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Always give love to hardcore platformers :D Local co-op will make this title immortal among Steam OS couch users!

Especially because we dont get Spelunky...

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Hey have you guys completely forgotten about Valves own VR headset?

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Well, this made me go and throw the $25 at you on paypal, I hope I get my account thingy bumped up soon :p

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Quoting: DMJCOpenGL Drama summed up:
ATi/AMD hasn't put enough resources into their OpenGL drivers despite having 15-20 odd years to do so.

Game developers used to ATi/AMD having decent performance on Windows are crying about OpenGL being a mess because they're encountering all the bad things about ATi/AMD that make Linux users avoid them.

ProTip: There's nothing wrong with OpenGL, just with ATi/AMD's lack of developer manpower in getting OpenGL working correctly. Maybe if they hired some of the University of Utah guys who helped invent OpenGL and put some real resources into making a decent driver. they wouldn't be crying about it not working now.

Remember that for years Linux/Unix was a second class citizen on ATi/AMD whereas NVIDIA went out of their way to support Solaris, Mac OSX, FreeBSD and Linux. Now that the market is swinging back towards UNIX with OSX/Linux AMD's been caught out.

Too bad so sad. I'll keep running Intel and NVIDIA hardware which I know works on Linux.Now that NVIDIA is contributing to Nouveau (I suspect because their engineers had a look and realised that Nouveau is actually working and not just a joke project anymore) They probably see it as a way of developing an open source driver without infringing on any of their licensed code/trade secrets that they can't open.
Remember: In benchmarks Michael Larabel at Phoronix.com ran, the nouveau driver outperformed the NVIDIA Binary blob driver when the gpu and memory were forced to run at full speed (bypassing the reclocking issue)

As far as I know, Nvidia still isn't helping the nouveau team (they just contribute to Tegra support). On the contrary, AMD guys put effort to the open drivers.

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Last time I checked it wasn't working on Linux Steam, it shows that the game is on Linux but they don't have an installer.

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YES!!
I'll take 10 of these plz.

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Same here, I am now sad each time I see something about VR. I was so interested in Oculus... F**k Facebook.

Anyway, let's hope we get something from other companies (Sony has its own but only for ps4...)

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I understand where GamingOnLinux is coming from. It takes a lot of time and dedication to keep adding articles to the site. It's always nice to get some sorts of financial rewards, it keeps the site going, it gives the webmaster a purpose.

I used to run www.techheadz.co.uk, I ran the site for about 6 years. The site became quite successful. I devoted a lot of time and effort. I did the site because I wanted to give something back. I didn't make any money out of it.

One day I just dropped off Google and I lost 3/4 of my unique visitors overnight. Then on top of this my site got hacked. I looked at the time I was spending and just thought what was the point. Google and the hacker had kicked me in the teeth, so I decided to pull the site. I was sad that I had to pull it.

Resources like GamingOnLinux are important to us Linux users, so any financial help to keep it going is important. Without this site I wouldn't be able to keep up with the latest gaming news.

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Any chance of HUNT: Horrors of the Gilded Age coming to Linux?

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Quoting: XodetaetlAny piece of news about VR makes me sad now. Damn you Occulus! :'(

Well there is still hope for alternatives :)

http://www.trueplayergear.com/
http://www.roadtovr.com/totem-vr-headset-true-player-gear-ceo-interview-bertrand-nepveu-oculus-rift-competitor-alternative/

Occulus died for me the day it joined fb.

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OpenGL Drama summed up:
ATi/AMD hasn't put enough resources into their OpenGL drivers despite having 15-20 odd years to do so.

Game developers used to ATi/AMD having decent performance on Windows are crying about OpenGL being a mess because they're encountering all the bad things about ATi/AMD that make Linux users avoid them.

ProTip: There's nothing wrong with OpenGL, just with ATi/AMD's lack of developer manpower in getting OpenGL working correctly. Maybe if they hired some of the University of Utah guys who helped invent OpenGL and put some real resources into making a decent driver. they wouldn't be crying about it not working now.

Remember that for years Linux/Unix was a second class citizen on ATi/AMD whereas NVIDIA went out of their way to support Solaris, Mac OSX, FreeBSD and Linux. Now that the market is swinging back towards UNIX with OSX/Linux AMD's been caught out.

Too bad so sad. I'll keep running Intel and NVIDIA hardware which I know works on Linux.Now that NVIDIA is contributing to Nouveau (I suspect because their engineers had a look and realised that Nouveau is actually working and not just a joke project anymore) They probably see it as a way of developing an open source driver without infringing on any of their licensed code/trade secrets that they can't open.
Remember: In benchmarks Michael Larabel at Phoronix.com ran, the nouveau driver outperformed the NVIDIA Binary blob driver when the gpu and memory were forced to run at full speed (bypassing the reclocking issue)

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Where is the option to donate bitcoins?

