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New stable Steam client update is out opening the door a little wider for Steam Play on Linux
2 February 2019 at 7:32 pm UTC

This update make my savegame of the witcher 3 disapear. I am investigating this.

Talking point: What are you playing this weekend?
28 January 2019 at 3:16 pm UTC

Quoting: Spud13yPokemon Y on my 3DS. On my PC I've been playing Paladins and Mortal Kombat XL with Proton.
If 3DS count then Supertux on 3DS. Well, I have to cracked it for that but it's worth it ^^. a pity that Supertuxkart is not available on 3DS

Talking point: What are you playing this weekend?
26 January 2019 at 11:37 pm UTC Likes: 1

The Witcher 3, I'm destroying my overwhelmingly Linux Only play times, but this game worth it

Age of Fear: The Free World, a free fantasy turn-based strategy game
21 January 2019 at 1:21 pm UTC

Is it free like in free software or like in free beer?

Obsidian Entertainment and inXile Entertainment have officially joined Microsoft
13 November 2018 at 8:50 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: GuestNaive question but did those game sell well ?
Yes
http://steamspy.com/app/291650 1M+
http://steamspy.com/app/240760 500K+
http://steamspy.com/app/362960 200k+
but less than the divinity games

Obsidian Entertainment and inXile Entertainment have officially joined Microsoft
11 November 2018 at 10:47 am UTC

Quoting: GuestYou mean above the usual 1-1.5% ? You piqued my curiosity. :)

I have the feeling that Linux gamer are more core PC gamer than console gamer. So they tend to play more to niche PC games than mainstream one. It's just a feeling through, maybe Liam have the numbers on it

Obsidian Entertainment and inXile Entertainment have officially joined Microsoft
11 November 2018 at 10:24 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: EikeWith Larian not Porting Divinity 2, that's basically a whole genre (classic CRPGs) gone, no?

Nah, there is the indy scene and some new actors like Pathfinder: Kingmaker, but sure the niche market is badly hurt on Linux. And it is certainly a move on Linux, the crpg games do not sell well and do not sell at all on console, but I think they had a prety respectable share of Linux sales.

Mount & Blade: Warband now has a 64bit beta for Linux, should fix numerous issues
2 November 2018 at 3:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

Nice news, Mount and Blade is one of my favorite video game.

Embrace, extend, and protect? Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network to 'protect Linux and open source'
14 October 2018 at 10:22 am UTC

Quoting: Purple Library Guy3. Microsoft have been systematically funneling patents to sort of deniably-affiliated patent trolls and siccing those patent trolls on its opponents rather than getting its own hands dirty, thus allowing it to have its propaganda cake and eat its enemies too. Joining the OIN makes no difference whatsoever to use of this tactic. This is a very important point if true, and would indeed make MS joining the OIN a worthless and deeply cynical move. I have seen techrights articles making this claim before. I've never seen anyone else discussing it, whether to agree or debunk it, so I'm not sure if it's true or not.
They sometimes link to legal decisions https://www.leagle.com/decision/infco20180904118 it's legal stuff so it mostly available but hard to find. Who have founded which patent troll is an info available on wikipedia or on legal site about society creation. Techrigths mostly link second hand sources, but it is still possible to go to the legal source by following links. But then, the legal stuff is pretty much unreadable

Embrace, extend, and protect? Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network to 'protect Linux and open source'
13 October 2018 at 5:09 pm UTC

The style is ranty as hell, but I never saw them lying and even if they mostly source themselves, when they write their articles, the info used are everywhere on the news.
So I'm still cautious about them but no more than with mainstream newspaper from my country

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