Games: Engadget's FUD, Valve and Google Plans, More (and Improved) Gaming on GNU/Linux
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Linux gaming is on a life-support system called Steam [Ed: Misleading. Frames Steam as the one and only platform for games; that's like saying FOSS is just GitHub (a common error).]
In September 2013, Valve founder Gabe Newell gave a rare, 20-minute presentation at LinuxCon.
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The number of Linux gamers on Steam continues to grow, according to Valve
Recently, Engadget wrote an article about Linux gaming and apart from a bit of a silly title and information regular GOL readers will be aware of, they did have some interesting info from Valve.
I don't put too much thought into the title they decided to give it, "Linux gaming is on a life-support system called Steam", since when you think about it that's actually quite close to the truth. Valve are the biggest pushers of Linux gaming and one of the only major forces doing so.
While I've long said that the amount of Linux gamers using Steam will be increasing all the time, the actual market share of Linux on Steam hasn't really gone anywhere. At times, it has certainly looked like the amount of Linux gamers has decreased if you take the percentage at face value.
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Valve is getting back to focusing on gaming, with non-gaming videos being retired
Why is it not surprising? Well, it makes sense for multiple reasons. Did you ever buy and watch any movies (or other non-gaming videos) on Steam? I didn't, it's far easier to use a different service like Netflix, Google Play or practically any other where you could watch your content across pretty much any device and browser.
On top of that, Valve's bread and butter is gaming and since they now have more competition actually focusing on that is obvious at this point.
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Google Could Reveal Its Mystery ‘Online Gaming’ Project In March
Google has scheduled an event next month at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.
This is reportedly where it could unveil its gaming project that has been under development for quite some time.
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The huge Rocket League update is now out with cross-platform friends support and Season 10 has started
Rocket League, the game that sucks away most of my gaming time has a fantastic update now out that allows you to party up with friends across different platforms.
There's a whole new part of the interface to deal with this, the Friends List which is split into different sections covering friends from your current platform, RocketID to show friends on other platforms, a recent players list to reach out to people you've had a good game with and an alerts section to see notifications.
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Gallium Nine With NIR Is Now Running Most D3D9 Games "Flawlessly"
Towards the beginning of the month we reported on the Gallium Nine state tracker working on NIR support as an alternative to its original focus on the common TGSI intermediate representation to Gallium3D. That NIR-ified version of Gallium Nine is now working and beginning to run most Direct3D 9 games fine.
Plumbing NIR support into Gallium Nine is being done for newer Gallium3D drivers that focus on NIR support rather than the aging TGSI. In particular, NIR support is needed for the new Intel Iris Gallium3D driver (though still yet to be mainlined), possibilities like running Gallium Nine atop Zink to in turn map to Vulkan drivers, and working for other NIR drivers like VC4/V3D or Freedreno.
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