This is one of the problems of the entire internet: Semi-true news. A news story which contains some truth but also contains plenty of misinformation. If anything, this method of writing makes the news more believable to the uninitiated, rather than outright lies which can be easily disproved.

I tend to not believe anything I read or hear in news stories, political mandates, or similar - at least until I've been able to validate the information.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI think the only telltale game that shows the SteamOS icon is the first Walking Dead one, right? I think from one sale or another I probably already have all of them, but I've only played a little of the first one.

Well, out of curiosity I have just activated The Walking Dead: Season 1 from my recent $1 Tier purchase, and it has Mac and Windows, but no Linux install - and that includes under the Properties field on Steam client.

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Well I bought the lowest tier anyway. Can always play with WINE.

Also today I bought Dungeon Warfare which is a Dungeon Keeper-style setting, pixel graphics, Tower Defense game and is currently at 75% off discount. Working for me on Linux. Lots of people giving it good reviews. So far, so good.

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Just wanting to add a bit myself about Rust and my own current survival game "7 Days To Die". I do own Rust, but haven't begun looking at it yet. All the internet talk about Rust and the horrible time people were having playing PVP on it really put me off multi-player.

When I play a game, I don't expect it to keep on running when I'm not playing it. i.e. When I decide I'm going to bed (at 2am) In Real Life, having just finished playing. Then the next day I start playing again to find my character dead / my base destroyed / or some other stuff like that --> Well, that is not the sort of gaming experience I want. Even if I'm in some sort of Clan environment where your buddies are looking after your combined base, it still isn't my "cup of tea".

I've been perfectly happy playing hours and hours and hours of Single Player "7 Days To Die" where it is "me" (well my character) against the difficult environment. I like the planning, the time management, the zombies sneaking up behind me when I'm foraging, the crafting progression, the building progression, the skills progression, exploring the big maps. Really love the Core Game Play, and how much control you have of how you decide to run things. 7 Days To Die (Alpha 15 for 210 hours, and now Alpha 16 for 45 hours) has kept me entertained, even though I'm playing it single player. Alpha 16 is quite different to the previous version, so that also made it almost like playing 2 games for the price of 1.

So, I'm still happy to continue gaming in 7D2D but will eventually have a look at Rust. But, if I can't play Rust in my own single player sandbox, and if the multi-player is annoying and toxic, then I'm probably not going to play much of it.

The eye-candy and performance comments do perk up my interest though. I like a game to look good.

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Had a look through the user reviews. Overall, it seems like it should be a pretty good game, like Legend of Grimrock. It has my interest, think I'll add it to my Wishlist (and watch out for a sale).

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All GOGGED up here. If it happens and someone is keen enough, good to know if there's any difference (in performance / glitches) between the Steam and GOG versions.

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Looks like the Market agrees with me, regarding VR...

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608257/another-price-slash-suggests-the-oculus-rift-is-dead-in-the-water/

... 4 months after this GOL article on Serious Sam VR.

And here:

https://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2017/07/oculus-rift-touch-discount-price/

And here:

http://news.sky.com/story/oculus-rift-price-slashed-again-amid-concerns-over-sales-10943409

Oculus is having trouble shifting VR units, so has done massive discounts in recent months.

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First started back in 2014 by a 16 year old Canadian - Nelson Sexton

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Impressive game for one very young person to build.

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Quoting: etonbearsLinux DOES have some advantages, to be sure, but generally not in the areas that matter to most potential users. Without the financial backing of a major interested party to sort out the "experience" problem, and to put significant marketing and advertising dollars into selling the result, it is difficult to see attitudes shifting.

You make numerous noteworthy comments, but one thing I'd say about it is this - All those non-technical people who buy Windows and Mac computers: They are useless at setting up an operating system for themselves. I have had a much more convenient installation running Linux, and then maintaining that same Linux computer with updates, than if it had been a bare computer with no Windows on it and needing to put Windows on.

But the vast majority of machines are pre-configured with Windows or Mac by the vendors. The non-technical user just needs to switch it on. If that same non-technical user was given a Windows install dvd and an empty PC, they would probably fail at the "please provide a driver for the network card" stage.

Recently I set up an empty PC with Mint Linux and it was a dream of an install. It did all the hard work, and at the end, a machine set up with default software, and package manager for installing additional software. The non-technical end user (with a bit of guidance) could install Steam client via Package Manager and then access all their Linux games. ;)

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Quoting: skinnyraf

Quoting: g000h.

Meanwhile, similar game "7 Days To Die" has just recently been at 60% discount in Steam Summer sale, it has just had a big update improving graphics, variety, and game balancing. Absolutely love 7D2D. Can't recommend it enough.

I'm terribly disappointed with quality of ARK on Linux and 7D2D looks awesome, but similar? The main appeal of ARK is not the survival part but dinosaurs, especially taming them.

Yes, it is quite a different experience - but there are similarities - survival, crafting, base-building, foraging, etc. Ark is set it a prehistoric-style world whereas 7 Days To Die is set in a post-apocalyptic zombie-overrun world. I wrote an interesting chapter in the forum about a chunk of my recent 7D2D gaming:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2827

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