While its nice to see EPICs Tim Sweeney show interest in Linux, I am sceptical as his own store doesnt have a Linux client and they seem to be making little visible progress towards one.

QuoteI’d like to challenge critics to state what moral principle you feel is at stake. If it’s okay for one company to avoid the 30% Valve tax by selling exclusively through their own store, why is it wrong for multiple companies to work together to achieve the same goals?

On the above, I have no problem with developers trying to maximise their takings from the games they sell especially Indies who can struggle with revenue in a crowded marketplace. My problem wth the EPIC store, other than the obvious lack of Linux support, is that it is currently vastly inferior when it comes to feature parity with Steam or even GOG Galaxy (Though again it lacks a Linux client) and instead of working to improve the store and let consumers choose to support games at a place where they also have a good service but allow developers to get a bigger cut (I will often buy Feral games from their website) they have instead worked to make games exclusives by paying developers to ditch steam releases.

The moral principle I have is the manner by which EPIC has gone about this.

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Quoting: jkaart

Quoting: subBtw, anyone else currently not able to log into Steam?

Problem is with newest kernels, use older kernel and it should works.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/6326

THanks for this info; I will hold off updating the Kernel for a while until I see this resolved.

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Very reminisent of the Star Wars pod racing game. Very cool idea will keep an eye on it.

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I dont have enough free time to make a subscription gaming service worth it. My hope is that this will drive some more Linux Ports, or at the very least push Vulkan adoption so I can use Proton/Wine.

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I will always take some more Stellaris content; this is my goto game whenever I am at a loose end of what to play.


Anyone else get a Star Trek vibe from the closing riff of the trailer music.

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He is doing fantastic work, and there are a few games I want to see how this does for; chiefly Guild Wars 2


whats more amazing is if this comment is to be believed he is only 17!

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/bntn0n/d9vk_011_released/en9z1is?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

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I do like Lutris, my only wich would that in the Banner layout mode as show in the screenshot that there were some options for larger banner sizes. On my screen they can become quite small.

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I just finished "The Magic Circle" which was a very enjoyable game to say the least. Now I may get on with the First of the new Tomb Raiders...

Cutting edge gaming from me.

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Currently rocking a GTX1070 so Im a few years away from a GPU upgrade, but like yourself Liam I had been leaning towards an AMD card for my next one but if Intel comes up roses with support and performance then Im all for considering an Intel card.

That being said my concern is that Intel are unlikely to be friendly to the wallet, if they follow their pricing model as they do with their CPU's I expect Intels GPU's to be at least as expensive as Nvidia and not a distruptive pricing scheme. Of course they could go agressive on pricing in order to get a foot in the door, time will tell.

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While its nice to see more adoption of the cheaper standard; Im aint changing my monitor just to take advantage of this. I only bought a 1440p monitor last year, its going to last me a while yet!

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