Tomb Raider Rolls Out For The SHIELD, Plus More Games Likely To Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Tomb Raider Rolls Out For The SHIELD, Plus More Games Likely To Linux

Tomb Raider along with other Square Enix games are coming to NVIDIA's SHIELD platform via GeForce NOW, which should be as exciting to you as a Linux gamer...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Tomb-Raider-GF-Now

[fakenmc]

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (!)

[Passso]

This sort of platform may explain the increasing number of Linux titles, as much as Steam maybe.

7$99 per month ~ 2 new games per year + no hardware to buy everytime for a good pc

=> Can be a real bargain if game list is good, just like Netflix did with VOD

[pal666]

=> Can be a real bargain if game list is good, just like Netflix did with VOD

netflix has zero latency. game streaming is not new idea and cause of death is high latency

[sabun]

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (!)

One can dream (let's toss Hitman 2016 in there too for good measure).

This sort of platform may explain the increasing number of Linux titles, as much as Steam maybe.

If this truly is the case, then Nvidia is as much to thank for all the recent Linux ports as Valve/SteamOS, HumbleBundle and the likes.

[justmy2cents]

netflix has zero latency. game streaming is not new idea and cause of death is high latency

you forget the main difference. video is always buffered since it never changes. game cannot buffer future and it is even worse when actions lag from input. just watch Grid demo from last year. it lagged and unsynced like hell. to make matters worse, they probably used best link possible. you can't even imagine low percentage of people having link like that

if you're playing fast game and you're serious about it, 200ms input lag is already bordering unplayable. i had to use ps3 controller on wire for that reason. games just felt wrong

[GraysonPeddie]

What about The Last Remnant?

[kaprikawn]

What's the reason behind using mostly Linux-native titles? Is it simply that they don't want to pay for Windows licenses? Would they have to pay for a crap-tonne of Windows licenses to power their cloud service and that would make it uneconomical?

[xeekei]

you forget the main difference. video is always buffered since it never changes. game cannot buffer future and it is even worse when actions lag from input. just watch Grid demo from last year. it lagged and unsynced like hell. to make matters worse, they probably used best link possible. you can't even imagine low percentage of people having link like that

if you're playing fast game and you're serious about it, 200ms input lag is already bordering unplayable. i had to use ps3 controller on wire for that reason. games just felt wrong

200 ms isn't bordering unplayable in fast games, it's so beyond unplayable. More than 30 ms in CS:GO and I can really feel it, and I'm just Gold Nova Master.

[Dukenukemx]

Nvidia Shield! For when you live, eat, breath, and even lick Nvidia products. Cause you obviously have too much money.