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Satellite Reign now has a co-op mode called Uplink which is in beta
19 June 2016 at 8:46 am UTC

This game is only 650mb, quite a small download. I have the GOG version, never got into it, seems its got no story telling and is just a corp esp based game.

The only really negative I have ready about it is being difficult to control all the units due to real-time setup, there is no pause button in this game apparently so you don't get much chance to adjust to situations.

Razer announces the HDK2 VR headset, will support OSVR and SteamVR
14 June 2016 at 5:01 am UTC

Nice, I will wait for a good 1440p solution, I like the Open format better. So far this closed garden setup Rift has going is a bit annoying, developers need to STOP THAT!

It would also be viable for a company to take a 4k screen(s) for VR and just render stuff in 1200-1440p via downscale. That will solve performance and the fidelity problem considerably. (not cost unfortunately)

Dell set to introduce beefed up Steam Machines
14 June 2016 at 4:57 am UTC Likes: 2

The RX480 should bring some new life to the steam-machine push. Hopefully AMD can sort out some good official drivers with the pro series before then so SteamOS can be a THING..

Things I feel Valve need to address to help SteamOS really be something fantastic
11 June 2016 at 8:25 am UTC

Yeah allot of MAINSTREAM games are still not on Linux, even some older ones which have HUGE followings like Skyrim etc are holding people back from steam.

It doesn't help that driver vendors don't flesh out their drivers fast enough under Linux, sure progress gets made but it needs to be made ALLOT faster IMO.

The GOG summer sale has begun, tons on sale, get buying
8 June 2016 at 10:01 pm UTC

Picked up X Rebirth for 75% off, will wait for expansions to go on sale also.

GOG has Linux as a platform option on their website. Thats good enough for now, the galaxy app is still in beta.

What have you been playing on Linux recently and what do you think about it?
5 June 2016 at 10:31 pm UTC

In between hitting my car with a sledge hammer and swearing at it(backyard mechanic here), I have been playing mostly Warthunder as of late, I did just recently finish Metro Last Light, good game that, thought some of the missions are confusing as to what you must do...

Steam Machines are dead in the water according to Ars, not quite
2 June 2016 at 11:13 pm UTC

SteamOS is still not ready for mainstream consumption. Missing drivers, bad driver optimizations, library file issues, AMD is still largely missing for sysreq on software. And then there is the MAJOR AAA titles still not wanting to port to Linux (where is my Skyrim and Fallout4?).

Maybe some of those issues will be sorted out in the next 12 months I dunno. But Valve KNOWS what must be done to make it successful.

Substance Painter 2, a feature-filled 3D texture painting app comes to Linux
2 June 2016 at 11:09 pm UTC

Seems interesting. Thought its not clear on if it can produce UV mapping for you or not. Seems this guy has made the UV maps manually beforehand, which is a pain on complex objects at times.

Definitely going to give this a go with painting a tank sometime in the future, I really wanted to get into using ZBrush but at $800 for a single license and no Linux support.. nope.

Steam's latest Hardware Survey is out, shows Linux at 0.84%
2 June 2016 at 12:18 am UTC Likes: 5

It would be nice if Steam just allowed you to invoke the survey yourself via settings menu. Or have it so you can set you account to Linux yourself.

New set of GPU benchmarks and adventures in OpenGL 4.3
1 June 2016 at 12:23 pm UTC

Quoteas the AMDGPU-Pro driver does not support the R7 370.

The AMDGPU-PRO drivers do work on ALLOT of hardware that isn't listed. Its always worth the attempt to install them and see. Just be aware some games need patching to work right such as Feral games (I have these). And on top of that Tomb Raider had some odd missing libraries for me, you can find help on Steam about that.

Anyway I run a R9 390x and the AMDGPU-PRO drivers work for me under 16.04 with MATE-Compton setup. (kernel4.6)

Also you didn't test AMDGPU (kernel driver not pro). Probably perform that same as RadeonSI driver however.