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- Street Fighter V
capcom promissed an version for linux, and akuma have an kanji in the back and in one of the skills right?

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I say either Shadow Warrior 2 or Warframe.

Please let it be Warframe...

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To the question of a general linux news site: I think it depends on your personal resources, Liam.
If you think you can make a high-quality site without impairing the quality of gamingonlinux at the same time I'd give it a go. I think there's also a "market" for that too.
For example, I currently use omgubuntu for general linux news, because the site is well done and the information given isn't too techy. However, Joey Sneddon pointed out in one of his recent posts that the majority of his readers are actually using Arch linux based distributions, not ubuntu-based ones. Since you became such a fan of Antergos recently, I bet you could easily do something like an OMG! Arch! - Website. That would be super awesome.
On the other hand, given the information in your latest post concerning Patreon funding, I got the Impression that you already commit quite a large amount of your time to gamingonlinux. In the end I think it really depends on the question if you think you have the extra time to do a website like this and can live up to your own quality standard with it.

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shadow warrior 2

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kill second hand market, a bigger illegal market will thrive

allow people to sell back they're unused games and G2A will be reduced to peanut

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Quoting: ShmerlShadow Warrior 2?

This!

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The Witcher 3 I hope :)

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I've not checked in R40. It was working in R38, but it was broken for a while before that. It may be a victim of the upgrade to Unity 5.5.

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Wintermute, is the portable aether vibration amplifier working for you? Every time I've tried to play a stream nothing plays, just the initial tuning in static noise.

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Sorry, missed this post earlier.

Quoting: NanobangI do wonder about what you said regarding meeting other players online. Is this an instant PvP situation where I'm likely to be trounced for the pleasure of the other player? Or is PvP limited to allocated areas of the map, or a separate server, or sump'in?

You can flag for open PvP by visiting the Oracle and asking to have your protections removed, you can then be attacked and/or pick-pocketed in any scene. There are also PvP areas, if you enter them you will automatically be flagged for PvP while in them. You can also duel with another player without flagging for PvP. Note that free trial players cannot flag for open PvP and, while you can enter the PvP zones, you won't drop any loot.

In general, talk to other players, they are just about the best content in the game ;)

If you see people with the Hospitaller title know that they have chosen that title to indicate they're willing to help out new players with the game.

Quoting: NanobangCould you tell me, please, how large the download is, and also, if you're still on Antergos, what steps you took to install it. It looks like it's a .deb package, and I've not confronted trying to install a .deb package on an Arch-based distro (Manjaro, in my case).

The install directory is currently taking up 8.2GB of diskspace for both game and launcher on my laptop. Note that the launcher downloads a bunch of zip files which are then kept in a cache so that you can share them later (it uses bittorrent) which are not actually necessary for playing the game (it's just nice to help other players download faster). The download of the full game is about 4GB, there will probably be a patch or two over the weekend but that will just be changed files.

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Quoting: RedjeI like the idea of new linux tech site, I hope you can make it more casual compared to phonorix :).

I have mixed feeling about ubuntu dropping unity, altho unity7 has issues, I like the simplicity that it has.
The casual people that I showed Ubuntu most of the time like it more then other distro's because of the simplicity.

I hope Ubuntu 18.04 will keep the unity7/8 feeling. Imho it's important for ubuntu to keep its simplicity.

They broke once, they'll break it another time. Even though, customizing gnome3 today to look like unity isn't that complicated anymore. The issue is that GNOME likes to break stuff with each release on their shell, so that could become an issue delivering a unity-like experience.

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Shadow Warrior 2, no doubt.

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Shadow Warrior 2 would be really nice as long as it is Vulkan support :D .

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Feral radar is the best game ^^

It looks a bit too obvious IMO to be Shogun2 and it is already on mac. I may be wrong but for Shadow Warrior 2 I think Devolver is already working on the port, if not it's a great news then if feral port it. It is both intended for mac and linux, The asian symbol means tea and the logo is from a tea shop in Wisconsin. With all the ports they have done recently, it could be anything, but probably not huge titles like witcher 3 or gta V as I don't think Metal would handle it.

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Quoting: DoctorJunglistWhy not just directly buy Serious Sam Fusion, which already has 1st and 2nd encounter included, and there will be more content. It also has a Linux version, so you will definitely be registered as a Linux purchase. It's on sale as well, costing 1.5 euro.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/564310/

Well, no. The first one is just Serious Sam HD The First Encounter. You have to buy them all to get them in Fusion. That's what the "Packages that include this game" is about.

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Look at the symbol... The island of Yamatai is at this the tip of the Dragon's triangle, near to Japan...

Rise of the Tomb Raider confirmed! Lol!

My guess is as good as yours!

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Quoting: chtkWade > Wade Wilson > Deadpool?

(One can dream ...)

Activation so no chance and its really not that great it gets very very samey fast

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Good riddance, Mir. I am glad to have not known you.

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Why not just directly buy Serious Sam Fusion, which already has 1st and 2nd encounter included, and there will be more content. It also has a Linux version, so you will definitely be registered as a Linux purchase. It's on sale as well, costing 1.5 euro.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/564310/

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To be perfectly honest I would hope that it is a Souls game. I really wish we had a souls game besides Salt & Sanctuary. Don't get me wrong I love that game it's just I wished we had more options.

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I like the idea of new linux tech site, I hope you can make it more casual compared to phonorix :).

I have mixed feeling about ubuntu dropping unity, altho unity7 has issues, I like the simplicity that it has.
The casual people that I showed Ubuntu most of the time like it more then other distro's because of the simplicity.

