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The 2012 strategy game Oil Rush from Unigine is now free
24 January 2022 at 2:00 pm UTC

Purchased this direct back in the day - haven't played it in a very long time...

Seems no hope for Insurgency: Sandstorm on Steam Deck / Linux
17 December 2021 at 4:05 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: libgradevNot that I care for this game personally but what development work?! Isn't the whole point that devs don't have to do the heavy lifting Proton does... or are they just saying they cannot be bothered to toggle EAC support on
This has been discussed before, and it's just like telling developers to "export to Linux" without doing any testing, it's not going to be great. For EAC, developers first need to go and upgrade the Epic SDK used, which means it also then needs testing again on their main platform. Then it needs testing on Linux, to make sure it works and continues working with Proton.

Things are rarely a button to hit and be done with it.

To fully support it on Linux sure but they don't have to take it that far. I was referring to the article:
Quotethe developer will not be enabling support for it in EAC.
...

Surely allowing EAC and then leaving the rest to Proton is an option akin to all the other Windows games that aren't blocked due to anticheat. By not taking the EAC step they're blocking it outright.

Seems no hope for Insurgency: Sandstorm on Steam Deck / Linux
17 December 2021 at 11:40 am UTC Likes: 6

QuotePlease understand however that we would still need to do quite a bit of development work to properly support Linux

Not that I care for this game personally but what development work?! Isn't the whole point that devs don't have to do the heavy lifting Proton does... or are they just saying they cannot be bothered to toggle EAC support on

As GOG struggles, Steam hit a new high of 27M people online
1 December 2021 at 12:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääI for one would have bought likely hundreds of games if GOG would have provided that Galaxy client for Linux (https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/release_gog_galaxy_20_for_linux)... Now every penny has gone to GabeN and Steam

Yeah, I love the idea of GoG but I'm finding it a harder and harder sell these days... I'm of a mind now to get everything on Steam and just grab the game again on GoG as a backup when dirt cheap.

The integration in Steam just makes managing the games so much easier.

Steam Client Beta updated with PipeWire desktop capture for Remote Play
24 September 2021 at 1:09 pm UTC

Quoting: GuppyI stopped using in home streaming all together because so many games just cast audio and a black screen, hopefully this will solve the issue :D

I've seen this streaming to my phone - watch the resolution on the host PC (switched mine down to 1440p and got video).

Steam Client Beta updated with PipeWire desktop capture for Remote Play
24 September 2021 at 1:08 pm UTC

Quoting: sebastianlacuesta
Quoting: MohandevirIs Pipewire the solution to the long standing audio degradation issue with PulseAudio, when it comes to in-home streaming from a Linux host?

I have to disable all HDMI audio devices in Pavucontrol of the host computer to prevent that from happening.

Three simple words:

Yes it is!

I just removed it in debian in favor of pipewire-pulse. Done replacement fake pulse audio packages with equivs to solve dependency problems and bye bye pulse audio crackling system

I've stopped using IHS at the moment but switching to Pipewire at the time (~6 months ago) didn't fix this issue.

The only thing that did, as mentioned earlier, was disabling local audio on the host.

The GOG Games Festival is live with new games and lots on sale
19 August 2021 at 4:37 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Liam Dawewhich GOG was smart enough to make.

Not smart enough to make a native version of Galaxy

Last Epoch the awesome action-RPG update 0.8.2 is out with huge end-game changes
27 May 2021 at 12:05 pm UTC Likes: 1

Just gonna stick this here: to get 5120x1440 I needed to use Windowed mode (Fullscreen and Borderless limited me to 3440x1440)

Looks like Steam is getting a brand new Downloads page
26 May 2021 at 12:02 pm UTC Likes: 1

QuoteAlthough, that might only be an issue for people like me

No, no Liam there are others

Hints appear of Valve making a handheld Steam "SteamPal" Neptune console
25 May 2021 at 12:27 pm UTC Likes: 1

Well I'd love a new Steam Controller

For handheld gaming I'm currently using my Note 8 with a Kishi controller and streaming from the desktop PC using the link app...