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Guide vampires through centuries of emotional baggage in Vampire Therapist - out now
22 July 2024 at 12:07 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TimeFreeze
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: TimeFreezeAlso available on GOG
Only for Windows currently.

Still worth to mention it though if one wants it DRM-Free no?

It gets a bit muddy, because the article is tagged "Native Linux". Hopefully GOG add the native build at some point though.

Team Fortress 2 gets a Summer Event Update, new comic on the way
20 July 2024 at 12:32 am UTC

Quoting: PhiladelphusAs to how, well, it's a great game with staying power (so you've got the people who've been playing for a decade or more) and it's been around long enough to have new gamers get older and discover it for the first time.

That must be it. And it's free. But while I have hundreds of hours in Mann vs Machine, the bots were insane even back when I played, over a decade ago. I had voice turned off after all the anthems and music and memes that "people" spammed into voice, but even the text chat was brutal - some of it was just juvenile, but quite a fair bit would get you either assaulted or arrested if you said in the "real world". It was the opposite of a safe space. Really unpleasant.

If Valve have tidied it up, then fair play. Amazes me that it still garners 100K gamers though.

Team Fortress 2 gets a Summer Event Update, new comic on the way
19 July 2024 at 3:12 pm UTC Likes: 1

How are 100K people still playing this? Or are the numbers actually a true-er reflection of just bad the bot problem has actually become?

Steam stable update released, and a Beta with lots of fixes for Desktop and Steam Deck
18 July 2024 at 7:52 pm UTC

Doesn't look like they've fixed the microphone issue yet, sadly. Makes it pretty useless for any multiplayer captures - you'll get your friends voices, but not your own.

Valve fixes up the new Riven from Cyan Worlds videos on Linux / Steam Deck
8 July 2024 at 9:53 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: SnowdrakeI'm really puzzled about the state of video playout.
Why is it necessary to reencode video !?

Proprietary codec, I believe. So Valve would have to pay the license fee to play them "natively". So instead, they re-encode the movies and rewrite the "play video" calls in the game to use their re-encoded movie source.

Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux - 15 years old today
5 July 2024 at 12:01 pm UTC Likes: 8

Woohoo! What a wild ride! Gimme another 15 of this kind of improvement and just imagine how much better the world would look! Huge thanks to you, Liam, for everything you've achieved with this site, your enthusiasm, this community.

Steam Game Recording Beta announced - works on Linux and Steam Deck too
1 July 2024 at 2:44 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quick note that microphones aren't working on Linux, but it's been reported on the Steam forums, and Valve have confirmed the issue and it will be fixed in the next release.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/5/4416424085344798351/#c4416424085344832455

Drill-ship survival game Volcanoids has a new cozy looking update out
1 July 2024 at 11:45 am UTC Likes: 2

Wow, that game seems to have come along leaps and bounds since I played the beta a few years back! Base defence? Melee? Totally different game!

Proton Experimental has fixes for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Noita mods, MultiVersus and more
29 June 2024 at 9:28 pm UTC Likes: 1

I have nearly 800 hrs in Noita and I've used one mod, once, for about 2 hrs (Wand lab). Noita is incredible. Go play Noita.

Ari Buktu and the Anytime Elevator is a fresh feel-good, puzzle-platforming adventure
29 June 2024 at 7:45 am UTC Likes: 2

The trailer made me think of a cartoon version of Uncharted.