This week, we cover the ins and outs of how to get three of the best of the newly Steam-proton enabled EA titles to work on your Linux box. Simple, easy to follow. "Titanfall 2," "Mirror's Edge: Catalyst," and "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order" chief among them. ALL THIS AND MOAR! gamemode: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode if you have problems following the instructions there (mint 19.3), use this PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samoilov-lex/gamemode sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gamemode then add "gamemoderun %command%" to the launch properties of the game in steam. *BE SURE TO CHECK IN GAME OPTIONS for GPU/CPU metering and disable them. IF YOU ARE HEALTHY: PLEASE GIVE BLOOD: https://www.redcross.org/give-blood.html -------- -BE SURE TO CHECK OUT our twitch livestream at: www.twitch.tv/skookiesprite -JOIN OUR DISCORD EXPERIMENT at: discord.gg/SVXy3Xa --POST YOUR GAME REPORTS TO PROTONDB.COM!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------- ---Games Mentioned In This Week's Episode:--- --Titanfall 2 9-67% $9.89 through July 9th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1237970/Titanfall_2/ --Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order: (-50% $29.99 through July 9th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172380/STAR_WARS_Jedi_Fallen_Order/ --Mirror's Edge: Catalyst (-50% $9.99 through July 9th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1233570/Mirrors_Edge_Catalyst/

This week: we welcome our new alien EA overlords, and wish them well: now tht originthin client installs games like "Mirror's Edge: Catalyst," "Battlefield V," "Need for Speed: Heat" and many others, we take a moment to reflect on what an enormous sea change this is for the future of Linux gaming. Also: "SATISFACTORY," "JOURNEY," dxvk and MOAR! IF YOU ARE HEALTHY: PLEASE GIVE BLOOD: https://www.redcross.org/give-blood.html -------- -BE SURE TO CHECK OUT our twitch livestream at: www.twitch.tv/skookiesprite -JOIN OUR DISCORD EXPERIMENT at: discord.gg/SVXy3Xa --POST YOUR GAME REPORTS TO PROTONDB.COM!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------- ---Games Mentioned In This Week's Episode:--- --Journey (-25% $11.24 through July 9th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/638230/Journey/ --Satisfactory (-10% $26.99 through July 9th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/526870/Satisfactory/ --Mirror's Edge: Catalyst (-50% $9.99 through July 9th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1233570/Mirrors_Edge_Catalyst/ --Battlefield V (-50% $24.99 through July 9th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1238810/Battlefield_V/

This D-Day, we mark the invasion entirely different from the Allies invasion of occupied France: EA has (seemingly) invaded the Steam store, offering delicious discounts on long-lusted-after titles... but do they run on Linux? Find out! VID OF THE WEEK: Deckbuilding a rush deck from scratch in KARDS (with surprising results) https://www.twitch.tv/videos/628161866 IF YOU ARE HEALTHY: PLEASE GIVE BLOOD: https://www.redcross.org/give-blood.html -------- -BE SURE TO CHECK OUT our twitch livestream at: www.twitch.tv/skookiesprite -JOIN OUR DISCORD EXPERIMENT at: discord.gg/SVXy3Xa --POST YOUR GAME REPORTS TO PROTONDB.COM!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------- ---Games Mentioned In This Week's Episode:--- --West of Dead Beta (free) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1270990/West_of_Dead_Beta/ --KARDS - The WWII Card Game (Free, in game deck purchases) https://store.steampowered.com/app/544810/KARDS__The_WWII_Card_Game/

As the US tears itself apart with looting, riots, authoritarian backlash, racial and class inequality, all in the midst of the worst pandemic humanity has seen in a hundred years, we talk serious LIBERACION! With our full review of the wonderful and explodey "Just Cause 3." We also give some free game love, and talk some submarines (one ping only)... all this and MOAR! VID OF THE WEEK: Deckbuilding a rush deck from scratch in KARDS (with surprising results) https://www.twitch.tv/videos/628161866 IF YOU ARE HEALTHY: PLEASE GIVE BLOOD: https://www.redcross.org/give-blood.html -------- -BE SURE TO CHECK OUT our twitch livestream at: www.twitch.tv/skookiesprite -JOIN OUR DISCORD EXPERIMENT at: discord.gg/SVXy3Xa --POST YOUR GAME REPORTS TO PROTONDB.COM!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------- ---Games Mentioned In This Week's Episode:--- --Just Cause 3 ($19.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/225540/Just_Cause_3/ --COVID: The Outbreak (-10% $12.59 through June 5th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1287000/COVID_The_Outbreak/ --Silent Hunter III ($9.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/15210/Silent_Hunter_III/ --World of Warships (Free to play) https://store.steampowered.com/app/552990/World_of_Warships/ --KARDS - The WWII Card Game (Free, in game deck purchases) https://store.steampowered.com/app/544810/KARDS__The_WWII_Card_Game/

