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Steam now has over 3,500 games for Linux, with GOG having over 700
14 August 2017 at 5:57 pm UTC Likes: 6
Setting up proxy companies in tax havens to evade having to contribute to society is considered a standard practice in international business.
Planar Conquest, a 4X turn-based strategy game inspired by Master of Magic is now on Linux
14 August 2017 at 4:31 pm UTC
I backed Worlds of Magic back then, and signed up for a DRM free copy. They handed out Steam "beta" keys eventually and told us the DRM free versions would come "later". The Steam keys became the full game one day. I am still waiting for my DRM free copy. I sent them multiple mails, even telling them I'd accept a Steam key if I'd get ANYTHING. They never responded.

I consider them frauds, really. I am fairly convinced I won't buy anything from them again, ever.
What games do you want ported to Linux? Feral Interactive want to know again
12 August 2017 at 3:32 am UTC Likes: 1
Skyrim
Fallout 4
Elder Scrolls Online
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Fictorum, an action RPG with destructible environments may come to Linux
11 August 2017 at 6:20 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: KuJoOnly Singleplayer, no MP.

It also sounds like another "roleplay" game making you play a premade character. :S

It looks decent, though.
Paradox are now doing their own game client for downloads, cloud saves, statistics and so on
11 August 2017 at 4:18 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: MalI use Steam so this thing has not much value for me. I understand though that they'd like to have Steam services also on other (un)platforms they sell on to and I welcomed their company wide infrastructural projects.

The thing is I don't like launchers. It's an additional click away from my game, launchers go against every modern rule of usability and user friendliness. I can't really understand why game houses are so stubborn with them. Old management I guess. I doubt a millenial would come out with such an idea. Anyway Paradox already uses launchers for each one of their games so I guess in the end having a unified one instead of many will not change anything compared to now.

So in the end I'm just disappointed that they didn't used this chance to get rid of launchers entirely.

I don't see the point in launchers either. They make no sense to me. Game settings belong in the actual game, and it's not that you're going to change them every single time you start it. It's really just one more unneeded click.

I am not a fan of the de-facto monopoly Steam has on game management platforms (monopolies are bad, period!), but let's face it - it's not going to change just because every Tom, Dick and Harry publisher is going to add its own platform ON TOP of Steam and/or with an extremely limited stock of games it supports.
Paradox are now doing their own game client for downloads, cloud saves, statistics and so on
10 August 2017 at 4:33 pm UTC Likes: 8
Soon we will have one separate client for every single game on Earth!
Valve announce a new game that's not Half-Life 3, introducing 'Artifact', a card game
10 August 2017 at 4:55 am UTC
I don't mind card games, but their appeal tends to get suddenly squashed for me, if they tell me I have to buy 10,000 booster packs to get on halfway even footing with the average Jane playing it. I would probably like that sort of games if they'd give both side the full selection of cards to build their decks with and then let skill win. Pay2Win sucks, though.
Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn will allow you to play as a customized robotic civilization
3 August 2017 at 5:26 pm UTC
You will be assimilated! :D
Linux game sales statistics from multiple developers, part 5
2 August 2017 at 6:04 pm UTC Likes: 6
Quoting: ShmerlBasically, Apple wants to tax cross platform developers. In this sense, they are worse than MS these days.

They are worse than MS in -every- regard. It wasn't MS who invented locked-down operating systems and monopolized software distribution giving them complete and exclusive control on what you do with YOUR device. Honestly, in terms of disgusting business practices, I'd argue Apple is easily the most evil technology company on Earth. I find it laughably how this company gets defended by its hordes of hipster fanboys, hipster fangirls and hipster design studios just because Apple products are apparently more "cool" than anything else. I dunno, I rather have a less "cool" product that performs way better, allows me to do what I want to do, and costs way less to boot.

Back on topic, I actually think the numbers aren't THAT bad - we seem to outdo our actual market share in the desktop OS market, even (which most think is a bit less than 2%). The only downside of this is that despite Linux gaming has been vastly improving over the past few years, our numbers do not trend upwards at all. We have been given a load of indie games, a meaningful selection of AAA titles (come on, what other than MMOs -don't- we have these days?), better drivers, better distros - and we're still roughly where we started. Windows 10 is definitely disappointing people and Mac never has been a good gaming platform, so one should think at least some would give Linux a shot?
The Sid Meier's Civilization VI 'Summer 2017 Update' and Nubia content are out, Linux support 'soon'
27 July 2017 at 7:53 pm UTC
They seem to be reasonably fast with getting new patches to work on Linux, so it's all good. :)
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