I hope Ubuntu 18.04 will keep the unity7/8 feeling. Imho it's important for ubuntu to keep its simplicity.

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Quoting: EikeI wonder if we talk about the same thing, then. Bank transfer ("Überweisung" in German) can be made from any computer, there are very safe methods to do so, and as far as I know I'm able to transfer money to any account.

Probably, not. On-line bank transfers are not a problem. What I have in mind is a very old sub-set of wired transfers, but it can be used without being a client of a bank at all (with only credentials of a recipient). Something like "Western Union", only slow, costly and uncomfortable.

Quoting: GempalmThey like not having to recognize the legal principle of first sale. They like selling the same game over and over to each player, with no secondary market.

Because they are not "selling" games. They are licensing them to end-users. That's why it is called End-User License Agreement and everyone "buying" a game should read that and not just clicking through the whole installation process. Thus, even sharing (or even allowing to play to a friend who just dropped at your house) is illegal. So re-selling is a big NO-NO! Steam (AFAIK) has the right to ban an account it Valve finds out you it was re-sold to someone other than original owner.

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For GoL and a "linux-news-site":
I wouldn't need one.

On the countrary:
If he does it, and does it good, he may gain traction of more than just linux gamers (and we're just a portion of the linux users. A rather small one I'd guess).

Comparing it to "phoronix" or similar, if the news-site is "n00b friendly" or even friendly for non-graphics-kernel-people adding enough technical background, I do not see many sites covering it that way. Looking at phoronix - they seem to expect everyone knowing what "VK_KHR_push_descriptor was added as a way to allow descriptors to be written into command buffers." means. I personally know what that means, but probably not too many of us do. Though, what I do not know is what would be the alternative to VK_KHR_push_descriptor, since I didn't use Vulkan yet and I'm not familiar with the API. Okay, that would probably only be interesting for me, but what "descriptors to be written into command buffers" means a few more probably would like to know...

And now I want my well deserved friday beer :-).

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: g000hShadow Warrior 2 is one of the few modern games to use Vulkan

Do you mean FWH are using Vulkan in their engine now?

Hi. I'm not sure about the Vulkan bit. Best to ignore it until someone confirms that it is true.

If it isn't true, sorry for spreading false info.

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Well, this news was unexpected.

I wasn't a huge fun of Unity, but it had some nifty features, like HUD or Global Menus - maybe they'll find a way to make them work in GNOME 3 now.

I'm really disappointed that they dropped the whole convergence idea. Unfortunately, I can't say that it was unexpected as Canonical has a long history of picking up and dropping projects frivolously, and I had a bad feeling they'd drop phones as well...

I was really looking forward to owning an Ubuntu phone as well - Android really needs a strong competitor, preferably a Free (as in freedom) contender (personally I hope Replicant OS picks up some steam one day).

It's really odd to me that they're dropping it now, when Google already started implementing this concept in practice (eg the new multitasking capabilities in nougat) and most likely will be moving towards convergence.

Can't they rebase the whole Ubuntu phone on top of GNOME 3 and Wayland ? That'd be awesome, but unlikely to happen.

QuoteQuestion: Is there any interest in me doing a separate site to cover general Linux news?

Personally, I'm really interested in a good site like this. Gamingonlinux is a real quality blog, so a great general Linux news blog would be welcome.

As long as it doesn't interfrere with running gamingonlinux, I'm all for it.

Just be sure to post an article about it, once it comes out, so we can check it out.

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Quoting: g000hShadow Warrior 2 is one of the few modern games to use Vulkan

Do you mean FWH are using Vulkan in their engine now?

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Quoting: Tchey- map is cut is several little pieces with loading screen and no real sense of openworld

There are many much larger scenes these days, these are mostly not suitable for a low level adventurer however. They are trying to address this by putting 'outskirts' scenes between the current starting scenes and the first town on your quest path to minimize the number of loading screens in the first few hours of play. However yes, there are still many loading screens.

Quoting: Tchey- you have to pay for the game, and the cash shop is a huge trap with ingame house costing 200+€ up to 1000+€, rent, deed, and many other things that you "must have" to have a real MMOG experience

If you feel that you "must have" a house then there are several options: you can buy a deed in the add-on store; you can win a deed in the monthly in-game lottery; you can buy a deed from another player outside the game with real money; you can buy a deed with in-game gold from a player vendor. There are also a number of people with player owned towns (POTs) who are willing to loan out their surplus housing to new players.

You can buy a house if you want, but you don't need one for a row lot. Plenty of players in game have extra houses from their pledges which are for sale on vendors, there are also seven craftable houses.

Quoting: Tchey- whatever more than a basic gameplay experience, you have to pay with real money

Notwithstanding the free trial, you have to buy the game to play it all. Once you have purchased 'game access' however you can go wherever you want and play how you want without buyiing anything else with real money. The add-on store stuff is mostly cosmetic and/or has in-game craftable equivalents.

Quoting: Tchey- even for being part of the forum, you need to pay 5€

Yes. Though some sub-forums have been opened up for the free trial weekend.

Quoting: Tchey- Little activity around the game beside the official voices

Most of the activity around the game is the players I would say - SotaMap, the various crafting websites, the story writing competition and most of the other events are player driven.

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I don't know, but, I want NieR: Automata!!!

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I have been playing this title off and on for a year now. It has come a long way since the early alpha days. Nice article Liam, was a good read. Cheers.

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Hello Kitty Online? :D
J/K I'm also thinking it's probably Shadow Warrior 2.

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