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Point-and-click adventure game Demetrios released DRM-free and on Steam
3 June 2016 at 12:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

I'm a sucker for a good comedy adventure. Nice to see there's a demo. If it tickles my funny bone, the game's sure to end up high on my wishlist.

Anima Gate of Memories is an awesome looking third person action RPG coming to Linux (corrected)
3 June 2016 at 8:33 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: AnjuneIt's out for Windows. I don't want to wait two more months (never mind how long it'll really take) now that I've seen how gorgeous it is :(

But what can ya do
You know what they say: "Waiting makes it better!" Nice to be a Linux gamer eh? We sure spend a lot of time waiting...

GOG Connect announced, add certain Steam games to GOG for a limited time
1 June 2016 at 1:52 pm UTC

My games aren't detected either. I wonder if this doesn't work for steam keys bought in humble bundles?

Announcing the beta of our User Stats page
1 June 2016 at 1:34 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: tuubiThe switched colours and sort order in the AMD chart threw me off a bit. Would be nice if these three tables were all laid out the same, with open source at the top.
Noted and fixed, Open Source is always first on those now, so the colour and sorting both matches in all three.
Cool. These charts really underline the awesome progress of AMD's open-source efforts. I'm sure there are a few AMD developers who'd be very happy to see these results. They must be doing something right if such a large percentage of Linux gamers prefer the open-source driver already.

Announcing the beta of our User Stats page
1 June 2016 at 12:37 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdaweAs requested by Edwin we now show what driver people use split across all, nvidia only and amd only.
The switched colours and sort order in the AMD chart threw me off a bit. Would be nice if these three tables were all laid out the same, with open source at the top.

Alien Hunters DLC for XCOM 2 now available along with a big patch on SteamOS & Linux
1 June 2016 at 12:27 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestFore someone installing Ubuntu for the first time there is nothing "Official" looking about the Launchpad PPA. Official, to me at least, means repositories that are included in the install or can be selected from a repository list in the repo manager. There are a lot of things about Linux that are not transparent for new users, especially when graphics drivers are concerned.
You are absolutely right, and I didn't mean to sound condencending. Sorry about that. I did put the word official in double quotes to indicate that the PPA is still a work-in-progress and the only thing making it sort of official is that it's managed by Ubuntu staff. AFAIK it's hoped that when they get it all figured out, this PPA will be better integrated into Ubuntu's driver manager or something. It's already the best way to install these drivers though.

In any case, with Ubuntu (and most derivatives) a PPA is almost always the best source for software not in the official repositories, especially when said PPA is managed by Canonical employees (as is the case here) or developers of whatever software you're installing. Other distros do things in other ways of course.

Alien Hunters DLC for XCOM 2 now available along with a big patch on SteamOS & Linux
31 May 2016 at 8:57 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestIt took me over a week trying to find drivers that would work with XCOM2 until I found 364.19 drivers and figured out how to install them.
If you mean the "official" Ubuntu Proprietary GPU Drivers PPA, you could just say so. Spread the info, man. Not like it's a secret or anything. And the PPA is clearly the best way to install Nvidia's drivers on Ubuntu, unless you simply cannot wait for the day or two they take to add newly released drives.

Legends of Eisenwald being ported to Linux by Codeweavers, will use Wine
31 May 2016 at 9:06 am UTC

Quoting: Mountain ManTo be fair, it would require a major engine rewrite to go from DirectX to OpenGL.
Only if the engine was designed around and tightly coupled with DirectX, and "cross-platform wasn't much of a concern." Otherwise they'd have implemented proper abstraction layers and separate graphics backends, even if there was only one to begin with. Of course it'd still be a lot of work.

Legends of Eisenwald being ported to Linux by Codeweavers, will use Wine
30 May 2016 at 7:40 pm UTC

Codweavers? A Norwegian developer I presume?

I wonder what makes this game an adventure instead of a straight up tactical RPG though.

Dota 2 updated to support the Vulkan API
25 May 2016 at 9:20 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: BelarriusI want to see the difference between OpenGL and Vulkan with a 6-8 cores for exemple :p
At this point Dota 2 can't show you that difference. Just the difference between one finished and optimized backend (OpenGL) and one that's still in beta. You'll have to wait for a proper benchmark.