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Month: January 2019

Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton

BY Ekianjo January 22, 2019 24 Comments

Valve has just updated Steam’s client (at least the beta one) to introduce some very welcome changes for Linux gamers. There are two major ones. First, Steam on Linux now allows users to force the use of Proton even for… Continue Reading →

Announcements, DXVK, Software, Steam, WINE

Top 20 New Games Reported in ProtonDB in December

BY Ekianjo January 10, 2019 4 Comments

Yep, I am still busy looking at the data from ProtonDB. Why? Well… that’s the stuff I like to look at, and there’s always new ways to look at data that provide new findings. This time around, I checked what… Continue Reading →

DXVK, Market Tracker, Software, Steam, WINE

A Word Cloud to Describe Proton

BY Ekianjo January 9, 2019 7 Comments

Following my last post on the December 2018 analysis of the ProtonDB data, I went through the free text comments (i.e. what people actually wrote about the performance of the game they tried with Proton), and based on 3541 comments,… Continue Reading →

DXVK, Market Tracker, Software, WINE

Rise of Tomb Raider: A Late Opinion

BY Ekianjo January 6, 2019 Leave a Comment

Oh my, did I push finishing this article for so long! Even though I finished Rise of Tomb Raider a long time ago, it left me somewhat indifferent. I can’t say it was a very good game. I can’t say… Continue Reading →

Feral Interactive, Game Port, Games, Porting Companies, Random Opinions, Vulkan

Who Contributes to ProtonDB? Dec-2018 Edition

BY Ekianjo January 3, 2019 Leave a Comment

There was a new data dump available a couple of hours ago from ProtonDB, so here’s a refresh of the data I shared about november just a few days ago, this time for December 2018. There were less unique contributors,… Continue Reading →

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The Looming Risks of Stores Fragmentation

BY Ekianjo January 3, 2019 3 Comments

While on the whole things are pretty much getting better in many places, sometimes there are two steps back instead of one step forward. The looming disaster for PC gamers in general is store fragmentation. Up until not too long… Continue Reading →

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There’s No Such Thing as “Linux Games”

BY Ekianjo January 1, 2019 5 Comments

Happy New Year 2019 to everyone! Now it’s time to look forward instead of back at 2018. I saw that on GOL they posted an article about their “Top Linux games” of 2018. The wording, and the underlying idea seem… Continue Reading →

DXVK, Random Opinions, Software, WINE

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