This week, we welcome "Just Cause 3" to the list of games that run via proton (fina-fucking-lee), then talk about the joys and heartbreaks of managing a human-run space mission in the role of HAL 9000 in "OBSERVATION." Finally, we round it all out with our review of the (free) CCG WWII fast paced VS. multi strategy of "KARDS: The WWII Card Game." Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Stay safe, stay sane, stay alive. VID OF THE WEEK: Deckbuilding a rush deck from scratch in KARDS (with surprising results) https://www.twitch.tv/videos/628161866 IF YOU ARE HEALTHY: PLEASE GIVE BLOOD: https://www.redcross.org/give-blood.html -------- -BE SURE TO CHECK OUT our twitch livestream at: www.twitch.tv/skookiesprite -JOIN OUR DISCORD EXPERIMENT at: discord.gg/SVXy3Xa --POST YOUR GAME REPORTS TO PROTONDB.COM!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------- ---Games Mentioned In This Week's Episode:--- --KARDS - The WWII Card Game (Free, in game deck purchases) https://store.steampowered.com/app/544810/KARDS__The_WWII_Card_Game/ --Observation (-50% $12.49 through May 28th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/906100/Observation/ --Just Cause 3 (-85% $2.99 through May 27th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/225540/Just_Cause_3/ --AFTERBURN (-40% $5.99 through May 24) https://store.steampowered.com/app/608120/AFTERBURN/

BLGP EP: 290: Super Mega Baseball 3, and CHEAP PORN This week, we bring you 2 things that (if you are single during this time of plague) are in desperately short supply: baseball (Super Mega Baseball 3) and CHEAP PORN. You know you want it. You know you need it. Ivor Molina rounds out the show. IF YOU ARE HEALTHY: PLEASE GIVE BLOOD: https://www.redcross.org/give-blood.html -------- -BE SURE TO CHECK OUT our twitch livestream at: www.twitch.tv/skookiesprite -JOIN OUR DISCORD EXPERIMENT at: discord.gg/SVXy3Xa --POST YOUR GAME REPORTS TO PROTONDB.COM!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------- ---Games Mentioned In This Week's Episode:--- --Super Mega Baseball 3 ($44.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/988910/Super_Mega_Baseball_3/ --Jet Lancer ($14.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/913060/Jet_Lancer/ --Hyperspace Dogfights ($9.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/842170/Hyperspace_Dogfights/ --Street Fighter V ($19.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/310950/Street_Fighter_V/ --LEWDAPOCALYPSE (PORN $0.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1271710/LEWDAPOCALYPSE_Penesis_Evil/ --Aster (PORN $2.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1070940/Aster/

BLGP EP: 289: BIG FIGHT This week: the best fighting games available for GNU/Linux we all know and love so well. They are a great value, and can help to make up for some of the social isolation space madness. IF YOU ARE HEALTHY: PLEASE GIVE BLOOD: https://www.redcross.org/give-blood.html -------- -BE SURE TO CHECK OUT our twitch livestream at: www.twitch.tv/skookiesprite -JOIN OUR DISCORD EXPERIMENT at: discord.gg/SVXy3Xa --POST YOUR GAME REPORTS TO PROTONDB.COM!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------- ---Games Mentioned In This Week's Episode:--- --Arcana Heart 3: LOVE MAX!!!!!! ($29.99, but cheaper keys available) https://store.steampowered.com/app/370460/Arcana_Heart_3_LOVE_MAX/ --Street Fighter V ($19.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/310950/Street_Fighter_V/ --Mortal Kombat X ($19.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/307780/Mortal_Kombat_X/ --SoulCalibur VI ($59.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/544750/SOULCALIBUR_VI/ --Tekken 7 ($39.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/389730/TEKKEN_7/ --Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 ($24.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/357190/ULTIMATE_MARVEL_VS_CAPCOM_3/ --Guilty Gear Xrd - Revelator ($29.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/520440/GUILTY_GEAR_Xrd_REVELATOR/ --XCOM: Chimera Squad (-50% $9.99 through May 1) https://store.steampowered.com/app/882100/XCOM_Chimera_Squad/ --Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast https://store.steampowered.com/app/6030/STAR_WARS_Jedi_Knight_II__Jedi_Outcast/

