As another week comes to a close it's time to have a chat with the GOL readership about what you're all playing lately, come and let us know.
This week saw the release of the absolutely magical Spiritfarer. I can't get over how wonderful a game it is, fully deserving of all the praise it has been receiving. Taking care of spirits, while doing a little building and crafting on your fancy boat while also giving out hugs to those spirits that need it. Absolute joy.
Spiritfarer is just so lovely, we're going to need Sin to livestream it I think. Keep an eye on our Twitch Channel for that. Although, with 7 Days to Die Alpha 19 being out it's going to be difficult to tear Sin away from it.
Quite a bit of my own personal time has also been testing out NVIDIA GeForce NOW. It's another game streaming service, which recently opened up to Chromebooks / ChromeOS in the browser so it works on Linux too. You can see a video of Fortnite running here as another example. It's certainly an interesting service but I still personally much prefer Stadia technically speaking, as I find it just works much better overall but I won't deny how good NVIDA did the game access side of things by it using existing accounts for people. Over the next many years, it will be very interesting to see all these cloud services fight for users.
I've also personally continued playing Orcs Must Die! 3 on Stadia with a partner, the huge battleground battles are just so much fun it's ridiculous. Getting to launch catapults at hundreds of Orcs, while another is running around hacking away at them is quite a sight.
As a reminder of some deals going:
- Humble Headup Games Band Boost Bundle - Vambrace: Cold Soul, Dead End Job and more
- There's also a Humble Killing Floor Bundle going
- Steam 0451 sale - celebrating Ray Bradbury's 100th birthday with games that reference the iconic Fahrenheit 451
- GOG Weekend Sale - save on games where you only live once
- HITMAN titles cheap on Humble Store
Over to you in the comments: what have you been gaming on Linux lately?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: HoriYup, you're not even wrong there, it's already what Stadia is trying but so far their exclusives haven't been big popular titles. I'm most curious to see what their first-party studios do with something designed for cloud-first.Quoting: the articleit will be very interesting to see all these cloud services fight for users
I have one word to say: Exclusives.
Quoting: fagnerlnSome Linux games on GoG can't run anymore as it uses outdated libsActually just experienced that with The Journey Down, which I started playing this weekend. Luckily there was a workaround, but for a minute or two I was reminded of the fact how frail (closed source) software actually is. Often we don't notice because software we use on a regular basis also gets regular updates and we never feel the need to go back to a version from 10 years ago. In other cases there is emulation for OSes or platforms that no longer exist. But I guess there might be a whole bunch of fairly new 32bit Linux games out there that will be completely unplayable on modern distros in the not so distant future.
on_en_a_gros Aug 23, 2020
Quoting: tmtvlPlaying with GNU Guile, working my way through SICP. It's like learning how to program after years of doing everything completely wrong.
Props to you, sir!
As to gaming: Shadowrun Dragonfall, NGU, Slay the Spire
Quoting: KeyrockBeyond a Steel Sky - Minor techical quibbles aside, I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far.
Are there any news on the GOG release? I wonder what the issue is.
. But what comes to civ 5 I won't use the nukes.Somehow it's not right.Maybe because I'm wiser now!
DaiKaiser93 Aug 23, 2020
Let's see how long I last playing it this time.
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