through for us as a performance king.
Ps. If you want Blizzard to support Linux, see this article. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ayB6U3l2g
It interesting to hear that Blizzard will support Vulkan, but it’s still unlikely they will bring any of their games to Linux before our market share rises significantly.
It's an extremely exciting time to be a Linux gamer, and hopefully Vulkan will come through for us as a performance king.
Ps. If you want Blizzard to support Linux, see this article. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Who is this man on video? :D
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As far as I know Blizzard hasn't updated their OpenGL Renderer in World of Warcraft since 2010. Meaning it still can be run under MacOS but certain features are not available there.
Out of curiosity I tried it out again under Wine and it runs perfectly fine, but still sad that there is no official support. Not that I would play that game again, but generally speaking some Blizzard games (like StarCraft 2) would be really great to have natively on my favorite platform.
But then again I'd love to see Guild Wars 2 above all :/
Out of curiosity I tried it out again under Wine and it runs perfectly fine, but still sad that there is no official support. Not that I would play that game again, but generally speaking some Blizzard games (like StarCraft 2) would be really great to have natively on my favorite platform.
But then again I'd love to see Guild Wars 2 above all :/
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I don't know about Blizzards road map. But some days ago Blizzard requested a petition on their forum instead of using change.org regarding Blizzard games on Linux.
http://us.battle.net/en/forum/topic/16529192775
http://us.battle.net/en/forum/topic/16529192775
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As far as I know Blizzard hasn't updated their OpenGL Renderer in World of Warcraft since 2010. Meaning it still can be run under MacOS but certain features are not available there.We probably won't see Blizzard and Linux together any time soon. But really I don't mind since a lot of Blizzard games run near perfect in Wine.
Out of curiosity I tried it out again under Wine and it runs perfectly fine, but still sad that there is no official support. Not that I would play that game again, but generally speaking some Blizzard games (like StarCraft 2) would be really great to have natively on my favorite platform.
But then again I'd love to see Guild Wars 2 above all :/
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WoW with OpenGL tends to get worse with every patch/expansion. They provide a mac specific Opengl implementation (they call it GLL). That's probably why they don't work on the OpenGL one anymore.
And the performance in Directx mode is just unplayable even on a decent PC.
And the performance in Directx mode is just unplayable even on a decent PC.
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Who is this man on video? :D
It's just a Valve worker.
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Who is this man on video? :DSanta
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I don't know about Blizzards road map. But some days ago Blizzard requested a petition on their forum instead of using change.org regarding Blizzard games on Linux.Liam please make article about this petition. Not everyone read comments.
http://us.battle.net/en/forum/topic/16529192775
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I don't know about Blizzards road map. But some days ago Blizzard requested a petition on their forum instead of using change.org regarding Blizzard games on Linux.Liam please make article about this petition. Not everyone read comments.
http://us.battle.net/en/forum/topic/16529192775
Yes good idea :)
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Got to love Gabe, that choice of words "I work at Valve" just shows he isn't an arrogant prick (am I allowed to say that word here? )
For any typical businessman it would be "I'm the co-founder and CEO at Valve"
Gabe for president!
I recommend reading this: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
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TheMagazine 7 Mar 2015
Got to love Gabe, that choice of words "I work at Valve" just shows he isn't an arrogant prick (am I allowed to say that word here? )
For any typical businessman it would be "I'm the co-founder and CEO at Valve"
Gabe for president!
I recommend reading this: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
Did anyone see that half life 3 logo on the guys t-shirt on page 22 (fig. 2-4)? =O Is that a legitimate valve website?
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Got to love Gabe, that choice of words "I work at Valve" just shows he isn't an arrogant prick (am I allowed to say that word here? )
For any typical businessman it would be "I'm the co-founder and CEO at Valve"
Gabe for president!
I recommend reading this: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
Did anyone see that half life 3 logo on the guys t-shirt on page 22 (fig. 2-4)? =O Is that a legitimate valve website?
Yeah, it is THE Valve website.
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LOL. The only think i can say.Got to love Gabe, that choice of words "I work at Valve" just shows he isn't an arrogant prick (am I allowed to say that word here? )
For any typical businessman it would be "I'm the co-founder and CEO at Valve"
Gabe for president!
I recommend reading this: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
I already want to work at valve.
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I totally love how Valve came up with lots of great stuff at this GDC.
In particular that they didn't tease (better say hype) those things upfront.
Way to go.
I bet it will be similar for HL3.
BTW, that interviewer is amazing. He basically didn't move for almost 6 minutes.
That must be an enormous compression ratio for the left half of the video. :D
In particular that they didn't tease (better say hype) those things upfront.
Way to go.
I bet it will be similar for HL3.
BTW, that interviewer is amazing. He basically didn't move for almost 6 minutes.
That must be an enormous compression ratio for the left half of the video. :D
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1mHfoksd1Z 8 Mar 2015
I am currently playing the free version of StarCraft 2 (ever since it got the free version) through WINE (works 100% perfectly) but if it gets a native port then I'm gonna buy it instantly + all expansions + other Blizzard games that get ported. Blizzard produces top-quality games and we need that on Linux! I'm sure that the big majority of Linux gamers will buy their games.
Also about Valve... well.. Valve just keeps being more and more awesome \m/. Great job at GDC.
Also about Valve... well.. Valve just keeps being more and more awesome \m/. Great job at GDC.
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I don't know about Blizzards road map. But some days ago Blizzard requested a petition on their forum instead of using change.org regarding Blizzard games on Linux.Liam please make article about this petition. Not everyone read comments.
http://us.battle.net/en/forum/topic/16529192775
Yes good idea :)
Happy to do what you want: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/tell-blizzard-you-want-linux-support-in-their-games.5066
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Got to love Gabe, that choice of words "I work at Valve" just shows he isn't an arrogant prick (am I allowed to say that word here? )
For any typical businessman it would be "I'm the co-founder and CEO at Valve"
Gabe for president!
It was tasteful, so yes, I will allow it. I thought it was cool of him to say it too.
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... if other engine manufacturers see stuff in it [Source 2 engine] that's useful for them, well, they can integrate it into their own engines as well.
I am in love with this guy. He is truly one of awesomest game devs in the world.
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MrTennessee17 8 Mar 2015
Very grateful for what Gabe and his company has done for Linux gaming as a whole.
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