This week, we get HL:Alyx to run (and are disappointed), talk a little about the mindless beat-em-up 4-player blah that is "Streets of Rage 4," and hit you with our full review of "XCOM: Chimera Squad." IF YOU ARE HEALTHY: PLEASE GIVE BLOOD: https://www.redcross.org/give-blood.html Video of the Week: KARDS overview: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/602175027 -------- -BE SURE TO CHECK OUT our twitch livestream at: www.twitch.tv/skookiesprite -JOIN OUR DISCORD EXPERIMENT at: discord.gg/SVXy3Xa --POST YOUR GAME REPORTS TO PROTONDB.COM!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------- ---Games Mentioned In This Week's Episode:--- --XCOM: Chimera Squad (-50% $9.99 through May 1) https://store.steampowered.com/app/882100/XCOM_Chimera_Squad/ --Chaos (Free https://store.steampowered.com/app/1230410/Chaos/) --Streets of Rage 4 ($24.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/985890/Streets_of_Rage_4/ --Half Life: Alyx ($59.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/546560/HalfLife_Alyx/

This week, following a lengthy COVID-19 rant, we bring you the best in Linux based gaming. We talk about the new, more-action-oriented tactical dynamics of "XCOM: Chimera Squad," extoll the virtues of the glorious "Dead Cells" "Bad Seed" DLC, play some "KARDS," and then polish it all off with a spoiler free (but fullsome) review of the magnificent opus of overwhelming visual beauty and superlative sidescrolling platformer-adventure that is "Ori and the Will of the Wisps." ALL THIS AND MOAR! IF YOU ARE HEALTHY: PLEASE GIVE BLOOD: https://www.redcross.org/give-blood.html Video of the Week: KARDS overview: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/602175027 -------- -BE SURE TO CHECK OUT our twitch livestream at: www.twitch.tv/skookiesprite -JOIN OUR DISCORD EXPERIMENT at: discord.gg/SVXy3Xa --POST YOUR GAME REPORTS TO PROTONDB.COM!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------- ---Games Mentioned In This Week's Episode:--- --Ori and the Will of the Wisps ($29.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1057090/Ori_and_the_Will_of_the_Wisps/ --XCOM: Chimera Squad (-50% $9.99 through May 1) https://store.steampowered.com/app/882100/XCOM_Chimera_Squad/ --Kards (free, with in game purchases) https://store.steampowered.com/app/544810/KARDS__The_WWII_Card_Game/ --Dead Cells + Bad Seed Bundle ($26.98) https://store.steampowered.com/app/588650/Dead_Cells/ --Fallout 76 ($39.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1151340/Fallout_76/ -

In these, our time of The Orange Plague, we escape our quarantines to explore the post-apocolyptic wasteland multiplayer survival sandbox of "Fallout 76," now finally available on Linux. We also share our first impressions of our new Honeycomb Alpha Flight Yoke and its mounting solution, and then hit you with 8 fantastic must-grab deals from this weekend's Devolver Digital Sale. All this and MOAR! IF YOU ARE HEALTHY: PLEASE GIVE BLOOD: https://www.redcross.org/give-blood.html -------- -BE SURE TO CHECK OUT our twitch livestream at: www.twitch.tv/skookiesprite -JOIN OUR DISCORD EXPERIMENT at: discord.gg/SVXy3Xa --POST YOUR GAME REPORTS TO PROTONDB.COM!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------- ---Games Mentioned In This Week's Episode:--- --Fallout 76 ($39.99) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1151340/Fallout_76/ --Heave Ho (-50%, $4.99 through April 20th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/905340/Heave_Ho/ --Broforce (-75%, $3.74 through April 20th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/274190/Broforce/ --My Friend Pedro (-40% $11.99 through April 20th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/557340/My_Friend_Pedro/ --Not A Hero (-75% $3.24 through April 20th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/274270/NOT_A_HERO/ --Shadow Warrior 2 (-75% $9.99 through April 20th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/324800/Shadow_Warrior_2/ --Ruiner (-75% $4.99 through April 20th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/464060/RUINER/ --Gorn (-50%, $9.99 through April 20th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/578620/GORN/ --Talos Principle VR (-85%, $5.99 through April 20th) https://store.steampowered.com/app/552440/The_Talos_Principle_VR/ --Soldat (FREE) https://store.steampowered.com/app/638490/Soldat/