I am using adblock and will continue to do so, but I am prepared to donate if you add the option to do so with internet money instead of Visa. I just want to donate without having to sign up to something.

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I am able to get past the window by pressing tab and enter numerous times, but even then the in-game menus are still too large for the screen, even when forced to a lower resolution or when the game is forced to be windowed.

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Haha, launcher does gozilla on me but I can now move it up. I'm updated to 1.8 (verified steam game cache) but I'm still experiencing the mouse moving up bug as I reported here http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/screen-dot-lockcursor-under-linux-breaks-input-dot-getaxis hopefully it'll work properly. Hopefully they get Unity4.5 and I can test if they fixed it.

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Didn't read through all the pages but you might want to tell people in your article that a simple filter rule line like:
@@|http://www.gamingonlinux.com
Will white-list a site. I put the rule under the group "support websites with ads". I won't disable ABP because some websites have the horriblest ads =P

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From what I can tell from this discussion - it would be impossible to make everyone happy.

You've certainly taken over the mantle from Linuxgames.com (which has been fairly quiet for last 2/3yrs now tbh), so I'm happy to chip in and view adverts.

Keep up the good work!

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Already had it off.

I like to disable it for sites that I visit a lot which don't have obtrusive ads.

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We are trying to boost our Premium features other than just no-adverts, but I haven't been able to come up with too many ideas just yet.

Fundraising like I've stated previously isn't something a service like GOL should/can do now, we aren't a charity and there isn't a set target which is part of the reason why GOL Premium is a subscription service and not a permanent buy-once deal.

I feel like I am repeating myself on that...

A hardware wishlist is probably a good idea since I need a work laptop (unless someone fancies donating a laptop) and a microphone since that broke.

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aaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeehooooooooooO!

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oK. Every day i visit some sites, and those including GOL are worthy seeing Ads. So counting me in!

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It's nice to see this and Balder is the best developer. Their work to brining him back to civilised society definitely paid.
View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: tigerYou should think why google is showing you such adverts before blaming GOL!

https://www.google.com/settings/ads/
Setting your interests actually works great, unfortunately only Google offer this service as far as I know so I tend to block other advertisement services that instead push annoying ads most of the time, in the hope that "good advertisement" becomes more popular.

About the ads in GoL, I personally don't like the "no ads subscription" way, there is too much bad feeling about ads and tracking and "no ads subscription" sounds like an advertisement itself and I'd need to be tracked (to always login) to make it work, it just sounds wrong. And it doesn't really work (see phoronix).
I think I would feel easier to donate for targeted fundraising instead, like Wikipedia does. Fundraising to reach a specific objective (example: hypothetical $1000 to pay annual server costs) feels better than paying for something vague that doesn't have a clear value as it's easier to feel involved and it is more transparent.
Referral for games would be great since I usually buy games after visiting GoL but I don't know if it's possible.
Finally I really don't like Paypal. Other options, even buying games, hardware or amazon gift cards would be much better for me.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: n30p1r4t3P.S. I think it would be good if you published your monthly financial reports so that we KNOW where all the money is going rather than assuming it's just buying you another 6-pack for example.

I don't agree with that at all, people donate/pay for gol premium on the basis that it's to keep GOL going, it's my choice to use it on whatever I need to make that happen. It's income for me plain and simple.

Indeed I'm using ADB but I paid a little to GOL to keep see it running.

It really deserves it.

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I thought that pipelight has brought the solution already.

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Quoting: Phyrefli

Quoting: jestaQuote from February:
"Absolutely. We've mentioned this a few times in this thread, we're planning on releasing a Linux version during the first half of this year."

Well...I guess that didn't happen.

To be fair, it's still the first half of the year....

Phyrefli.

Quick! Get coding! :)

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Why only Half-Life: Source and not Half-Life? Is it because one uses Source and the other uses Goldsrc? They look identical. The only difference is physics.

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I don't understand a bit of the opengl drama but I like to follow it

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Assumed it was about fighting back at government police state tyranny. And would have made it multitudes more interesting and plausible and pertinent to today's state of affairs storyline than Korea invading (a.k.a "Red Dawn" movie) scenario.

Makes me wonder if game developers/companies are also missing a couple of vital body parts like our Tech Companies and media/news/journalist lack of going against the man.

Would have been a winner for me fighting a corrupt government with Urban warfare scenarios and some Splinter Cell type missions of Infiltration of hard and soft targets to sabotage and/or retrieve vital government documents to help the cause.

Otherwise looks like a well done game and still wish it success on the Linux platform.

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Quoting: jestaQuote from February:
"Absolutely. We've mentioned this a few times in this thread, we're planning on releasing a Linux version during the first half of this year."

Well...I guess that didn't happen.

To be fair, it's still the first half of the year....

Phyrefli.

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I never run AdBlock, why would I? I make advertisers pay the sites I love despite their getting absolutely 0 benefit. Now I hope the advertisers never find out.

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