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GOG staff state that Galaxy for Linux is being worked on, but still no ETA
28 April 2017 at 9:58 am UTC Likes: 2

I would like to see Gwent come to Linux (after all Gwent is a Unity game), but that wouold seem to require Galaxy at the minute.

OpenGL vs Vulkan in Mad Max, re-tested
5 April 2017 at 7:32 am UTC Likes: 1

It would be nice to see the same benchmarks for a system with a less powerful CPU. No offence to Liam here the benchmarks are nice to see but his CPU is a beefy one and thus was probably less affected by the CPU bound issue when using OpenGL than someone using an i5 say, I think that could show even better gains as the benefit will release the GPU more from bottlenecks.

Superposition Benchmark powered by UNIGINE 2 releases this week with Linux support
3 April 2017 at 11:39 am UTC

Quoting: Mountain ManAny word on Vulkan support?

Agree, we definately need any benchmark to support Vulkan as well as OpenGL

Some thoughts on Hard West
17 March 2017 at 4:35 pm UTC

Nice write-up - I have this sitting in my lirary waiting for me to play at somepoint.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - A Criminal Past DLC now supports Linux & SteamOS
16 March 2017 at 8:16 pm UTC

I like that there is new DLC, and I may buy it; I do object to the 4.3GB update it decided to give me though, especially on my piddly 5Mbps connection; bang goes any gaming for me tonight :(

AMD have announced Ryzen 5 will launch in April
16 March 2017 at 10:45 am UTC Likes: 3

Im interested in how Ryzen is going forward, but for the time being my i5 4670K is more than enough to handle modern games especially coupled with my 1070.

However I would like AMD to keep pushing intel because I would hapily buy a future generation AMD CPU when it comes time to upgrade; hell if AMD's GPU's get upto par in performance I would hapily switch to one as well when the time comes.

Editorial: On paying for Linux games when you already have a Windows version
15 March 2017 at 11:12 am UTC

I have no problem with paying again for old games I have leftover from my windows days, though I would prefer its not at original full retail!. Simply put I no longer play them, so without a port I would either never touch them again or resort to playing via WINE.

Its a moot point for new games! As for sales, I have so little free time that by the time i get round to games they are on discount anyway but in and of itself I have no expectation of a a game having to be on Sale for me to buy. in fact I have for a couple of titles actually waited til the sale ended to show my support by purchasing at full retail.


EDITED: Poor English corrected

Stellaris is to gain some really useful features in the free patch coming soon
9 March 2017 at 3:28 pm UTC Likes: 2

I love Stellaris, and it just keeps improving. this free update and the DLC coming sound like they will add vast improvements. time to dust of my space conquering hat soon I think

Wine-Staging 2.2 released with CSMT speed optimizations
23 February 2017 at 8:44 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: coeseta
Quoting: Avehicle7887Compared to Staging-2.0 performance is much worse on Guild Wars 2, there's 7-20 frames fps loss. On the other hand in Crysis Warhead it stayed the same.

Damn I wanted to try it with GW2, it is the only game I still need wine for :/
Did you also try it with 2.1?

Its times like these im glad I use Play On Linux to manage WINE, I can quickly test new versions of WINE and revert and keep games at the best version for them :) So my GW2 wine prefix is staying on 2.0-staging for now then.

How to record videos on Linux using OBS Studio with separate audio tracks for gameplay and microphone
21 February 2017 at 2:55 pm UTC

I personally like the mix of how tos, community posts, interviews and pure news articles. That said the below is a great solution to those who would like to filter certain content out without being detrimental to those who still enjoy it.

Quoting: liamdaweWhat I will be looking to do is two things:
1) Allow people to filter out tags from their GOL homepage
2) Have a few featured tabs along the top of the latest articles to quickly go to certain tags like HowTo, Interviews and so on.