I just noticed the mascot in the top banner changes what is being held beneath the flipper; different controllers show up, including a Steam Deck playing what looks like a Star Wars game. Is that new, or have I just been blind? ;-D

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It's nice to see Apogee making (publishing?) games again.

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QuoteEven with all the talk about 8GB VRAM simply not being enough now

This just seems obscene to me...

Besides the (always useful) phoronix benchmarks, I also find this helpful in finding good value:
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_value.html

It doesn't have data for the latest models just yet, but you can see that the RX 6650 XT is a great value; I considered one a few months back, but got a good deal on a 3060Ti.

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Quoting: MaathI wonder, whatever happened to the Ogre engine?

Still getting regular releases:
https://www.ogre3d.org/news

But apparently not terribly popular for public projects; their survey results seem to indicate it gets used by people for internal projects.

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Quoting: itscalledrealityValve also separated the Steam Play enable checkboxes. The new default checkbox only allows you to install Windows games if the Steam Compatibility Tool says it’s okay. There is now a second checkbox for installing all software with Steam Play. Very very very annoying when I tried to install Yume Nikku.

Say what now? That's how it's been from the very beginning. They only changed it for Steam Deck.

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Quoting: Liam Dawearguably with Proton, you still get the game. Kickstarter should really be used if you like the game idea, not specifically the Linux side of it.

Just speaking for myself, but I fund Kickstarter projects for the promised native Linux support. If they don't deliver on that, I consider it a failed Kickstarter, as it's not what I funded. There are tons of games already available that I can play with Proton, and if the project "runs great with Proton" I'll pick it up when it's been out for a while, and is on sale. And I have to say, there have been a number of "finished" Kickstarter projects which are "failures" to me - although some do eventually complete - Divinity: Original Sin, Moebius, etc.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOn the other hand, the publishers sound like jerks and I don't know what the hell a "publisher" is supposed to really do these days.

I don't know the situation here, and there are definitely publishers who pull lots of "dick" moves, but often the role of a "publisher" is to provide funding for development up front. So the developers have funding from the Kickstarter, plus extra funding from the publisher, to keep them running until they actually have something they can sell. That means that the publisher takes on a lot of risk (funding something which may not finish, or have lousy sales), and so they tend to contractually give themselves a large cut of the (eventual) revenue. So if the devs took the money up front, and now have sour grapes because they have something that is selling well, they may not be legally or morally in the right either.

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I noticed yesterday that the Epic login wasn't working / failing on the captcha, but the alternative login method worked. Today, after updating to the new version, it said I was still logged into Epic, but wouldn't show anything in the library until I logged out and logged in with the captcha.

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Quoting: hardpenguinI wonder what other games might be affected 🙈

I think this is one of the areas where protondb can be really helpful, as you can see which versions of Proton are known to have worked, when the latest is having issues.

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Quoting: mamillerHas anyone tried it? What's your honest opinion?

I think it's great for what it does, I just wish there was a way to somehow automap it to the games it supports. You have to explicitly set it as the compatibility tool for whichever game(s) you want to use it with. That's not really a Luxtorpeda problem, though - it's the same for Roberta, Boxtron, etc.

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