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Quoting: compholio

Quoting: pbIt only shows 495 titles here: ...

Weird, if you do this search it shows 500, but yours shows 495 for me as well.

That's probably because the 500 counter includes unreleased games as well. When sorting by release date, these games disappear. I'm just speculating though, because among the games with no release date is Gear Up as well as Prison Architect or Metro: Last Light, while the latter two are obviously available, only have the date broken. So yeah, let's just stick to the official counter at http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/ :-)

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Quoting: compholio

Quoting: pbIt only shows 495 titles here: ...

Weird, if you do this search it shows 500, but yours shows 495 for me as well.

Strange! For me it'S 499 (german store)

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Quoting: pbIt only shows 495 titles here: ...

Weird, if you do this search it shows 500, but yours shows 495 for me as well.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: FutureSuture

Quoting: liamdaweIt will support "cross-play" which is online gaming with Steam titles that support it as well.

I am not sure what this means. Is it now a feature to play PC games online with other PC gamers?

A lot of games on Steam use steam servers, meaning if you had a drm free version with online you wouldn't be able to play together. This means for GOG cross-play games you will be able to.

Oh, like this title, for example?

Quoting: GOGMultiplayer notice: The DRM free version of Brutal Legend is single-player only.

Does that mean that once Galaxy hits, this particular title and others like it will finally get online multiplayer?

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It only shows 495 titles here: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Released&sort_order=DESC&category1=998&os=linux
The number crossed 400 less than two months ago. Considering the current pace at which games are greenlit - and the plans to drop the greenlight process altogether - the number is likely to double by next spring, but sadly the quality of releases is another story.

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QuoteEador. Masters of the Broken World have finally delivered on their promise of a Linux version

Nope. Still "Missing executable".

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Quoting: Mike...
That said, releasing before steam machines is probably a good call for developers so they can get bugs ironed out before then.
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Yeah, they've got an army of free _very motivated_ beta testers at the moment - they would be wise to use us :)

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: earthmoverWitcher 3 for Linux!

10€ say it won't be native.

50€ say my money will go elsewhere then. I have enough native games to play and support with my money.

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Quoting: FutureSuture

Quoting: liamdaweIt will support "cross-play" which is online gaming with Steam titles that support it as well.

I am not sure what this means. Is it now a feature to play PC games online with other PC gamers?

A lot of games on Steam use steam servers, meaning if you had a drm free version with online you wouldn't be able to play together. This means for GOG cross-play games you will be able to.

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Quoting: GuestGreat news! The old client could be made to work on Linux using Wine, but I never managed to make the current client work. (To be fair I have not tried in some time). Any idea of what language/framework they are using?

Let me point you to the GOG-Wiki: http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/Download_Clients

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Quoting: liamdaweIt will support "cross-play" which is online gaming with Steam titles that support it as well.

I am not sure what this means. Is it now a feature to play PC games online with other PC gamers?

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1000 by the end of the year actually seems feasible, seems to be exponential at the moment. But the news that steam machines are delayed may slow things down. That said, releasing before steam machines is probably a good call for developers so they can get bugs ironed out before then.

To put the number in perspective, PS4 and xbone have under 200 games each, so that's more than both combined (most of which aren't exclusives so even 300 unique games between the two would be extremely generous).

Obviously, there's still the lack of AAA games, but given that most of Linux gaming's future rests on steam machines and that no console in history has had even close to 500 games at launch (will be much more by then too) then the future looks pretty bright. To put things in perspective again, the xbox 360 had 18 games at launch and only a handful of those were half-decent AAA titles, the rest sucked. If I was still a console gamer now, I would buy a steam machine over a console hands down. Its success will just depend on the marketing behind it.

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Quoting: earthmoverWitcher 3 for Linux!

10€ say it won't be native.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: liamdaweMaybe I did mean Windows programmers? Having to drop to a command line is a pain for a lot of people and the quicker Linux elitists realise that the better we will all be. We have to break out of this mentality if we will ever accept windows converts.

Spread love not hate.

This is true, but the problem with linux that ties us to the command line interface is that not everyone has the same GUI!

The solution to this I can think of off the top of my head is having cross DE configuration tools (i.e. configuration tools that can be used regardless of desktop environment, like for example xrandr which unfortujnately (as faras I know) has no official GUI front end)

QT is cross de (and even cross platform) and I bet almost every linux user will have it installed.

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Who cares about galaxy client, we want Witcher 3 for Linux! :)

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Diversity is always good, and I'm inclined to think GOG will do much better than Desura on this field. And I mean not only the quality of Linux client.

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As long as there are no pop-up or "new window" or "new tab" style ads, I am fine with them.

They're like little decorations, make the site less dull :P

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I have 130 of them and keep buying :)

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Quoting: liamdaweMaybe I did mean Windows programmers? Having to drop to a command line is a pain for a lot of people and the quicker Linux elitists realise that the better we will all be. We have to break out of this mentality if we will ever accept windows converts.

Spread love not hate.

This is true, but the problem with linux that ties us to the command line interface is that not everyone has the same GUI!

The solution to this I can think of off the top of my head is having cross DE configuration tools (i.e. configuration tools that can be used regardless of desktop environment, like for example xrandr which unfortujnately (as faras I know) has no official GUI front end)

But the terminal is like.. it's really great, but it should be optional I agree with you it's just that it's one of the only few things all(most) linux installations have in common.

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PARTY HARD !!!!

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Any chance I'll be able to merge my Steam library and GOG library statistics? I'd like to have an aggregated measure of total play times and achievement progress. Such a feature would make me much more inclined to try GOG and the lack thereof makes me avoid games outside Steam even when they are cheaper.

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If they didn't forget Linux during the press conference, then they deliberately avoided it.

I respect GOG for their DRM-free push, but they're far from Linux heroes yet.

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Wow! Google is backing this too. We're in good hands

PS. The ultimate weapon to fight internet censorship and protect your data as is would be VPNs. As long as you're not logging into accounts that can't be traced back to you on said VPN as well, it will also make you anonymous on the net (no one can find you)

Quickest way to do this is TOR.

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AMs games = piece of art.

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Yeah another title from Artifex Mundi. I truly love their adventure games :D

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And now we have 500 games (not including DLCs!) :D

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"Procedurally generated murder mystery" sounded strange--and then it occurred to me that the board game "Clue" is technically a procedurally generated murder mystery.
It was professor Plum in the dining room with the candlestick!

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Also, your [code]-Tag is broken. It shouldn't HTML-entity-fy <, > and ".

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There:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php
<link>http://www.gamingonlinux.com/</link>
<atom:link href="http://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
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<link>http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/jagged-alliance-flashback-strategy-game-now-on-linux.3845/</link>
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<guid>http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/jagged-alliance-flashback-strategy-game-now-on-linux.3845/</guid>
article_rss.php could/should see that it's accessed via https and could/should modified all URLs to say https, then.

Ditto with images within the item's descriptions.

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: tayloradding https:// to the URL.

And the RSS feed still links to http:// even then.

Where?

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